We’ve been excitedly getting all the brand-new info we can hop on House of the Dragon, the highly-anticipated Game of Thrones prequel, because the spin-off series was revealed back in December 2020 (also known as. the craziest Christmas we’ve ever before had thanks to the pandemic).
The 10-episode collection is motivated by among George R. R. Martin’s initial publications, Fire and also Blood, as well as is readied to happen 300 years prior to Game of Thrones, taking a look at the powers of the Targaryen dynasty.
It especially focuses in on the Dance of the Dragons, a brutal civil war that tore Westeros apart some 200 years prior to the story we know, after there’s difference over whether the Iron Throne need to most likely to Rhaenyra Targaryen, the oldest child of King Viserys Targaryen; or his son Aegon Targaryen.And though several
have actually called the storyline’s main motif as concentrating on”brother or sister rivalry, “what it really is, ultimately, is a tale about women, as well as we enjoy a story about ladies. It’s concerning two females that might have been family and were rather pit versus each other, as well as who bled the Seven Kingdoms dry. It’s the tale of the take on females who combated, notified, worked out, passed away, as well as crucially, endured. It is the facility, complex, nuanced tale of ladies who won and females that lost.
The question is, who are the powerful new female personalities in the collection that we require to learn about? Well, inquiry say goodbye to, because we’re regarding to chat you via ’em.
Rhaenyra Targaryen
Rhaenyra, a distant auntie of Daenerys according to their – extremely challenging – ancestral tree, is the ‘Realm’s Delight’ and also brushed to be queen from a young age. The only surviving kid of King Viserys I and Queen Aemma Arryn (that was additionally a Targaryen on her mommy’s side) and is bright, lovely and reveals unlimited assurance. Basically, she’s a triple-threat.