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House of the Dragon: EVERYTHING You Need to Know!
Warning: this nonfiction has House of the Dragon spoilers.
A caller powerfulness mates has emerged successful Westeros.
That's right, during the Oct. 2 episode of House of the Dragon, Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) and Daemon (Matt Smith) stopped warring their feelings for 1 different and finally got together. However, this was much than conscionable an illicit liaison, as Rhaenyra and Daemon got joined astatine the extremity of the episode.
So, however precisely did the princess and her uncle—yes, you work that correctly—find themselves successful this entanglement? The occurrence kicked disconnected with the Targaryens and the Velaryons reuniting at Driftmark for the ceremonial of Lady Laena (Nanna Blondell), Daemon's precocious wife.
As tensions remained precocious betwixt Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke) and Rhaenyra, the heir evident confided successful her uncle that questions astir her children's legitimacy made her vulnerable. She confirmed that her matrimony to Laenor Velaryon (John Macmillan) was simply for show.
"We did effort to conceive a child," she shared with Daemon. "We performed our work arsenic champion we could, but to nary avail. There was nary joyousness successful it. I recovered that elsewhere."
The duo proceeded to marque emotion connected the beach, confirming that Rhaenyra and Daemon could not enactment distant from 1 another. Their blissful infinitesimal successful the soil was derailed after Rhaenyra's younger brother Aemond (Leo Ashton) took custody of Vhagar, the late Laena's dragon. This caused a brutal combat betwixt the young prince and his cousins, resulting in Aemond losing an eye.
When Alicent demanded justice for her lad and attempted to instrumentality 1 of Rhaenyra's sons' eyes, she sliced Rhaenyra's limb successful the process. As the schism between Rhaenyra's squad and Alicent's squad grew, Rhaenyra realized that her assertion to throne was susceptible and her matrimony to Laenor was nary longer useful.
"I cannot look the greens alone," she said to Daemon of the looming war. "Let america hindrance our blood, conscionable arsenic Aegon the Conqueror did with his sisters. With you arsenic my hubby and prince consort, my assertion would not beryllium truthful easy challenged. The Velaryon are of the sea. But you and I are made of fire. We person ever been meant to pain together."
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And, successful result, she asked Daemon to wed her—and to bash distant with her archetypal husband. After Laenor was seemingly murdered by his lover, who was paid disconnected by Daemon, the prince and princess wed successful an intimate ceremonial attended by their children.
(For the record, Laenor is not dead, arsenic helium escaped with his lover.)
Though House of the Dragon has teased Rhaenyra and Daemon's national for weeks, we can't accidental we're wholly connected committee with it. For the evident reason, we are against the pairing arsenic it's incestuous. But we besides interest that Daemon's reckless broadside and temper volition bring the worst retired successful Rhaenyra. Case successful point: She was acceptable to have Laenor—who was thing but a loyal companion—murdered truthful she could get what she wanted.
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The matrimony volition apt further isolate Rhaenyra from her father, King Viserys (Paddy Considine), who was against the lucifer respective episodes ago. Will Viserys disinherit Rhaenyra implicit the match? Possibly.
Also, moving connected truthful rapidly volition apt marque an force of her almighty in-laws, Princess Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Best) and Lord Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint). And with the inevitable Dance of the Dragons (a.k.a. the Targaryen Civil War) approaching, Rhaenyra needs each the allies she tin get.
New episodes of House of the Dragon get Sundays connected HBO and HBO Max.
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