Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I’m your host Paul aka the guy who’s a Daemon in
the sack and this video we’re breaking down Matt Smith’s character in House Of The Dragon.
Set up to be one of the major antagonists/anti-heroes, Dameon has a long and storied history in the
source material that means we’re gonna get some major moments in the show.
Full spoilers ahead and with us covering the entire characters history we will be going
over both his life and death as well as what happened to those around him.
This means that the show may be ruined for you if you go forward.
If you do then huge thank you for clicking this, now let’s get into our House Of The
Dragon breakdown.
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Ok so Daemon first comes to prominence during chapter 12 of Fire and Blood.
Titled Heirs of the dragon it recounts all the events of the show including all it’s
characters.
Early on Daemon is introduced as the heir to King Vicerys but as we see in the show,
this gets passed over to his daughter.
Daemon was the second son of Prince Baelon Targaryen and his wife Alyssa.
His older brother obviously ended up becoming the King and thus he was next in line.
Daemon is described as being fair and dashing, however he also hides a sadistic side to him
that makes him very dangerous.
An early paragraph on the character describes him as being someone who cut the hands off
pickpockets and along with this he also slit the noses of thieves.
Daemon took pleasure from pain and when he wasn’t causing misery he was hanging in
the brothel with his side chick Misery…or…Myseria.
However she was given the nickname Misery because of her reputation and you can see
how the two were attracted to each other.
They ended up falling in love and Myseria ended up becoming pregnant but we’ll talk
about this more as we get further into the video.
Now this entire thing was a bit of an entanglement as Daemon actually married Lady Rhea in order
to have some allegiances between the family and those at Runestone.
Daemon absolutely hated her and called her the Bronze Bitch with it purely being just
a marriage based on status.
He actually asked his brother to reneg on the marriage but Viscerys refused and thus
the wedding still went ahead.
Now he ended up supporting Viscerys in his ascension as this would allow him to become
the next in line.
At the celebration at Maidenpool he ended up riding into the torunament as arrogant
as ever.
However he was bested by Criston cole which echoes what we see in the first episode of
the series.
They did change the timeline up a bit here with the tournament originally happening for
the ascension of Viscerys whereas here it’s for the birth of his son Baelin.
Now as we hear about in the opening episode, Daemon had many jobs, the first being the
master of coin.
He only did this for a year and it’s during this time that he made an enemy of Otto Highwater.
As hand of the king, Otto convinced Visecerys to remove him from the position and he was
then appointed as the Commander Of the city watch.
Whereas the governing coin job had bored him, he absolutely loved this new role because
it allowed him to carry out murder under the guise of law and order.
He quickly became a highly regarded figure amongst the City watch which backfired on
Otto.
He was hoping that this would remove him from any positions of true power but he now had
2000 men who all loyally served him.
Crime fell under his reign and he ended up giving every guard a golden cloak which created
the idea that they were truly above the peasants.
Daemon vastly sought the role as heir to the thrown and as we saw in the show, this was
taken away from him after Baelons death.
As we saw in the series, he coined the term Heir For A Day, and Daemon truly believed
that this was a higher power clearing the way for him to ascend.
Viscerys was pretty annoyed by this though and he then announced Rhaenyra as the official
heir.
Dameon ended up leaving with Mysaria and because of this he didn’t attend her ceremony in
the Red Keep.
Together the pair flew to Dragonstone which is where she fell pregnant.
He also gave her a dragons egg as well which was supposed to symbolise the birth of a new
child in the family.
Typically these would be placed in a crib alongside the baby and they were meant to
show connection to the royal family.
Only thing is, Daemon actually took the one that was meant for Baelon which added further
insult to injury.
Now Viserys then commanded that he return the egg and he also said he had to go back
to Rhea in the Vale.
Daemon ended up abiding by this and he sent Mysaria away to Lys.
On this journey she ended up losing her child which made Daemon fully start to turn against
his brother.
Daemon was declared king of the Stepstones and Narrow Sea shortly after and he gained
this title from Corlys.
Dameon became bored with this and he returned home during which time he buried the hatchet
with his brother.
He gave up his kingdom and he sat on the small council once more.
Now whilst all this was going on, Viscerys had married Alicent and together the pair
had kids which meant he was now further down the line.
Thus he started to really sink his claws into Rhaenyra and the pair allegedly slept together
according to the book.
With it just being text they sort of have two takes on it with one tale saying that
Rhaenyra simply said she loved him whilst the character Mushroom said he taught her
how to seduce champions.
Rhaenyra apparently approached Criston Cole but he rejected her.
Many told Viscerys that he should execute his brother for treason but instead he just
exiled him.
Now shortly after this Rhea fell from a horse and died which meant that he could claim Runestone
for himself.
He was rejected by the house though and thus he turned his eyes to another kingdom, namely
House Valeryn.
He asked Lord Corlys for his daughters hand in marriage but she was promised to the son
of a Sealord.
Daemon killed him and married the girl.
Due to it not being pre approved by the King the pair then left for Essos and they ended
up having two twin daughters.
Daemon wrote to his brother asking that the pair could receive a royal blessing and as
he believed that fatherhood had changed him, he allowed the pair to attend.
His wife Laena fell pregnant again but she died in childborth and this sent Daemon off
the deep end once more.
Mysterious fires started to spring up which he was suspected for and he once more continued
on his quest for power.
Unbeknownst to King Viserys, he married his daughter Rhaenyra in secret and it was believed
that Daemon also killed her previous husband to create an opening for him.
The pair had two songs, Prince Aegon and also Viscerys.
At this point there was a tonne of people in line for the throne and when Viserys died
of an illness the Dance Of The Dragons began.
Now this is basically known as everyone fighting it out for the thrown and it led to a lot
of bloodshed.
It also saw the Blacks and Greens come to proiminence which were two sides that showed
support for the people that they believed should be the next on the throne.
Alicent was prominent in the Greens and she pushed the idea that her son Aegon was the
true heir whilst the Black supported Rhaenyra and Daemon.
The latter had another daughter who was stillborn with the blame for this being placed on the
Greens.
Slowly Daemon called together the houses that hadn’t pledged loyalty to the Greens in
order to try and gain a majority.
The crown was smuggled out of the capital under Dameons command and it was placed on
his wifes head.
From here on out he led several attacks on the Greens.
There was lots of infighting within the family due to Targaryens gaining allegiances with
both sides.
Aegon was also announced as the king and the family went to war with itself.
Due to them all possessing dragons the entire landscape ended up becoming a hellscape covered
in ash.
Daemon also started to have an affair with a woman called Nettles.
Myseria popped up out of nowhere and told Rhaenyra this and she ended up ordering the
death of Nettles.
Dameon found out about this in advance and he sent her away on a ship before announcing
his own departure.
He knew it wouldnt be long before he was found though and eventually he was tracked by the
character Aemond who arrived on his dragon Vhagar.
They battled with Daemon and Caraxes which led to them all apparently dying.
In the air Daemon ended up jumping from his dragon Caraxes to Vhagar and he killed both
which caused them to plummet into a lake below them.
Whilst Aemonds body was recovered though, Dameons never was and though it’s thought
that he died, you never bloody know.
Anyway that’s everything that you need to know about the character and his full life.
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