Daemon peaces out before anyone can say "Gold Lives Matter," so that's a good thing. The king rationalizes that Daemon's show of force will help protect the people. There will soon be a tournament, after all, held to celebrate the impending birth of the king's child, which (the king is certain) will be a boy. The next day, Ser Otto Hightower attempts to shame Daemon for his impulsive action, but the prince is supported by Corlys Velaryon and, conditionally, the king himself. This next sequence, in which Daemon leads the City Guard (aka the Gold Cloaks) as they attack King's Landing's seedy underbelly by sticking their swords into a lot of seedy underbellies, should keep you sated for a while. Were you thinking that House of the Dragon was seeming a little light on GoT-level violence, thus far? Oh, you sweet summer child. The royal coffers probably come with a line item for Band-Aids and hydrogen peroxide. He says it's from sitting on the Iron Throne - which is something taken directly from the books that Game of Thrones never picked up on the Iron Throne is not meant to be place where anyone can rest easily. The king has a wound on his back that refuses to heal. He gives her a gift, an amulet of exceedingly rare Valyrian steel - the same thing his sword, Dark Sister, is made of. We're meant to pick up on something else between them too - and if that squicks you out, hoo boy, are you watching the wrong show, about the wrong family. I mean, the tetanus risk alone.ĭaemon and Rhaenyra evince an easy familiarity with each other. He's sitting on the Iron Throne, which looks much more jagged and dangerous than we remember. "I call it Spiny-Echidna-Chic." Daemon (Matt Smith) and Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock) in House of the Dragon.Įnter: Daemon Targaryen, the King's cheeky - well, cheekbony, anyway - younger brother. In this corner: Rhaenys Targaryen, the king's granddaughter (she's standing beside her husband Corlys Velaryon, aka the Sea Snake - we'll be seeing a lot more of him). We're witnessing the Great Council of 101 AC, where the inheritor of the Iron Throne will be decided. We open at Harrenhal, the vast ruined castle that got famously dracarysed by Aegon the Conqueror, founder of the Targaryen Dynasty, a century before. The now 100-year-old Targaryen Dynasty is at its height, as the royal family holds the reins to 10 full-grown dragons. House of the Dragon opens about 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones. I've written a couple handy primers to help us all get in the right headspace, but essentially: Forget what you know, you won't need it much. We're all of us here, back on our dragonscat.
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