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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Nor should you.
It's pure batshittery.
They didn't just hide a rogue ****ing dragon under Winterfell. This once again falls into firmly under the heading of 'these guys are far better storytellers than we are and as such, aren't forced into stupid dues ex machinas like hidden dragons that don't show up for 4,000 pages to resolve a narrative issue...."
Honest to God, a fully grown dragon just emerging from the crypts of Winterfell would be the stupidest plot device I have seen in the entire history of literature. Steven King wouldn't have even written an ending that stupid.
No, there is no goddamn dragon underneath Winterfell because it's reeruned and GRRM is not reeruned.
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There are several theories on the ice dragon topic, one, yes, is as you describe. The rest are a less crazy and less literal.
If Jon finds out he is a Targaryen from information hidden in the crypts, then he is the ice dragon.
Another is based on a story called The Ice Dragon that Martin claims is not set in the same world, but apparently publishers have said he told them it was the same world. In it the Ice Dragon beats the regular dragons and then melts leaving a permanently cold pool of water. All the pools at winterfell are hot springs except for the one in front of the weirwood tree which is always cold and dark. The theory is that it is the same pool, not a dragon that will return though, just the remains. Others say that even if it was the same world, from the story it would have happened much farther North than Winterfell.
Even others say the dragon is in the wall, but that could be taken to mean Jon as well.