Skulldrinker
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Skulldrinker
6hr ago
One thing those articles never engage with is Westeros' seasonal weirdness; summers last a long-ass time and outside of the North winter doesn't seem that bad, that changes a lot of assumptions about agriculture. Everything in Westeros is on a larger scale and has that classic fantasy "thousands of years" timescale for its civilizations. The seven kingdoms have history that goes back further than the roman empire; when Europe was full of dudes who painted themselves blue, they were building castles n shit. That's a lot of time spent in the steel age, even with fantasy medieval stasis in effect. I can believe they have better metallurgy/materials technology and architectural knowledge than the IRL middle ages did, and we as readers don't hear about it because none of our viewpoint characters are architects.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't a secret, the death of any dragon is a big event, the critters are famous and the targs show them off as part of pageantry.
Apparently as time went on, the dragons got stunted and deformed and unimpressive until the last one hatched was the size of a dog.
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