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In addition, Aegon raised up the Tullys to rule over the Riverlands, which had been under Ironborn occupation prior to his arrival. Only House Martell of Dorne resisted his armies, but was later brought into the fold through a peaceful marriage-alliance some two centuries later. This is even more true after the ending of the episode, which I’ll address momentarily. It feels like the writers may be trying to slot Daemon into that position, since he’s an outspoken but wily and potentially dangerous figure. He’s depicted as an outlier in the Targaryen family (same as Tyrion), and we get to see Daemon in a brothel in the first episode (also like Tyrion).
What to Know About House of the Dragon Before You Watch the Game of Thrones Prequel
The series premiere was watched by over 10 million viewers across the linear channels and HBO Max on the first day, the biggest in HBO's history. At the 80th Golden Globe Awards, House of the Dragon won Best Television Series – Drama and D'Arcy was nominated for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama. The series earned nine Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series, and won three British Academy Television Craft Awards. House of the Dragon is an American fantasy drama television series created by George R. R. Martin and Ryan Condal for HBO.
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House of the Dragon: Season 1
The “Dance of the Dragons” is the civil war that ensued between the Targaryens. Thrones fans may recall when young Shireen Baratheon and Ser Davos briefly discuss the battle as she reads a history book about it. If you want to see how that part of Targaryen history unfolds, you’ll have to keep an eye on House of the Dragon.
The Great Houses
A prequel to Game of Thrones (2011–2019), it is the second television series in the A Song of Ice and Fire franchise. Based on parts of Martin's 2018 book Fire & Blood, the series begins about 100 years after the Seven Kingdoms are united by the Targaryen conquest, nearly 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, and 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen. Featuring an ensemble cast, the show portrays the events leading up to the beginning of the decline of House Targaryen, a devastating war of succession known as the "Dance of the Dragons".
It was this third scene and the actors’ commentary that made me think of Fire & Blood and reader discourse during Season 1. Keeping in mind that Martin has said that Westeros is roughly the size of the continent of South America, the realm known as "the Seven Kingdoms" spans an area on the scale of the Roman Empire. Thus in terms of their populations and the size of the armies they can raise in wartime, each of the "Great Houses" is more comparable in scale to a real-life medieval kingship like England or France than a smaller dukedom.
Casting
The definition of a "Great House" in general can be summarized as any noble House that bends the knee directly to the Iron Throne and rules one of constituent regions of the realm. The royal family itself rules the Crownlands directly, loosely making it another Great House, though technically it ranks higher than all the others. At the start of the books this list comprises the Starks, Lannisters, Arryns, Greyjoys, Tullys, Tyrells, Baratheons of Storm's End, and Martells. This definition sometimes leads to oddities, for example, House Hightower of Oldtown commands a vastly populous city (second only to King's Landing and not by much) and an immense area of territory around it, including numerous smaller vassal houses. The Hightowers could theoretically be more powerful than the ruling Great House of less populous regions (such as the Greyjoys and perhaps even the Martells), but as they are vassals of the Tyrells, they are not counted as a Great House.
Heir
HBO has released the first official trailer for “House of the Dragon,” the network’s “Game of Thrones” prequel series debuting on Aug. 21. The Hightowers are a wealthy house whose seat of power is in Old Town, and at the beginning of the series Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans) is the Hand of the King. (This is the same position that Ned Stark had for King Robert Baratheon at the beginning of Game of Thrones).
Ser Simon Strong (Simon Russell Beale) will step up as Castellan of Harrenhal, Ser Gwayne Hightower (Freddie Fox) will surface as Otto Hightower’s son, and Alyn of Hull (Abubakar Salim) will follow up on his work in the Stepstones campaign. Millie Alcock and the rest of the first-generation Targaryens and Hightowers will, as far as HBO has indicated, not be returning this season in flashbacks. That doesn’t mean that we won’t see them again someday, but at least Paddy Considine does not have to jeopardize his own health for another stunning performance that the awards circuit decides to ignore.
The season will run June 16 through August 4, airing every Sunday at 9 PM Eastern Time. Unlike the final few seasons of Game of Thrones, the showrunners of House of the Dragon still have source material to draw from. Specifically, you can read George R. R. Martin’s novel Fire & Blood to know what will happen in House of the Dragon season 2 in gruesome detail. As the first season draws to a close, the relationship between Rhaenyra and Alicent deteriorates and becomes volatile. Simultaneously, Viserys’ brother Daemon comes into the picture and allies with Rhaenyra’s cause. When Viserys dies at the end of the first season, Westeros is thrown into chaos.
Aegon I Targaryen's own mother was Valaena Velaryon, and it is stated that Valaena's mother was herself an as-yet-unnamed Targaryen. Later, Aegon I's son and heir Aenys Targaryen married his cousin Alyssa Velaryon, who was mother of all of his children including Jaehaerys I Targaryen (it isn't clear what degree of cousin Alyssa was, but even first cousin marriage isn't considered incest in Westeros). The Velaryons may not have been as strict about blood purity as the Targaryens at the time (to the point of incest), as Alyssa's own mother was Alarra Massey - an Andal woman from the Stormlands. Through her, Alyssa's daughter Alysanne Targaryen (Jaehaerys I's sister-wife and queen) didn't have classic Valyrian features of silver-white blonde hair and purple eyes, but Andal features of honey-blonde hair and blue eyes. First, Daemon must zoom around Westeros to gather as many houses as possible for that fight.
Ramin Djawadi, whose award-winning score for “Game of Thrones” inspired a world tour, is returning to compose music for the prequel series. Princess Rhaenys marries Lord Corlys Valaryon (Steve Toussaint), a powerful shipmaster who goes by the name the Sea Snake. He hails from a family that’s also Valyrian but left Valyria long before the Targaryens for trade purposes. Crucially, the Valaryons can’t ride dragons, but they have become key allies of the Targaryens since Aegon’s conquest.
When Harren Hoare and all of his sons were roasted alive by Aegon the Conqueror's dragons, he had the ironborn choose one of their own Houses to rule over them (under the overall rule of the Targaryens), and they chose House Greyjoy. The Iron Islands are actually something of an odd case, in that for many centuries their kingship was not hereditary. When a king died, the powerful noble Houses of the Iron Islands would meet in an assembly known as a Kingsmoot to select a new king to rule over all of them. Five thousand years ago, House Greyiron killed all of the representatives at the last Kingsmoot, and ruled the Iron Islands as hereditary kings for a thousand years. The Greyirons were destroyed four thousand years ago during the coming of the Andals, when they were deposed by House Hoare. Whether the Greyirons should be considered a Great House that early in history is unclear.
As they are introduced, be sure to visit the Official Dragon Index for a quick look at which dragon is which. Because their region is hidden behind the Red Mountains and the Sea of Dorne, it gives House Martell some space of its own, which is both a positive and a negative. For one, it allows them to be a tighter-knit community and have more pride in where they're from, but at the same time, it also makes them extremely isolated from the rest of Westeros. Not even technically a Royal House anymore as they were exiled to Essos, a continent located just across from the Narrow Sea. In Game of Thrones, House Targaryen doesn't control one specific area, though it used to be located in Dragonstone in Blackwater Bay.
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