Ok so House Of The Dragon is almost at the half way point and the new promo for episode
5 hints at one of the major events coming in the entry. It's a nice day for a red wedding
and the upcoming episode looks like it's playing on a major event from the books.
Throughout this video we're gonna be talking about what happens in the books,
where we think the characters are gonna be heading and much much more.
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now let's get into House Of The Dragon Episode 5.
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Now we start off with several ships sailing towards the Red
Keep and also two dragons in the sky.
Later when we catch a look at the sails on the boat we can see that
there's the white sea horse showing that this belongs to The Valerions.
Therefore I think that this being tied to a wedding gives us a big
clue about what's going on. You might remember that earlier in the episodes,
Viscerys decided to go with an Older Woman...I guess and he married the young Alicent instead
of Corlys daughter Laena. This spurned the Sea Lord and we discovered that he has proposed
a wedding with his daughter and one of the rulers of Bravos. This would cause a lot of
issues with the realm and in the book a similar thing happened. Therefore in order to try and
bury the Hatchet Viscerys arranged for Rhaenyra to get married to Corlys son Laenor who we saw
in episode 3. He was the one riding the silver Dragon Sea Smoke and he's also next inline to
inherit everything that Corlys owns. Therefore this union would marry the houses together and
basically make it so that Viscerys prevented a war whilst also writing the wrongs of the past.
We see the wedding celebrations and I even think that we might get a glimpse at Mushroom. If you've
watched our videos then you'll know we've talked about him a lot and how he was basically a jester
that also gossiped about things that he saw. The books had him being the person that spread
the rumours about Rhaenyra and Daemon sleeping together so I'm really hoping that he becomes
a character in the show. Now these rumours are also another reason why Vis wanted Rhae
to marry as quickly as possible as it would stamp out any dissent amongst the people.
The two houses being married would also likely produce an heir that would cause a lot more
problems down the line. This is something that Rhaenys touches upon and the reason
that there'd be so many problems is because we of course know that there are people who
think Aegon should be the next King. There being two heirs would cause a lot of conflict amongst
the kingdom and likely mean that it would split the entire realm into a civil war.
In the books this comes to take place as well and it's known as the Greens Vs Blacks. The
Greens are the Hightowers and throughout the series we've seen as Alicent has worn this
colour. The Blacks are the Targaryens and the books say that this colour is
significant to them because the family of course wear Red and Black. It was actually
at this wedding that the two sides started to fracture and it was said that there was
a major tournament held to celebrate the event. The dragons of the opposing
sides started snapping at each other and the Greens and Blacks started to take formation.
There are other characters that join them too with us
hear talking of people trying to seize the Throne.
This includes the Lannisters and we watch as both Tyland and Jason enter what I believe
is the throne room. The latter of course asked Rhaenyra to marry him and he might feel rejected
by this and try and seize power when things are weak. In the book Tyland asked to marry her as
well and he got rejected too. I think they're skipping over that which I've mentioned before
and he's probably just gonna be the master of coin like what we see from his uniform here.
We also catch Criston Cole being mentioned amongst this as well.
You can see that the person he's taling to is Alicent and the wedding actually caused him to
side with her. At the tournament Criston ended up beating the crap out of Hawin Strong and he
also massively f**ked up Joffrey Lonmouth who ended up dying from his wounds. Though it was
a tournament this caused a lot of people to turn against Criston and this is when Alicent got him
on side. He was really annoyed that Rhaenyra was going through with the wedding because he had
feelings for her in the book and the ceremony pushed him into siding with Alicent over her.
I can definitely see that being a part of the show as well and they've sort of
created this love triangle with him in it that's likely gonna push him
over the edge. He seems to be fighting at the wedding in one of the shots and I
think that this might be the event that causes everyone to turn on him.
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Now the next big thing is Otto saying that the King will die. We catch him infront of his model
of Old Valyaria and this metaphorically shows how he is doomed just like it was. In the legend it
was a great Dragon Kingdom that eventually ended up being destroyed in a volcanic erruption. This
was known as Doom and it was similar to how Pompei played out for the citizens of it in real life.
Aegon travelled from here and he conquered six of the seven kingdoms. However Valaryia
is very much seen as an end of an era similar to what could be happening with Viscerys here. Also
look at his arm yeah, been saying for weeks he had grayscale and then I went against this
cos everyone kicked off. I dunno if I[m back on the Mephisto train with it or what but come on,
lads arm, does look a bit like Grayscale that doesn't it? Come on give me that one thing.
We also see him collapsing whilst Alicent looks over the courtyard and I kinda think that the guy
isn't gonna last too many episodes. I did tell you there would be book spoilers but yeah...I'm
gonna give you another chance to exit the video if you don't want to know what happens with him. You
still here. Cool well...just checking....Cool well, you've probably already figured out that
he's gonna die soon and the character does indeed pass away. He ends up dying from an unknown
illness and this causes an event known as the dance of the dragons. It's basically a name for
the civil war where everyone fights it out for the throne and it completely splits all of the houses.
Otto sort of touches upon this and he is of course aware that the death of Vis will
put this into play. If Aegon doesn't get the throne then the entire thign with his
daughter Alicent has been for nothing and they have failed. This is why he
pushes her into making sure its the case and why she likely tries to get Alicent.
Now speaking of deaths we also get a big one in who I believe is Lady Rhea. At the end of
the trailer we see a woman with brown hair falling backwards whilst her horse jumps up.
In the book Rhea was badly injured whilst she was out horseriding. She fell from her ride and
cracked her head off a stone which caused her to be bed ridden for several days. Eventually
she got up but she ended up collapsing and this was the end of her. Daemon then flew to
the Vale in order to try and gain power over it but he was denied. The vale is an area that's
popped up in Game Of Thrones before and you'll fall...in love with it if you ever go there.
Now in the book this was just one big accident but the series might be changing things up.
If you look closely you can see to the left of the horse that there is a figure there
in a long grey cloak showing that someone probably scared the horse.
This grey cloak can be seen in another shot and it's being worn by Daemon. It's what Deamon
also wore whilst he was taking Rhaenyra out on the town making me think that it is 100% him.
We also have a shot in the teaser of Daemon wearing this cloak and
he's standing in this environment. Since he wore it last week and was
exiled I think hes then travelled out to the vale and killed her.
Daemon was of course married to her and he could be carrying out a murder in order to
try and gain power that way. The books said that he was exiled from the kingdom so this is a last
ditch attempt by him in order to gain power. He does do other things in the book but I think
that this is the first step. The whole thing with Rhea living for several days after this
event could also cause a lot of trouble for him if they have indeed switched it up. She could end up
saying that he was the one who did it and they might divert heavily from the source material.
I didn't think we'd actually get Rhea in the series due to her dying sort off
screen...not off screen but you know what I mean in the original work.
It makes Daemon even more evil if he's willing to murder his wife
just to gain her kingdom and it might be a big change up for the character.
Either way that's everything we could spot in
the trailer and let us know below if you noticed anything yourself.
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