Creating dragonglass weapons isn’t easy. Archaeologist Ken Hirth described to Newsweek how Jon Snow and Daenerys can prep for war with the Night King in “Game of Thrones” Season 8.
Creating dragonglass weapons isn’t easy. Archaeologist Ken Hirth describes how Jon Snow and Daenerys can prep for war with the Night King in Game of Thrones Season 8.
“It’s a skilled trade,” Dr. Ken Hirth, an archaeologist and economic anthropologist at Penn State told Newsweek. “You have to know how to produce an arrowhead or biface.” Crafting Dragonglass WeaponsHirth, an expert in obsidian tools—from the specific techniques employed in the creation of obsidian biface blades, up to the flow of implements through early Mesoamerican economies—walked us through the process, which begins with a raw piece of obsidian, created when lava rapidly cools into volcanic glass. The first step is to knock off a “flake” with another stone. It’s this flake, or “preform,” that’s shaped to create a dagger or arrowhead.
While one possibility is that Game of Thrones will simply ignore those hurdles, there’s still one group in Westeros who’s likely to know the old ways: the Children of the Forest. The non-humannative population of Westeros, they carved the faces into the weirwood trees dotting the North and hunted with dragonglass weapons. Whether or not the Children of the Forest make an appearance in Game of Thrones Season 8, our heroes will have to come up with something.
Tormund Giantsbane wields a dragonglass axe in"Game of Thrones" Season 7 episode"Beyond the Wall." HBO
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