We've seen this squeamish picture previously. A darling dragon, the animals of fantasy and magnificence, plunges from the sky with a moan and a cry before evaporating underneath a watery grave. Last season it was maybe somewhat more horrendous since it was the first occasion when we saw such a marvel bite the dust, yet Rhaegal's passing was no simpler to watch than Viserion's. At any rate Viserion kicked the bucket on account of a commendable foe like the Night King. Euron Greyjoy, on the other hand, is experimentally the most noticeably terrible character on Game of Thrones.

However here we are, two episodes left and just a single dragon staying to Daenerys Targaryen after another of her received kids took a scorpion's volley to the heart, throat, and wings. It was an instinctively discouraging minute, and not as a result of its unconvincing plotting. Dragons ostensibly convey the persona in Westeros' reality that dinosaurs do in our own, and the way that three such animals have strolled this world for about the entire length of Game of Thrones has abandoned us to underestimate they would dependably be there. As we presently observe two of them meet the Many God Face of Death, the sentiment of power for the mysterious, for the fantastical, is blurring. What's more, Daenerys' case and mental stability is blurring with them as well.

Before the series began, dragons had gone extinct for nearly 150 years. The last one belonged to King Aegon III, and she died sickly while the size of the cat. Dragons, like most magic, was believed to be a thing of the past by Westerosi scholars and maesters. In fact, many of them doubted most of ancient lore altogether, be it White Walkers and wights, or Children of the Forest, much as how you hopefully doubt the existence of elves and gnomes in our world. But a not-so-funny thing occurred gradually over the length of Game of Thrones: the magic came back. It is perhaps more than coincidence that as the White Walkers emerged from their millennia-long slumber that direwolves ran south of the Wall, red priestesses of Asshai wound up on western shores… and dragons were again born to this world.

Intriguingly, the dragons Daenerys herself has mothered are the results of ancient slights against her family merged with blood magic borne out of the same city Melisandre hailed from, blood magic from Asshai. While it will never be totally proven, at least by George R.R. Martin, Daenerys’ dragons likely came from the place of her birth, Dragonstone. Centuries before that stormy night, a woman named Elissa Farman also fled Dragonstone after ending her pseudo-secret lesbian affair with Queen Rhaena Targaryen. A bit like Arya in the later seasons of Game of Thrones, Elissa did not wish to stay put as a lady, or rather as Rhaena’s secret paramour, when she could fulfill her dream of sailing West and discovering a New World. Rhaena balked at the notion, so Elissa stole three dragon eggs from the Targaryen’s ancestral home and sold them to a wealthy sea merchant in Braavos, paying for a ship that allowed Elissa to sail west… and never be seen again.

It is believed by many that those eggs fossilized while out of the reach of the Targaryen’s magical care, becoming the same stones gifted as prized ornaments to Daenerys on her wedding day to Khal Drogo. Of course these were ornaments she ultimately hatched by walking through fire with them and sacrificing a witch of Asshai to dark magic.

The result is three dragons were born in the same year that the White Walkers began noticeably killing the Night’s Watch, thereby taking the first several steps of the Great War, which ended this season when Daenerys helped defeat the Night King at Winterfell. Yet with the Long Night averted, the balance in magic between the White Walkers’ ice and the dragons’ fire is broken. If the White Walkers are gone, it is conceivable the dragons will likewise go extinct again, returning the world to its previous state before magic seeped in and woke up.

This is a melancholy thought, not least of all because it leaves one of the most beloved characters on Game of Thrones in a precarious situation. For what is Dany if not magically inclined with the way she can waltz through fire? It now seems impossible for the final two episodes to end in anything but heartache for the Mother of Dragons. Which brings us back to Rhaegal.

Unlike the death of Viserion, we were allowed to really watch Daenerys grieve Rhaegal and understand what her dragons’ deaths mean. When the gold-and-cream dragon fell Beyond the Wall, it was due to facing an unimaginable, magical foe in the White Walkers, as well as in what felt like a Herculean effort in the Great War. She was saving a man she was also falling in love with, and as Jon was by her side by the time she was able to process the death of Viserion, she took it in better stride than she has now. Despite Jon Snow’s protestations, we have every reason to believe in the magic--light and dark—of this world. When Mirri Maz Duur told Dany in season 1 that she will not have another child until the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, it didn’t sound like a bluff. And Dany hasn’t had reason to stop believing her from lack of trying with either Jon or Daario Naharis before him. Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion are the only three children Dany will ever have, and now two of them are gone.

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