Fans are still scratching their heads about the Game of Thrones finale. The show suffered a swifter fall from power (and grace) than poor old King Tommen. Almost untouchable for seven seasons, the eight divided audiences and enraged many hardcore fans of both the books and the show. At the centre of it all is the last remaining dragon.
By the end of the entire run it was made very clear that, actually, all anybody needed was one functioning giant fire-breathing lizard.
Armies on both sides were rendered virtually redundant once a fully-grown dragon opened its jaws.
Qyburn’s huge scorpions were set up at the perfect counter-balance to build tension knock a rather unobservant Rhaegal from the sky and then shown to be utterly ineffective when the script needed them to be. Yes, they killed Meraxes in the histories, but that was a lucky shot.
Daenerys or anyone (and this is the important part) mounted on an adult dragon is virtually unstoppable.
Daenerys had to die for a series of divisive reasons that failed to convince many.
Once she was gone, Drogon had to be removed from the plot because Jon Snow could have ridden him. It’s unknown if the dragon saw who killed Daenerys, but he has already accepted Jon Snow who is also the only other dragon rider in existence.
Until now.
Why did newly crowned King Bran immediately abandon the council that was desperately needed to rebuild a shattered city and fractured Six Kingdoms? Oh yes, to look for Drogon.
Sure, they might all be worried the dragon would return and started burning and feeding his way across Westeros. Is Bran simply going to keep tabs on him?
If Drogon did return what could Bran possibly do?
Unless he has already seen a way the dragon is important? Or to use him? And let’s not forget the popular suspicion that a chunk of Bran’s visions turned out to be rather self-serving.
Bran’s government is a joke, with no money, no army, no city and a Small Council populated by people with little real world power or influence except for Tyrion.
Sansa’s precedent must surely make other powerful regions and former independent kingdoms wonder why they can’t do the same. Who would stop them?
Bran needs that dragon. Is that why he is searching for Drogon? We will probably never know on screen but it is not impossible that fans hopes of the Stark Three-Eyed Raven warging with a dragon may yet come true…