Targaryens: A Dance of Dragons and Fire

Table Of Content

• Aegon's Conquest begins
• ‘Dead Boy Detectives’ cleverly brings Neil Gaiman’s comic book sleuths to life
• Aegon “The Conqueror” Targaryen
• Aemond Targaryen (Leo Ashton / Ewan Mitchell)
• House Targaryen: The House of Fire and Blood
• Aerys II Targaryen
• Everything You Need to Know About House of the Dragon
• The Dance of the Dragons

Meanwhile, Drogon takes Dany to the Dothraki Sea, and she hallucinates many events. After his conquest, Aegon built the Iron Throne and created King’s Landing as the capital. However, the Dornish Wars ended in a truce as Queen Rhaenys and her dragon Meraxes got killed by the Dornish forces. After her death, Prince Nymor Martell sent his daughter with Meraxes skull and a letter.

Aegon's Conquest begins

In perhaps her greatest turnaround yet, Daenerys secured the loyalty of the roughly 100,000 Dothraki assembled at the time,[41] finally gaining the numbers – though not the means – to retake Westeros. House Targaryen's military strength has fluctuated over the last few years under Daenerys Targaryen's leadership. Since the death of her husband Khal Drogo, Daenerys has commanded a khalasar containing only a few dozen riders, less than half of whom are warriors, as well as a single trained knight, Jorah Mormont. During her time in the Red Waste and Qarth, Daenerys's dragons were not large enough to provide combat assistance. House Targaryen was one of the forty dragonlord families of the Valyrian Freehold, an empire that rose in Essos and dominated much of the known world.

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This led Khal Drogo to "crown" him by dumping a pot of molten gold over his head, killing him. Daenerys' pregnant mother and her brother Viserys Targaryen fled to the island fortress of Dragonstone, where her mother died in labor during a monstrous storm. Shortly thereafter, Dragonstone fell to the rebel forces and Daenerys and Viserys were smuggled away to the Free City of Braavos.

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Aegon “The Conqueror” Targaryen

Hopefully, we will at least see the inevitable showdown between Daemon and (Mini-Me) Aemond, and if that plot point follows the Fire and Blood book, both men should be very afraid. Thus, they became the only dragon-riding family after Valyria fell, and could share the history of the great place with the world. Armed with great heritage from Valyria and the power to tame dragons, the Targaryens soon rose to unparalleled power. After crossing the Narrow Sea, the family settled in Dragonstone, the place that would go on to become their ancestral home.

Viserys and Daenerys dwelt awhile in Braavos, but after their money was stolen by disloyal servants they became wanderers. Viserys became known as the Beggar King and attracted some attention from discontented Targaryen loyalists living in exile in the Free Cities, but never gained sufficient support to become a threat. Eventually they were taken in by the wealthy merchant Ilyrio Mopatis of Pentos, who concocted a plan with Viserys to marry Daenerys to a powerful faction of the eastern continent who would be able to help them win back the throne.

Before passing away, Aemon asks of Daenerys and learns about her and her dragons. On her way to Pentos, Ser Jorah Mormont advises Daenerys to head for Astapor instead and get an army of the Unsullied. After freeing the slaves, she heads to Yunkai, where she negotiates with Stormcrows. After defeating his enemies, Aenys faced another opposition from the Faith of the Seven.

Aerys II Targaryen

Occasionally, all of this simmering resentment boiled over into violence, like when Rhaenyra's son Luke slashed the eye out of Alicent's son Aemond during a childish squabble gone very, very bad. King Viserys dead, and war has officially broken out between his daughter Rhaenyra and Rhaenyra's own half-brother Aegon, the son of Viserys and Rhaenyra's former bestie Alicent Hightower. The gloves are off, there's no one left to keep the peace, and the rivers will run red with blood. Season 1 of House of the Dragon begins with the blossoming friendship between Rhaenyra and Alicent, an aspect ambiguously missing in the book.

But that also means that instead of an 18-year-old being coerced into marrying a 29-year-old, she’s an 18-year-old being coerced into marrying a man of about 50. This makes the issues of consent, control, and power imbalance even starker, and arguably makes Alicent’s role in the story to come one that’s less about power-seeking and more about survival. Things don’t end well for Rhaenyra and Harwin, unfortunately — the situation is just too unstable for Rhaenyra to keep a lover on the side while the line of succession is in dispute, and the king sends Harwin into exile. Rhaenyra responds by secretly marrying her uncle Daemon after Laenor Valeryon’s death — which infuriates her father. Following Aemma’s death, Viserys marries Alicent Hightower (played by Emily Carey as a younger woman), a girl only a few years older than Rhaenyra herself. As she grows up, Rhaenyra finds herself at odds with her former friend Alicent, and soon they’re locked in a battle over whether Rhaenyra or Alicent’s son Aegon should take the throne after Viserys’s death.

Aegon IV sparked this conflict by legitimizing his many bastard children on his deathbed. These so-called Great Bastards now had a claim to the throne of Westeros. Aegon IV's actual heir, Daeron II, tried and failed to appease his siblings, and war broke out when they attempted to take the throne.

A century ago, House Targaryen conquered and unified the realm under the leadership of Aegon the Conqueror and his sister-queens Visenya and Rhaenys. The son of the Sea Snake, Laenor Velaryon (John MacMillan) marries Rhaenyra Targaryen largely for political purposes. Laenor is gay, and he and Rhaenyra agree to an open marriage before they’re betrothed.

They also seem to be somewhat more tolerant of extreme heat and high temperatures than other people, though they are by no means invulnerable to fire – or at least, not all of them. Getting back to more concrete matters, there's another big battle from the pages of Fire & Blood that we may or may not get to by the end of House of the Dragon season 2. Rhaenyra's son Jacaerys Velaryon will find himself as part of his mother's dragon airforce, alongside several other new characters known as the dragonseeds. Eventually, they attack a fleet of ships sent by the Triarchy — the same guys that Daemon and Corlys Velaryon were fighting early in the first season — in a fight known as the Battle of the Gullet. We're not expecting Rhaenrya and Alicent to physically fight in season 2; with war officially declared, that will mainly fall to their armies and their dragonriders. However, their conflict remains at the heart of the show, so their metaphorical battle will go on.

As a teenager, though, Aegon seems to care little about who inherits the throne. He spends most of his time bullying the other children in the castle. Only when his mother Alicent points out that Rhaenyra will likely kill Aegon and his siblings to secure her place on the Iron Throne does the young boy seem to become invested in questions of succession. Aegon does eventually ascend the throne, but only after an episode is dedicated to learning about his depraved behavior among the people of Flea Bottom after he escapes the Red Keep. (Though, in fairness, it’s pronounced “Ennis.”) But he overcame that to become a kind ruler until his brother killed him in cold blood. He married Alyssa Velaryon, a descendent of the one other Valyrian family that survived the downfall of that city—though crucially Velaryons are not dragonriders.

Due to their mastery of dragons, and thus sorcery, they had no real opposition to contend with. Using dragonfire and magic, they built their grand capital city of Valyria, which was unmatched in quality in the east. House Lannister replaced House Baratheon as the royal house in the aftermath of the War of the Five Kings, but they were defeated in the Last War. After Daenerys burnt King's Landing, she was assassinated by her nephew Jon Snow to prevent further destruction. Jon is the last known Targaryen, but his identity as the son of Rhaegar Targaryen is kept a secret, and he was exiled to the Night's Watch for the assassination of Daenerys, effectively ending House Targaryen.

If you hate suspense and would rather binge the entire season, you’ll have to wait until August 4, which is when the final episode airs. We’re now just weeks away from season 2 of House of the Dragon, so let’s quickly recap the events of the first season and what we can expect from the upcoming episodes. The wait for Season 2 of House of the Dragon might have felt like forever, but the Dance of the Dragons will play out on our screens in just a scant couple of months. The Targaryen civil war will be a violent turning point in the saga. Daenys the Dreamer saw in a haze the town of Valyria burning hot red with ashes twinkling like stars in the sky above.

A smart decision on the creators’ part to show their close bond which ultimately sours and turns into the civil war of the century. It creates a more impactful hit for the viewers to witness such close friends fight with everything in their power (most importantly dragons) and spread waves of destruction and bloodshed across the realm. We could even see House of the Dragon explore the events of Robert's Rebellion in greater depth, especially if the series makes the downfall of the Mad King the crux of its final season. This would be a way of working in familiar characters like Robert Baratheon and Ned Stark. However, with Game of Thrones already exploring the conflict through multiple flashbacks, we doubt the entire series would be geared toward filling in the blanks of a story fans already know pretty well.