Rainira has a debt to the Iron Throne. The first scene of the sixth chapter Dragon House, already available on HBO Max, he proves it and makes it clear. Ten years have passed since their marriage, and the third son in the family is born to the heiress. Only this is not Velarion, but Targaryen. A subtlety that the argument will revisit over and over again in the most complex and most unique of all the chapters released so far.
Queen Alycent became the mainstay of a weak court. Viseris I is languishing, and the only daughter of Otto Hightower is busy with what is happening in the court circle. It is she who orders Rainier to take the newborn baby in her arms. And also the one who receives it, the one who holds the new member of the royal house in her arms.
But even more disturbing: this is what clears up the first crack in the Targaryen house. “Try next time to make him look like you,” she angrily whispers to Leynor, who is holding the boy in her arms. With this single sentence, the fiery chasm between the factions of the dynasty is more apparent than ever.
sixth chapter Dragon House notes before and after during the series. Reynira became a woman and a stranger to her court. Also in the heiress, who must make alliances or prevent the queen from surpassing her in influence.
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Secrets that can shake the throne in the House of the Dragon
One of the hardest parts of the chapter Dragon House It was his way of talking about Alicente’s loneliness and the muffled and mournful fury of Viserys’ successor. Both contest power, they fight a miserable struggle between rumors and accusations. But behind all the dialectical diatribe lies something more terrifying. “What you are implying is so serious that I will ask you not to repeat it again,” Viserys mutters, overwhelmed by years and disappointment.
Laenor and Reynira did their duty to their parents and the Seven Kingdoms. At least, that’s how the couple appears to be walking through the halls and corridors of the Red Castle to carry a newborn baby into Alicent’s arms. “You should rest,” he mutters, confused. The heiress grits her teeth and endures the pain stoically. “I will never please him,” she replies furiously. in his footsteps the trail of blood proves that the princess who claims the Iron Throne fulfilled the hereditary contract of succession to the throne.
However, the deceitful promise is broken from origin to Dragon House. The future queen gave birth to three children, and all of them have jet-black hair. “This is a violation of the law, even the very decency,” protests Alicent desperately. But no one listens to her. Just like no one looks into the eyes of Rhaenyra, the mother of the future kings of Westeros. The murmuring becomes more and more indiscreet, direct accusations. The truth is obvious. The next to rule the kingdom will be the bastards.
The open secret in the midst of the ashes
This word is never spoken during a chapter Dragon House, but the illegitimacy of Rainier’s children becomes a weakness. Especially when standing next to him is the commander of the guard and the son of the Hand of the King, Ser Harvin Strong. outside, Laenor, stay away.
The promise of tolerance between the royal couple is fulfilled at the cost of an increasingly obvious scandal at the Red Keep. But when Velaryon’s heir departs, Sir Strong – a formidable presence next to the future queen. The truth is clear to everyone in the court, except for Viserys I, who is increasingly weak, fragile and broken by harsh power.
“Only I see it, otherwise everyone is in a blind sleep,” Alicente says to Ser Christon Cole. The latter, having lost all dignity and restraint, releases the malice of the heiress soaked over a decade, who has taken away the only value of his rank. “The princess has always been a spoiled whore,” he says furiously. Alicente is horrified, but does not contradict him. “The truth is obvious, everyone can see it”.
So much so that Ser Kriston dares to publicly challenge Ser Strong. As Princes Aegon and Aemond Targaryen train their cousins Jakaris and Luceris Velaryon in the use of weapons, Cole provokes a confrontation between the children.. Violent enough that Strong was sure to intervene and prevent Jackeris from being harmed by Aegon’s belligerent enthusiasm.
“No one would protect another in this way if it were not his friend, his brother and his son,” says Ser Christon in the sixth chapter. Dragon House. The provocation is enough to make Strong forget that he is being closely watched by the courtiers. Face shattered by the commander’s rage, Cole smiles. “Which I thought,” he mutters.
In a game of veiled references to the book fire and blood George R. R. Martin, who adapts, chapter six Dragon House go wild with history. For this reason, Ser Lionel the Strong and loyal Hand of the King confronts his son. “You are exposing yourself to a frightening, terrible danger. What they say about you can lead to death,” he reminds her. But the Commander refuses to listen to reason, he resists. “What happened condemns us all,” his father reminds him.
Encouraged by the fading integrity, the Hand of the King decides to retreat. Whether under pressure from the vigilante Alicente, or out of shame, which he can no longer hide, he offers Viserys I to resign. “My judgment is no longer complete,” he admits. Though he can’t explain what clouds his ability to advise the monarch. In the end, the sovereign does not accept the request of his adviser. “I have to take Harwin to the Harrenhal house,” the courtier announces. The king accepts. But the promise of the Hand will return.
Only one green tower in the dark La Casa del Dragon
Alicenta is at the epicenter of a storm of rumors, controversy and constant fear that her children will be killed. “Don’t you understand? You’re dangerous by your very breath,” he cries to his son Aegon. But no one shares his suspicions.
She is also alone on the throne, with Viserys, who will never accuse his daughter of any crime and a terrible judgment. “There is no one to support me here, I am always alone,” she admits Laris Strong, whom she chose as a confidant. The youngest son of La Mano del Rey listens, manipulates, moves pieces in his mind. “That’s not entirely true,” he says with a wry smile.
It is Laris who makes the decision that will change the course of everything that happens. then to Dragon House. Plotting against one’s own blood is a common strategy in Westeros. The youngest of the Strong decides to eradicate the history of his House. With his fragile and quiet gait, he descends into the dungeons. “Guys, you will be hanged tomorrow, right? There will be a pardon if there is a favor for me,” he tells the captives.
Serving no one and loyal to no one, Larys carefully weighs in his mind the next move on the board of pieces. As dangerous as it is final, one that ultimately seals his fate, the fate of his family, and possibly Viserys.
Soon news arrives of the death of the Hand of the King and his son, trapped in the old tower of Harrenhal. Alicent immediately understands who was the architect of the terrible fire that consumed the ancestral home, and those who took refuge there. Laris Strong just looks at her.
“The queen asked for a favor, I just did it.” She is horrified and retreats. “I never asked for this,” he reminds his ambiguous confidante. “Now you owe me a favor,” Laris announces with a crooked self-confident smile. A circle of manipulation closes around the queen, from which it will be difficult to escape.
Ancient dragon, pain causing pain, loneliness
Daemon Targaryen is now the father of three in faraway Pento. He lost strength, momentum, drive and all desire to participate in the power game. Ten years had passed since their battle at the Stone Steps. A whole decade that seems to have satisfied his ambitions and the need to defend his right to the throne. Again and again he insists to his wife Laena Velaryon that he belongs to no one else. That he will not return to the old places, nor to the stories that once haunted him.
But Nothing is easy for Laena Dragon House. A woman capable of riding the rump of Vhagar, the largest and oldest dragon in Westeros, needs her blood. “Rainira has another baby,” he says quietly. “Of course, with the same casual resemblance to the commander,” Damon grins. However, he, like his wife, understands what this means.
Viserys’ already weak succession is more than threatened. For Lena, the decision is obvious. “We must go and be with those of our blood,” she insists, pregnant, sad, agitated. The demon refuses, insisting on staying out of the intrigues of the circle of power. “I’m not interested in anything but just life.”
But the inevitable decision will come with the birth of a third child. Laena screams as she struggles to give birth. However, the maester soon finds that there is little he can do for her. “I’ve exhausted all my resources,” he explains to Damon.preceded by a solution identical to that of its brother. Lena will have to die for the baby to be born. “My poor brave girl,” Damon laments, confused, tired, and ultimately lonely and hopeless.
It is Laena who makes the decision about her life. Standing in front of Vhagar, he opens his arms. “Dracaris,” she screams and dies in an outburst that spares her the insult of being killed to give birth to a child who might not have survived. “Love binds us, holds us, leaves us without a will,” says the voice of Damon, widowed for the second time and now without a purpose to continue.
Dragon fire and a story that never ends
Without a doubt, Targaryen history is unforgiving, and this is demonstrated by Rhaenyra’s decision to leave the court. After forging an unpredictable alliance between his family and his father’s, he decides it’s best to leave the Red Keep. “We should have done this years ago,” he tells Leynor, who is still unaware of her sister’s death.
The future heiress is also unaware of Harvin’s death.. Together they make the only possible decision. It is a departure from power in order to become stronger. At least find a foothold amid the danger of accusations and suspicions.
“Children are frivolous,” the future heiress recalls, standing in front of Dragonstone, the place chosen to escape from the machinations of the throne. She carries her son Joffrey Velaryon in her arms. The little newborn was named after the lost lover his father loved. What has become a symbol of betrayal, which will divide the kingdom.
But so far, the crown princess has just arrived at the ancestral home. “The rest is written in fire,” she whispers, surrounded by her young family at the foot of the place that will see the fall Dragon House in an increasingly near future.
