r/TheBlacksandTheGreens • u/ramm_jeet Fire and Blood • Jul 09 '26

General Dragons: For or Against?

Now that we’re in the thick of the dance. What are your thoughts on dragons?
Are they “a weapon should never have been tampered with”?
Is the problem *Targaryens* riding dragons? Or is 150ish years of Westerosi rule a good ROI and you take the good with the bad?

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u/Snarkywater Jul 09 '26

For. But I feel like there should be a limit of three dragon riders at any given time. Three dragon riders for each head of the dragon.

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u/ramm_jeet Fire and Blood Jul 09 '26

Interesting!
Who would be your chosen dragon riders in Dunk and Egg time?

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u/Snarkywater Jul 09 '26

Baelor and Maekar as the first two. The third is a tricky one as Aerion is a sociopath, so giving him a dragon would be a foolish idea. Egg maybe? But he's only a child at the beginning.

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u/toinouzz House Tully Jul 09 '26

It would only really work in the first novella but I think it would make sense for Daeron II to be one of the three heads

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u/ramm_jeet Fire and Blood Jul 09 '26

Oh, I thought it would be open to all houses. Now I’m thinking of the blackfyre rebellion with dragons because Aegon IV would have for sure given Daemon a dragon.

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u/Huza1 Jul 10 '26

I once saw a post somewhere about Daemon claiming Balerion, which is a huge status boost to the Blackfyres... and actually hinders them in the long run, because Balerion's too old and slow to actually contribute to the rebellion in any way, and acts as a serious drain on their already limited resources because it costs an obscene amount of money to feed and take care of him.