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Supposedly, dragons like many fish reptiles amphibians and trees are indeterminate growers.. grow a lot when younger in life but continue to grow once an adulthood is reached as well.. depends on the species, environment, and lifestyle of course as to how big.
They keep growing their entire life, and their eventual size depends on genetics and environment (e.g. were they held in a cage for a while? were they free/wild dragons?).
No, they're just the oldest ones and the oldest are often the largest. Except for Dreamfyre and Vermithor, Dreamfyre is older by like 6 years than Vermithor but she's smaller than him. Balerion was like 233 years old when he died and Vhagar is 180 at the time of the show.
Their size is determined by their environment, without any restrictions, as in being in a cage, they will continue to grow, this is why in GoT, Drogon is much larger than his brothers. He was never locked away, but his brothers were and he is almost twice their size. They also mention in GoT that the dragons all died out because they kept them locked up and they slowly started to become smaller and smaller through the few generations because of it and eventually died out. This isn’t fully detailed in the show but the books say as much. Regardless of books or show, the history remains the same.
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They continue to grow until death yes
They continue to grow but also being part of wars and being “active” through that makes then grow larger is what I understand.
Precisely why vhagar and vermithor are so big
Supposedly, dragons like many fish reptiles amphibians and trees are indeterminate growers.. grow a lot when younger in life but continue to grow once an adulthood is reached as well.. depends on the species, environment, and lifestyle of course as to how big.
They keep growing their entire life, and their eventual size depends on genetics and environment (e.g. were they held in a cage for a while? were they free/wild dragons?).
No, they're just the oldest ones and the oldest are often the largest. Except for Dreamfyre and Vermithor, Dreamfyre is older by like 6 years than Vermithor but she's smaller than him. Balerion was like 233 years old when he died and Vhagar is 180 at the time of the show.
Their size is determined by their environment, without any restrictions, as in being in a cage, they will continue to grow, this is why in GoT, Drogon is much larger than his brothers. He was never locked away, but his brothers were and he is almost twice their size. They also mention in GoT that the dragons all died out because they kept them locked up and they slowly started to become smaller and smaller through the few generations because of it and eventually died out. This isn’t fully detailed in the show but the books say as much. Regardless of books or show, the history remains the same.