Analysis of Dragon Sizes in advance of Game of Thrones Season 7

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  1. grrm says he ties to be as rational as possible hence why they have two legs and not four for example. since much of the stuff in game of thrones is based on the stories of the small folk i wonder if it is rational to expect that an animal that would be a natural part of this world would grow all its life. the laws of physics say that godzilla, for example, could not have been as big as he is. true its fantasy, but george tries to be scientific

  2. great and thorough work. my only gripe would be that it's probably an unlikely assumption that dragons keep growing at the same rate their whole lives. I'm willing to suspend disbelief for the sake of a fantasy series and assume that they keep growing their entire lives, but to assume they keep growing at the same rate is what trips me up.

  3. hello sir. in the first season, ayra gets stuck in the "dragons cemetery", located in king's land. there is a moment where she gets close to the head of a very big dragon and she is smaller than its teeth. maybe that is balerion's teeth

  4. I'm not sure if this was accounted for already or if it was mentioned already… But when you look at the images of Dany on Drogon vs the image of Balerion, I think there is a larger difference in perspective. With Dany and Dro (D&D) having more of a profile shot or a horizontal layout from the camera angle. But when looking at Balerion, his head and the direction he is coming seem more angled at the "camera" or the viewers perspective. This gives his rider a much smaller look because he is further from the view you are given.

    Like I said, this may have already been accounted for. But I love the math you did, I think it is excellently done. I'm just not 100% about the differences in perspective, although they are very similar.

  5. I am just thinking about the growthrate of dragons in general.
    We already know that they dont grow when they are captured.
    In comparission to most other living animals there has to be a growth cap considering his skeleton/ muscles/ the ability to fly with the mass a dragon has.
    And u can exclude the aging process in general. Think about it as lobsters who have the possibility to immortality(no cellreproduction errors while aging)
    If u got some spar time to think about that …. Go for it 😀

  6. I'm pretty sure it's biologically impossible for a carnivore to be this huge though. The volume of meat he would have to consume every day to sustain his base metabolism is preposterous. We already know the blue whale is the largest known animal to ever exist on this planet. According to these estimates they're barely the size of Balerion's tail. How in the world will you feed such a beast in middle age westeros? Magic I suppose.

  7. If we're going to get technical (and it seems we are, getting into measurements and proportions), then if I may point out the silhouette of the aircraft in the video is not a 747. It appears to be an MD-11. The 747 is significantly bigger than the MD-11.

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