And as in all fiction, if there is no body (or even a clear exit wound), there is no death. While some audience members were confused by the ambiguity of nighttime warfare that saw Rhaegal tossing and turning in a death grip with Visierion above the clouds, we never saw Rhaegal actually sustain a visibly lethal blow or die. “The Long Night” said goodbye to many characters, but Drogon and Rhageal were not among them. So perhaps more than any human character’s fate-sorry, Theon-it was the fate of Drogon and Rhaegal that most vexed viewers of “The Long Night,” the episode in which the Night King’s armies finally descended upon Winterfell.Īs it turns out, as intense as that gripping episode was, we needn’t have fretted. But even after these incredible, nigh indestructible creatures returned to our world, poor sweet Viserion still met the Many-Faced God of Death in season 7 and found him to be a blue-eyed devil… one who converted the cream and golden dragon to the forces of darkness. That is until Daenerys Targaryen was gifted with three dragon eggs-thought to be stone fossils and once prized items stolen from the Targaryen family hundreds of years prior-that would eventually hatch. Once the mighty beast of burden that Old Valyria was built upon, for centuries it was thought dragons were extinct. This article contains major spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 3, “The Long Night.”Ī dragon is a precious thing.
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