What is the power of a dragon next to the power of prophecy? If you're excited to escape into the world of House Of The Dragons, check out these Daemon Targaryen quotes from the season so far that you can use as Instagram captions. Establishing Character Moment: Viserys's first scene involves him joking around with his daughter and councilors while also brushing aside a possible threat to his realm without taking it seriously and preferring to talk about his upcoming tournament, showing him to be an amiable man but a fairly lightweight king and lending credence to Daemon's later accusations that he's weak. Post-Support Regret: Feels this way to Daemon, pointing out that despite his supporting his younger brother and covering for his actions despite most of his Small Council's misgivings, the latter repaid him via throwing it in his face with his reckless, disrespectful actions and insubordination with the "Heir For a Day" stunt being the straw that broke the camel's back. He finally gets his wish in "The Lord of the Tides". Played By: Paddy Considine. Your father is not naive.
Thicker Than Water: He repeatedly lets Daemon's affronts slide into bygones and tolerates his uninvited presence in the royal court because after all, they are brothers. The fifth King of the Seven Kingdoms. But Luke is sent there too, representing his mother, Rhaenyra — who they believe is the rightful Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. This includes Daenerys and her brothers Viserys and Rhaegar, and thus Jon Snow. There are major spoilers ahead about what's in store for Rhaenyra and her children, according to Martin's fictional history. Hypocrite: He was put on the throne because of a Great Council vote that confirmed male-preference primogeniture in the succession to the Iron Throne, but is adamant in keeping Rhaenyra as his heir even after his second wife bore him several sons. Like the original show, it's based on A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin, and is expanding the franchise. Mysaria was revealed to be a recurring character in House of the Dragon on December 8, 2020. Death by Childbirth: When her son is breech during the birth, Grand Maester Mellos tells Viserys that without any intervention, both Aemma and the baby will die, but that if they perform a Traumatic C-Section they may be able to save the baby. I always thought that you and me... We were made of the same fabric. Satisfied that Daemon is safe, Mysaria leaves him. That is my castle you're living in, uncle. Everything gets worse over the years as Alicent now is so alienated and disillusioned with her marital situation, and her husband's Parental Favoritism for Rhaenyra, that she often vents it in a passive-aggressive way against an increasingly older, weak and tired Viserys, due to his numerous illnesses and infections.
BrotherSister Incest: Customary for Targaryens. The cousin of Viserys, Daemon, and Rhaenys, Viserys's beloved first wife, and Rhaenyra's mother. After outliving both his adult sons, he held a council to determine who would be the next heir. This conflicts with the male-preference primogeniture customary law that many lords support, so the mere existence of Aegon creates a Succession Crisis that could tear the realm asunder. But you must never await its coming. This seems to be setting us up for the deadly facedown between Luke and Aemond in the sky. Posthumous Character: Died before the events of the series, but the fact that he was the eldest child of Jaehaerys and his daughter didn't become the next heir after him is mentioned many times. Sadistic Choice: - After Aemma labors for hours with no progress and her strength begins to fail, Maester Mellos tells Viserys she's unlikely to survive but that if they cut her open, they could potentially save the baby. Based on Martin's novel Fire & Blood, House of the Dragon is set two hundred years before the events of Game of Thrones and follows the beginning of the end of House Targaryen. For more, read our breakdown of the best details you might have missed in last week's episode. He believes it is his duty to ensure a firm legacy to keep a strong realm that will have to face a prophesied deadly cold threat that will descend upon Westeros from the serys: The responsibility I have handed to you, the burden of this knowledge...
As his health deteriorates, he sometimes confuses Alicent with her by calling her Aemma. Awful Wedded Life: While his marriage to Alicent Hightower starts out pretty happy, it turns sour over the course of about 20 years. The last attempt happens shortly before his death when the tension between the Targaryen-Hightower side and the Targaryen-Velaryon side is at its peak and nearing open conflict. In "The Rogue Prince", when Daemon goes and sets up on Dragonstone, Viserys lets him, even as his advisors tell him to act. "Our love does not know titles and traditions. Big Fancy Castle: Doubling as their ancestral seats, House Targaryen built and retains control of two: - The Red Keep, looming large over the capital of King's Landing. The blood of the dragon runs Targaryen, (to Viserys), S1. To elude a storm, you can either sail into it, or around it. It gets to the point where Viserys lampshades this in Episode 3, telling Alicent that he's "forever doomed to anger one person in the pleasing of another". We are the realm's second sons, Daemon. And even then he's willing to agree to Rhaenyra's demand he sack Otto Hightower as Hand in exchange for her marrying Laenor Velaryon. Unexpected Successor: He was the son of King Jaehaerys' second eldest son and so was fourth in line for the throne if you counted his cousin Rhaenys (at this point, there was no official precedent for a male heir being chosen over a female). "When the babe at last came forth, she proved indeed a monster: a stillborn girl, twisted and malformed, with a hole in her chest where her heart should have been, and a stubby, scaled tail, " the book reads.
All who were close to him, especially his lady wife Alicent, his children (none more so than Rhaenyra), his cousin Rhaenys and his brother Daemon all deeply mourn his loss. His every move is a strategic advancement towards his goal to gain more power. Who will take the Driftwood throne? With tenacity and luck. But this is it for today, hope to meet you all very soon in our next publication. Fire is such strange power. Our worth is not given. She also throws a not-so-subtle barb at Otto; she knows it's his manipulations that are pushing Aegon towards the throne, that she could easily have had him killed, and reminds Otto that the common people are not to be discounted as a powerful force. Rhaenyra Targaryen, S1.
The road ahead is uncertain, but the end is Hightower, (to Alicent), S1. Tragically, this fear was not only justified, but it cost her life, with their only surviving child being Princess I've lost one babe in the cradle, had two stillbirths, and two pregnancies ended well before their term. But they bent their knee to me. The childbed is our battlefield. Then she starts screaming again both when she realizes they're going to cut the baby out of her and throughout the procedure (which is done without anesthesia). Foregone Conclusion: Unfortunately, as we witness in Game of Thrones, the "duty to the realm" of their Heroic Lineage (detailed below) would be lost through the centuries—to the point that the last monarch of the line, Aerys II, practically did everything in his madness to tear the realm asunder. Adaptational Curves: His book counterpart started out fat, and by the end of his life, was so obese he couldn't even sit on the Iron Throne. Laenor: "The wise sailor flees the storm as it gathers.
Parental Favoritism: Viserys implies she liked Daemon more than she liked himself, which he accounts to their similar personalities. His guilt over essentially killing Aemma makes him ever more determined that Rhaenyra will be his heir, despite the disapproval of several lords and having three sons with Alicent. After the much-desired baby also dies, he's practically catatonic at the funeral. The gods have yet to make a man who lacks the patience for absolute Hightower, S1. You sit upon the highest seat in the realm, Your Grace. He shows no interest in either of them but ultimately caves into announcing a marriage to Alicent to fulfill his duty to the realm, and because he had forged a friendship with Alicent over their shared experiences of loss. When Daemon wakes, she gives him something to help with his greensickness, but he refuses help from "a common whore. " Rhaenyra being Wise Beyond Their Years clashes with this, since she's much more capable of keeping a cool head than him both in public and in private. Cool Old Guy: The universally loved ruler of the Seven Kingdoms who managed to rule for 55 years before dying at the age of 69. Jaehaerys is married to his younger sister Alysanne. Small Role, Big Impact: Her death causes Viserys to name Rhaenyra heir, setting the stage for the Dance of the Dragons to follow. But I understand the order of things. Viserys: "That man's pride has pride. List of Ricky and EJ's 'Dad' Jokes From HSMTMTS.
Corlys: But it doesn't make any sense.