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Since the page is locked, can somebody edit the fact that with the airing of "The Dragon and the Wolf", Viserion has now appeared in 21 episodes?NarendraMartosudarmo (talk) 14:39, August 30, 2017 (UTC)

I cried for a long time when he died.

Quitra (talk) 19:25, February 7, 2018 (UTC)

White Walker vs Wight[]

Viserion is NOT a white walker. White Walkers have to be living humans that have been transformed either with a dragonglass shard inserted in the heart or as an infant transformed by the Night King. Wights are deceased creatures (humans, bears, dragons) that have been reanimated by a white walker. Wights are mindless beings enthralled to the walker that created them. White walkers have a certain level of autonomy and can think for themselves though they are subservient to the Night King.--SonOfZeus1200 17:58, April 22, 2019 (UTC)

You're preaching to the choir --Potsk (talk) 20:36, April 22, 2019 (UTC)

Power Generated by Viserion[]

This is something I wrote a while back (2019-06-21). It might get more interest here than it did from my FB friends.

In season 7 towards the end of episode 7, we see the (undead) dragon, Viserion, melt a gap in The Wall. It doesn’t appear to melt the whole gap, but just a slot in The Wall about two thirds of the way up and The Wall just collapses after that (which doesn’t seem unreasonable). The slot seems to be approximately as wide as The Wall is high, and as high as The Wall is thick.

The Wall, I gather, is held up by a combination of mundane physical means and magic. It could be that the dragon’s breath broke the magic holding The Wall together and that is what caused the collapse. However, I couldn’t help wondering what the energy output of the dragon would be if we ignore the magic.

From the Game of Thrones wiki, The Wall is 213m high and 91m thick. That makes the dimensions of the slot of ice the dragon melted: 213m x 91m x 91m, and so the dragon melted 1,760,000 cubic meters of ice. It takes 334 joules of heat to melt 1 gram of ice, at 0° C. (The ice, I’m guessing, would be less than 0° C, but I’m ignoring the heat required to bring it up to 0° C). The density of ice at 0° C is 0.92 grams per cubic cm, so the slot had 1,620,000,000,000 grams of ice and so it would have taken 542 terajoules to melt it.

The dragon, as far as I can tell, spent 77 seconds melting the ice, so its power output is 542/77 = 7 terawatts. The power output of the largest power plant on Earth (Three Gorges Dam in China) is 22.5 gigawatts.

Thus (if I’ve done my sums correctly) Viserion produces 311 times more power than the largest power plant on Earth.


O3 Depleter (talk) 23:10, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

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