Of Dragons and Women
Condal expanded on what makes this era the tale worth telling. “The gift that this story has given us is that there are a lot of really cool women—dragonriders. So even though they haven’t been necessarily trained in the traditional art of warfare and haven’t been knighted or we don’t necessarily yet have a Brienne of Tarth character in our show,” he explained, “you do have a bunch of royal women who are also dragonriders who have learned to ride a dragon in a time of peace as it is so far, not yet in the time of war. That gives you ways to activate the women in a way that doesn’t feel like you’re breaking the fourth wall and stepping out into a modern construct.”
