Actually, although Orell’s human body was killed, he warged into his eagle to attack Jon. He may still be flying around somewhere.
Thanks, yeah, I’d completely forgotten about him.
But Bran was told that if he spends too much time as a wolf, he will forget his human identity. So if Orell is still flying around somewhere, he’s probably just an eagle.
Right. But if he sees Jon, he’ll still probably crap on him.
…from a hover?
Bumping because I finally watched this season.
There’s evidence from Episode 6.02 when Tryion talks about how after “a few generations” being chained, the dragons became very small and weak. We also saw some evidence of this in… I think season 1, when Arya was down in the Kings Landing catacombs and found a series of smaller and more misshapen dragon skulls. A few generations in captivity implies dragons reproduce the way other animals do.
And, perhaps more surprisingly, that dragon genetics is Lamarckian.
I always thought the implication was that much like the Targaryen kings and queens were closely related, so were their dragons.
Maybe. Tyrion explicitly says that it’s due to their captivity. Not that he’d necessarily know. On the other hand, knowing things is one of the two things he does, as he points out right before talking about the dragons.
Going forward, seems like dragons might meet the same fate. I don’t know what the minimum viable population is for dragons, but it’s probably more than 3.
More like epigenetic Lamarckism, I’d say. AKA Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.