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.
HBOĮnter: Daemon Targaryen, the King’s cheeky - well, cheekbony, anyway - younger brother. “I call it Spiny-Echidna-Chic.” Daemon (Matt Smith) and Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock) in House of the Dragon.
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Corlys Velaryon (told you!) warns that some of the Free Cities have formed an alliance called the Triarchy, and their admiral - one Craghas Drahar, aka Crabfeeder - is brutally ridding the Stepstones (a string of islands between Westeros and Essos) of pirates. The show puts more of its chess pieces on the board: Queen Aemma is pregnant again, and offers the headstrong Rhaenyra some truly terrible “lie back and think of Westeros” motherly advice. They walk through the same courtyard in the Red Keep that Cersei will turn into a giant Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? board, centuries later. We meet teenaged Rhaenyra and her friend Alicent Hightower, daughter of Otto Hightower, who’s the Hand of the King. 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. All of us - HBO, the Seven Kingdoms, you, and me of course, the guy who recapped Game of Thrones for NPR lo those many years ago. This recap of House of the Dragon’s premiere episode contains spoilers for… well, for House of the Dragon’s premiere episode.
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