Dragons will rule the seven kingdoms for the next hundred years
just as they did the last
the best fiction the best drama is about characters the story of house of dragon is a story
about very flawed human beings capable of doing good things capable of doing monstrous things
capable of courage people with cowardice these are the kind of characters that i love the most
game of thrones begins roughly 298 ac almost 300 years after aegon's conquest
as a dragon takes place a couple hundred years before game of thrones jairus targaryen
the old king who was the fourth targaryen to rule over westeros he was only 14 when he ascended to
the iron throne and he ruled for 55 years it was a very peaceful time in the history of westeros
it was the time the prosperity king's landing really grew enormously
it was a good time viserys the first who is the heir that was chosen by the great
council when jiharis passes away he takes over and he is now reigning over the seven kingdoms
there were a lot of targaryens at that point and you can see how the seeds of war are
sometimes planted in a time of peace people die and sons take over for fathers as lords
and they don't necessarily think they're bound by their father's allegiances or decisions or vows
so little by little the seeds are spreading game of thrones focused on the starks and the
lannisters for house of dragon the targaryens themselves the house of the dragon are a center
but two of the biggest players in the dance with the dragons civil war
are the valerions and the hightowers in terms of history in westeros the hightowers are the oldest
they've been there for thousands of years their seat of power is old town which was for many
hundreds and thousands of years the biggest city in westeros they're a very rich house old town is
wealthy from trade mostly and in the center of it is the hightower for which the hightowers
take their name lord hightower is in old town ruling over his domains in the city
but his younger brother otto hightower is the hand of the king when the story opens
same position we saw a ned stark play to to robert at the beginning of game of thrones the
valerians were also a house from the freehold the valeria the mightiest empire in at least the west
in my world and they actually arrived in westeros before the targaryens they were not dragon boards
however they were seafarers at that time the field of valeria depended a lot on its trade
and it was a good position to dominate trade from all the kingdoms westeros and from other places
even further north so they moved for reasons of trade and and wealth corliss velaryon is
lord admiral and master of ships as his own grandfather was before him of a similar name
so since aegon's conquest of valerians have been very high in the councils of the house targaryen
and after all his voyages he's married to rhaenys targaryen the queen who never was
house targaryen and house valerion they were close there was a definite uh relationship between them
the targaryens are also an ancient house but they're not an ancient westerosi house
they knew that destruction was coming to valeria and went far away from the capital city and they
settled on the volcanic island of dragonstone they were dragon lords and valeria now dragons
are really formidable and they can turn the tide of a battle it flies it's difficult to hit
it breathes fire against which most knights and men at arms have little or no protection so if you
have dragons and that's where the nuclear option analogy comes in you're hard to mess around with
so the dragons and fear of dragons was one of the things that made the targaryens very
secure in their power
dragon one thing but the iron throne is the most dangerous seat in the realm
Welcome back everyone they dropped a brand new house of the dragon trailer we'll break it down
there's a bunch of easter eggs here george r martin talking a lot about the history of the
dance of the dragons also going back to aegon's conquest and eventually what happens during a song
of ice and fire in the main novels during the events of the original series game of thrones
if you're brand new to the channel be sure to subscribe to get all the videos i already did
an early non-spoilery review of episode one so i'll post a link for that at the end of this and
down in the description below but just starting at the beginning of this when viserys the first
targaryen says the dragons are going to rule over the next hundred years that basically takes us to
the events of the second blackfyre rebellion in the reign of daren ii targaryen there are a couple
reasons why the next hundred years are kind of a loaded term because it references a lot of things
that they also referenced during the main series in game of thrones much later in the timeline
during both of the blackfyre rebellions the bloodraven was a big figure who becomes the
three-eyed raven it is the three-eyed raven his real name was brynden rivers he was a targaryen
bastard and also maester aemon was a targaryen maester eamon was alive during the events of
the second blackfyre rebellion that's how old he is that you have two targaryens basically living
up at the wall during the events of the main series the other funny easter egg here at the
beginning of the trailer when viserys the first talks about how dragons are gonna rule over the
next hundred years just like they have over the hundred previous to this the actual last dragon
was actually born during the reign of aegon the third targaryen the son of ranira targaryen his
daughter like who we see on the main show here in daemon targaryen now he's not born to like way
later in the timeline so we don't see him during the first couple of episodes but eventually we'll
see his birth during the events of the series there's actually a lot of time that passes during
the events of house of the dragon way more time passes than you saw past during the events of the
main series game of thrones that's why they have different actresses playing the young versions
of rhaenyra and alicent hightower because when you see the older versions it's like way later
in the timeline in when viserys the first of the dragons ruled the previous hundred years that's
also aegon's conquest that took place about a hundred years ago george r martin talks a lot
about the actual history of westeros before the events of the series after aegon's conquest just
showing you how king's landing itself grew really fast during that period we see the older version
of jiharis the first he's the fourth targaryen king in westeros after aegon the conqueror
they called him jiharis the wise just because his rule was a period of great prosperity but
then they show you all this imagery of the burning heart tree the weirwood here you actually see the
heart tree in king's landing in the godswood of king's landing during the events of the series
they're lying under it here there was a heart tree there is a god's wood in king's landing you just
don't see it that much during the events of the main series and the tree has been burned down
by the events of the main series this is sort of meant to remind you about the events of the main
series the prophecy of a song of ice and fire the long night the coming of the night king the
white walkers that's briefly referenced during the events of house of the dragon but remember
the events on this series predate the events of the second long night that we see during the
main series by so much that even though the night king is active during this period in the lands of
always winter like there are white walkers there are whites they're just not very active they're
more of a myth at this point in the timeline nobody's actually seen them in a long time so long
so that the people of the realm have basically forgotten the original reason why they created
the wall they started to think now that it's actually to keep the free folk out of the seven
kingdoms like no no that's not why we built the wall we built it to keep away the white walkers
you also get a little bit of history behind the hightowers and the velayrons who are big houses
during the events of this series fun fact too they were actually still around during the events of
the main series game of thrones dan and dave just cut them out of the original show what actually
happened is during robert's rebellion after he won and took the iron throne he replaced the current
lord velayron at that time as master of ships with his brother stannis and the hightower still ruled
over old town so during the war of the five kings during the second long night like all the really
crazy stuff that happened during the original show those two houses the valerians and the hightowers
are still around they're just not as active in the main events that took place they'll probably be a
little bit of confusion about that when the show picks up for people that don't read the books like
where were these people when the events of the main series took place no they were around like
they just cut them out of the show basically as you said the velayrons actually are of valyrian
blood so just to be clear the velayrons and the valyrians are two completely different concepts
like the targaryens and the velayrons are both a valyrian descent ages of the valerions were
not dragon riders and they went to westeros long before the targaryens did and basically controlled
all trade between westeros and the valyrian freehold which is how they became so rich by
the events of this series the valyrians had become a vassal house of house targaryen because of what
happened during aegon's conquest and the other really cool thing that george r martin reveals
is why the targaryens settled on dragonstone instead of settling on the mainland of westeros
it was all because of daenys the dreamer's dragon dreams in the prophecy of a song of ice and fire
daenys the dreamer had her dragon dreams for seeing a couple different major cataclysmic
events one of them being the long night eventually but she's mostly known for having the dragon dream
that foresaw the doom of valyria which is the whole reason why they initially left the ancient
valyrian freehold to come to westeros so as a measure of caution they settled on dragonstone
also the second reason for them settling on dragonstone was because of the current state of
the seven kingdoms because it would start a really big war if like a giant family with a whole bunch
of dragons just suddenly settled in someone else's territory they briefly touch on the idea of dragon
dreams during the events of the house of dragon episode 1. i'll talk about that when i do like my
full easter egg video for episode one there are a lot of things that they reference in passing but a
lot of episode one is just table setting and just kind of setting up a lot of the big concepts that
they'll explore during the events of the series episode one is going to be released in a couple
weeks like i said i'll do videos for all the episodes like i did for the main series so make
sure you enable alerts for my channel so you don't miss that if you have any big questions or things
that i haven't covered in my previous trailer videos just write them below in the comments and
i'll add them to my list of bonus videos everyone click here for my non-spoilery house of the dragon
episode 1 review video and click here for my black panther wakanda forever trailer video in easter
eggs thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe and i'll see you guys in the next one!