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History of Westeros (Game of Thrones)

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The Role of Dragons in the History of the World

When you're the center of the world, everyone comes to you. There also might be less need for exploration friendships when you have dragons. Even though they're tied to house Targaryens, that doesn't mean that every single thing they do is in lockstep with them. And so this brings us to their decision to leave. What a big deal. We talk about how it was for House Targaryens to leave, given Dany's the dreamer. They must have trusted her. Other houses didn't. Valarian apparently did. Were they like, yeah, we believe Dany's too? Or were they like, these idiots are going to make us leave the freehold

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