Where do Dragons come From?

What are the origins of Dragons in Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon?

Are they just naturally occuring creatures in this magical world?
Capable of being tamed to a point where ridding them is a possibility?
Or are they the restult of something darker,
an ancient blood magic ritual, where two creatures were combined to create something else, something new?
And why can only select individuals ride them?

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All this an more will be covered in this video, where we take a deep dive into Dragon lore in George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire Series. Providing a series of theories regarding the origin of dragons into a more unified theory. Which might explain the Targaryen "madness", Dragon Dreams, Targaryen birth defects and other abnormalities.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:40 What Are Dragons?
02:10 Origin of Dragons
03:39 Dragon Human Hybrids
05:36 Side Effects
07:36 Dragons came from Asshai
09:08 Ice Dragons
10:11 Sea Dragons

House of the dragon and game of thrones Dragons Explained
Origin of Dragons
Origin of Game of thrones Dragons
Drogon
Caraxes
Syrax
Daemon Targaryen
Aemond Targaryen
Jon Snow
Daenerys Targaryen
Rhaenyra Targaryen
Vhagar

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[ino]

What I love about Martin's writing is that he provides hints to multiple possibilities (as pointed out in this video) but confirms none of them as Canon. This invites the reader to participate with their own imagination and create their own head Canon and explore multiple possibilities. All the best books, shows and movies I've ever consumed do this. It's the "show don't tell " style of storytelling that I love

[cdanerz]

The reason they have four limbs instead of six is because George RR Martin said that in real life there is no liveing flying animals with four legs and wings and it would be more accurate

[vvt-]

I think you nailed it there. I thought of it as well if you put together that Laena Velaryon's egg (daughter of Alyn Velaryon and Baela Targaryen) hatched a wingless and blind white wyrm that inmediatly went for Laenas life as if the thing hated her from birth. It suits the description of Firewyrms being blind creatures but with deep hate for humans. Another case could be Caraxes (Daemon's dragon) recorded deformation as he is describe having a sinewy long neck and rare deformities that gave the dragon an appearance of a wyrm more than a dragon, and his viciousness only helped to solidify his moniker as the Blood wyrm.

[notyourproblem]

I think the Empire of the Dawn had dragons too, and just like in real life when an empire falls knowledge is lost. Stories and myths survived through time and this prompted Valyrians to "bring back dragons". Like we're trying to do with Mammoths for example.

[jackiejose]

A hybrid of wyverns and fire wyrms is more suited to the storyline

[MR.LMR]

This is an idea I never thoughts of before. Dragons being chimeras between Wyverns and Firewyrms is a fantastic idea that can help explain a LOT of things for the GoT universe. As I imagine if Dragons were a naturally-evolved race, with all the abilities they have as depicted in the series from the get-go, chances are a lot of the Human Civilizations we see in the modern era of Essos and Westeros would never have had the time to develop like they did. As Dragons would've dominated the world in a similar manner to how Dinosaurs did in our world's pre-historic era. They'd have WAY to many advantages for early Humans to be able to overcome. Thus Dragons being blood magic hybrids created by a civilization as advanced as Valyia just works.

[SelphieTheNutter]

Maybe the reason theres bones found all over the world is because the shadow people gene spliced dragons in the dawn age. Then Taught the Valyrians how to do it in preparation for the return of the white walkers.

[Oximb]

I think the Asshaii legend will be true since the description fits with the Children of the Forest.
They are an elder race, men can't pronounce their names and, in TWOIAF, when they mentioned their arts they say that the Valyrian would then master the same thing (obsidian, glass candle that can contact people in their dreams and see events at long distance just like the greenseers), taming animals and of course, a magical steel made with blood sacrifice: dragonsteel (the Last Hero tale).
The Long Night ended with a secret song, the Singers (true name of the Children) taught the Valyrian their arts so could they be the song of fire, to balance their first creation, the song of ice, the Others. The rise of Valyria happened when "Westeros was recovering from the Long Night" which means they got their dragons around the end of the Long Night.

[Slothi_Deathi]

my personal theory is there was dragons in the past and the people from the shadow really ride them but somehow they got extinct, the valyrians tried to recreate the dragons with blood magic fusing wyverns and firewyrms and then fused those beasts to their blood

[timmerk]

The theory has one pretty big problem. The torture of prisoners happened when they already had their empire, which they conquered with dragons. Also, why would anyone give prisoners the ability to bond with your new super weapon.

[matthewcopley]

Why not both a natural occurring species and a created one?

Think like wolves and dogs...

Dogs are technically still wolves, but wolves are not dogs.

The locations of wild dragons were likely left alone, protected at a distance, with raids launched for eggs 🥚 to take back to the free hold, and begin the specialization process. They were likely breed for size, tameablity, ferocity, color, and even shape.
From there, you cross certain samples with your fire wyrms and wyverns to get other characteristics, like stronger wings, stronger fire breath... etc.
It might even have been a right of passage of a Royal Valerian House, to have their own breeding, taming, and modification methods and practices.

[MiraBoo]

What if the bones of ancient dragons were the inspiration for the chimera dragons? Perhaps the ancient dragons were the typical 6-appendaged fire-breathing reptiles, but they went extinct. Their surviving wyvern cousins were then used to “bring back” the legendary beasts in a similar way that we might. (theoretically) use the modern elephant to “resurrect” the woolly mammoth.

[viniciusdeoliveira]

They came from the moon. It. Is. Known.

[ebone]

I love Caraxes. Probably one of my favorite dragons. He’s so unique

[gingerandbroke]

Could it be that the dragons were tamed twice? With evidence of them being found all over? Great video, love the lore.

[miche]

It is not true that the typical European dragon had 6 limbs, four legs and two wings. For example, the dragon slain by St. George had two legs and two wings in most representations of the legend in all Europe. The point is that no one intended to force a precise definition of a fantasy animal, at least during the Middle Ages. In some European language, the world wyvern, or derivatives do not even exist outside the inner circle of gamers and readers of fantasy literature and thus is not listed in dictionaries.

[odiadordeisrael]

That clip of Vhagar flying during a storm always startles me for some primal reason.

[tozaisusovac]

I think it won´t ever be explicitly stated where they came from because Martin seems to get off on making people confused, he intentionally gives 2-3 different origin stories that all make sense in their own right and slaps "it was written by inworld maesters so it´s not to be completely trusted". The mystery is completely intentional, obviously I didnt figure out anything new. Imo if the Others are naturally occuring beings from the far north, it´d make sense that dragons are also naturally occuring, it gives balance to the world

[yubeda-kk-sr]

Hypothetically, it could be all 3. With the shadow people and Valerions finding dragonlike creatures, messing with them with blood magic then simply discarding/setting loose inferior offspring and their eggs into the world. This seems to be intentional, to leave the reader to see the probability coheesively through the 3 points, but leaves it open for interpretation.

[Freezerbride]

That’d be really cool if dragons actually come from ancient Valyrian blood magic and if we see this in a show or movie ever