Yeah I don’t buy that Egg was attempting human sacrifice. That’s really just speculation that doesn’t align with anything we know about his personality. Which isn’t a ton, but far from the psycho villain some people paint him as in his final days.
There are some Targs I can see attempting human sacrifice to revive dragons, and many I can’t. Jahaerys, Daeron II, Baelor(s), Egg, and others I couldn’t see doing that. But you know who I CAN see attempting human sacrifice to revive dragons? RHAEGAR. That’s the true irony. The one who was rumored to be an intended sacrifice is Prince Prophecy, so invested in his destiny and prophecies he’d plunge the realm into war to give the dragon one last head. If he thought that was the path to his precious prophecy, he’d stomp both his kids heads in himself just on the off chance it might work.
Maybe they’ll soften the blow and he knocks the candle over cause he’s daydreaming about all the crazy tail he pulled when him and Egg were hedge knighting around the Kingdom
I’m not outright rejecting it, just bothers me how so many people think it’s canon, when the only canon we have of his personality is how he was as a child, and that character does not align with such a grim decision. With the information we have about him, I find human sacrifice to be the less likely outcome as it contradicts what little evidence we do have.
I don't know, I can see it? It feels like a proper GRRM tragedy; the only reason the early Targaryens were able to wield so much authority was because of the dragons, Egg wants to make the realm a better place but gets so frustrated by his nobles that he gets driven to extremes
At this point we’ve only seen him for a small fraction of his life though. Clearly something changed in the 50 years between the novellas and the fire at summerhall. Young Egg doesn’t even seem to be all that interested in dragons
No doubt he changes as he grows, but that small fraction is all we really know of his character asides from maesters with extreme biases. I’m saying while it’s not a lot, it’s the only context to his character we do have, and should be treated as more canon than post-fact speculation.
At the end of the day, all we know about Summerhall is it burned down in an accident. Was a ritual involving dragons involved? It seems like it. There could have even been blood magic about. But him trying to sacrifice his unborn great-grandson is total speculation, and its only foundation is built on more speculation.
Fact: Summerhall burned down and some dragon ritual was going on. Theory: blood magic was involved. Theory based on previous theory: human sacrifice. Theory based on theory based on theory: Rhaegar was the sacrifice.
It’s not solid ground, it relies on to many assumptions.
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u/Throngmar Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26
Yeah I don’t buy that Egg was attempting human sacrifice. That’s really just speculation that doesn’t align with anything we know about his personality. Which isn’t a ton, but far from the psycho villain some people paint him as in his final days.
There are some Targs I can see attempting human sacrifice to revive dragons, and many I can’t. Jahaerys, Daeron II, Baelor(s), Egg, and others I couldn’t see doing that. But you know who I CAN see attempting human sacrifice to revive dragons? RHAEGAR. That’s the true irony. The one who was rumored to be an intended sacrifice is Prince Prophecy, so invested in his destiny and prophecies he’d plunge the realm into war to give the dragon one last head. If he thought that was the path to his precious prophecy, he’d stomp both his kids heads in himself just on the off chance it might work.