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News and discussions relating to George R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' novels, his Westeros-based short stories, 'Game of Thrones' and all things ASOIAF - but with particular emphasis on the written series. Eastwatch in the Sidebar -Removes Unofficial Game of Thrones S8 Spoilers - No Spoilers: No Spoilers allowed. All story information must be hidden. AGOT, ACOK, ASOS, AFFC, ADWD: All book information through the end of that novel. In Game of Thrones, Dany teaches us how to hatch dragon eggs and that the recipe is in fact the House Targaryen words: Fire & Blood. I was drawn to this conclusion when I began thinking about what the hell was going on in the tent when Mirri was doing her blood magic thing.
The description was wild: including shadows dancing around, a wolf and a man wreathed in flame and other ominous junk. We know Dany obviously wasn't supposed to go in the tent being preggers with Rhaego, but I think this would explain why she went into labor during the blood magic event. Operating under the assumption that dragon eggs are essentially 'soul vessels' and not just fossilized dragon eggs, - dragon eggs can't go bad - I believe that Mirri's blood magic effectively placed Drogo and Rhaego into two of the three dragon eggs.
I dont know if Mirri knew what she was doing, but I also believe that blood magic in ASOIAF can't be properly be controlled by humans ('sword without a hilt'), but the powers-that-be ultimately willed this magical event. Tangent: the 'powers-that-be' could also involve the images of the wolf and man wreathed in flame being 'Rhllor and Bran/Great Other', or something like that. In any case, the power of the blood magic essentially pulled Dany into the tent, seemingly inducing labor, and left her with a miscarriaged? Yet misshapen creature that had leathery wings and 'had been dead for years'. Maybe something you might find in an old dragon egg, right? I dont really have an explanation of why Jorah, Mirri or Dany didn't get put into the third egg, though.
But that is the first requirement for hatching a dragon egg, sacrificial blood magic to place someone's essence into an egg. The second part of the recipe is fire. Dany's funeral pyre fills the requirement, and I believe during the pyre Mirri ends up placing herself into the third egg using the same spell, as Dany remarks she is making the same 'ululating' sounds as when she was casting the blood magic spell originally, before she begins to scream, of course.
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The result is parts of Drogo and his horse being transfered to the black egg (Drogon), Rhaego to the green egg (Rhaegal), and perhaps Mirri inside Viserion. I think Viserion will be the dragon that dies so it may not matter, but it may also defy her as a result of having Mirri's essence.
There are probably more details that need to be included, such as possible Valyrian blood requirements and proper timing of the Fire magic with the comet. I also think her dreams and draw to the eggs highly influence her motivations for lighting the pyre, but don't really know where to fit it in. TLDR: Targaryen House words 'Fire and Blood' are recipe requirements for magic necessary to hatch dragons and Daenerys accidentally or rather, unknowingly, hatched her dragon eggs. Yeah, I'm pretty sure 'Fire and Blood' is as close as we get anymore to ancient Valyrian wisdom, which was unquestionably powerful.
Perhaps the Valyrians performed fire magic on their blood (or vice-versa) on themselves ages ago to become more dragony, which is why keeping bloodlines pure was of such paramount importance to the post-doom Dragonstone family. But that's all anyone remembers anymore, of any wisdom really, clues and fragments and riddles. Every so often someone tries to assemble them as passed down through different cultures, but it never quite. There's a theory (ok, it's mine) that the First Men that came to Westeros were chased out of Essos for worshipping death, and the Ironborn religion is a remnant of the same death cult adapted to maritime culture.
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They immediately went to war against the children of the forest (who worship life), and the cult resurfaced as the Faceless Men in the time of Valyria. We know the official line is that the First Men converted to the CotF religion, but there are always stubborn holdouts.
This also implies that some of the CotF could have converted to the death cult of the First Men as well. Come to think of it, Craster is probably Ironborn - blood of the First Men, worshipper of the Great Other. He's about the right age to have been a noble captured in the Greyjoy Rebellion and sent to the wall.