Unique Creatures of Valyria (Game of Thrones)

Animals and mythological creatures unique to one of the more
mysterious parts of the world, the Valyrian peninsula. Which is
now in ruin during the current Game of Thrones / ASoIaF story

[deepsinghrollno.]

The miscarriage Daenerys had with Drogo is said to have scale and bat-like wings and a face of lizard which make them look like a dragon

[ahmxtsxnjuu]

The world building in this is unbelievable..

[drg_Oakblood]

The Targaryens being "immune" to most sicknesses seemed like it was explained best with some fire magic of the sort. In the book Fire and Blood, it is revealed that prior to the Daughter of Jaehaerys I and Alysanne, no Targaryen had ever so much even gotten sick. I figured that it had something to do with their bodies running just a few degrees warmer than average, like if they had a body temperature matching that of an average fever, their immune system would be active enough to prevent certain sicknesses outright, with certain diseases that don't get harmed by heat like certain avian flus still affecting them like normal people. (viruses that affect bats/birds have to still be functional at higher temps since flying raises your internal body temp by a few degrees) It would also explain their heat resistance if their bodies were functional at temperatures that would cause a normal person a bit of harm.

[garcalej]

The more I learn about Old Valyria, the more I come to the conclusion that it could not have exploded soon enough.

[theoryandfact]

It actually mentions 'Wyrms' in Fire and Blood. Based on the passage below, I believe a Wyrm egg might have hatched in place of a dragon: “Her parents' pride and pleasure quickly turned to ash, however; the dragon that wriggled from the egg was a monstrosity, a wingless wyrm, maggot-white and blind. Within moments of hatching, the creature turned upon the babe in her cradle and tore a bloody chunk from her arm. As Laena shrieked, Lord Oakenfist ripped the "dragon" off her, flung it to the floor, and hacked it to pieces.” The egg was also dull and not emulate like a usual dragon egg.

[theautomator]

I absolutely love the mystery of valyria. It's both fascinating and terrifying whatever lives there after the doom was able to wound balerion the most powerful of the targaryen dragons and supposedly the largest animal in the world. Just what lies in the ruins of valyria? And will they find their way out?

[ripunjoyborgohain]

Maybe they created dragons by mixing the attributes of the firewyrms and wyverns

[DieserOli]

1:32 That´s also the reason why they want to "keep the bloodline pure" and the whole incest thing. If they wouldn´t do that the chances to successfully bond with a dragon / tame one would get much lower as the generations pass.

[lori]

I think a hybrid between Wyverns and Firewyrms is a very likely probability. There ended up being 3 dragon types in House of the Dragon and we see how different they are from each other. Now that I see these other mystical creatures a cross of beasts seems likely. With hybrids there is always that element of surprise differences. Love your deep dives into all things GOT and hopefull now, HOTD

[drg_Oakblood]

I would imagine that perhaps some of the dragons (as a species) did survive in Valyria, since it specifically says that they were brought out of the sky by the ash, so maybe some of the eggs were fine and hatched, and the volcanic environment let them grow in much the same way as Balerion, just younger since Balerion was hatched before the Targaryens fled to Dragonstone, making him the oldest dragon still in this scenario, so my boring answer to what was able to harm a dragon the size/age of Balerion was another dragon of comparable size and age, smaller and younger by a bit so that it was still an obvious win for Balerion, but enough of a fight that he was significantly wounded. I am aware that it could've also been a dragon-like beast as well, it's just a thought that it could be another dragon, not a certainty by any means.

[chandlerdoeswhatifs]

"We get a closer look at one of these horrors in the book"

When you said that I got an ad of a pampers baby doing the worm

[Alexander-tuiv]

I always assumed the fire parasites were wyrms. Explains their ability to cook the princess as well as their burrowing behaviour. Also a wyrm could probably injure a dragon.

[e.m.p.]

Man. The era of Valryian dominance must have been insane. I just imagine the eldritch creatures and terrors that could be there

[somaliopiummerchant]

I love your channel, you're a legend mate.

[mohdhassan]

*"A man like tywin is born once in a thousand years"*

*Edit : this is the first time, I got so much likes, thanks to all of you*

[danc]

I hate to sound boring, but Balerion most likely was attacked by another dragon. Even a smaller dragon could have been capable of injuring him. There's no telling what still lived in Old Valyria but I have a hunch that there were older and much more wild dragons living there, even after the Doom.

[clayreichard]

The wyvern and firewyrm hybrid theory is the one that makes the most sense to me because it also explains why the Targaryen dragons stopped growing so huge. It’s said that as you grow closer to the core of a volcano the larger the firewyrms grew and there were firewyrms as small as lizards at surface of the mines. Assuming that the dragons are in fact firewyrm wyvern hybrids which would explain why balerion vhagar and meraxes were able to grow to supermassive sizes because they were raised on dragonstone which is an active volcano and being that they were raised closer to a heat source they were able to grow much larger than the dragons that came after them, and with each generation that was raised away from dragon stone they got smaller and weaker because they literally were being raised away from their power source

[hasan_usman]

this channel makes me remember GOT even after it ended

[vvsJefe]

It seems like the Valyrians somehow incorporated dragon dna into their own. And my guess is that dragons are the result of combining the wyrms with the wyverms.

[yaboyed]

You forgot to mention how all their stillborns are dragon like, almost like the pregnancy 🤰🏼 is really a metamorphosis of some sort for them