![]() "I call it Spiny-Echidna-Chic." Daemon (Matt Smith) and Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock) in House of the Dragon.Įnter: Daemon Targaryen, the King's cheeky - well, cheekbony, anyway - younger brother. Corlys Velaryon (told you!) warns that some of the Free Cities have formed an alliance called the Triarchy, and their admiral - one Craghas Drahar, aka Crabfeeder - is brutally ridding the Stepstones (a string of islands between Westeros and Essos) of pirates. The show puts more of its chess pieces on the board: Queen Aemma is pregnant again, and offers the headstrong Rhaenyra some truly terrible "lie back and think of Westeros" motherly advice. They walk through the same courtyard in the Red Keep that Cersei will turn into a giant Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? board, centuries later. We meet teenaged Rhaenyra and her friend Alicent Hightower, daughter of Otto Hightower, who's the Hand of the King. That's the Dragonpit, where reside the royal family's dragons. ![]() That giant domed building dominating the skyline? That's not the Great Sept of Baelor, which won't be built for years. We may be 172 years in the past, but the servers in HBO's VFX department have had four years of updates since GoT ended, and it shows. We get a dragon's-eye view of King's Landing, which is looking a bit more precisely rendered these days.
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