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What if Aegon bonded with the White Colossus instead of Balerion?

Name: What if Aegon bonded with the White Colossus instead of Balerion?
Uploaded: 2026-05-20T15:00:39Z
Duration: 34 min 31 s
Description: What if Aegon bonded with the White Colossus instead of Balerion? Let's explore this alternate timeline together, in the video. On Dragonstone, in the long dark beneath the smoking mountain, the boy who would one day be called Aegon the Conqueror wandered as a child of eight and came upon a creature that had slept for…

35 min · Published 20 May 2026 · Watch on YouTube ↗

What if Aegon bonded with the White Colossus instead of Balerion? Let's explore this alternate timeline together, in the video. On Dragonstone, in the long dark beneath the smoking mountain, the boy who would one day be called Aegon the Conqueror wandered as a child of eight and came upon a creature that had slept for four hundred years and would sleep for four hundred more if no one came to call him. The White Colossus, oldest of the dragons brought west from the wreck of Valyria, did not stir when the boy touched him, did not move save in the slow rise and fall of his breathing, and yet the bond was made then and there, in the way the oldest things choose what shall be theirs and do not…

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