Game of Thrones Tinfoil Corner: Did Drogon lay eggs?

Fan theories are an age-old tradition for Game of Thrones fans. Some are reasonable, some are out there, and some are pleasantly bonkers. We’ll let you decide which of them this is: Drogon laid eggs and his newly hatched dragon babies will help Daenerys before the season is over.

This new theory comes to us from Digital Spy, who noticed it was going around on Twitter:

We’ve all noticed that the Game of Thrones opening credits changed a bit this year. The astrolabe now has a new scene of dragons on it: one large one and three small ones. So…evidence?

But isn’t Drogon a guy? Can he have kids?

Quoth Kimberly Milby:

"For everyone asking about the gender of the dragons and saying they’re all male. The dragons are gender fluid. They can change their sex. This is even in the books. Just because she named them after male figures in her life, doesn’t really mean anything."

There’s some truth in that. In George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood, a history book chronicling the time of Aegon the Conqueror through the end of the Targaryen civil war known as the Dance of Dragons, a very wise named named Septon Barth — Hand of the King to Jaehaerys I — posits that dragons are asexual and do not need to breed to lay eggs. So how does that affect Daenerys and Drogon?

Well, after the events of Game of Thrones Episode 804, “The Last of the Starks,” Dany is down to one dragon. But what if, the theory goes, Drogon laid eggs several seasons ago, in the smoking ruins of Valyria where Tyrion and Jorah saw him flying through the mists in season 5, after he’d run away from home for a while?

And if so, those eggs might have hatched already, and having grown up in the wild, could be pretty big by now, perhaps the size Drogon was when Dany first rode him when he saved her at Daznak’s Pit.

Another note of interest from Fire & Blood is that Dragonstone housed a very large hatchery for the dragons to be safely born and grow into drakes big enough to fend for themselves. Although if Drogon’s babies made it all the way there, they sure were quiet about it.

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So maybe that’s the twist coming in Episode 805: just when you think Daenerys and House Targaryen are about to once again be snuffed out, a bunch of young dragons come swooping down to assist Drogon with burning Euron’s fleet and King’s Landing to the ground. Remember, Drogon was this size when he set fire to Astapor:

Do I personally think this will go down? No, but stranger things have happened, and wouldn’t it be fun to see Drogon leading a bunch of younger dragons through the sky burning Euron’s face off? Might we have already seen the baby dragons in the distance in the trailer for the next episode? MIGHT WE?

So is there anything here? Let’s discuss in the comments below.

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