![]() That is to say, House of the Dragon is the real game of thrones. This is a fight for the Iron Throne alone-and that doesn’t seem like a bad thing, even if, unlike last time, we have a better idea who will win. Where Thrones had to split its time between the politicking and fighting of Westeros’s great houses and the imminent threat of an icy, mystical apocalypse from the north, House of the Dragon will focus solely on that first thing. The spectacle of this show is bigger than that of early Thrones, with a budget somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 million per episode allowing the series to splurge on multiple dragonriders with mounts the size of houses-ones that will dwarf the smaller, adolescent dragons Daenerys cared for through much of Thrones. In House of the Dragon, all of those things will be layered on top of … dragons. Thrones was always at its best in the heart of King’s Landing, with schemes layered on top of plots layered on top of witty barbs. And if the trailer and cast of characters is anything to go off of, it will feel very Thrones-y. It won’t include any characters from Thrones, but it is a prequel of sorts, sowing the seeds for what would grow into the Westeros that HBO brought to life in 2011. That unrest won’t be solved without some violence, and while we almost certainly won’t get there in the first season, House of the Dragon is expected to conclude with the Targaryen civil war-the Dance of the Dragons-that brings about the decline of dragons (and Targaryen power) in Westeros and leaves an opening for Robert’s Rebellion more than a century later. (Don’t worry on the source material front, either while Martin still needs to finish F&B’s second volume, among other volumes we won’t mention now, this show will be based only on the first.) Viserys is getting older, and his decision to name a woman as his heir is causing unrest. Martin’s Thrones prequel, Fire & Blood, and there will be fire and blood. Not to spoil how the show will go, but the series is based on George R.R. Oh, and there’s also Caraxes (CGI), Daemon’s dragon, who appears at the end of the trailer: HBO Mysaria (Sonoya Mizuno) is Rhaenyra’s Viserys-like mistress of whisperers. ![]() Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint) controls the largest navy in the world and is married to Rhaenys (Eve Best), the cousin of Viserys, whom she doesn’t see eye-to-eye with. ![]() Her father, Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans), is the hand of the king and frequently butts heads with Daemon. Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) is a Margaery-like political schemer who hails from the Reach but grew up in King’s Landing. ![]() There will be more Targaryens as well, but for now it appears the show is keeping them under wraps.įilling out the cast in King’s Landing is a host of high Westerosi lords who, of course, have ambitions of their own. ![]() Prince Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith), her uncle and commander of the gold cloaks, believes he should be the heir to the throne. Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) is Viserys’s named heir-which as you may have picked up from the trailer, will cause some problems-and pines to sit the Iron Throne. It’ll include a cast of characters that will feel somewhat familiar to anyone who watched Thrones: King Viserys I Targaryen (Paddy Considine) is a gentle, friendly man who rules over a kingdom that is largely at peace-but that doesn’t make him an effective king. A bit of history for those of you who, like me, spent the past three years trying to wipe the nauseating memory of Season 8 from your minds and in the process lost a great deal of knowledge about Westeros and its lore: House of the Dragon is set about 200 years before the events in Game of Thrones and will tell the story of how the Targaryen dynasty began to crumble. ![]()
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