![]() ![]() "It's just storytelling, it needs to be done to move a plot forward," he told Newsweek. Rhaenyra's children prove she had an affair, and Jon's very dark hair helped hide the fact he was a Targaryen until the final season. Oliver told Newsweek the inconsistencies across the shows come down to the fact that how these characters look is key to a plot point. This point was reinforced by Robert Oliver, co-host of The Longest Night podcast dedicated to talking all things Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon. "So maybe recessive traits are a furphy that we should ignore in Westeros?" " Ned's parents, grandparents and damn near the entire North are described as dark haired and grey eyed," they added. Game of Thrones blogger, Lady Knits A Lot, pointed out that in the original books, three of the five children of Ned and Catelyn Stark were born with the "'Tully look' of red hair and blue eyes, and both of these traits are recessive traits." This theory works well to explain Snow's dark hair, but is not conclusive because the law of recessive and dominant genes do not seem to be applied consistently across Westeros. Targaryen genes are somehow "infectious," wrote one fan on a Game of Thornes forum. ![]() "Targaryen males somehow transfer Targaryen traits to their wives and lovers, so second child of the couple inherits Targaryen traits from both mother and father and has Valyrian look. ![]() Individuals receive two versions of each gene from each of their parents and if the genes differ, the dominant gene will present in their offspring, whether it be in hair color, susceptibility to disease, or other markers.įans concluded the Targaryen genes were recessive, but when it came to children of a Targaryen male and non-Valyrian mother their first would be born with darker features, while subsequent offspring were blonde. A dominant gene "refers to the relationship between two versions of a gene," according to the National Genome Research Institute. The fans used genome knowledge of dominant and recessive genes to make their conclusions.
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