Every Game of Thrones fan was fascinated by this.
At what point does the need for a spoiler alert end? Genuine question. Anyways, here’s one.
Take a good long look at yourselves people. Plenty of good men in the Night’s Watch died at Eastwatch and all that people were thinking about was Viserion and how the Night King’s dragon managed to burn down the Wall.
For shame.
To be honest, we don’t blame you. THAT SCENE WAS AMAZING!
After that epic finale, our main concern was with Tormund – more about his fate here – but ever since Viserion was converted by the leader of the White Walkers, people were utterly fascinated by the possibilities that an ice dragon could bring to Westeros.
Was Viserion a wight and suspect to fire? Was the winged beast more like White Walkers because he was touched by the Night King? But most importantly, what would it breathe, fire or ice?
Jeremy Podeswa directed the season finale, The Dragon and the Wolf, and during an interview with The Huffington Post he revealed that Viserion was actually breathing a new form of mystical fire from his mouth.
“The way I looked at it was, when the Sept burned down [in the season six finale], that was green fire, and so then the dragon is going to have some kind of blueish fire. It’s certainly still fire — it has the ability to burn the Wall and melt snow. But it’s going to have a different kind of magical quality to it, because it’s coming from an undead dragon” ” Podeswa said.
In the novels, George R.R Martin said that ice dragons are “colossal beasts, many times larger than the dragons of Valyria, are said to be made of living ice, with eyes of pale blue crystal and vast translucent wings through which the moon and stars can be glimpsed as they wheel across the sky.Whereas common dragons (if any dragon can truly be said to be common) breathe flame, ice dragons supposedly breathe cold, a chill so terrible that it can freeze a man solid in half a heartbeat […] As ice dragons supposedly melt when slain, no actual proof of their existence has ever been found.”
Now that matter is officially settled and we know that Viserion can unleash fiery fury from his mouth, the most important question is how can he be stopped?
Given the very plausible theory that Winterfell is first on the Night King’s radar, Daenerys better climb on top of Drogon and fly north quickly.
A battle of fire and fire awaits.
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