The road ahead is uncertain but the end is clear aegon will be king
he's the firstborn son of the king you will be with your own child sooner than late
i do not wish to get married even i do not exist above tradition and duty run error
none of it needs be this way in truth no one's here for me
the crab feeders dug in for siege on bloodstone while his men sabotage our fleet the matter
of the stepstones is regrettably urgent yeah crabs will soon die on all of us we are losing
dragon
Welcome back everyone this will be my house of the dragon episode 3 trailer video there's a
whole bunch of easter eggs here so we'll break it all down obviously a bit of a time jump because
there's a bunch of changes in the characters and a couple new characters that you probably haven't
seen before if you're brand new to the channel i'm doing videos for all the episodes just like
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all your predictions for the episode on the video probably the two biggest things in this trailer
are the appearance of aegon ii alicent's son with viserys the new heir quote-unquote that the realm
is talking about that vernier is really worried about wait a minute i'm supposed to be the heir
what's going on with this new son you just had surprise surprise rhaenys targaryen princess who
never was was totally right last episode when she was trying to get real with her like the realm is
never going to take you seriously eventually your father is going to marry some woman and his son by
her will become the new king so before our eyes ronira's world is kind of slowly crashing down
around her and her father viserys is forcing a marriage upon her i'll talk about that in a
second too because like the other big wtf thing is the actual war of the stepstones with daemon
and corlys velaryon one of the really important things about the war for the stepstones though as
you notice all their forces are made up of corlys' men along with sell swords in landless adventures
that daemon winds up hiring with money given to him by the crown that's why most of the people
running around with the sigils on them are just the sigil of house velaryon the reason for this
is because as they said in the previous episode the small council king viserys didn't want to get
involved officially through the crown because they didn't want to start an all-out war with all of
essos so he was happy to support daemon's efforts in the war with corlys velaryon but he didn't
want to involve the crown itself what they've done though is they've kind of compressed the timeline
because when the war the step stones was being fought it was a bunch of different battles across
a bunch of different years and it was happening during a different time period than all the stuff
with rhaenyra aegon viserys and alicent was going on so i think what they've done for the episode is
there's been another small time jump like not a massive time jump but enough time for viserys to
get remarried to alicent and then for them to have aegon him to grow to this age and her to become
pregnant with her second child the only bonus here for rhaenyra is that her second child is a female
named helena she does wind up having two more sons with viserys though later in the timeline you see
some of the adult versions of these characters in some of the first trailers they released like way
back last year like this is amen targaryen he winds up being called aymond one eye targaryen
i'll give you one guess why he's called a man one eye i like the idea that ronira's best friend gets
remarried to her father so there's a big betrayal to her like we saw at the end of episode two and
she has a bunch a bunch of healthy male children with him so it looks like at the beginning of the
trailer she's still upset with her father after that short time jump like they haven't completely
made up yet but he's trying to reason with her about the reality of the situation like i am a
king the realm expects me to remarry and have more heirs with this next wife anybody else who
would have been king would have been expected to do the same thing there were a lot of jokes about
him remarrying someone so young like they made the jest about him remarrying lena valerian who
was only 12 years old at the time like there's no way we're going to let this happen but his way of
justifying it is saying you know what i'm going to do i'm not going to marry this 12 year old
i'm going to marry your best friend who's about 14 or 15 years old that's better somehow one of the
other minor changes it seems like they've done on the show is they made alison way younger so in the
books alicent is in her mid-20s when she remarries to viserys the first and viserys the first is only
in his mid-30s but obviously in real life patty considine is in his late 40s so viserys looks
way older than his mid-30s maybe we can just chalk that up to him having some weird ailment
a lot of you've also wondered if he might have a version of diabetes because his extremities are
starting to rot like that and speaking of ill health they've actually clarified what's going
on with kragus drahar crab feeder they showed some behind the scenes for his character he
does have gray scale so like he's slowly dying if his mask looks familiar that is meant to be taken
from the sons of the harpy like he's wearing his sons of the harpy mask that he's kind of reshaping
into his own costume and his main weapon here which he's using to nail people up to feed the
crabs literally is a battle hammer we get the voice over from otto hightower talking to his
daughter alison basically trying to reason with her just saying that your son aegon will be king
even though she's still trying to mend things with renera like she still wants to be friends with her
during the trailer you see her chase her down outside like things don't have to be like this
as rhaenyra kind of runs off into the distance one of the things they don't totally address in
the trailer but a lot of you have suspected is that now because there are male heirs raniera's
life is potentially in danger because depending on how devious you think the hand of the king
otto is i don't know if he was stooped to this but theoretically if rhaenyra were not to do anything
and just to sit around and wait for viserys to die potentially someone like otto or someone
around viserys could just kill her to clear up the matters of succession like okay we don't have to
worry about her anymore we have a male heir let's put him on the iron throne so not only is renera
feeling betrayed by her father and her best friend she's also just like a little bit worried about
her life also her father is forcing her into this eventual marriage but that's also expected to like
you would be expected to marry someone even if you were the heir what might be happening in this
scene here is they might actually be at harrenhal because in the background you see harwin strong
and his father lyonel strong and he's the current lord of harrenhal so connecting some of the dots
like things do get really spicy with ronira the other characters just in general it wouldn't be a
game of thrones prequel show if it wasn't a little bit spicy they're forcing her into a marriage that
marriage is this person here that you see laenor velaryon that's because her father wants to try
and mend fences with corlys velaryon because he kind of threw him under the bus when he decided
not to marry his daughter laina valerion this is laenor velaryon with his father corlys and daemon
targaryen during the war the stepstone so he was busy fighting with them during the war getting to
the spiciness of it all and lionel strong here there's a lot of like funny rumors that go on
in a song of ice and fire books rhaenyra doesn't want to get married she's forced to marry laenor
velaryon because of this alliance that they want to form with the family but laenor is supposed
to be kind of like a loras tyrell type of figure so she doesn't want to get married to him and he
doesn't really want to get married to a woman so to speak but both of them are just kind of
forced into it also when you see her run off here you see criston cole kind of clock her as she's
running off into the woods and she gets attacked by what looks like a wild animal it's criston cole
that winds up saving her you see them around the campfire after this she kind of has the hots for
criston cole but he's a kingsguard he's kind of like a brand of tarth type of figure at this point
in the story like he wants to be a good knight so things do get a little bit spicy between the two
of them but they don't quite go to the place where you think that they go but these two sons of hers
are supposed to be with lehner valerion they're like the two first sons that she gives birth to
so everyone's having flashbacks to people talking about the color of hair of the lannister children
wait a minute why aren't they brunettes like gendry if they were robert's children
that's because they weren't robert's children they were jaime's children so both rhaenyra and laenor
have the white hair who is their father than for real there was a rumor recorded in the books that
said it was harwin strong who was secretly their father and it becomes this big salacious rumor
that gets passed around court in this part of the trailer harwin strong is also the captain of the
city watch the gold cloaks that daemon created so when her father is telling her oh you'll be
with your own child sooner than late that's the marriage that he's talking about to laenor and
the children that she eventually has with him that we think that she has with him but like i said big
salacious rumors about her secretly having an affair in the children being fathered by harwin
strong later in the trailer when they talk about the war of the triarchy in the crabfeeder digging
in on bloodstone that's sort of like the seat of power inside the stepstones they're trying to take
the dragons you see flying in the background is demons dragon karaxis obviously love the
part of the trailer at the end where they yell dragon and he starts attacking the battlefield
anytime there's a dragon in a battle it's epic the closest comparison i would make would be to like
the field of fire they called it the loot train battle during the main game of thrones series
but during aegon's conquest it was a similar type of engagement where he brought balerion in the
black dread and basically burned the entire field of opposing soldiers and they called it the field
of fire that's basically what you see caraxies do to this field of battle here like he just lights
the entire place on fire now it's also important to note during the main series they introduced
the scorpion but that was an ancient device that they basically pulled out of mothballs qyburn was
like i think i found something that can fight the dragons we haven't used it in a long time but it's
very effective so just because the targaryens had had dragons for so long the scorpions other ways
of fighting dragons had been a thing for a long time even back during aegon's conquest so just
having a dragon outright didn't mean you were invincible in battle a lot of just depended on
who you were fighting and how well equipped they were that's one of the reasons why doran wasn't
conquered during aegon's conquest because they had methods and techniques for fighting dragons and
that was like aegon's big trump card but the whole idea is that during the war of the stepstones
during all the different battles the triarchy's army crabfeeder's army vastly outnumbered daemon
in corlys' army but because they had caraxes they had the dragon it kind of balanced things out he's
gonna barbecue so many people in next week's episode i will be interested to see though if
they do the entire war of the stepstones in just a single episode in the other trailers you also see
a little bit of the aftermath of the battle in the earlier trailers you see daemon walking into the
throne room viserys sitting on the iron throne he's wearing that crown the same suit of armor
when they eventually defeated the triarchy's army corlys crowned him king of the stepstones remember
when he was trying to sell him on the alliance at the end of episode two he was trying to sell him
on the idea of making a name for himself that's why daemon crowns himself king of the stepstones
and just to be clear the step stones themselves weren't officially part of the seven kingdoms
that's why he could do something like that daemon is the rogue prince but like he's not gonna crown
himself the king of a part of westeros that would invite open war with the crown it'd be like going
to a completely different country and saying you know what i'm gonna be king of this country over
here after we conquer it obviously the rest of the realm doesn't take that too kindly like his
brother the kingsguard here don't take it too kindly but one of the other things they're doing
with these first couple of episodes episode two also when you see renera fly under cloud cover
and come up to dragonstone really cool scene you see caraxie's joining the battle here and
just light everybody up we're heading to the dance of the dragons the targaryen civil war
where a bunch of different dragon riders fought in the air on their dragons so you have to imagine
a bunch of dragons all doing this fighting each other at the same time on screen so as cool as the
dragons have been the last couple of episodes it's gonna get way way crazier especially in future
seasons but i think it'll be season two before we see a lot of the dragons fighting each other
in the air like later in season two season three type of stuff based on the way they're charting
the episodes out the last couple of trailers we've seen it seems like they're gonna spin up
to the actual dance of the dragons towards the end of season one the beginning of season two
if there's anything you spotted in the trailers that i didn't talk about in the video just write
it below in the comments i have a couple big bonus videos planned for this week too my full episode 3
video will post next sunday just like normal and a lot of you've also asked for me to bring back q
a videos so i might do that in the next couple of weeks too i'll name a giveaway winner and my next
big house the dragon video everyone click here for my full house of the dragon episode 2 video
and click here for that big house of the dragon season 2 announcement in my top 10 wtf predictions
thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe and i'll see you guys in the next one!