Six years later, Rhaenyra returns to King’s Landing to defend her son Lucerys’s claim to the Driftwood Throne of House Velaryon. Rhaenyra proposes to Daemon, and together they remove Laenor from the picture by faking his death. Rhaenyra herself is wounded when Alicent tries to stab Lucerys out of vengeance.Īmid all this, Rhaenyra and Daemon become sexually and romantically involved. In a late-night fight among the children over Aemond Targaryen claiming Laena’s dragon Vhagar, Aemond loses an eye and the legitimacy of Rhaenyra’s children is questioned in front of the family and courtiers assembled. But when they reunite with the family to attend the funeral of Daemon’s wife, Laena Velaryon, all hell breaks loose. When rumors of the children’s true parentage, spread in part by Queen Alicent and Ser Criston, make life in King’s Landing unbearable, the family retreats to the ancestral Targaryen fortress of Dragonstone. Their real father, fairly obviously, is Ser Harwin Strong, Prince Daemon’s successor as Lord Commander of the City Watch. While married to Laenor, Rhaenyra gives birth to three sons: Jacaerys, Lucerys, and Joffrey. Despite working out an arrangement with her semi-closeted husband, she can’t account for her lover, Ser Criston, who beats Laenor’s boyfriend, Ser Joffrey Lonmouth, to death. Confronted about her deeds by the king, who received word of her adventures from his Hand, Ser Otto Hightower, she denies the charges and agrees to marry Laenor Velaryon in order to unite the Seven Kingdoms’ two major Valyrian houses. Viserys entrusts her with with the secret of “The Song of Ice and Fire,” a prophetic dream in which the Targaryen dynasty’s founder, Aegon the Conqueror, foretold the conflict with the White Walkers that drove Game of Thrones.Īfter a wild night out on the town with her estranged uncle Daemon that nearly ends with the two having sex in a brothel, Rhaenyra seeks the sexual companionship of Ser Criston Cole, her sworn Kingsguard shield. Viserys named Rhaenyra heir to the throne over his unpredictable brother, Prince Daemon, despite the fact that she’s a woman. Known as “the Realm’s Delight,” Princess Rhaenyra is a popular figure among both the nobility and the smallfolk … or was, until Viserys and his new wife, Rhaenyra’s former friend Alicent Hightower, had a son, Prince Aegon.
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King Viserys’s sole surviving child at the time the series starts. Queen Rhaenyra I Targaryen (Milly Alcock as a youth, Emma D’Arcy as an adult) This article contains spoilers up through and including episode ten, “ The Black Queen. Sit back, relax, and keep up with the Targaryens. It’s a lot for even a maester to keep track of.īut don’t worry! With the help of the show’s source material, Martin’s faux-historical novel Fire & Blood, we’ve got your quick-and-easy guide to all of Dragon’s major players. The bad news is that everyone is someone else’s aunt or uncle or brother or cousin or spouse - often more than one at once - and most of them share the same surname. Martin is that Dragon features way fewer houses to keep track of it tells the tale of a budding conflict and eventual civil war within the ruling family of House Targaryen itself. The good news for fans of the world created by novelist George R.R. Now House of the Dragon, HBO’s blockbuster prequel to its most successful series of all time, is following suit. Seven kingdoms, one Iron Throne, and a whole lot of people with odd names to keep track of: That was the formula for Game of Thrones. Most of these people are related by blood and marriage.
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