The Dragonslayers (Game of Thrones)

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  • Characters from the Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire
    world who were able to defeat a dragon
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  • @RmsOceanic
    @RmsOceanic Před 3 lety +1810

    Honourable mention should go to Brandon Snow, half-brother of King Torrhen Stark, for being totally willing to attempt to assassinate Aegon's dragons using weirwood arrows and their associated magic, before Torrhen decided to kneel instead.

    • @sirrolanddestark58
      @sirrolanddestark58 Před 3 lety +144

      I think BS would have killed them with the weirwood arrows!! Magic of the Old Gods.

    • @aengusog3415
      @aengusog3415 Před 3 lety +38

      @@sirrolanddestark58 nah the old Gods got nothing on the Valyrian gods

    • @danieltukua4527
      @danieltukua4527 Před 3 lety +48

      @@aengusog3415 "Fuck you and your Seven" - Some Stark probably

    • @shinobifirecracker6671
      @shinobifirecracker6671 Před 3 lety +7

      It’s a specific group at a specific time. There’s no ranking. Nor honorable mention to a group that existed.

    • @shinobifirecracker6671
      @shinobifirecracker6671 Před 3 lety +29

      “Totally willing” marks a large number of individuals at many various times. People who actually made attempts. Willing and staying put means nothing at all

  • @badlyrosenthal5149
    @badlyrosenthal5149 Před 3 lety +925

    i find that a completely fictional story having 3 tiers of truth to its own fairytales is just so interesting

    • @chunkyizanagisburden
      @chunkyizanagisburden Před 3 lety +28

      Most stories about what essos do fall in to the latter categories it seems

    • @B3Smooth
      @B3Smooth Před 3 lety +4

      Same

    • @danielvictor3262
      @danielvictor3262 Před rokem +17

      The same with Elder Scrolls only that it's in-universe scholars vs a bunch of scholars arguing whether the lore is historically accurate vs local townsfolk stories vs actual written sources by an (unreliable) subject

    • @adefay2811
      @adefay2811 Před rokem

      @@chunkyizanagisburden that’s because all stories from Essos are from 3rd person accounts. If the person was not from the time period they write about the further from the truth it is. If the maesters are involved they write with a lot of bias

  • @wafflingmean4477
    @wafflingmean4477 Před 3 lety +712

    I think there's a sad explanation for why Syrax landed to fight the mob on the ground. I think Dreamfyre, while mortally wounded, was still alive, partially buried and trapped by rubble. No doubt the mob was desperately trying to attack whatever area of Dreamfyre was exposed in fear of her getting fully loose. Syrax was probably trying to save her.

    • @blacgoat8916
      @blacgoat8916 Před rokem +4

      I thought Vhagar and Sunfrye killed Syrax.....

    • @callumtindal9856
      @callumtindal9856 Před rokem +2

      @@blacgoat8916 no

    • @TheMikeBailey18
      @TheMikeBailey18 Před rokem +8

      @@blacgoat8916 meyles and rheanys I believe

    • @dajointcf4803
      @dajointcf4803 Před rokem +12

      @@blacgoat8916 vhagar and sunfyre killed meyles, the dragon of rhaenyra's former mother in law princess rheanys but sunfyre was wounded pretty bad and vhagar fell on top of sunfyre and aegon II (rider of sunfyre) leaving his rider heavily wounded then a battle with moondancer left him even more injured eventually sunfyre died from the wounds.

    • @starlight0313
      @starlight0313 Před rokem

      ​@@blacgoat8916 a shame that didn't happen instead, then the blacks would have a competent ruler (Jacaerys) and one more giant dragon (100+ year old Meleys)

  • @juku4331
    @juku4331 Před 3 lety +344

    "power resides where men believe it resides" - Varys
    and dragons ain't no exception

  • @whycreate
    @whycreate  Před 3 lety +150

    No Night King or Euron today!

    • @MichaelMedici61W2
      @MichaelMedici61W2 Před 3 lety +8

      Haha. Night King... smh. Those two don’t count anyway. One isn’t even in the real story and the other may as well have been named something else because he’s nothing like the book character.
      I was just talking about the NK right before I went on to see if there’s was any new video out and here you go. I was just saying how no one ever gets my joke when Brianne asks Arya after their sparring match “ Who taught you that?!?” I always say “ Henry Sturges!!” from Abraham Lincoln vampire Hunter in case you don’t get it either.

    • @SidtheCreativeKid
      @SidtheCreativeKid Před 3 lety +4

      @@MichaelMedici61W2 yea but the book Euron prolly could slay a dragon

    • @kaspersaldell
      @kaspersaldell Před 3 lety

      Dragonslayer Looking-glass knight

    • @thesecretlibrary890
      @thesecretlibrary890 Před 3 lety +2

      You are very similar to *"Alt Shift X".* In fact, I reasonably confused you both guys due to your rudimentary pfp YT avatar you both have that is blue and because of your magnificently analytical A Song of Ice & Fire videos.

    • @magnusthered4973
      @magnusthered4973 Před 3 lety

      @@SidtheCreativeKid takes out priestess slits her throat throws her into the sea euron turns into Cthulhu eats dragon

  • @mohdhassan7865
    @mohdhassan7865 Před 3 lety +416

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

    • @sophiawilson8696
      @sophiawilson8696 Před 3 lety +10

      Why you praising this guy? remember what he did to Tyrion's wife. Had the guards rape her and told her not to say nothing. Had his father mistress walk naked in the street?.

    • @mohdhassan7865
      @mohdhassan7865 Před 3 lety +37

      @@sophiawilson8696 sis be cool u r seeing only one side of this man , every man has a good side and bad , tywin is a strongest man in Westeros he returned legacy to his house , every one knows he was bad but do u see his skills on battle field , even Tyrion had a bad side and that u know what does he always do in brothels and that things Ned never did

    • @mohdhassan7865
      @mohdhassan7865 Před 3 lety +1

      @@sophiawilson8696 even I know he is bad but do u see his skills and what he did to Tyrion , cozz he thinks Tyrion is not his child but aerys child

    • @mohdhassan7865
      @mohdhassan7865 Před 3 lety +1

      @@sophiawilson8696 sis tywin did every thing for his family , do u like catelyn, there are many people who like her but did u observe what he did to jon

    • @sophiawilson8696
      @sophiawilson8696 Před 3 lety

      @@mohdhassan7865 Tyrion is slime bucket, also a rapist. in the books version. Tywin Lannister is calculated bastard also I hate men why step on anyone's who gets in way.

  • @hahaimout1693
    @hahaimout1693 Před 3 lety +472

    Westerosi: Dragons can't be killed
    Some guy: *Laughs in Rivian*

    • @Brandonhayhew
      @Brandonhayhew Před 3 lety +9

      Those are two separate franchises

    • @ionfer5335
      @ionfer5335 Před 3 lety +4

      @@Brandonhayhew and

    • @Brandonhayhew
      @Brandonhayhew Před 3 lety +6

      @@ionfer5335 they don’t follow same themes but medieval fantasy yes but there is a human selfishness which is true

    • @tommasoantonelli06
      @tommasoantonelli06 Před 3 lety +6

      So what's your name? I'm asking it to make the discussion easier.
      My name is Geralt.
      From Rivia? Telling by the accent.
      From Rivia.

    • @BREAKocean
      @BREAKocean Před 3 lety

      Lol hes not even from their

  • @roosterman8601
    @roosterman8601 Před 3 lety +202

    Misread that as Doom Slayer. Still a pretty looking video.

  • @pac_jon
    @pac_jon Před 3 lety +22

    there is this quote on The tales of Dunk and Egg "The Hedge Knight"
    "...Not that Dunk had ever seen a dragon. The old man had, though. Dunk
    had heard the story half a hundred times, how Ser Arlan had been just a little boy when his grandfather
    had taken him to King’s Landing, and how they’d seen the last dragon there the year before it died.
    She’d been a green female, small and stunted, her wings withered. None of her eggs had ever hatched.
    “Some say King Aegon poisoned her,” the old man would tell. “The third Aegon that would be, not
    King Daeron’s father, but the one they named Dragonbane, or Aegon the Unlucky. He was afraid of
    dragons, for he’d seen his uncle’s beast devour his own mother."

    • @pac_jon
      @pac_jon Před 3 lety

      I was waiting for you to mention this quote...

  • @FishBoneD14
    @FishBoneD14 Před 3 lety +23

    The dragonsbane also saw his mother eaten alive by a dragon beyond the trauma of the escape

  • @MrSiddharthaSaha
    @MrSiddharthaSaha Před 3 lety +222

    serwyn can actually be a real figure in anquity from the age of heroes. There is plenty of evidence that dragons existed before the dawn, before valyria - so it is possible that once upon a time, dragons were commonplace in westeros. Also there are subtle hints that the god emperors of the great empire of dawn were actually dragonriders, from the fact that the shadowlanders were considered to teach the valyrians to tame the dragons as seen in the book "Dragons, Wyrms and Wyverns", so it is possible that the valyrians were descendents of the great empire who fled west to valyria after surviving a similar cataclysmic doom like event like the targareyns did (the dawn). Not only were the five walls bordering Yi Ti made of molten stone like Valyrian roads and cities but this black stone is also found in Hightower predating Valyria, so how could dragons melt the stone for such a thing if no dragonriders existed. Also maybe Hightowers and Daynes were descendents of these people and simply lost their dragons and the daynes have purple eyes despite being older than Valyria. Also Alicent Hightower produced white haired offspring with purple eyes despite the fact that Baratheons always had black hair even when reproducing with valyrians.

    • @danpeterson114
      @danpeterson114 Před 2 lety +9

      But the further back in time you go, the more primitive the weapons, which makes the prospect of any human killing one highly unlikely. It is clear that Martin was implying this was just a myth, just like all of the dragon slaying myths of our own world.

    • @stomper5432
      @stomper5432 Před rokem

      You both have good points in sure Martin would be proud

    • @bloodangel19
      @bloodangel19 Před rokem +16

      @@danpeterson114 but unlike weapons magic may have been stronger in the past.

    • @danpeterson114
      @danpeterson114 Před rokem +3

      @@bloodangel19 But if you read the books you would know that the "root of all magic" seemed to stem from the dragons themselves, and there is nothing in them about people killing dragons with magic. It probably wouldn't work on creatures of magic.

    • @bloodangel19
      @bloodangel19 Před rokem +1

      @@danpeterson114 isn't Jaquen (or however you spell that asshole's french ass sounding name) looking for a book on how to kill dragons? And i doubt the book talks about how to shoot em with a balista. So the existence of a text on how to kill dragons with magic is at least hinted at.

  • @ninenine2438
    @ninenine2438 Před 3 lety +7

    The best thing about Game of Thrones is there is so much history and lore that matter how many books and videos I see, I will never know everything

  • @NationalDevin
    @NationalDevin Před 2 lety +96

    I think Serwyn's attempt COULD have worked, but it would heavily depend on the dragon.
    For example, if Urrax was prone to habits of enjoying looking in bodies of water, so he used his knowledge of the beast to formulate a plan.
    Where as Ser Swann didn't account for Syrax's behavior, just that this had worked in the past.

  • @shergilly
    @shergilly Před 3 lety +88

    Is that the looking glass knight from dark souls 2 lol

  • @d.m.collins1501
    @d.m.collins1501 Před 3 lety +58

    You know the death of Syrax, supposedly by a version of the Warrior "with a black blade made of smoke that turned to steel as he swung it?" Doesn't that smoky assassin sound a lot like one of them Lord of Light shadow babies? And just as Stannis Baratheon's shadow babies looked more than a bit like him, a "thirty foot" giant shadow baby axe-wielder would have been the "child" of a rather imposing warrior. Maybe Hugh the Hammer, or some other figure like him, had previously slept with a Red Priestess working at a pillowhouse, and in the process he impregnated her with his shadow baby without knowing it! If so, I don't know why the shadow baby would be up at the Dragonpit killing dragons that night, rather than siding WITH the dragons against all those Faith of the Seven types trying to snuff them out. But maybe Hugh's Red Priestess shadow baby mama, in anger (or excitement) at all the roasted people up at the Dragonpit that night, came up to see what all the fun was about and ended up going into R'hllor labor due to all the heat, unleashing her shadow baby right at the moment of truth. Due to her annoyance with the dragon for causing her to go into labor, the shadow baby would attack Syrax and smite him with his hammer that turned solid at the moment of striking, just as Stannis's shadow baby had done on Renly. Later, this smoky assassination by a darkened, towering, Hugh-like warrior us caused a seemingly implausible rumor to circulate later that the Warrior himself had manifested in the smoke!

  • @theoryandfact5247
    @theoryandfact5247 Před 3 lety +53

    I always love watching your videos when they come out, very addicting. All this lore gives you basically infinite material for videos, keep the good stuff flowing!

  • @SapphireSolstice67
    @SapphireSolstice67 Před 3 lety +30

    Yeah or you could just get the dragon rider to “kinda forget” you were there, and kill a grown dragon that way

  • @NerfNutter
    @NerfNutter Před 3 lety +75

    What about the archer who killed a dying Dragon out of mercy, or am I remembering that wrong?

    • @joshuaadams1178
      @joshuaadams1178 Před 3 lety +43

      Oh yeah, Tessarion was the dragons name, the blue queen. She was killed after the battle of tumbleton by an archer.

    • @NerfNutter
      @NerfNutter Před 3 lety +11

      @@joshuaadams1178 Yes thank you, I couldn't think on the dragon and I gave my book to my sister so couldn't check. It was Daeron the darings Dragon if I recall.

    • @danpeterson114
      @danpeterson114 Před 2 lety +6

      @@NerfNutter The mercy killing of a helpless dragon already grievously wounded in battle with another dragon can hardly be considered a human dragon slayer, which is probably why it wasn't included i the video. But if the books were more realistic, ALL of the dragons would have been wearing armored chamfrons like medieval war horses to protect their vulnerable eyes.

    • @ardademir1661
      @ardademir1661 Před 2 lety +3

      @@danpeterson114 chamfrons cover the skull not the eyes. They did not cover the eyes of the horses in battle. That's the worst idea for armor.

    • @danpeterson114
      @danpeterson114 Před 2 lety +6

      @@ardademir1661 If you knew more about real Medieval armor, and seen all of the Chamfrons still in existence, you would know that many were made with small grates so arrows could not be shot into their eyes, just as some helmets for humans were similarly designed. Even the Romans 1000 years earlier had chamfrons with small grates over the horses eyes to protect them from arrow fire. You should do more research before making statements about something that you know nothing about.

  • @nikasichinava3508
    @nikasichinava3508 Před 3 lety +43

    you should make a video about who should get some of the castles after got ending like dragonstone or dredfort it will be interesting
    also all kingslayes would be cool like jaime,roose bolton,stannises shadow,iron throne itself what killed maegor and etc

    • @Harldin
      @Harldin Před 3 lety +2

      Personally i suspect no one will want Dragonstone, its on an Island and with the number of empty Castles on the Mainland i suspect now exists, why bother. Dreadfort will go to a younger child of one of Sansa’s most loyal subjects, Last Hearth is another one that may also be empty, don’t know if there is any Umbers left or the condition of the Castle.

    • @nikasichinava3508
      @nikasichinava3508 Před 3 lety +2

      @@Harldin i would love to see dragonstone given to davos, his loyalty was unmatched and he deserves castle like that.
      also there is horn hill,bear island, florents house in reach, twins(that should be destoyed,),who rules casterly rock while tyrion is in kings landing?
      i think i miss some too,there are lot of places left without ruler

    • @aysseralwan
      @aysseralwan Před 3 lety +2

      @@Harldin there are three or two Umbers that I know of. Greatjon Umber the head of the house is a captive from the Red Wedding but still alive and there is one Umber in Winterfell with Roose Bolton (but most likely only because he has to so that the captive Umber doesn't get executed) and on that one I'm not sure but there may be one with Stannis outside Winterfell

    • @Harldin
      @Harldin Před 3 lety

      @@aysseralwan Yes in the Books but as i have very little faith left that we will ever see any more books, i can only go on the TV Show.

    • @aysseralwan
      @aysseralwan Před 3 lety

      @@Harldin lol no ending is vetter than the TV show ending because that was worse than most fanfiction in my opinion

  • @MichaelMedici61W2
    @MichaelMedici61W2 Před 3 lety +5

    Thanks again D for another awesome ASOIAF video. I appreciate the content you continue to keep giving us while we wait for this book and new show.

  • @Scryingmadman
    @Scryingmadman Před 3 lety +15

    really didnt expect to see the looking glass knight here, good ol' blast from the past with that art.

  • @lionhinder
    @lionhinder Před 3 lety +405

    I don’t think baelarion died from old age I think that injuries he sustained in Valyria had a lot to do with him dying

    • @ae9is603
      @ae9is603 Před 3 lety +158

      Can you imagine what he fought in the ruins of Valyria

    • @rishabhraviprasad6672
      @rishabhraviprasad6672 Před 3 lety +44

      We will probably never know

    • @ae9is603
      @ae9is603 Před 3 lety +74

      Still tho its scary to think what it could be

    • @rishabhraviprasad6672
      @rishabhraviprasad6672 Před 3 lety +79

      I think the doom released creatures like balrogs from the deep inside volcanoes

    • @rishabhraviprasad6672
      @rishabhraviprasad6672 Před 3 lety +63

      Like the dwarves of khazad Dum the valyrians dug to deep grredily

  • @marcoswilson1583
    @marcoswilson1583 Před rokem +7

    I know someone who slayed a dragon, Sir Knight King from Beyond the Wall. Slayer of dragon’s, but scared of John Snow and killed by a little girl.

  • @aditghifari5039
    @aditghifari5039 Před 3 lety +36

    Before Davos known as onion knight , he was Dragon slayer ?

    • @toomanyaccounts
      @toomanyaccounts Před 3 lety +1

      the name is like Bran. Bran the Builder likely several people, Bran the Breaker.

    • @pastorTracy911
      @pastorTracy911 Před 3 lety +5

      Names are still just names. Some people also have the same names. 2 different people.

    • @attackofthejackolanterns8765
      @attackofthejackolanterns8765 Před 3 lety +1

      Yup, that’s how he lost his fingers. They got bitten off by a baby dragon

    • @bomcstoots1
      @bomcstoots1 Před 3 lety +1

      @@attackofthejackolanterns8765 XD

  • @gavinmyatt5589
    @gavinmyatt5589 Před 3 lety +138

    I'm sure that Guts from Berserk could do it.

    • @hahaimout1693
      @hahaimout1693 Před 3 lety +19

      *Insert Guts theme*

    • @jackbelmont4389
      @jackbelmont4389 Před 3 lety +19

      *forces starts playing*

    • @Fototheier
      @Fototheier Před 3 lety +19

      I mean dragon slayer was designed to be something that could kill a dragon which is why it was named dragon slayer lol.

    • @RANDALCOMING
      @RANDALCOMING Před 3 lety +9

      What COULDNT guts kill though

    • @fauzanabdulkahfi957
      @fauzanabdulkahfi957 Před 3 lety +2

      @@RANDALCOMING his nightmare

  • @shannond7437
    @shannond7437 Před 3 lety +84

    The big question is what messed up Balerion when he took Aerea to Valyrian!?!

    • @grimmywizard
      @grimmywizard Před 3 lety +33

      Imagine the creatures roaming the Valyria

    • @danpeterson114
      @danpeterson114 Před 2 lety +47

      @@grimmywizard The most logical thing would have been another large dragon. It is ridiculous to think there wouldn't still be wild dragons that were out of range when "The Doom" occurred. Martin confirms there were Wyverns, very much like dragons that lived in remote places.

    • @ArrakisHeir88
      @ArrakisHeir88 Před rokem +1

      It was obviously Cannibal.

    • @lilmos100
      @lilmos100 Před rokem +1

      @@danpeterson114 How convenient is it that all the surviving people of the doom and their dragons in Lys and Tyrosh got killed except the Targaryens.

    • @johnnyflinn2662
      @johnnyflinn2662 Před rokem

      newborn/adolescent fire wyrms

  • @bigoof8391
    @bigoof8391 Před 3 lety +3

    Westerosi: Dragons can't be killed
    Essosian: Laughs in Valryian

  • @ssjdeadpool
    @ssjdeadpool Před 3 lety +40

    I was never sure if I'd heard the full story of how they stormed the dragon pit and killed the dragons, because that's always perplexed me. Especially when you say that an angry mob It wouldn't be jack shit to a dragon, and there were three in the pit, so thank you for going into detail about how it happened and clearing it up for me

    • @Felone007
      @Felone007 Před 3 lety +16

      Lore has it that the Dragon Pit was stormed by hundreds if not thousands of the people. The doomed dragons themselves were chained, gated or otherwise restricted of movement, so they only had fire to defend themselves, but their slayers had the numbers

    • @ssjdeadpool
      @ssjdeadpool Před 3 lety +3

      @@Felone007 Yes. It was already explained in the video. That's why I thanked him for explaining it. You did not need to explain it again, because it has already been explained, which was the point of my original comment. 🤦‍♂️ As fuck.

    • @tarbeck7305
      @tarbeck7305 Před 3 lety +14

      It perplexed me too for a while. What I still don’t get is how Hobb slayed one dragon alone, but it took about a dozen people to kill the youngest one (Tyraxes)? My theory is that after the storming people didn’t want to admit to having killed the dragons but some people did just to spite the Targaryens. This would imply that Hobb survived and CLAIMED to have done it just like the other dozen. In reality it could’ve have taken many people to kill Shrykos but he was the only one brave enough to take credit

    • @ssjdeadpool
      @ssjdeadpool Před 3 lety +3

      @@tarbeck7305 or Hobb is just built different idk🤷🏻‍♂️😂

  • @TheDrexxus
    @TheDrexxus Před rokem +38

    You could say that a dragon's scales are like tenfold shields. Their teeth are akin to perhaps swords. One might even make the comparison of their claws being like spears. Under the right circumstances, it wouldn't be that far fetched to say their tail could be like a thunderbolt or their wings a hurricane. And of course everyone knows, their breath is death.

  • @ulloriaqjensen1924
    @ulloriaqjensen1924 Před 3 lety +3

    Dark souls 2 reference with the picture of the boss looking glass knight pretty cool ^_^

  • @iLLya_
    @iLLya_ Před rokem +3

    Gigachad hob the wood cutter in my head cannon he killed both dragons and then went into the woods to gather logs

  • @joaovitorreisdasilva9573
    @joaovitorreisdasilva9573 Před 3 lety +70

    It's interesting how commoners of every culture hate dragons no matter what 🤨

    • @eumemo4814
      @eumemo4814 Před 3 lety +45

      Giant flying flamethrowers, I wouldn’t like much.

    • @joaovitorreisdasilva9573
      @joaovitorreisdasilva9573 Před 3 lety +3

      @@eumemo4814 Huh... It's you again, hello there, kinda neat to see you again lol

    • @eumemo4814
      @eumemo4814 Před 3 lety

      @@joaovitorreisdasilva9573 have we met before?

    • @joaovitorreisdasilva9573
      @joaovitorreisdasilva9573 Před 3 lety +3

      @@eumemo4814 Not really, but you replied to another of my comments in another video, it was something related to this crazy pet theory of mine that the Elder Things from Lovecraft nuked the Valyrian Freehold... lol

    • @apersononearth254
      @apersononearth254 Před 3 lety +10

      Not in Asia, hating dragons is a western thing

  • @zantetsu9777
    @zantetsu9777 Před rokem +1

    Love Seeing Mirror Knight Here as a stand in for Serwyn!! DS2 4 Life!

  • @AuspexAstarte
    @AuspexAstarte Před 5 měsíci +1

    I wouldn’t be surprised if that old man was some kind of shadow priest in disguise with his own reasons, beliefs or agenda for using the ten thousand-strong mob as a sacrifice for the summoning of that exact description, except instead of an actual knight, it was like what killed renly. A towering shadow that seemingly used a similarly massive sword in this case, much larger of a shadow in order easily eliminate the spewer of supernatural fire.

  • @S.T.A.550
    @S.T.A.550 Před 3 lety +6

    Nice work.. on all your vids! Appreciate the effort/work you put into these!! SALUTE

  • @rekoken2911
    @rekoken2911 Před 3 lety +16

    Weren't Valyrian dragons a lot weaker than what we perceived them as? Because from what I remember, it was mentioned that they were killed by throwing spears, arrows and water magic in the past but the battles where that happened were lost due to the sheer number of them flying around in the sky.

    • @WinterFrostx
      @WinterFrostx Před 3 lety +3

      They were perhaps smaller dragons, like how small/young Drogon were hurt by throwing spears in the GoT TV show in the fighting pits.

    • @carrier2823
      @carrier2823 Před rokem +1

      Also seems likely that weapons and magics from valyria were probably more potent in those times, especially for killing dragons

    • @rekoken2911
      @rekoken2911 Před rokem +2

      @@carrier2823 or it may just be a case of fear. The mongols were only so powerful when enemy armies didn't know how to fight them properly. Once they did learn how to fight the mongols, well, ask Russia what happened.

    • @starlight0313
      @starlight0313 Před rokem +1

      That was against a massive army of water magicians with only 3 dragons

    • @rekoken2911
      @rekoken2911 Před rokem

      @Starspark Studios mfs really needed the entire Nile's worth of water to shoot down a bunch of flying lizards, that's sad

  • @RB-ei5fu
    @RB-ei5fu Před 3 lety +5

    Always love the videos. Thanks!

  • @evn556
    @evn556 Před rokem

    Man. I love your content!!!!

  • @Mynewestrandomz
    @Mynewestrandomz Před 3 lety +3

    Now there is more lore for mirror knight in dark souls 2

  • @javidseyadahmed6917
    @javidseyadahmed6917 Před rokem +2

    Im really thrilled to see these stories in the new House Of The Dragons show

  • @PumpkinBreath
    @PumpkinBreath Před 3 lety +16

    Hey buddy, i love the content. Hopefully George provides you with more soon.

  • @juliohenrique8546
    @juliohenrique8546 Před 3 lety +7

    Maybe Davos the Dragonslayer killed a Targaryen person and got the nickname because of the Targaryen sigil. I remember from the books that a squire who killed a Lannister lord got the nickname "Lionslayer".

    • @danpeterson114
      @danpeterson114 Před rokem +5

      That would make far more sense than a mere man killing an actual ASOIAF world dragon. But it could as easily been simply a "made up story". Everyone today has heard of Saint George the Dragon Slayer, but most people don't realize that there was no dragon at all in the original story of this Saint, and it was simply invented centuries later by a Catholic Bishop to make his book about saints more exciting. The "real" Saint George was simply a Roman soldier who became a Christian martyr.

  • @TheMrPeteChannel
    @TheMrPeteChannel Před 3 lety +4

    It's vague on how to kill dragons in ASOIAF. For instance in TWOIAF reference book it says that dragons do not have a soft underbelly. Then the next sentence it says there only vulnerable spot seems to be the eye. Yet another sentence says they can be brought down with "waves of arrows". Not Scorpion bolts but waves of regular arrows. So like much of GRRM's rules of lore the way to kill dragons varies.

    • @danpeterson114
      @danpeterson114 Před 2 lety +3

      He meant arrows fired in massed waves in hopes that at least one might hit the vulnerable eyes with luck. But even this was one of the dumbest things Martin ever said, because the idea of protecting a horse's eyes, (just like a man's) from arrow fire is with headgear that includes thick metal grates over the eyes to deflect arrows, ballista bolts, etc. There is no excuse for Martin to have overlooked this.

    • @TheMrPeteChannel
      @TheMrPeteChannel Před rokem

      @@danpeterson114 maybe waves of arrows to the wings?

  • @dyldobaggins4158
    @dyldobaggins4158 Před rokem +1

    I feel like with the amount of lore on dragonslayers that there's no way we won't see one in the books, don't see whoever it is surviving however unless it's a long range kill and even then it's still dangerous.

  • @riotchai4602
    @riotchai4602 Před rokem +2

    i love when people who learn the lore of GoT then procced to say that when somethings magic its not real in the stories despite there being magic in it

  • @Slender_Man_186
    @Slender_Man_186 Před 2 lety

    1:15 woah woah woah, that’s the Looking Glass Knight from Dark Souls 2.

  • @kellerbradberry1328
    @kellerbradberry1328 Před rokem

    looking glass knight from dark souls 2 woah

  • @RaizanMedia
    @RaizanMedia Před rokem

    Love it
    Where did you get Serwin of the Mirror Shield's images? One is linked in the description but the render/transparent background image isn't

    • @butrax3017
      @butrax3017 Před rokem +2

      Those images are from the Mirror Knight boss from the game "Dark Souls 2", which is not associated with GoT at all. I think he just googled mirror knight and used what came up.

    • @RaizanMedia
      @RaizanMedia Před rokem +1

      @@butrax3017 Thank you!

  • @alansliwinski_
    @alansliwinski_ Před 3 lety +11

    poor dragons...

    • @evn556
      @evn556 Před rokem

      Doood I know😢😢

  • @chrismedina54
    @chrismedina54 Před rokem +1

    Lmao, not even dragin fire can stop the power of frenzied mob. They needed this mob during the battle of Winterfell.

  • @newdawngamingchannel
    @newdawngamingchannel Před rokem

    That image you used for the dornish is actually from the wheel of time

  • @whitechocolate029
    @whitechocolate029 Před rokem

    I was very distracted once mirror knight popped up.

  • @lonestarwolfentertainment7184

    While it is true that Balerion was incredibly old (and probably nearing the end of his life anyway) that is not what killed him, it was injuries he had sustained in the Ruins of Valyria that put an end to him and that is scary because even in his old age the Black Dread was still very very powerful (and not to mention the size of a small Kaiju) so anything that can fatally injure him is something that is very worthy of Fear.

    • @theseventhsin2783
      @theseventhsin2783 Před 3 lety +1

      No it was old age

    • @Barryschitpeas42069
      @Barryschitpeas42069 Před rokem +5

      He broke his legs/ankles whenever he landed by the time of death, simply too big

    • @5000mahmud
      @5000mahmud Před rokem

      betting he got something like heartworm from Valyria

    • @bro8686
      @bro8686 Před rokem

      @@theseventhsin2783 it is implied he died of old age due to being locked up in the dragon pits, denying him well being a dragon.

    • @kirstybrown1185
      @kirstybrown1185 Před rokem +2

      He lived for like 50 years after that. Which was like a quarter of his life. He was extremely injured and Aerea definitely died from it but it makes no sense that he lived for half a century after his “death blow” he died of old age, we know this because it’s the only thing that makes any logical sense.

  • @cardd1577
    @cardd1577 Před rokem +1

    5:42 what based man

  • @johnnyjay6959
    @johnnyjay6959 Před 2 lety +1

    But dragons or valirians could have been in Westeros early on or dragon riders bc HardHome was “nuked” or rather something happened that disappeared everyone there and destroyed the port town and nobody would settle there. Maybe I’m remembering wrong but I think I read somewhere that a fire or red cloud could be seen miles away.

  • @danpeterson114
    @danpeterson114 Před 2 lety +3

    I think one of the reasons ASOIAF was so popular compared to most fantasy writing with dragons was because Martin knew enough about real Medieval technology that he rightly realized that people of that era would be unable to kill "large" dragons with the weaponry available at the time. Real Medieval people fully understood this as well, which is why virtually EVERY period depiction of St. George and the Dragon depicts the dragon much smaller than his horse, sometimes about the size of a goat! So to these real people who fought wolves and bears with medieval weapons, something like even a pony sized, flying, flame spewing dragon would have been incredibly dangerous, and would require no less than a "Saint" to do so! But as the years have gone by, and people became more and more ignorant of real human and animal capabilities, the dragons which people are able to slay in all of the crap video games and B fantasy novels, kept getting bigger and bigger. And accordingly, more and more, intelligent, thinking people dismiss so much fantasy writing, films and games as just so much adolescent minded rubbish. Ironically though, some of Martin's dumbest writing occurs when he does decide to "kill off" the relatively few dragons actually slain by humans. The mob's killing of the dragons in the Dragon Pits made no sense because the city was rife with unrest and with not enough guards to protect the Dragon Pit, the invaluable dragons would have been moved to the Red Keep, for after all, it might be the only way for the remaining "Royals" who owned them to make their escape. Having dragons killed by wounds to the eyes was ridiculous as well, because Martin should have known that in real Medieval times, the most valuable war horses were equipment with steel masks called chamfrons which often had grates which allowed them to see, but prevented spears and arrows to be shot in their eyes, the only vulnerable parts of their body according to Martin. So the Targaryens would have unquestionably did exactly the same thing to protect their dragons. It was also ridiculous to assume there still wouldn't be wild dragons in some remote places of that world still living long after the Targaryen's killed off nearly all of their own domesticated ones in their Civil War. Martin does imply this may be the case in his later writing, and acknowledges that remote areas in the South of the world are inhabited by large and very dragon-like, though untamable "Wyverns". With only four limbs instead of six like so many dragons of the fantasy genre, all of Martin's dragons could actually be considered wyverns.

    • @tdvwest9514
      @tdvwest9514 Před 2 lety

      Medieval horse did not have eye protection, those chamfrons protected only the skull of the horse. There were many cases where horses have been shot through the eye gaps of the chamfrons.

    • @danpeterson114
      @danpeterson114 Před 2 lety

      @@tdvwest9514 Obviously you haven't seen enough original chamfrons. Even some of the ones that go back to Roman times had full grills to protect the eyes from projectiles, and when you have a creature as valuable as a dragon, of course you are going to eliminate all possible ways it could be defeated, however remote.

    • @tdvwest9514
      @tdvwest9514 Před 2 lety

      @@danpeterson114 I guess so but as for your other points, how could they move the dragons. They built that giant ass building for the sole purpose of housing them so even if they new of the unrest there would probably be no where else to move them. They probably thought that they were well protected in that dome with the fear of dragons being enough to stop people from entering.
      There are times when tanks and heavy duty military equipment gets stolen by random civilians just because nobody would think that they would be stupid enough to try it.

    • @tdvwest9514
      @tdvwest9514 Před 2 lety

      As for the grate part, they probable were used but having a piece of metal with holes in it comprised its strength and might have occasionally failed at stopping arrows. which is why many later models didn't have them.

    • @danpeterson114
      @danpeterson114 Před 2 lety

      @@tdvwest9514 The whole point I'm making is the absolute FACT that real-life, Medieval and even Ancient technology developed headgear to protect the eyes of both men and horses from being shot in the eyes by arrows, so of course it would be used in a fantasy world with Medieval technology to protect the eyes of a creature as valuable as a dragon. This is one of GRRM's greateast failings in his writings -- like you, he was apparently ignorant of arrow deflecting visors and gratings to protect the vulnerable eyes of both man and beast..

  • @nickthompson2376
    @nickthompson2376 Před 2 lety +1

    There’s a ton of stuff we still don’t have barely any info about. Blackfyre rebellions, Peake uprising, downfall of house Lothston, Summerhall??? I hope we do get all this info eventually . George got too big everyone wants a piece of him now. Good for him but shitty for us

  • @Erdemasen
    @Erdemasen Před 3 lety

    The witcher 2 spoiler and I just started playing it ughhhh

  • @chinesesquidward
    @chinesesquidward Před rokem

    Got a chemistry paper today
    I must watch this

  • @boiboi5402
    @boiboi5402 Před 2 lety +1

    Mirror knight from ds2 is such a good design

    • @evn556
      @evn556 Před rokem

      I gotta play that man, have beat every other FS game😅

    • @boiboi5402
      @boiboi5402 Před rokem

      @@evn556 I recommend scholar of the first sin over the original version of ds2

  • @thecontrolkids
    @thecontrolkids Před 3 lety

    5:12 isn't that Aiel from the the wheel of time not dornish. Also Aiel translates to "people of the dragon" which is cool.

  • @SpadaBelformaOfficial
    @SpadaBelformaOfficial Před rokem +2

    Hey wait a second... thats not Serwyn of the Mirror Shield, thats the Looking Glass Knight from Dark Souls 2! 1:21

  • @magnumopus9631
    @magnumopus9631 Před 3 lety +1

    seems magic was leaving westros,and taking dragon magic with it,but your maybe right,mastors might of had a hand in it all

  • @erickruckenberg8716
    @erickruckenberg8716 Před rokem +8

    Serwyn is actually a Westerosi Mythological Character
    Simply analyzing his name from the GoT Lore/Culture tells the truth of it: Serwyn > Ser Wyn = Ser is an anointed knights title and Wyn is just an alternate spelling of win. Whether it be slaying a dragon or saving a princess from giants, he’s a knight who wins in the tales.

  • @raeesshah257
    @raeesshah257 Před 3 lety +1

    Bro please make a video on "The top 10 armies of westerous"

  • @fartpoop9722
    @fartpoop9722 Před rokem +2

    Apparently theres speculation that the maesters were secretly poisoning Balerion, since no other dragon was ever known to die of old age

  • @all9472
    @all9472 Před rokem

    2:00 I hope they show that in the house of the dragons show

  • @fanelemabaso2514
    @fanelemabaso2514 Před 3 lety +24

    Had Valerians not been greedy, they wouldve continued prospering. But we humans are just as greedy as they are destroying our environment. We will probably meet the same fate.

    • @badlyrosenthal5149
      @badlyrosenthal5149 Před 3 lety +1

      works for me. on any real note, our generations will be long gone before it becomes a serious problem. fuck em

    • @saymyname2417
      @saymyname2417 Před 3 lety

      That was hardly a matter of greed alone.

  • @tobluetoblack
    @tobluetoblack Před 2 lety +1

    *Cough* *Cough* *Clears throat*. Inhale deeply and...
    FUS RO DAH

  • @ljubomirvelja9692
    @ljubomirvelja9692 Před 3 lety +1

    Cool video

  • @dford145
    @dford145 Před 3 lety +2

    When will TWOW come out?

  • @pyroboy417
    @pyroboy417 Před rokem

    So was the night king killing danny’s dragon not cannon? And the iron lad who killed the second?

  • @Kmaaq
    @Kmaaq Před 3 lety +1

    Did the dude just put up a picture of the looking glass knight

  • @arkaghosh1875
    @arkaghosh1875 Před rokem

    5:10 Those aren't Dornish fighters, they are Aielmen from The Wheel Of Time.

  • @lucamascolo4198
    @lucamascolo4198 Před rokem

    was the mirror knight from ds2 based on serwyn of the mirror shield

    • @hoked2194
      @hoked2194 Před rokem

      No, he just used an image of the Looking Glass Knight drom DS2.

  • @DrQuadmaster4000
    @DrQuadmaster4000 Před 3 lety +2

    Serwyn is literrally the Mirror Knight from Dark Souls 2

  • @lostinthestorywithjeremymi9385

    People hate on dragons, but they're animals. Mystic, highly intelligent animals...but they're not monsters. (I know that's a hard pill to swallow, but being a certain species doesn't make them a monster.) I think that one handed 'shepherd' was a madman who just hated a bias towards the animals and bigoted hatred for them and their kin, manipulating the fear of the people for these animals. (But dragon or human...seeing that attack on the Dragonpit is gonna be hard to watch in House of the Dragon if/when it happens.) Not to mention the maesters idiotically trying to push away magic from the world when magic is/was needed to save/protect it.

    • @apoorv_mc
      @apoorv_mc Před rokem +3

      the shepherd is the guy in home owners association who bans having pets in housing societies

    • @niggamancer6985
      @niggamancer6985 Před rokem +2

      You know something doesn't have to be a monster for a person to hate it Humans are animals as well but are also hated its Humans nature to hate .

    • @lostinthestorywithjeremymi9385
      @lostinthestorywithjeremymi9385 Před rokem

      @@niggamancer6985 Seems so.

    • @Gabriel-bu6ln
      @Gabriel-bu6ln Před rokem +2

      " I think that one handed 'shepherd' was a madman who just hated a bias towards the animals and bigoted hatred for them and their kin, manipulating the fear of the people for these animals"
      Could it be because the dragon burned down his ENTIRE village and witnessed his own people burn to death? I wonder why he could possibly have some kind bias against them...

    • @lostinthestorywithjeremymi9385
      @lostinthestorywithjeremymi9385 Před rokem

      @@Gabriel-bu6ln People torture people, should we kill all people?

  • @jobsmine
    @jobsmine Před rokem

    I would put Bronn in here from season 7 of GOT. He’s had his spear right through drogon’s eye fr.

  • @bro8686
    @bro8686 Před rokem

    I like the idea that the citadel is behind the decline in magic, preferring science in its stead, using unknown means(probably magic), the killing of the last dragon's( which is implied they were behind ) and the structures created by bran the builder that stop the crossing of magic to remove the influence of the gods ,to create a true age and rule of man by artificially making a dark age for the more mystical aspect of the world paralleling Christianity's crusades against science. Personally i like the idea that the last books will about magic vs science with the citadel being one of the main players.

  • @motorhh
    @motorhh Před 3 lety +1

    gotta tell Jaime and Daven bout these boys

  • @robspadre5519
    @robspadre5519 Před rokem

    "Not stop growthing "? Did I hear that right?!

  • @alex52043
    @alex52043 Před 3 měsíci

    So, Maester Pol whipped up a mob to destroy the dragons.

  • @michaelkean5969
    @michaelkean5969 Před 2 lety +1

    Dragons can't be killed
    Guts: i refer you to the name of my Big ass 10ft long Sword that's heavier than the Mountain.

    • @hoked2194
      @hoked2194 Před rokem

      His sword is literally called the Dragonslayer too. Dude is born to kill overpowered shit.

  • @ethankendall9499
    @ethankendall9499 Před 3 lety +1

    Dragons not in Westeros? Battle Isle?

  • @jojospice3353
    @jojospice3353 Před 3 lety +6

    I wonder if these dragons a a kind of big dogs? They seems always to do what their masters tell them to do? Are there no kind of "wild" dragon? Not bound to the will of a Tagarien?

    • @johnrammyespanola969
      @johnrammyespanola969 Před 3 lety +1

      Watch this guy's video about north of the wall. Theres a place there where its rumored to have ice dragons that are masterless.

    • @aysseralwan
      @aysseralwan Před 3 lety

      Also there were some wild dragons on dragonstone and during the dance of dragons people could try to tame on -or more likely bond because you can't tame a dragon- and gain a knighthood or something for it and there was a girl (I forgot her name) that were able to do so by giving a wild dragon a sheep every day to get its trust. She named him Sheepstealer I think

    • @NoSkill123
      @NoSkill123 Před 3 lety +6

      There was a wild dragon during the dance of a dragon, it was named the cannibal I think.

    • @aysseralwan
      @aysseralwan Před 3 lety +1

      @@NoSkill123 thats a dope name

    • @sirrolanddestark58
      @sirrolanddestark58 Před 3 lety +1

      Her name was Nedels

  • @chrisc767
    @chrisc767 Před rokem +2

    Would be an epic story if they had some dragonlord descendant from old Valeria that survived the doom and wanted to restore their family's honor by becoming the most powerfuk family in the world and due to their dragon bloodline they would be immune to the dragons fire and they would possess ancient magical armor and weapons from old Valeria and then being able to actually 1v1 a dragon ! Their mission overthrow the only other dragon bloodine descendants, the Targaryens

    • @Raximus3000
      @Raximus3000 Před rokem +3

      You have been watching too much Garo, lol.

    • @lukanxo5353
      @lukanxo5353 Před rokem

      Dragon could just step on him

  • @hussainraza8009
    @hussainraza8009 Před rokem

    1:25 is that the looking glass knight from dark souls 2?!

  • @Segkee
    @Segkee Před rokem +1

    there is a theory that the Cannibal is a westerosi dragon so maybe there were dragons pre-valyrian migration.

  • @youtubeisboring9709
    @youtubeisboring9709 Před rokem +2

    I really don't want to see Syrax die in House of the dragon, in fact I don't want any to die.

    • @carlost856
      @carlost856 Před rokem

      They are menaces and need to be put down for the good of humanity.

  • @Brandonhayhew
    @Brandonhayhew Před 3 lety +3

    Best way kill a dragons is hidden scorpion to hit down like a missile launcher or artillery to hit a plane.

    • @apoorv_mc
      @apoorv_mc Před rokem

      yup modern weapons can easily kill a dragon

    • @Brandonhayhew
      @Brandonhayhew Před rokem

      @@apoorv_mc gunpowder was the death of cavalry

  • @MrDalugoga
    @MrDalugoga Před 3 lety +1

    Nobody going to mention the Mirror Knight from Dark Souls 2 at 1:13?

  • @goryanadazaghal1206
    @goryanadazaghal1206 Před 3 lety

    Ok who would win The Lore Dragon Born from the Elder Scrolls Vs Balerion the Black dread

  • @penitentone
    @penitentone Před 6 měsíci

    Is this the penitent one? @1:19

  • @sarugbyfan8134
    @sarugbyfan8134 Před 3 lety +3

    Funny how he uses the Witcher to show that ASOIAF isn’t a fairytale where a knight comes to slay the dragon..... when the Witcher is supposed to be the exact opposite of that 😂😂😂

    • @michaelkean5969
      @michaelkean5969 Před 2 lety

      yeah it's like if you used Berserk as an example of actions not having consequences.

  • @logicsfinest3471
    @logicsfinest3471 Před rokem

    What exactly does “Overpowered” mean? The whole idea of something is that it’s beyond human ability in some regard. If something is more powerful than a human, or it can’t be easily beaten, then comes the cry it’s “overpowered”. Can you please explain to me your thinking when using this term? If you don’t reply, fair enough. This is an honest question though.

  • @jeffreyhill1011
    @jeffreyhill1011 Před 3 lety +2

    Nevermind the fact that there weren't knights during the age of heroes.

  • @janeshepard9549
    @janeshepard9549 Před rokem +1

    Dovahkin : Children, please

  • @hobo-acolyte4108
    @hobo-acolyte4108 Před 2 lety

    Serwyn, aka the coolest boss of ds2

  • @Botchulism_asdf
    @Botchulism_asdf Před 3 lety +1

    Lol the mirror knight

  • @bergmansvea8739
    @bergmansvea8739 Před rokem +1

    *That thing was too big to be called a sword. Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of iron.*