Tuesday, May 06, 2014

There be Dragons here... or My Dragon is bigger than your Dragon... Or Dragon Size[d] Cheatsheet

The Daily Dot - An illustrated guide to the biggest dragons in fantasy

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George R.R. Martin, whose A Song of Ice and Fire novels are the basis for Game of Thrones, is currently writing a companion guide to the books, called A World of Ice and Fire. He’s recently published an extract of this guide on his blog, chronicling the history of the Targaryen invasion of Westeros, which took place several hundred years before the events of the books and the show.

It’s got some badass dragon art, too. You can see Aegon the Conqueror standing astride his dragon mount, Balerion, the “Black Dread.” Turns out these dragons get really freaking big.

But seeing this picture got us thinking. Just how big is this dragon, and how does this bode for Daenerys’s own dragons? And how does it measure up to other famous fictional fire-breathers?

Here’s how we figured it out.

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Smaug isn't the biggest!... :(

(via technabob - The Dragon Size Comparison Chart)

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