Spoilers Game of Thrones - Season 7
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Just now saw the finale. I don't know why it took so long, I was on vacation when it aired, just took me a while to actually go watch it.
Big surprising thing to me about the finale was what happened to Baelish. I thought for sure he was going to be one of the players for the throne up till the end. Though it seems totally fitting that Sansa is the first one to see him honestly for what he is and pull the trigger with the opportunity to finally get rid of him.
I'm curious how zombie dragon is still able to breathe fire with no heat in his body. Or if he is instead breathing cold, I'm curious how that brings down the wall.
Big surprising thing to me about the finale was what happened to Baelish. I thought for sure he was going to be one of the players for the throne up till the end. Though it seems totally fitting that Sansa is the first one to see him honestly for what he is and pull the trigger with the opportunity to finally get rid of him.
I'm curious how zombie dragon is still able to breathe fire with no heat in his body. Or if he is instead breathing cold, I'm curious how that brings down the wall.
The answer to all of that is: "magic". Dragons are inherently magic all on their own. The White Walkers and the necromancy is magic. And the wall it at least partly held together by magic.
If we want to bring science into it for a second: a blue flame would indicate an *increase* in temperature, not a decrease.
Yeah, but lack of circulating blood would indicate a lack of body temperature, and everything we know about the walkers is that they are quite cold.
And I say again: Magic!
This first thing I thought was that it was an ice weapon rather than fire. That makes more sense doesn't it? Is there anything in writing or official that says it's blue fire?
There have been references in the novels and The Worlds of Ice and Fire of the legends of ice dragons and their cold breath, but I don't think anything more has been elaborated beyond "cold breath." I haven't read The Worlds of Ice and Fire in close detail and I don't have access to my copy.
Here's the parsley details from the AWOIAF entry on Ice Dragons.
Here's the parsley details from the AWOIAF entry on Ice Dragons.
I highly doubt the dragon was expelling "cold breath". If that were the case it would have only served to reinforce the Wall, not bring it down. The super-freezing cold that precedes the Walkers would have solidified the wall as well. No, this is definitely a different kind of weapon entirely to be able to cut through the Wall's ice.
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