Fire-breathing and deadly, they can carve through solid rock. As for firewyrms? They are massive underground tunnelers that live in the same volcanoes Valyria grew up around, the Fourteen Flames. The largest species only grow to thirty feet and they have beaks instead of mouths, but other than that the biology lines up. The winged creatures resemble dragons in many ways, but they do not breathe fire. Several wyvern sub-species are native to Sothoryos, the Game of Thrones analog to Africa. In A Feast for Crows, it is revealed that two creatures similar to dragons pre-date the species: wyverns and firewyrms. Peeling back millennia of Valyrian propaganda raises an interesting core: Valyrians made dragons. Somehow, these lowly peasants were able to commune with dragons, leading to the rise of an empire that would extend throughout most of Essos. Allegedly, the Valyrians were but "humble shepherds" who discovered dragons living inside the volcanoes around which the great Valyrian civilization would be founded. Putting aside the many alternate origin myths, Valyrians and dragons appear near-simultaneously in the historical record. So is it possible that dragons house the souls of the dead, transferred through magical means? Yes, completely.
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