In the House of the Dragon recap, 10 years have passed and Rhaenyra is attempting to secure her power in King’s Landing but rumors swirl about her children as a rivalry with Alicent continues to fester….
By Damon Martin — Editor/Lead Writer
It would be easy to understand how the latest episode of House of the Dragon might be a bit confusing, especially since about half the cast was different thanks to another massive time jump.
Another 10 years have passed since the events in the previous episode where Rhaenyra Targaryen was wed to Laenor Velaryon — a union between the only two remaining houses from Old Valyria — but the ceremony only came after some truly heinous acts were carried out.
Realizing that his indiscretion with Princess Rhaenyra was known to more than just a few people, Criston Cole decided to take it upon himself to savagely beat and kill the man stupid enough to suggest a partnership between them since they all harbored such nasty secrets. The man was Joffrey Lonmouth — the Knight of Kisses as he was called — who was secretly the lover of Laenor Velaryon.
Joffrey ended up pounded into a bloody mush on the floor of the Red Keep with Ser Criston ready to take his own life as a result of dishonoring his post as a member of the Kingsguard (they all take a vow of celibacy when joining the order). Just before Ser Criston plunged a knife into his own belly, Queen Alicent Hightower called for him to stop — thus saving his life while also shifting his alliances from loving Rhaenyra to serving her greatest enemy.
This week’s episode also introduces a lot of children so it will be rather easy to get them confused, especially considering the sheer number of kids running around. Rhaenyra ultimately has her third child to start the episode, Alicent has sired more children with King Viserys and Daemon Targaryen has even managed to welcome twin daughters into the world after he married Laena Velaryon.
It’s a lot to keep straight but we’ll dig into all of those new characters as well as the tragic events that will start to spark the fire for what will be remembered as one of the deadliest wars in the history of the Seven Kingdoms.
With that said, let’s get to our full recap for the latest episode of House of the Dragon titled The Princess and the Queen…
The Children of the Dragon
The episode begins with Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen giving birth to her third son — after already having two more boys named Jacaerys and Lucerys. In episodes to come, Jacaerys will be better known as Jace while Lucerys goes by Luke.
The third child born to the heir to the Iron Throne has dark hair and fair skin — a trait not shared by their father, Laenor Velaryon, and a fact that has never escaped Queen Alicent Hightower. In fact, just moments after Rhaenyra is given birth, she’s summoned to the Queen’s chambers where she’s expected to bring her child to meet his step-grandmother.
Rather than brush off the request or demand the Queen come to her chambers, Rhaenyra rises from her birthing bed and gets dressed even as the afterbirth is still fresh in her womb. As she exits her chamber with the baby in hand, Rhaenyra is finally joined by Laenor, who appears happy if not surprised to learn that he has another “son.”
Despite struggling to walk much less go up the stairs, Rhaenyra refuses to show weakness as she approaches the Queen’s chambers where Ser Criston Cole stands outside as her sworn protector. His allegiances have completely shifted after falling in love with Rhaenyra yet being rejected after asking her to run away with him to get married and leave Westeros forever.
Rhaenyra refused and now Ser Criston has pledged himself to the Queen instead.
Inside, Queen Alicent greets her former friend and now stepdaughter while taking a vested interest in the hair color of the child just born. She notices the brown hair and makes a snide remark to Laenor that if he keeps trying, perhaps one of these children will eventually look like him.
Of course, Queen Alicent knows deep down that Laenor has no interest in having sex with his wife because he’s gay but the three children born to Rhaenyra all have brown hair, which means she’s still taking someone into her bed — it’s just not her husband.
The rumors swirling around Princess Rhaenyra is that all of her children are actually bastards born out of wedlock through an affair with Ser Harwin Strong — aka Harwin Breakbones, the fierce knight who rescued a fallen Rhaenyra during the last episode when the fight broke out between Criston Cole and Joffrey Lonmouth.
Harwin is the heir to House Strong and the castle at Harrenhal but these days he’s serving as the Commander of the City Watch.
As for King Viserys, he’s grown old and much weaker but he’s still a doting grandfather when he meets his latest grandson, who Laenor announces will be named Joffrey. The name surprises Rhaenyra but it’s too late to argue with her husband, especially given the control she obviously exerts over him and their relationship.
Back in her chambers, Rhaenyra is greeted by her two older sons — Jace and Luke — who have just returned from the Dragon Pit with a new dragon egg to give to their brother. They were escorted by Ser Harwin, who continues to look after the boys as if they are his own (because they are).
The older boys are told to return to the Dragon Pit while Laenor is also dismissed so Harwin can spend some time with Joffrey and his mother. It’s the only time when Harwin gets to see his children even if they can never been claimed as his own.
At the Dragon Pit, Jace and Luke are joined by their uncles — Aegon II Targaryen and Aemond Targaryen — as all four of them have been brought up together while also forging relationships with their dragons. The lesson today is for Jace to continue bonding with his young dragon Vermax, who is quickly growing in size and learning to take commands from the young Targaryen prince.
After feeding a lamb to his dragon, Jace is pleased with his progression to bond with Vermax while young Aemond is noticeably despondent when compared to his brother and nephews. You see, Aemond is the only one of them whose dragon egg never hatched and so he’s never been able to bond with one of the great beasts.
It’s something that his brother Aegon and the others taunt him about as Aemond is presented with a “dragon” of his own when a huge pig is brought up from the dragon pit as his relatives laugh at him. Determined to find a dragon of his own, Aemond wanders deeper into the Dragon Pit where he’s finally confronted by another dragon that breathes fire and chases the young boy out of the dark den.
Back in the queen’s chambers, Alicent sits with her daughter Helaena, who is vastly intrigued by insects as she expects a worm and notes that it has eyes but cannot see. When a knight returns Aemond to his mother, she’s angry that he once again risked his own life with this constant obsession to bond with a dragon after the egg he was given at birth didn’t hatch.
Aemond then tells his mother about the trick with the pig that his brother and nephews played on him and Alicent attempts to console the boy by promising that he will ride a dragon one day. In the background, Helaena can be heard saying “he’ll have to close an eye” — and that’s brief bit of language should perhaps be taken as prophecy rather than the meanderings of a princess talking about her insects.
The Queen then goes to visit her husband, who is still toiling away on his giant recreation of Old Valyria and he doesn’t seem to think too much about the boys taunting Aemond about not having a dragon. Boys will be boys after all but Alicent thinks it’s an injustice — and she once again raises the question about the legitimacy of Rhaenyra’s children, none of which look anything like their father.
King Viserys tells his wife that he once had a great silver mare, who was accidentally bred with a dark stallion and the foals she gave birth to where unremarkably brown. In other words, where nature is concerned, nothing is guaranteed or certain.
Still, Alicent refuses to believe that Rhaenyra’s children actually belong to Laenor — and she’s obviously questioning their legitimacy because as it stands, Jacaerys will serve as the next in the line of succession after his mother inherits the Iron Throne.
As she leaves the King’s chambers, Alicent vents to Ser Criston Cole, who has turned completely icy towards the princess he once loved so much. Both Alicent and Criston refuse to believe that the King doesn’t know his grandsons are actually bastards born of an affair with Ser Harwin Strong.
Ser Criston continues to lash out at Rhaenyra before calling her a “spoiled cunt” — an insult that even catches the attention of Queen Alicent before the knight apologizes. Criston is the definition of a lover scorned and he’s taking out his frustrations by turning against Rhaenyra while aligning himself with Alicent Hightower and her agenda.
Finally, Alicent arrives at the room of her eldest son, Aegon, who is currently standing naked at the edge of his window masturbating for all the world to see. When his mother interrupts him, Aegon falls down to his bed, covers up rather quickly as she confronts him about the incident involving his younger brother at the Dragon Pit.
Of course, Aegon says it was all Jace and Luke’s idea to parade a pig in front of Aemond to taunt him that he doesn’t have a dragon. As we see in the episode, Jace has bonded with Vermax, his younger brother Luke has bonded with his dragon Arrax and Aegon himself has a dragon named Sunfyre.
Aegon doesn’t think much of his younger brother — calling him a twat in front of his mother — but Alicent quickly reminds him that he needs to stay close to his siblings, especially given the current line of succession in the Seven Kingdoms. She tells Aegon that as it stands, Rhaenyra will eventually become queen and Jacaerys will be her heir but as King Viserys’ oldest son, he remains a potential obstacle in her way after his father perishes.
It’s clear that Alicent is already attempting to sow the seeds of distrust among her sons and Rhaenyra’s children because she ultimately wants Aegon to sit on the Iron Throne once King Viserys dies. Until this moment it appears Aegon couldn’t care less about his eventual role but his mother refuses to let him concede the chance to become king even if his stepsister Rhaenyra has long since been promised as the heir to the Iron Throne.
A Prince Without a Kingdom
From there we travel to Pentos where Prince Daemon Targaryen and his wife Lady Laena Velaryon are flying their dragons and impressing the people who have gathered to see them. The last episode established a flirtation between Daemon and his cousin Laena and now 10 years later, they are married and have twin daughters — Baela and Rhaena.
At dinner, Daemon and Laena are praised by their host Prince Reggio as he toasts to Aegon the Conqueror, who once aided Pentos in another battle and now he’s calling on the Targaryens to come to their aid again.
It seems the Triarchy — the same faction that Daemon battled at the Stepstones earlier in the season — have once again started to gain power but this time there’s rumor that they’ve possibly teamed up with Qoren Martell, the Prince of Dorne and the ruler of Sunspear. The Triarchy itself is a trio of free cities — Myr, Lys and Tyrosh — who banded together to try and win the Stepstones in an attempt to secure shipping lanes that would hopefully yield them great power and riches.
Their defeat more than a decade ago at the hands of Daemon Targaryen and Lord Corlys Velaryon left them beaten but not broken. Now it appears they are ready to rise up again, this time with Prince Qoren backing them and it’s only a matter of time before they turn north towards other free cities like Pentos.
A quick reminder about Dorne — despite being named as part of the Seven Kingdoms, it was a region that not even Aegon the Conqueror could command. He tried desperately to claim Dorne as his own but the warriors from the region were too smart to engage in open battle with his dragons, which made the fight that much harder to win. In fact, Rhaenys — one of Aegon’s sister wives — gave her life during the battle with Dorne as she fell to her death on the back of her dragon Meraxes after it was struck with by a scorpion (the same giant crossbow weapon that Cersei uses against Daenerys’ dragons in Game of Thrones) before falling to the ground.
Despite never actually defeating Dorne, Aegon’s hubris would never allow him to believe he didn’t capture all of Westeros so thus he called breadth of his domain the Seven Kingdoms even though technically he only ruled over six.
Back to dinner — Daemon and Laena are offered a castle, lands, farms and even tenants who will pay taxes to their new Targaryen lords. All this so Pentos will have protection from multiple dragons just in case the Triarchy and Dorne ever decide to invade.
While Laena quickly brushes off the suggestion, Daemon gives pause and promises that they’ll consider the offer. By this point, Daemon has been passed over in the line of succession, fallen out with his brother on multiple occasions and he’s essentially a man without a kingdom.
The show completely skipped over the aftermath of the royal wedding from the last episode when Daemon teased his intentions of traveling to the Eyrie and the Vale of Arryn to claim Runestone as his own kingdom following the death of his first wife, Rhea Royce. In the books, Daemon does travel there to stake his claim but his inheritance is rebuffed with great prejudice by Lady Jeyne Arryn, who ultimately hands over rule to one of Rhea’s nephews while telling Daemon to leave and never return to the Vale.
Now with no kingdom of his own, Daemon can’t help but wonder if perhaps starting a new life on Pentos might actually be the best path for his family.
None of this sits well with Laena, who is pregnant with her third child and she wants to return home to Driftmark to give birth. She knows their place is back in Westeros and the fact that Daemon spends his nights reading book after book about the history of the Seven Kingdoms only strengthens her belief that her husband wants the same thing even if he continues to deny it.
Laena tells Daemon that she misses her brother — a feeling she’s confident he shares since he’s been estranged from King Viserys for the past decade. Still, Daemon persists that perhaps they’d be better off staying in Pentos where they will be treated as royalty without the petty political battles that plague every king to ever sit on the Iron Throne.
Still, Laena refuses to believe that she will spend the rest of her days in Pentos.
She also spends time with her daughter Rhaena, who much like her cousin Aemond, has yet to have a dragon born to her like her slightly older twin sister, Baela. Laena attempts to console her daughter by reminding her that she didn’t bond with a dragon until she was 15 years old and that’s when she bonded with Vhagar — the oldest and largest living dragon in the Seven Kingdoms.
Vhagar once belonged to Queen Visenya Targaryen — one of Aegon the Conqueror’s sister wives — before eventually passing down Baelon Targaryen, who was father to King Viserys. When he passed, Vhagar eventually ended up with Laena. It’s worth remembering Vhagar as the series moves forward.
Some days later, Laena ends up going into labor with her child but there are difficulties with the baby being born and the maester seeing to her realizes that drastic measures must be taken. He tells Daemon that he can cut the baby loose but that will come at the cost of its mother — the identical situation that Viserys faced with his first wife Aemma that Daemon later mocked after the baby died.
In this instance, Daemon refuses to sacrifice his wife so the baby is stillborn but it’s a tragedy that Laena cannot suffer, especially as she continues to struggle in the wake of giving birth. So rather than allowing her health to diminish, Laena walks out into the courtyard where she commands Vhagar to give her a dragon rider’s death.
In other words, Laena asks for the dragon to burn her alive.
Vhagar resists at first no matter how many times Laena commands the dragon with the word “dracarys” but just as Daemon realizes what’s happening and he tries to intervene, the beast finally unleashes its fire. Laena is burned to ash in a matter of seconds as Daemon watches his wife die before his eyes.
In the books, Laena actually just gets sick after giving birth to a stillborn child and she passes away a few days later. The show obviously gave her a more dramatic death with Vhagar burning her alive.
With that, Daemon is once again alone in the world except this time he’s got twin daughters who rely on him but he’s still a man without a kingdom.
Burning Down the House
Back in King’s Landing, Ser Criston Cole is overseeing the training of Aegon, Aemond, Jacaerys and Lucerys as all four boys learn to use swords. Aegon seems more interested in the women walking through the courtyard as he chops away at a dummy with his sword.
Criston decides to offer them a little more hands on training as Harwin Strong makes his way into the courtyard to watch the training session. Criston tells Aegon and Aemond to team together to see if they can land a single strike against him.
Up on the deck, King Viserys looks down on his sons and grandsons while telling his Hand of the King, Lyonel Strong, that he believes this will be the beginning of a lifelong bond between them. It’s clear Lyonel isn’t as certain.
After Aegon and Aemond fail to land anything on Ser Criston, Harwin asks him why he seems to be only paying attention to the King’s children and not those belonging to his future Queen Rhaenyra. Criston responds by telling Jacaerys to spar with Aegon, who is much older and taller, thus giving him quite the physical advantage.
The sparring match goes as you’d expect — Aegon gets the better of Jaecerys but the young prince refuses to concede as he comes swinging back at his opponent after being knocked to the ground. With Criston coaching him, Aegon gains the upper hand again before kicking Jaecerys back to the floor where he’s instructed to continue so his opponent can’t get to his feet again.
With Jaecerys all but defenseless, Harwin has seen enough as he yanks Aegon off the boy and shucks him aside. Aegon shouts at Harwin for daring to put his hands on a prince while King Viserys shouts down at his son to calm himself.
Ser Criston Cole has another agenda — one suggested to him by Queen Alicent that will get Harwin Strong to reveal his true feelings about the boys who are called sons to Laenor Velaryon.
“Your interest in the princeling’s training is quite unusual, Commander. Most men would only have that kind of devotion to a cousin or a brother or a son.”
~ Ser Criston Cole
That last jab is more than enough for Harwin Breakbones to live up to his nickname as he punches Criston and sends him crashing to the ground. Harwin follows up with several more punches as Criston refuses to fight back before other gold cloaks come to pull the Commander off his fallen foe. As Criston spits out blood, he snickers while remarking to himself “thought as much.”
It’s not long before Rhaenyra hears about the incident in the yard and she goes to find Harwin but instead finds her lover verbally sparring with his father over the attack on Ser Criston. While Harwin can’t stomach that a son of a steward would dare insult him much less the future Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, Lyonel knows this is just one step too far.
For years, Lyonel has turned his back to the fact that Harwin was carrying on an affair with Princess Rhaenyra while fathering all three of her children but the rumors and innuendos are too much to ignore any further, especially after this latest incident. Lyonel knows that he has to get Harwin away from King’s Landing and the temptation he faces with Rhaenyra and her children.
Back in her quarters, Rhaenyra is soon joined by her wayward husband Laenor, who has now found a new paramour in a knight named Qarl Correy. They’ve been out drinking and celebrating as Laenor continues to live a life of luxury without any real responsibility to the title he maintains as king consort.
Rhaenyra quickly dismisses Qarl so she can speak to her husband alone.
Laenor is all too excited to tell her about the new battle in the Stepstones where Qarl has been fighting and now he wishes to join the battle himself. Laenor was central during the fighting in the original War of the Stepstones and he wants to go back there now despite the accusations being lobbed at his family and the brewing rivalry with his wife and Queen Alicent Hightower.
That’s more than enough for Rhaenyra to remind her husband of his duties, especially at a time like this. She commands him to stay by her side in King’s Landing while reminding Laenor that he’s faced no burden while serving with her — she’s allowed him to continue screwing whoever he wants and doing whatever he pleases but now that he’s actually needed, he wants to leave.
Well, that’s not happening.
Later during a small council meeting, a discussion is being had about a dispute in Riverrun that Queen Alicent dismisses as nothing more than a local problem that doesn’t deserve the King’s attention. Princess Rhaenyra disagrees while reminding her stepmother than the Brackens and the Blackwoods will look for any excuse to fight each other, which will only draw more blood and death. That could escalate the situation into something much more dire so Rhaenyra suggests intervening now before things get out of hand.
From there, Tyland Lannister brings up the latest fights in the Stepstones where the Triarchy is once again gaining power now backed by a Dornish prince and the shipping lanes are at risk again. King Viserys never wanted to get involved in the first War of the Stepstones but he ultimately backed his brother in the fight.
Now 10 years later, Daemon has all but abandoned the region and the Stepstones are once again at risk of being overrun by a foreign invader. Rhaenyra believes the kingdom has no one to blame but themselves for not taking better care of the region after Daemon’s victory.
She believes watchtowers should have been built and a fleet with armies should have been patrolling the Stepstones this entire time but alas nothing was done and now another fight is imminent. Queen Alicent counters by saying that the crown has plenty of gold in its coffers but not enough to send that many men and ships to watch over the Stepstones — and then Rhaenyra reminds her how much more it would cost if they have to fight a war over the region.
The conversation doesn’t get resolved but he meeting is at an end until Rhaenyra stands to address the Small Council.
She confesses to the tensions that have been escalating between herself and Queen Alicent before apologizing for anything she may have done to offend her stepmother. Rhaenyra then reminds everyone that this is still one family bonded together by fire and blood.
As such, Rhaenyra believes the best course of action would be another bond to tie them together even further. She proposes that her eldest son Jacaerys, who will eventually succeed her to sit on the Iron Throne, should marry Helaena — the only daughter of King Viserys and Alicent Hightower.
In marriage, they will rule together and forge the two sides of House Targaryen forever.
After the meeting ends, Alicent tells her husband that she will not marry her daughter to Rhaenyra’s bastard son. Whether the King wants to admit it or not, Rhaenyra’s children belong to Harwin Strong and she refuses to consider Jacaerys as the true heir to the Iron Throne.
When they return to his chambers, King Viserys is visited by his Hand, Lyonel Strong, who arrives to hand over his resignation. Lyonel feels that what his son Harwin did by assaulting Criston Cole was a great offense and as a result, he wants to resign his position as Hand of the King.
This looks like just the opening that Alicent has wanted to bring her father, Otto Hightower, back into the service of the King but Viserys refuses to accept the resignation. He praises Lyonel for his council and unyielding loyalty — but more than anything he appreciates that his Hand of the King has never fought for his own personal gain but rather just for the good of the Seven Kingdoms.
With that, King Viserys tells Lyonel that he will remain Hand of the King.
Lyonel graciously accepts but asks King Viserys to leave King’s Landing for a time so he can return to his kingdom at Harrenhal where he will take his son Harwin so they can begin to prepare for a transition of power. As the eldest son in House Strong, Harwin would be expected to become the Lord of Harrenhall anyways but now that he’s been expelled as the Commander of the City Watch, Lyonel believes now it’s time that his son take his place at home.
King Viserys grants him leave to take Harwin to Harrenhal where he’s expected to stay and rule.
That forces Harwin to say goodbye to Rhaenyra and his children even if they can never be his in name. It’s a sad and somber moment between father and sons as Harwin prepares to return to Harrenhal.
Afterwards, Jacaerys finally confronts his mother about her relationship with Harwin while asking if that’s really his father — is he truly a bastard? Rhaenyra answers by assuring her son that more than anything he’s a Targaryen who will one day sit on the Iron Throne and that’s all that matters.
From there, Rhaenyra returns to the courtyard to speak with her husband to tell him that the constant battles, infighting and rumors have finally gotten to be too much. She knows it’s time to leave King’s Landing and return to Dragonstone where she serves as Princess. While Laenor reminds her that the whole reason they stayed was to prevent Alicent from gaining even more influence over her father, Rhaenyra can no longer stay where she’s potentially putting her entire family at danger.
With that, Rhaenyra, Laenor (along with Qarl) and the rest of their family return to Dragonstone where they will consolidate their power far away from the prying eyes and allegations of Queen Alicent.
As for the Queen, she returns to her own chambers where she finds Larys Strong — aka Larys Clubfoot — awaiting her for dinner. Remember, Larys is the one who suggested to Alicent that Rhaenyra was lying about her sexual encounter and he’s putting himself into a potential position of power where he really has none.
As the younger son of Lyonel Strong, he won’t ever become Lord of Harrenhal and thanks to his mangled foot, he’ll never be a great warrior. But Larys has ambitions and now he has the queen’s ear.
She laments about Lyonel Strong staying on as Hand of the King while his son Harwin has now sired three bastard sons with Rhaenyra. Alicent wishes that her father had remaind Hand of the King because he wouldn’t hesitate to tell the King the truth, no matter how much he doesn’t want to see it.
Of course even Larys knows that neither his father Lyonel or Otto Hightower would be truly impartial because both have a vested interest in who ends up sitting on the Iron Throne. Still, Alicent wishes her father could return to serve as Hand because then at least she’d finally have an ally in her constant fight to expose Rhaenyra with hopes that it could eventually lead to her son Aegon sitting on the Iron Throne.
Larys takes the Queen’s words to heart as he visits the dungeons in King’s Landing where he meets several men — murderers, rapists and thieves — who are all set to be put to death. He offers them reprieve under a couple of conditions — the first of which involves cutting off their tongues so they can never speak about what will happen next.
After Lyonel Strong and his son Harwin arrive at Harrenhal to begin the transition of power, the men acting under instructions from Larys arrive at the long cursed castle.
Remember Harrenhal is the castle that was built by Harren the Black — a man who craved power so much that he built this monstrosity under the believe that the towers and walls were so high that nobody could ever conquer it. That changed when Aegon flew in on the back of his dragon, Balerion the Dread and literally melted stone with fire.
Harren died inside, burned alive from the flames cast upon his great castle by Aegon the Conqueror.
Ever since that time, Harrenhal has been considered a cursed kingdom and over the years just about every Lord of the castle had their life ended by one kind of tragedy or another. In Game of Thrones, Petyr Baelish is actually crowned Lord of Harrenhal by Joffrey Baratheon after he helps to orchestrate a partnership between the Lannisters and the Tyrells.
The night after the Strong family arrives, a fire breaks out in the castle — set by the criminals hired by Larys Strong — and many lives are lost. Among them are Lyonel Strong and Harwin Strong, both cut down by the flames that consume the castle.
The next day when word reaches King’s Landing about the fate that Lyonel and Harwin Strong have suffered, Queen Alicent returns to her chambers to find a smug and proud Larys waiting there for her. He confesses to having his own father and brother killed — an order he passed along at the instruction of his queen.
Alicent tells Larys that this isn’t what she wanted but he read between the lines when she suggested that her life would be that much easier if her father returned to serve as Hand of the King. Now he tells her that path has been cleared and she should write to Otto to ask him to come back to King’s Landing where he can once again serve at Viserys’ side.
Larys: “The Queen makes a wish. What servant of the realm would not strive to fulfill it? I assume you will write to your father now?
Queen Alicent: “Larys, I did not wish for this.”
Larys: “I feel certain you will reward me when the time is right.”
Larys is nothing if not cutting and ambitious and now he’s put himself in a position where he’s both ingratiated himself to Queen Alicent while also making her loyal to him by suggesting that she’s the one who wanted Lyonel and Harwin Strong to die. As teased in past recaps, Larys is a person to continue watching as he grows in influence and power — and we also know now just how dangerous he can be if he’s willing to sacrifice his own father and brother to get what he wants.
It won’t be long before news gets back to Rhaenyra what has happened to Harwin and it probably won’t take her much to figure out who exactly struck the match to that deadly fire.
“House of the Dragon” returns next Sunday night at 9 p.m. ET on HBO for a brand new episode.
