Wyverns were used by the Bloodmages to create dragons, but Wyverns are something quite terrible. The shocking relationship between the Wyverns and terrible lizards of Sothoryos.
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Information for this video is sourced from the ASoIaF book series, Game of Thrones HBO television series, House of the Dragon HBO television series, Sample chapters from The Winds of Winter, The Dunk and Egg Novellas, The Lands of Ice and Fire, The World of Ice and Fire, Fire and Blood, Rise of the dragon, and So Spake Martin compilations from Westeros.org. This video may also contain spoilers from TWOW sample chapters.
Would you believe it if I told you that there were actually dinosaurs in the Game of Thrones book series ASOIAF. And what if I told you that in the books there are signs that point to dragons sharing a common ancestry with these predatory beasts? Well today I have scoured the books and im bringing all the evidence so be sure to stay until the end for some interesting comments by our author on the subject.
So as heretical as dinosaurs in Martin’s world may sound, you may be surprised to learn there are some bipedal predatory lizards located just south of Valyria within the continental land mass of Sothoryos. According to the Worldbook, within Sothoryos there is a creature called “the tattooed lizard”. The worldbook details how these creatures stalk the jungles running down their prey and ripping them apart with long curved claws on their powerful hind legs. This peculiar description has caused much speculation that these predators might actually be a dinosaur. Most likely a type of dromaeosaur or raptor-like creature as raptors are also described as tearing their prey apart with their characteristic curved claws on their powerful hind legs.
Of course an even more telling example is mentioned as early as book one of a game of thrones. In an Arya chapter, Syrio mentions that the sealord of braavos has a collection of very curious creatures one of which is described a terrible walking lizard with scythes for claws. Interestingly enough, this creature is described as a terrible lizard and the word dinosaur is actually derived from the greek word dinosauria which literally means terrible lizard. And the name walking lizard not only suggests this creature as being bipedal but the genus of dromaeosaurus or raptor family of dinosaurs name is derived from the Greek word for running lizard and possesses something called a sickle claw and linguistically the words scythe and sickle are often used synonymously. So basically in once sentence the author is telling us in several different ways that the Sealord of Braavos is keeping a dinosaur for a pet… and its probably a raptor.
And if you’ve read the books you might have already been aware of this, but what you might not have known is that the author himself has mentioned that there are dinosaurs in his world as confirmation of this came in 2015 when a fan was live tweeting an event where george r martin was speaking and one of those tweets had revealed our author mentioning that dinosaurs did in fact exist in the world of a song of ice and fire so the fandom naturally put two and two together realizing our author was likely referring to the raptor-esque tattooed and walking lizards found in Sothoyros and in the Sealord’s menagerie.
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19 июн 2024
