Daenerys’ three children have had a rough time of late, but hey, that’s just Game of Thrones, right?
Viserion was killed by the Night King, then became a wight, then died again when the Night King was killed. In the last episode, Rhaegal was killed by giant arrows when Dany somehow missed the huge fleet of ships coming their way. So, that leaves Drogon, her favourite dragon, who we’re seriously worried about.
RIP
But one fan seems to think there might be other dragons that we don’t know about.
The theory was making the rounds a while ago, but people now think it might be true.
A Redditor wrote that when they saw the promo for episode five, the theory popped back in their head.
“This theory says that in the fifth season, when Drogon spends almost a whole season gone, hes actually laying eggs and is in fact a female thats why he was burning fields full of sheep, goats and etc to feed the baby dragons.
“He’s the only one who disappeared, the only one who drove herds and took them all like roasted sheep. What made me rethink this theory was after I saw an EP5 promo where Euron Greyjoy looks up at the sky and hears a roar of himself. Hears that the grunt is very different and gets scared. Since he has seen the dragons for a long time he [wouldn’t] be scared for just a dragon, but what if [there’s] more dragons?”
They went on to say that it’s believed that dragons don’t have a defined sex, “meaning that they could change sex if needed”.
“[There’s] another theory that is more acceptable, which is that there is no way of knowing the sex of a dragon only if they laid eggs. In [the Targaryen] family there was a dragon named Vermax and everyone [thought] that he was a male because of his name but then one day he laid eggs. But how would they have eggs without having sex? There is a thing called parthenogenesis, which is an action originated from an egg without fertilization, for example the Komodo Dragon, when it is a female, can simply reproduce without the male!”
According to Esquire, George RR Martin never went into detail about how dragons reproduce, which seems crazy considering how much detail he goes into with everything else.
Refinery29 also suggests there could be another dragon because the opening credits hint at it with one large dragon and three smaller dragons on the astrolabe which weren’t there before season eight. You can see it at around 1:33 in the credits:
Why would they add another dragon for no reason? It doesn’t make sense otherwise!
What does it all mean?!
This could be exactly what Dany needs to defeat Euron and Cersei once and for all.
Whatever happens in the next episode, we just hope Dany’s figured out a way to get some armour on Drogon!