I had a thought the other day, and it goes along with how I think people believe Jon may end up warging into the dragons. We don't know much at all about Stark geneology, but I wondered if way back when, there could have been some Stark/Targaryen interbreeding and that's why the older Targaryens could control dragons. Somehow that gene passed off to the Starks and there were no more Targaryen/Stark pairings for awhile, and that's how Targaryens lost their ability to control dragons. Does that make sense? Anyway, just a thought.

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Posted by kingbob

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Posted on 4/3/13 at 4:57 pm to Josh Fenderman

Not really. The Starks were never really important enough as a house to the Targs to be married to them. Targs generally wed brother to sister or to Dornish or Baratheons.

Targ/Baratheon pairings always yielded black haired kids.

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Posted by LoveThatMoney

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Posted on 4/3/13 at 4:58 pm to Josh Fenderman

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I had a thought the other day, and it goes along with how I think people believe Jon may end up warging into the dragons. We don't know much at all about Stark geneology, but I wondered if way back when, there could have been some Stark/Targaryen interbreeding and that's why the older Targaryens could control dragons. Somehow that gene passed off to the Starks and there were no more Targaryen/Stark pairings for awhile, and that's how Targaryens lost their ability to control dragons. Does that make sense? Anyway, just a thought.

It's not a bad idea, but I don't see it being true. My impression is that the Targs never had any contact with Westerosi people until they came to conquer Westeros. At that point, they already controlled the dragons.

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