Kända fakta
Från och med nu är uppkomsten av drakeäggen upp till spekulation. Först har vi som Marcus Swope säger:
"What are they?" she asked, her voice hushed and full of wonder.
"Dragon's eggs, from the Shadow Lands beyond Asshai," said Magister
Illyrio. "The eons have turned them to stone, yet still they burn
bright with beauty."
AGOT - Daenerys II
Så Illyrio tror eller berättade av säljaren att dessa ägg är från Shadowlands beyong Asshai.
Det är ganska möjligt att Illyrio kan vara rätt. Drakar var ju över hela Essos (och till och med Westeros) före Valyrias uppkomst och det finns några teorier om att Shadowlands bortom Asshai kan ha varit den plats där Dragons ursprung ligger (Tvist av Valyrians och Qartheen).
In such fragments of Barth’s Unnatural History as remain, the septon
appears to have considered various legends examining the origins of
dragons and how they came to be controlled by the Valyrians.
The Valyrians themselves claimed that dragons sprang forth as the
children of the Fourteen Flames, while in Qarth the tales state that
there was once a second moon in the sky. One day this moon was scalded
by the sun and cracked like an egg, and a million dragons poured
forth.
In Asshai, the tales are many and confused, but certain texts—all impossibly ancient—claim that dragons first came from the Shadow, a
place where all of our learning fails us. These Asshai’i histories say
that a people so ancient they had no name first tamed dragons in the
Shadow and brought them to Valyria, teaching the Valyrians their arts
before departing from the annals.
Yet if men in the Shadow had tamed dragons first, why did they not
conquer as the Valyrians did? It seems likelier that the Valyrian tale
is the truest.
But there were dragons in Westeros, once, long before the Targaryens came, as our own legends and histories tell us. If dragons did first
spring from the Fourteen Flames, they must have been spread across
much of the known world before they were tamed. And, in fact, there is
evidence for this, as dragon bones have been found as far north as Ib,
and even in the jungles of Sothoryos. But the Valyrians harnessed
and subjugated them as no one else could.
TWOIAF - Ancient History: Rise of Valyria
Spekulation
Med den senaste versionen av Fire & Blood , tror jag att vi har hittat svaret på den här frågan även om det inte uttryckligen nämns.
Konung Jaehaerys Jag hade beviljat Dragonstone till sin syster Queen-Dowager Rhaena Targaryen där hon stannade hos sin dotter Aerea, hennes svägerska (egentligen hennes hemliga älskare) Elissa Farman och andra föräldrar. Elissa ville segla solnedgången, men saknade myntet för att köpa det skepp som hon hade i åtanke. Hon bad Rhaena Targaryen att foten räkningen men Rhaena vägrade att göra det. Elissa hittade ett annat sätt. Det fanns Dragon ägg i Targaryen och var var ovärderliga. Elissa stal tre ägg och gjorde sig väg till Braavos eftersom staden var berömd för skeppskrypning.
Efter att ha misslyckats med att spåra Elissa tog Rhaena vingen för att informera sin bror kungen om stölden. Jaehaerys var orolig och beordrade agenter att skickas över Essos och erbjuda belöningar för några nyheter om drakeäggen. Jaehaerys var allvarligt oroad över vad som skulle hända om äggen hittade sig till Volantis och det gamla blodet i staden lyckades kläcka dem. Inte för länge sedan hade det tagit en Allians av Essos och Westeros för att besegra Volantis, som ville återuppliva Valyrian Empire, till och med tog Aegon Conqueror på sin drake. Han bestämde sig för att i alla nyheter om Dragons kläckning i öst skulle han kräva sin återkomst. Om det landet inte gav tillbaka dem, skulle Jaehaerys förklara krig.
Elissa Farman departed for Driftmark the next morning. From there she took ship across the narrow sea to Pentos. Thereafter she made her
way overland to Braavos, whose shipwrights were far famed, but
Rhaena Targaryen and Princess Aerea had no notion of her final
destination. The queen believed she had gone no farther than
Driftmark. Lady Elissa had good reason for wanting more distance
between her and the queen, however. A fortnight after her departure,
Ser Merrell Bullock, still commander of the castle garrison, brought
three terrified grooms and the keeper of the dragon yard into Rhaena’s
presence. Three dragon eggs were missing, and days of searching had
not turned them up. After questioning every man who had access to
the dragons closely, Ser Merrell was convinced that Lady Elissa had
made off with them.
[...]
She sent men to Driftmark, only to learn that Lady Elissa had sailed
to Pentos. She sent men to Pentos, but there the trail went cold.
Only then did Rhaena Targaryen mount Dreamfyre to fly to the Red Keep
and inform her brother of what had transpired. “Elissa had no love for
dragons,” she told the king. “It was gold she wanted, gold to build a
ship. She will sell the eggs. They are worth—”
“—a fleet of ships.” Jaehaerys had received his sister in his solar,
with only Grand Maester Benifer present to bear witness to what was
said. “If those eggs should hatch, there will be another dragonlord
in the world, one not of our own house.”
“They may not hatch,” Benifer said. “Not away from Dragonstone. The
heat…it is known, some dragon eggs simply turn to stone.”
“Then some spicemonger in Pentos will find himself possessed of
three very costly stones,” Jaehaerys said. “Elsewise…the birth of
three young dragons is not a thing that can easily be kept secret.
Whoever has them will want to crow. We must have eyes and ears in
Pentos, Tyrosh, Myr, all the Free Cities. Offer rewards for any word
of dragons.”
“What do you mean to do?” his sister Rhaena asked him.
“What I must. What you must. Do not think to wash your hands of this,
sweet sister. You wanted Dragonstone and I gave it to you, and you
brought this woman there. This thief."
[...]
“Should the dragons turn up, anywhere from here to Yi Ti, we will
demand their return. They were stolen from us, they are ours by right.
If that demand should be denied, then we must needs go and get them.
Take them back if we can, kill them if not. No hatchlings can hope to
stand against Vermithor and Dreamfyre.”
[...]
Grand Maester Benifer said, “You are speaking of waging war across
thenarrow sea, Your Grace. The costs—”
“—must needs be borne. I will not allow Valyria to rise again. Imagine
what the triarchs of Volantis would do with dragons. Let us pray it
never comes to that.” With that His Grace ended the audience,
cautioning the others not to speak of the missing eggs. “No one must
know of this but we three.”
Fire and Blood: Birth, Death and Betrayal Under King Jaehaerys I
Elissa såg äggen till Sealord of Braavos och fick sitt skepp.
She took on a bastard name of her own devising, calling herself Alys
Westhill. Under that name, she secured an audience with the Sealord of
Braavos. The Sealord’s menagerie was far famed, and he was glad to buy
the dragon eggs. The gold she received in return she entrusted to the
Iron Bank, and used it to finance the building of the Sun Chaser, the
ship she had dreamed of for many a year.
Fire and Blood:
Birth, Death and Betrayal Under King Jaehaerys I
Samtidigt i Westeros, på grund av en annan nödsituation, avbröts sökandet efter drakarna och agenter fick nya uppgifter. Men till sist nådde ordet Red Keep på grund av Elissa Farmans eget misstag av att ringa hamnen i Gamla stan. Med tanke på skeppets unika design var Jaehaerys säker på att Braavos hade köpt ägg och byggt fartyget.
Jaehaerys skickade sin hand Septon Barth till Braavos för att förhandla om återvändan och hotar Braavos med fullständig förstörelse om de vägrade. Sealord motverkade med sitt eget hot (att trots att Braavos inte kan bekämpa järntronen, skulle han skicka ansiktslösa efter Targaryens för att hämnas sin stad) och lyckades skära en affär som så länge som drakarna inte kläckte, skulle Jaehaerys låta honom håll äggen. Om drakarna kläckte, skulle Sealord returnera dem. I gengäld för kunskapens kunskap skulle Braavos få järnbanken att avstå från alla lån av järntronen. Sedan tronen drunknade i skuld från kungar Aenys och Maegors reger och krig, kom Barth överens. Frågan kom aldrig upp igen med tanke på att inga drakar kläckde och antagligen antog de bara att äggen måste ha vridit sig till sten.
Två århundraden senare råkade tre stenägg komma till en "Pentoshi Spicemonger" Illyrio Mopatis, precis som Jaehaerys hade sagt. Det är förmodligen de tre ägg som stulits från Dragonstone och okända till Daenerys, de var hennes koppling till hennes förfäders arv och hennes rötter hela tiden.