the intro to the show with the blood flowing from the top of stone temple into the Targaeryen three headed dragon makes so much more sense now!

well, we always hear about the black cells in the red keep but there also is a fourth level below them which nobody leaves alive ...

I think Rhaegar was thinking like a typical Targaryen, "it's all about Me".

“Blood magic dragon windows are so out of season rhaenyra “ made me actually LOL. Read it in the actors voice and everything hahaha. This is definitely one of my top 3 favorite ASOIAF channels. Thanks for the content!

Your theory is perfectly in line with the ancient Valyrians being big into blood magic and apparently most if not all of the things they did being rooted in blood/fire magic as well as making the psychic connection between dragon and rider make sense

I think that there's a good chance that in Old Valyria they would burn their elders alive in order to merge their consiousnesses into dragon eggs. (And maybe explain why they were so large? Stronger bond with the riders?) It would help explain why the Targaryens burn their dead in funeral pyres and why it's tradition to place an egg in a babies crib. If you incubated grandpa in a dragon egg, there would already be a paternal instinct to protect or bond with that child. I also think that it's too strange that a bunch of Targaryens have these dragon dreams and do crazy s*** like drink wildfire. If they were near an egg that would probably be enough to merge their consciousness into the egg itself. I also think that the tragedy at Summerhall was 100% not an accident. Egg did that on purpose to sacrifice Targaryens and hopefully get some eggs to hatch. I'm just curious on how it went wrong, considering it seems like all the conditions were met. Love your stuff dude! I'm 100% hooked and think you've definitely got a pulse on what's going on in the story.

Interesting thing: "three dragons" what we have in ASOIAF, (Daenerys, Jon Snow and Aegon the Young Griff or "Faegon" as fans call him) are gender inverted from the original conquering Targaryens. All though there's possibility of another secret Targaryen (one theory goes rather than fulfilling spot of "real Targeryen", Young griff is supposed to fill same role as Orys Baratheon did as Aegon the first's half-brother and "real" third dragon is Tyrion Lannister....long story, but Tyrion Targeryen is quite popular theory) the propechy is taken quite a twist. Not that it already hadn't: Jon born as a boy probably would've given Rhaegar some pause, as Rhaegar had already planned his other two children be reincarnations of original conquerors and Jon was supposed to be Visenya.

I’m not sure if I personally think it takes a sacrifice to hatch a dragon but I definitely don’t think it’s unlikely. I think the sacrifice that dany had to make was to bring back the petrified eggs into a hatchable state. I really love Preston Jacob’s theory that dragon riding is an X chromosome linked gene, and to hatch dragons you need two of those genes which is why only women can hatch dragons. And it just so happens at the dance of the dragons there was the possibility of 3 dragon hatchers. I also like this theory because it would likely mean that the Targaryens themselves don’t even understand what it takes to keep their power going and there’s some irony that on top not knowing how to produce more dragons, it’s only the women in this patriarchal world that can produce them.

I know, it is probably irrelevant but Dany, John and Tyrion are third kids in some ways. John is third child of Rhaegar, Dany third living child of Rhaella Targaryen, Tyrion is third child of Joanna Lannister. Also their older siblings are either brutally killed(in case of Dany and John) or destined to be brutally killed(I highly doubt that Jaime outlive Cercei much)

I'm glad you pointed out the stillbirths playing a role in hatching dragons. My thinking on the situation is that the Targaryen babies that are not only stillborn but twisted and malformed like half dragon hybrids, are the ones who die in order to perpetuate the dragon's own births . I think that this sacrifice must be paid as part of a larger magical "contract" the Targaryen line made with the dragons centuries ago

It makes sense! Blood sacrifices are at the base of all the strongest magic that actually works in these books and the Maesters were against everything that Targaryens stood for from the very beginning.

I like this video, especially the last part about the maesters and just how they helped to wipe out the dragons the first time. However, I have one caveat. You mentioned earlier that there was a mind sending dreams and visions to manipulate people into making choices that fulfill it's own goals. However, I believe it's more than one mind, and that these minds have conflicting goals. It's a metaphysical game of thrones within a game of thrones. Each of these metaphysical players are attempting to achieve an outcome. Some want a second long night. Some want to prevent it. Some don't care one way or another. They have other ambitions. The characters we meet in the books are the pieces, not the players, even when they move the action of the story, many of them are being played on metaphysical level.

It always seemed strange to me that even in times where there were a lot of dragons and obviously a lot of eggs, the eggs were hatched away from the mother. Yes, naturally reptiles don't always take care of their eggs, but dragons aren't "natural" in every other lore, dragons are very careful with their eggs and protect the nests with their life. So what we have in Valiryan lore then (to englobe HotD and GoT) is either natural reptile behaviour in dragons or the fact that without blood sacrifices, these eggs are unable to hatch.

There are also lost Targaryen tapestries that might contain info- I think House Darry has some. The obsidian daggers are also known as glass candles and can be used to communicate at nighttime. A maester spending the night with a glass candle might receive messages from someone else doing the same (Marwyn?). There might also be something to pricking oneself with the dagger/candle to add blood to the recipe to light it ablaze. Finally, Blackfish’s “obsidian black fish brooch” is also an obsidian dagger and glass candle, so he might be part of this nighttime communion ritual.

It could be an expression with more than one meaning like "words are wind" and "a Lannister pays his debts." I think your three consciousness theory and its reflection in the Targaryen sigil is right and the sigil has another layer of meaning by representing Aegon, Visenya, and Rhaenys. Plus Dany's frequently called Aegon the Conqueror come again, Drogon's called Balerion come again, Viserion and Rhaegal are namesakes of Visenya and Rhaenys, there's the allusions to WoT and time being cyclical, so it seems like there are two other people meant to fill similar roles.

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If Rhaegar were in an opera, he'd be not only a tenor, but A Tenor(TM).

i think the dragons are dead targaryens, but not necessarily just the stillbirths, at least thats not how its supposed to work. I think its ancestors, which is why the bond works, and why they do the incest. basically grandpa dies but gets to haunt a dragon, and recognizes their grandkids so they cooperate. But you need targaryen blood to make it work, so they avoid diluting it, as they don't have full on wizards to refresh the rituals. Dany happens to stumble on, or at least intuit, the correct ritual to hatch new ones, as it requires people who love or are at least beholden to you in order to submit to riding. I also think this is why targs tend to think they'll turn into dragons if they jump in fire or drink napalm or whatever. cause they might, if there are any dragons available to become

Excellent video! Got your ASOIAF videos recommended this week, almost finished watching all of them. Love your theories

I know that I've read in some comment section somewhere someone trying to do a 1 to 1 with the Targaryen babies that had birth issues and the dragons that were hatched in westeros after they arrived (on dragonstone). I hope that person is here because I know theyve already looked, I wouldnt know where to find it.

We did it guys, at 7:12 we can see the ultimate equine theory: Rhaegal is a Horse.

My thinking is that the Targaryen house was not fully aware of the process. There’s never any mention of them using blood sacrifice (except maybe summerhall), no mention of artifacts like the dragon binder horns, no construction of Valyrian steel, or any reference of the actual dragon human cross breeding that made them what they are, only legends and myths. They were always a lesser Valyrian house before the doom. Maybe the extent of their knowledge on the topic is that their blood is part dragon and they have no idea how to maintain its “purity”, other than through incest. My theory is that the Targaryens have little to no actual knowledge of the ancient techniques used to transform the Valyrians from sheep herders to the dragon riding empire. The lack of proper procedure led over time to the smaller deformed dragons. Maesters may have had a hand in ensuring the knowledge was never recovered but they didn’t have to sabotage them any further than that

So the dragonkeepers are sacrificing in order to continually hatch dragons, and the Targaryen line is seeing continual still births qua child sacrifices in order to keep a strong link to the blood magic which allows them to bond with the dragons. When the sacrifices by the dragonkeepers cease, the stillbirths continue. Dragons are also getting smaller and smaller. Are the later hatched, smaller dragons being powered solely by the child sacrifices (which presumably get less and less frequent owing to (1)shrinking of the genetic line and (2) advances in natal science practiced by the maesters)? Does this explain the shrinking dragon phenomenon?

It would be interesting. It very GRRM that Rhaeger brought his own doom to his dynasty with ignorance and misunderstanding of prophecy - like they say how two edged prophecies are in the books. Due to loss of Targaryen culture - the recent Targaryens with no idea about their own people which then allows Dany to reveal and unlock their lost culture in her journey and avoid Rhaeger mistake.

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Curious how laying the eggs comes into play. It does seem like Dreamfyre laid several eggs when Rhaena was happy in love & the same with Syrax / Rhaenyra when she was popping out kids.

Similiar to how the abolishment of the First Night slowly weakened the Night's Watch, I wonder if Targaryen abandonment of inc*st lowered the incidence of lizard babies, thus weakening dragons as well.

It’s interesting your input, but if we take it for a fact, then what the heck happened at summer hall? It is theorised that Egg orchestrated the burning in a failed attempt to hatch dragons and that possibly there may have been sacrifices of several people implicated. If he indeed sacrificed people and burnt the whole place along with the dragon eggs, why none of them hatched?

After seeing the video, I still agree more with Preston Jacobs' theory on the hatching of dragons. We see in Bran's wolf dreams that the fused mind is something different than the wolf and the boy. The dragon must have 3 heads: the dragon, the "dragon" (the Targaryen), & the fused mind.

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Hi I love all the videos you make It's very deep and realistic Thank you for your effort to enrich the world of A Song of Ice and Fire🌹 I have some questions regarding the three-headed dragon theory Do all dragons have to be sacrificed for them to hatch? and What kind of sacrifice? Would anyone be able to ride a dragon if they knew the secret, or its just the Targaryens hwo can? is it the knowledge of the secret what makeTargaryens control dragons? This is also supported by what King Viserys said (the idea that we control dragons is an illusion)

The 2 heads to a third sing could be even more simple. My head, the dragons head, and our mind meld being the third. Similiar to how the third eye is explained. Not a literal 3rd eye.

So Valyrian nobles (Targaryens), Pyromancers, and Dragon Keepers, each bringing a necessary element to hatch a dragon egg are the three heads of the dragon?

At this point, your theories are just Winds of Winter spoilers lol, keep it up

Daemon is singing to Vermithor because he hasn’t had a rider since Jahaerys died and Vermithor flew back to Dragonstone, and in the decades since, he’s become increasingly more wild during his time there, surrounded by other wild dragons like Sheep Stealer and The Cannibal. But they’re going to need him to be willing to take another rider soon; the Blacks are going to use the dragon seeds or targeryan bastards to significantly increase their number of dragon riders because right now, the Greens and the Blacks are too evenly matched what with Aemond bonded to Vhagar, and Luke and his dragon being killed at the end of Season 1. But the hightowers forget that the Targaryens and Valarions are now settled on dragonstone, which not only has several riderless dragons, wild and otherwise, PLUS the dragons are producing eggs there.

The Dance of Dragons. That's what wiped out the dragon lore. I would imagine the dragon keepers died when the dragon pit crumbled and as far as Targaryens with the lore after that war we're with just two young Targaryens one whom would later be known as Dragonbane and hated dragons, is more than happy to see the end of them. It makes me wonder if the War of the Wolves isn't what led to the Starks losing their knowledge but then it could have just been attrition from their many wars.

Let me get this straight. The "Mad King" is old, frail and has long nails. Married his sister Rhaella and she is also old and has had many still births of babies that were stunted and deformed. So, the king raped her (or sex somehow, they hate each other) and the whole thing went off without a hitch that last time. More likely Dani is a child of someone else.

I think "Rhaegar did not know what he was talking about" is a true statement in any context 😂😂

Damn this is so good! This *is* the shadow war. Worth adding to this: Marwyn and Co seem to be team Dragonmancer. Aerion Brightflame is wildfire associated and shares the exile prince stuff with Daemon. The Faceless Men are a guild with a mission, and they are the guild of the Alchemist. The FLM have the same "blood sacrifice accounting" vibe. Pay the Red God his due.

I don't disagree with you about "the dragon has 3 heads"being misunderstood, but I'm not sure I totally agree. See, I get stuck on the fact that Dani also had 3 eggs and hatched 3 dragons. Do you think that Dani received 3 dragon eggs because GRRM wanted to throw us off? Or was the prophecy misunderstood by many people of the time so perhaps they were a gift because they also added up to 3 and Master Ilyro read into that as well? I just don't think that we can ignore that there are 3 eggs and then eventually Dani has 3 dragons. I do think you are spot on about the Masters screwing up the knowledge transfer around dragon hatchings. For sure, they played a part. What are your thoughts on the theory that it takes a silver haired Targaryen mother to hatch dragons successfully? I feel like somehow Damon also has that gift, even though he's a man. Maybe the gift isn't sexist and just the Masters were.

Daemon, the dragon whisperer

I think Targaryen sacrifice for their dragons can be the children they lost who are born like some half human dragon and maybe their funeral pyre. Every Targaryen who die is incinerated by dragon fire. It became a tradition after losing their real meaning. Because Daenerys lost her child to the magic and it was used in the pyre along with the other 2.

House Targaryen - “Dragons were such majestic and wise beings.” Maesters - “Man fuck dragons. All my homies hate dragons.” The reverence of dragons is a direct inverse correlation to the abundance of dragons.

My bet is that the Targaryens woke dragons by sacrificing their own children whose consciousnesses went into the dragon eggs. Eggs are put into Targaryen cribs not so that the babies will bond with the hatched dragons, but because babies have high mortality rates in their cribs due to SIDS and the babies are skinchangers who go into the dragon eggs when they die. This explains in part also why the old Daenerys when she was dying of the Shivers was going to have a dragon brought to her by her desperate father - not to heal her, but to have her consciousness maybe go into it because she was dying anyway and he was willing to go to any level not to lose her. And the fetuses could also be going into the dragons when their moms miscarry - or the fetuses being deformed is just a deformity and they looking like dragons is a hint that the dragons are dead babies. I can see the Masters and the Faith going to great lengths to end this practice and hide that it ever existed - or even for them to induce miscarriages through drugs with the rationalization that the babies would be sacrificed anyway if they were born. It also reminds me of Maester Luwin and his weird relationship with the Starks - where they weirdly assign this guy to be Catelyn Stark’s obstetrician when she’s about to give birth who happens to have a Valyrian Steel link in his chain and her sister and so many other women from magical bloodlines have trouble having kids - but Catelyn has lots of strong healthy kids that Luwin seems to care for and even die for (with his blood going into the heart tree). He had a choice between love and duty and he chose love.

Dragonglass daggers, you say? Where?

I don't think the targaryens would depend on other people to guard the knowledge of dragon egg hatching

He made vermithor think he was special so he didn't eat him.. duh!!

Algormancy!

ASOIAF books: Shakespeare + tolkein + Lovecraft with unbelievable world building. ASOIAF shows: Star wars plot fed through medieval incest porn dialogue.

gots whole plot is basically pass the sentence lol

Dragon born 😂

Three dragons proficiency... Daenerys Targaryen ❤️🖤 Aegon the younger💚❤️ Aegon the older❤️🧡

Danny needs 2 people with Valaryion blood to be able to bond with a dragon Jon is one the 3rd not sure yet

Rhaegar was a jerk and Lyanna was a hypocrite

i doubt the maesters had anything to do with death of dragons. you have 3 wild dragons in the wild. two of the dragons are hard to impossible to get to. you have sheepstealer who has dragonrider neetles, possible children of the forest. the other dragon is cannibal. that is one dragon you mess with. so how do you spray or neuter them? if you look, there is hint that children of forest were in on this. i'm thinking of doing a vidoe on this one day.

consciousness of the rider, consciousness of the dragon......they merge together as one.......3 heads....

Did you see when Jon Snow birth a dragon? There are two parallel realms the living (fire) and the dead (ice). The spirit of the 3 Eyed Crow leads the realm of the living and the Night King leads the realm of the dead. Dany hatched three living dragons with a dead priestess, wailing and surrounded by fire. Dany, is baptised by fire and emerges unscathed after being consumed by fire. Jon raised a dead dragon with a dead priest, wailing and surrounded by ice. Jon is baptised by ice and emerges unscathed after drowning in ice water. However, it was the Night King not Jon who woke the dragon with his consciousness. I agree that the maesters have interfered with the dragons. This is why the 3 Eyed Crow and the Night King have been plotting to get Dany and Jon to “birth” dragons. I think it was clear that the Night King expected the resurrection of a dragon and even had the chains ready to raise the dragon from the water. The missing parallel link is how and when did the Starks lose their bonds with dire wolves. Just as the 3 Eyed Crow and the Night King manipulated the “births” of Dany and Jon’s dragons. I think that the 3 Eyed Crow sent the first 5 dire wolf pups but it was the Night King who sent Ghost to Jon.

In a world where chivalrous knights are rapists and murderers I want to see Rhaegar's narcissist ass visions and speculations fall into pieces

In old Valyria, they had fire worms and wyverins. They mixed the two to create the chimera known as a fire breathing, flying dragon using blood magic they mixed genetic markers of certain families with these chimeras, creating human dragon riders. Because they literally have dragon in their blood they occasionally give birth to deformed little dragon, babies. This is the price they pay for being dragon riders. It all comes down to fire and blood~ 🔥🩸

But this is also just your interpretation kind of takin in a way to suit your needs on your narrative, you are very similar to all these Targaryen’s and false interpreting fellows you speak of in that sense lol cause you have no way of knowing what context Daemon was singing that song in, I’m sure many would say it IS about 3 dragon riders and this just confirms that it’s a solidified old prophecy. All in how you perceive things tho I suppose 🦾🥷🏿👍🏿