House Of The Dragon gives us another juicy episode filled with grief, ascension, war-planning and the threat of even more dragons to come. Also, mommy issues.
trades last week’s epic dragon battles for dense, meaty politicking and repositioning following the tragic death of Rhaenys and her dragon Meleys and the grave injuries sustained by King Aegon II and his dragon, Sunfyre.
Inside the Red Keep we discover that it carries what appears to be the body of young King Aegon. Servants lift him from the box and onto the bed. He’s alive, but only just barely. The maesters surround his still form and begin cutting away his Valyrian steel armor which has melted in broken patches to his ruined skin. The Grand Maester cannot tell the Queen Dowager if her son will liver or not.Prince Aemond One-Eye comes to the foot of the bed, a smirk on his thin face.
Then Helaena is there. He turns and their eyes meet. “Was it worth the price?” she asks. Aemond does not answer. Perhaps he is counting the cost in his head. Not just Aegon but also the death of Lucerys Velaryon and the revenge-killing of Helaena’s son, the prince Jaehaerys. Or he is thinking how the boy is no longer an impediment to Aemond’s succession.
Instead, he tells the Blackwoods to “persuade” the Brackens over to their side. They must not make it seem as though Targaryens have a hand in any of the brutality, however. This scheme does not go as planned. As a famous Westerosi poet once mused, even “the best-laid schemes of Dragons and Men, go oft awry, and leave us only grief and pain, for promised joy!”
Now, Daemon tells Arys his real plan. Rhaenyra, he says, “cannot succeed, Alys, even if I willed it to be so. The people who support her will not be led by her. They look to a man for strength. Who’s better suited to it? The Hightowers with their scheming or Viserys’ first true heir? When I take King’s Landing Rhaenyra’s welcome to join me there and take her place by my side. King and Queen. Ruling together.
“Know this, interloper,” one particularly brave and/or stupid Lady tells him, “the Riverlands are an ancient place watched closely by the old gods and the new. Dragon or no, we shall not raise our banners for a tyrant.” His granddaughter visits him at the request of Rhaenyra, bringing him a box with the clasp of the Hand inside. Rhaenyra would have him as her Hand of the Queen. “Even the death of my wife does not content her,” Corlys fumes. “Has she not asked enough from my House?”
.For our last flight we shall return ever so briefly to Dragonstone. Here, Rhaenyra continues to battle her own council, who remind her that being a member of the “fairer sex” means she has no battle experience. And while she reminds them that they came up in a time of peace and have no more battle experience than she does, even she admits later to Mysaria, the White Worm, that the men were at least trained to fight and schooled in the art of war.
“You are the queen, the tie that binds us, no harm can come to you–” he begins, but she cuts him off. What if Aemond finds him while he’s out flying, she asks him. “Your dragon is young. Will you fly before Vhagar as Luke did?”“We have no dearth of dragons,” Jacerys replies. “We have two large enough to stand against Vhagar. They are called have Vermithor and Silverwing and they sleep beneath our feet.
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