Could the dragonkeepers perhaps have done something differently?
Or couldn’t one of them have attempted to ride Seasmoke?
In this context, the dragon summoned by the song is the third head.
The reign of House Targaryen begins with this prequel to the popular HBO seriesGame of Thrones.Based on George R.R. Martin’sFire & Blood,House of the Dragonis set nearly 200 years beforeGame of Thrones, telling the story of the Targaryen civil war with King Viserys.
In “Smallfolk,” the dragonkeepers sing the same song to summon Seasmoke.
More than a year later, Aerea suddenly reappears in King’s Landing with Balerion.
She dies soon after as a consequence of themysterious burns and bruisesshe carries.
Balerion, too, is severely bruised, with open wounds still bleeding.
They also gave some dragons their nicknames.
Caraxes, for example, was named “the Blood Wyrm” by the dragonkeepers in King’s Landing.
King Viserys returns one last time in the latest episode.
Dragons are perceived as gods, and something thatonly people withthe blood of the dragoncan fully tame.
That’s why only Targaryens and some Velaryons have dragons - so far, at least.
From then on, the very concept of dragonkeepers as an institution evolved into that of a monastic order.
For example, they work in pairs, with an elder dragonkeeper being the mentor to a younger one.
It’s pretty much confessing their failures, too, a way of not holding the dragon responsible.
Hopefully, we won’t see any more dragonkeepers doing this until the end of the series.
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