The maesters were an order of eggheads in Game of Thrones, and a certain theory suggests that they killed the world’s surviving dragons to rid Westeros of magic. Here’s an explanation of the Grand Maester Conspiracy, including how the men could have carried out the dragon killings.

The Order of Maesters was comprises of scholars, healers, and advisors. Those who provided the lineup swear to a sacred word while leaving behind their family and political faithfulness. The installations of the tell was located at the Citadel in Oldtown. After people studied and studied energetically, they obtained the “maester” title before they were assigned to a palace belongs to noble house. Almost every palace within the continent had a maester on hand to provide educational assistance and counsel, especially for the children. Many maesters have become highly skilled in ravenry which they use to send long communications throughout Westeros.

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Maesters committed to serve Westeros by providing their intellect but according to the Grand Maester Conspiracy, the group may have had a hand in a larger mission. The plot philosophy believes that the maesters facilitated destroy the dragons well before the events of Game of Thrones. Centuries before the succession began, House Targaryen reigned supreme in Westeros. That was until their civil fighting known as the Dance of Dragons. Following the crusade, King Aegon III bonded up the remaining dragons in Dragonpit and likely killed them. That said, a line from Maester Marwyn in A Feast for Crows hinted that the maesters actually did the killing in order to assist in eradicating magic. The evidence from Marwyn the Mage came while speaking to Samwell Tarly 😛 TAGEND

“Who do you think killed all the dragons the last time around? Gallant dragonslayers armed with swords? The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or revelation or glass candles, much less for dragons.”

It was a known fact that maesters disliked supernatural and fantasized the world would be better off without it. The most important reason for purging the world of spell was because they wanted a reliance on scientific knowledge. Magic was unpredictable and not fully understood so that would hurt the maesters’ sole purpose of existing. With occult so prevailing, especially with the existence of dragons, maesters would lose control as their expertise and knowledge would be questioned. Maesters likewise believed that much of the conflict over the past few centuries was due to magic. They were of the view that dragons exclusively led to destruction and more fermentation among humans.

The Citadel was the residence to a big library that the maesters had access to, so it’s very possible that the prescribe poisoned the remaining part dragons , not King Aegon III as previously intimated. This would fall in line with what Maester Marwyn set out in George R.R. Martin‘s A Song of Ice and Fire novel. With a lifestyle that prioritized hear, they could have easily studied how to deadly a dragon. It was too a coincidence that dragons, as well as other forms of magic, seemed to disappear for a long time after the deaths among the genus. They even used its first year that followed to try to keep all information that involved magic under lock and key. This could be why maester-in-training Sam had to sneak into the forbidden section at the Citadel to study White Walkers during Game of Thrones season 7.

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