Game of Thrones season 7: the power and limits of Daenerys Targaryen’s dragons, explained

"History — at least as revealed in George R.R. Martin’s novella “The Princess and the Queen,” which is set in the same universe as the books the HBO series is based on but about 170 years earlier — teaches that dragons can indeed be killed. They are formidable creatures, but not invulnerable ones, and there doesn’t even appear to be a particular trick or gimmick to killing them. You just need to hit them hard enough.

But killable though they are, history also teaches that dragons really are game-changing military assets. And like any weapon, their effective use requires a complementary political strategy. Westeros’s history has been profoundly shaped by the potential and limits of dragon-based warfare, "

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