He is a prolific sailor and adventurer who has traveled all over the world, bringing many riches back home with him. As such the two families are quite close, with Corlys even marrying Princess Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Best).Įven beyond his family’s power, however, Corlys is a particularly impressive man. House Velaryon dates its lineage back to Old Valyria just like the Targaryens. Think of him as House of the Dragon’s Tywin Lannister, that is to say: the most powerful man in the Seven Kingdoms who does not sit on the Iron Throne. Otto Hightower hates him and Viserys himself isn’t too taken by him. He is an excellent warrior but also a bit unbearable. In the war to come, Daemon will be one of the most important players. Daemon (Matt Smith) is the king’s younger brother and therefore Rhaenyra’s uncle. Here we have Daemon and Rhaenyra Targaryen. She appears to have a clear path to the Iron Throne … unless her father does something crazy like say, get remarried. She is Viserys’s only child from his marriage to Queen Aemma of House Arryn. Known as the “Realm’s Delight”, Rhaenyra has a very positive approval rating in the Seven Kingdoms. In fact, for much of her youth she was pretty much the apple of everyone’s eye. This may be the closest this story has to a “main character.” Rhaenyra is the apple of her father King Viserys’s eye.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy). Should someone hypothetically nab that sword in a civil war it would lend an air of legitimacy to their claim. All Targaryen kings through Aegon IV wielded Aegon I’s Valyrian steel sword Blackfyre. The prominent inclusion of Viserys’ sword in this shot might not be a coincidence.
Viserys is grooming her to be Westeros’s ruling monarch despite the precdent of patrilineal succession being set under Jaehaerys’s reign. Viserys’s biggest “sin” is his love of his daughter Rhaenyra. He seems to be doing a decent job but that might just be because his reign followed that of his grandfather Jaehaerys I – perhaps the greatest king Westeros ever had. Viserys I (Paddy Considine) is the fifth king of the Targaryen dynasty. King Viserys IĪh yes, King Viserys I: the head honcho. His daughter is also quite attractive and may or may not catch the eye of King Viserys I. He is a deeply political man who counts the king’s brother Daemon as his biggest rival. Though Otto’s brother is the Lord of Oldtown, Otto has been a mainstay of King’s Landing for years. As such, the Hightower family that rules Oldtown is extremely powerful. In fact, before Aegon I’s arrival on the continent and the creation of King’s Landing, Oldtown was THE city in Westeros. The Hightowers hail from Oldtown in The Reach, one of the biggest and most powerful cities in the Seven Kingdoms. Though we don’t see his face, this character is certainly Ser Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans). Some Hands of the King are more historically significant than others and the House of the Dragon will depict a particularly important one. That is worn by the “Hand of the King” who is essentially the King of the Seven Kingdoms’ chief of staff. House of the Dragon Photos Offer First Look at Thrones Prequel Characters By Alec Bojaladįans of Game of Thrones should immediately recognize the pendant on the chest of this unseen character. Let’s break down exactly what it is we’re seeing here, using Martin’s prequel text Fire & Blood as a guide. Though this teaser is only just over a minute long, it packs quite a bit of exciting imagery within it. As the voiceover in the teaser indicates “Gods, kings, fire, and blood. And those dragons are pretty important, you see. This is when a crisis of succession leads to an enormous civil war that devastates the continent and kills off a large percentage of House Targaryen’s dragons. House of the Dragon is set to cover a major event in Westerosi history known as the Dance of the Dragons. Surely, no petty family squabble over succession could possibly ruin such a great thing! Unfortunately for the Targaryen family, George R.R. They’ve got all the dragons they could want and things are going great in Westeros. The Targaryen dynasty is on its fifth king of the Seven Kingdoms. This story is a prequel that picks up roughly 200 years before the events of the epic HBO series.