![]() Martin’s Fire and Blood, even as the series creates new moments and adds dimension and nuance to characters that the book failed to. (This tragedy is foreshadowed here when Daemon recalls that “dragons can kill dragons and have.”)Īs with much of this first season, the finale has swaths that stay largely true to the source material, George R.R. Alas, any political solution is squashed when Aemond Targaryen’s dragon, Vhagar, kills Luke and his dragon, Arrax, over Shipbreaker Bay. I do not wish to rule over a kingdom of ash and bone,” she declares. “When dragons flew to war everything burned. Rhaenyra bristles at this talk of deploying what is essentially the nuclear option right out of the gate. Daemon is imploring Rhaenyra to not be the dithering weakling he believes her father was. He insists that as a monarch, it is Rhaenyra’s duty to crush rebellions. He wants to end this war before it can even begin by striking fast and hard against the traitors who usurped the Iron Throne. Daemon says the Blacks’ thirteen dragons to the Greens’ four gives them an advantage they cannot squander. ![]() The Targaryen civil war known as The Dance of the Dragons is on.įor most of the episode, Rhaenyra is urging caution while the men in the room, including her uncle-husband Daemon Targaryen, are clamoring for war. She is framed by flames behind her, a promise of the fire and blood to come in House of the Dragon Season 2. ![]() ![]() The final shot of the episode is a close-up of now Queen Rhaenyra’s devastated but determined face upon learning the news of her young son’s death. The first season of House of the Dragon has come to an end and with it so too has the life of one of its most innocent characters, Prince Lucerys “Luke” Velaryon. ![]()
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