Welcome back. I'm Jason Concepcion,
cohost of the official
Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon Podcast,
here to answer your questions.
Aemond is not a White Walker, he's not an other.
He, um, as kind of like, his drip,
he likes to put jewels.
Like precious stones in that eye socket.
I want you to put out your eye.
It's payment for mine.
Why wear an eye patch over the precious gems?
I don't know, just for shock factor, maybe?
To be like, "Ha-ha."
But that's just kind of his personal style.
That is Vermithor.
Vermithor is the former dragon of Old King Jaehaerys,
who is the king before King Viserys,
probably the second oldest, second largest dragon alive.
So a very, very potent beast.
And again, the former mount of Old King Jaehaerys.
I think the easiest way to say this is that...
the black faction, Queen Rhaenyra's faction,
simply has more.
They have Caraxes, Daemon's.
They have Syrax, Rhaenyra's.
They have Meleys, Princess Rhaenys'.
They have Seasmoke, formerly Laenor's, but no rider right now.
Then they have Vermithor, Old King Jaehaerys' dragon.
No rider.
Silverwing, Old King Jaehaerys' queen,
Queen Alysanne's dragon.
Several wild dragons that live on Dragonstone.
And then they have Jace and Joffrey's dragons.
The greens have-- I mean, let's start with Vhagar,
because you can't ignore
Vhagar is the biggest, baddest dragon around.
The former mount of Queen Visenya.
Queen Alicent's three kids have their own dragons,
so this is in addition to Vhagar.
King Aegon, Aegon II, rides Sunfire,
which is apparently a very, very beautiful dragon.
Helaena has Dreamfyre,
and then, complicating all of this is the fact that
you're not just sending like a nameless pilot
out on the dragon, right?
Especially if they're gonna be fighting each other, which is very dangerous.
You're sending--
Aegon the King is gonna be riding a dragon.
Prince Aemond.
These are like very important people.
So, there's an advantage in dragons
by Queen Rhaenyra's side.
It's maybe not as big an advantage as you think
because she's gonna be loath to throw her heir, Jace,
into the mix,
and neither side really wants their dragons to go head-to-head.
How this advantage,
in numerical terms, is gonna play out,
is gonna be very interesting to say,
not to mention the fact that, you know,
Vermithor, Silverwing, the wild dragons, Seasmoke,
these dragons held by Rhaenyra's side,
don't have riders.
Where are these riders gonna come from?
Uh... TBD.
He never told you...
(PANTING)
...did he?
It speaks to the fact that, one,
Viserys took this...
the secrecy surrounding Aegon's dream,
very, very seriously, and...
was only going to tell it to his heir.
I think it speaks to the fact that he never saw Daemon
as his first choice to be heir.
Daemon is a wild card.
I think Daemon's anger...
is an expression of the fact that he realizes
that Viserys never took him into his confidence in that way.
If there's one thing we know about Daemon is that
he just always wanted to be close to his brother.
And the fact that Viserys...
held something apart from him
was very painful for him.
You wear a crown.
You also call yourself King.
Once we smashed the Triarchy,
they named me King of the Narrow Sea.
But I know that there is only one true king, Your Grace.
JASON CONCEPCION:
this is all part of Otto and Alicent's kind of plan
to surround Aegon
with as many symbols of legitimacy as possible,
have as many people seeing him crowned King.
He's wearing the crown of Aegon the Conqueror,
he's wielding Blackfyre,
the sword of Aegon the Conqueror.
He has Aegon the Conqueror's name,
he's in King's Landing, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
So that is Aegon the Conqueror's crown.
And then Rhaenyra's crown,
which was helpfully smuggled out of King's Landing by Ser Erryk.
That is the golden crown of her father, King Viserys,
and Old King Jaehaerys, before him.
First of all, there's a difference between
fire resistant and fireproof.
The Targaryens, I think you could say,
at least the show versions of the Targaryens,
are fire resistant.
But they're certainly not fireproof,
as we saw with Laena Velaryon,
when she ordered her dragon, Vhagar, to
and then she was subsumed by fire.
Now, dragonflame is also like literally magical fire.
So, not like, you know, regular flame.
You know, I think the show has done a really, really good job
in you understand where Alicent is coming from.
She has, every step of the way, over the years,
been a really good friend to Rhaenyra.
You know, supported her when King Viserys was like,
"What's going on with the story
of Daemon and Rhaenyra running off?"
And it was Alicent who said, "That didn't happen."
You know, "Rhaenyra would never do something like that."
Supported her in many other ways as well.
I want him to see me as more than his little girl.
Mine own father does not know the language of girls either.
When I wish to talk with him,
I know that I must make the effort.
Thank you.
Rhaenyra...
returns that favor with kind of dishonor,
with lies, with whining.
You know, it's like Alicent is stuck married
to this much older man,
in this kind of like gilded cage scenario,
while Rhaenyra is going on this like
find a boyfriend tour.
And complaining about it.
That said, Team Black.
An oath is an oath, you know.
Otto's retort that,
"Oh, that's a stale oath from a long time ago."
An oath is an oath, right?
Like, people swore, and that should matter.
Because there's no contracts,
there's no lawyers in this world.
Like, your word is your word.
The thing you said is what you said.
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