1 00:02:30,317 --> 00:02:32,235 There you are. 2 00:02:41,870 --> 00:02:44,873 The sea snake is going to die, isnthe? 3 00:02:47,668 --> 00:02:50,754 - Luke... - I can't be lord of the tides. 4 00:02:50,837 --> 00:02:53,423 Grandsire was the greatest sailor who ever lived. 5 00:02:53,507 --> 00:02:56,385 I get greensick before the ship even leaves the harbor. 6 00:02:57,094 --> 00:02:58,387 I'll just ruin everything. 7 00:03:00,055 --> 00:03:01,682 I don't want driftmark. 8 00:03:02,474 --> 00:03:04,059 It should've passed on to servaemond. 9 00:03:04,142 --> 00:03:07,312 We don't choose our destiny, Luke. It chooses us. 10 00:03:07,396 --> 00:03:10,399 Grandsire let you choose whether you'd be his heir. 11 00:03:11,358 --> 00:03:12,567 You told us so. 12 00:03:17,114 --> 00:03:20,033 And do you want to know the truth of it? 13 00:03:22,786 --> 00:03:24,079 I was frightened. 14 00:03:25,831 --> 00:03:29,209 I was four-and-ten. 15 00:03:29,292 --> 00:03:30,377 Same as you are now. 16 00:03:31,837 --> 00:03:35,716 I wasn't ready to be queen of the seven kingdoms. 17 00:03:36,049 --> 00:03:39,261 But it was my duty. 18 00:03:39,344 --> 00:03:41,888 And, in time, I came to understand 19 00:03:41,972 --> 00:03:44,266 I had to earn my inheritance. 20 00:03:46,059 --> 00:03:47,644 I'm not like you. 21 00:03:47,728 --> 00:03:50,063 - In what way, sweet boy? - I'm not so... 22 00:03:52,816 --> 00:03:53,817 Perfect. 23 00:04:03,827 --> 00:04:05,454 I am anything but. 24 00:04:07,122 --> 00:04:11,042 My father looked after me and helped to prepare me for my duties. 25 00:04:11,126 --> 00:04:14,254 Your mother will do the same for you. 26 00:04:15,338 --> 00:04:16,673 Good morrow, Princess. 27 00:04:16,757 --> 00:04:17,924 Good morrow, ser lorent. 28 00:04:19,718 --> 00:04:22,262 Princess rhaenys has just arrived on dragonback. 29 00:04:22,345 --> 00:04:25,056 She urgently requests an audience with you and prince daemon. 30 00:04:43,325 --> 00:04:45,577 The Princess rhaenys Targaryen. 31 00:04:45,660 --> 00:04:46,745 Thank you, ser lorent. 32 00:04:51,124 --> 00:04:52,918 Princess rhaenys, 33 00:04:53,001 --> 00:04:55,712 might we hope for news of lord corlys's recovery? 34 00:04:55,796 --> 00:04:57,005 Viserys is dead. 35 00:05:03,512 --> 00:05:06,181 I grieve this loss with you, rhaenyra. 36 00:05:06,264 --> 00:05:09,142 My cousin, your father... 37 00:05:10,852 --> 00:05:12,312 Possessed a kind heart. 38 00:05:23,615 --> 00:05:24,866 There is more. 39 00:05:26,785 --> 00:05:28,870 Aegon has been crowned as his successor. 40 00:05:36,253 --> 00:05:37,629 They crowned him? 41 00:05:39,714 --> 00:05:42,050 How did viserys die? 42 00:05:42,133 --> 00:05:43,260 I could not say. 43 00:05:44,511 --> 00:05:46,555 - How long ago? - A day past, perhaps two. 44 00:05:46,638 --> 00:05:49,534 I was made a prisoner in my quarters while the queen made her preparations. 45 00:05:49,558 --> 00:05:50,809 Viserys has been slain. 46 00:05:52,686 --> 00:05:56,773 Alicent demanded you declare for aegon. 47 00:05:58,608 --> 00:05:59,818 She did. 48 00:06:02,445 --> 00:06:04,698 - I refused her. - And yet you are alive. 49 00:06:08,201 --> 00:06:10,579 The high septon crowned aegon... 50 00:06:10,662 --> 00:06:11,848 In the dragonpit. 51 00:06:11,872 --> 00:06:14,958 I witnessed it myself just before I fled on meleys. 52 00:06:15,041 --> 00:06:18,295 They crowned him before the masses. 53 00:06:18,378 --> 00:06:20,773 So that the masses would see him as their rightful king. 54 00:06:20,797 --> 00:06:24,050 That whore of a queen murdered my brother and stole his throne. 55 00:06:24,134 --> 00:06:25,774 And you could have burned them all for it. 56 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,931 A war is like to be fought over this treachery, to be sure. 57 00:06:31,141 --> 00:06:32,141 Hmm. 58 00:06:33,894 --> 00:06:36,855 But that war is not mine to begin. 59 00:06:37,522 --> 00:06:38,857 I only rushed this warning to you 60 00:06:38,940 --> 00:06:41,902 out of loyalty to my husband and to my house. 61 00:06:43,612 --> 00:06:45,655 The Greens are coming for you, rhaenyra. 62 00:06:46,907 --> 00:06:48,116 And for your children. 63 00:06:50,076 --> 00:06:52,037 You should leave dragonstone at once. 64 00:07:12,599 --> 00:07:13,642 The babe is coming. 65 00:07:21,816 --> 00:07:23,610 Her term is far from complete. 66 00:07:23,693 --> 00:07:25,379 This should not be happening. 67 00:07:25,403 --> 00:07:27,739 It is fucking happening. 68 00:07:29,324 --> 00:07:31,868 Keep your head about you, Princess. Come. 69 00:07:33,036 --> 00:07:35,622 We've done this five times before. 70 00:07:35,705 --> 00:07:38,124 Keep your spirit, and the sixth will be no different. 71 00:07:38,208 --> 00:07:40,627 Get off, get off, get off, get off! 72 00:07:40,710 --> 00:07:43,421 Ow, ow, ow. 73 00:07:46,841 --> 00:07:48,694 I want patrols along the island's perimeter, 74 00:07:48,718 --> 00:07:51,096 looking for any small ships that might set ashore. 75 00:07:52,263 --> 00:07:55,058 If the Greens attack now, it will be by stealth... 76 00:07:55,141 --> 00:07:56,577 Not directly. 77 00:07:56,601 --> 00:07:58,481 We don't have enough men to surround the island, 78 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:01,106 but we can make ourselves appear stronger than they are. 79 00:08:04,693 --> 00:08:06,987 Conscript the dragonkeepers. They're capable fighters. 80 00:08:07,070 --> 00:08:09,489 - Waste no time. - It will be done, my prince. 81 00:08:21,584 --> 00:08:25,046 - What was that? - I'm sorry. 82 00:08:25,714 --> 00:08:27,674 You might go easier 83 00:08:27,757 --> 00:08:29,426 on him, my prince, 84 00:08:29,509 --> 00:08:31,845 so he can learn what you're trying to teach. 85 00:08:31,928 --> 00:08:34,472 Your lady mother needs to see you! 86 00:08:36,349 --> 00:08:38,143 Both of you. 87 00:08:39,352 --> 00:08:40,895 Mother? 88 00:08:43,940 --> 00:08:44,941 Fuck. 89 00:08:47,819 --> 00:08:48,820 Princess. 90 00:08:59,289 --> 00:09:02,709 Your grandsire, king viserys, has passed. 91 00:09:02,792 --> 00:09:04,169 Viserys? 92 00:09:04,252 --> 00:09:07,130 The Greens have repudiated the succession 93 00:09:07,213 --> 00:09:08,923 and claimed the iron throne. 94 00:09:13,053 --> 00:09:14,763 Aegon has been crowned king. 95 00:09:16,264 --> 00:09:18,975 - What is to be done about it? - Nothing yet. 96 00:09:19,059 --> 00:09:21,728 - And where is daemon? - I don't know. 97 00:09:21,811 --> 00:09:23,354 Gone to madness. 98 00:09:25,482 --> 00:09:26,733 Gone to plot his war. 99 00:09:28,234 --> 00:09:30,862 - Leave daemon with me. - Jace. 100 00:09:31,738 --> 00:09:32,781 Jacaerys. 101 00:09:38,495 --> 00:09:42,123 Whatever claim remains to me, you are now its heir. 102 00:09:42,624 --> 00:09:45,126 Naught is to be done but by my command. 103 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:01,744 A raven flew in this morning. 104 00:10:01,768 --> 00:10:05,021 The sea snake's fever has broken, and he has left evenfall. 105 00:10:05,105 --> 00:10:08,566 - Where is he sailing? - That much is unclear, my prince. 106 00:10:08,650 --> 00:10:10,443 We'll send ravens to our nearest allies, 107 00:10:10,527 --> 00:10:13,029 lords darklyn, massey... 108 00:10:13,822 --> 00:10:15,824 - And bar emmon. - Daemon! 109 00:10:16,991 --> 00:10:19,410 Do you want to speak to the maester, my prince? 110 00:10:28,002 --> 00:10:29,480 I'll fly to the riverlands myself 111 00:10:29,504 --> 00:10:30,839 and affirm lord Tully's support. 112 00:10:30,922 --> 00:10:31,965 You will do no such thing. 113 00:10:35,260 --> 00:10:38,304 My mother has decreed no action be taken while she's Abed. 114 00:10:44,644 --> 00:10:46,938 It's good you're here, young prince. 115 00:10:48,106 --> 00:10:50,191 You're needed to patrol the skies on vermax. 116 00:10:50,275 --> 00:10:51,276 Did you hear what I said? 117 00:10:55,864 --> 00:10:57,282 The ravens, lord bartimos. 118 00:10:59,617 --> 00:11:00,785 I shall see it done. 119 00:11:00,869 --> 00:11:02,370 Summon ser steffon. 120 00:11:02,453 --> 00:11:05,081 Our kingsguard are needed on the dragonmont. 121 00:11:05,707 --> 00:11:08,334 Come with me. I'll show you the true meaning of loyalty. 122 00:11:16,342 --> 00:11:18,928 You swore an oath as knights of the kingsguard. 123 00:11:19,012 --> 00:11:21,181 As do all who wear the white cloak, my prince. 124 00:11:23,057 --> 00:11:24,267 To whom? 125 00:11:25,476 --> 00:11:29,314 I swore first to king jaehaerys, my prince. 126 00:11:29,397 --> 00:11:30,607 And then to his grace, 127 00:11:30,690 --> 00:11:32,901 king viserys, when he succeeded him. 128 00:11:32,984 --> 00:11:35,111 Do you acknowledge the true line of succession? 129 00:11:35,945 --> 00:11:37,739 - Yes. - Yes, my prince. 130 00:11:44,370 --> 00:11:46,414 Do you recall 131 00:11:46,497 --> 00:11:49,042 who king viserys named as his heir before his death? 132 00:11:52,587 --> 00:11:53,588 Princess rhaenyra. 133 00:11:56,466 --> 00:11:57,466 Hmm. 134 00:11:58,426 --> 00:12:00,470 I'm grateful for your long service to the crown 135 00:12:03,139 --> 00:12:05,058 so I'm presenting you with a choice. 136 00:12:28,414 --> 00:12:31,000 Swear anew your oath to rhaenyra as your queen... 137 00:12:32,460 --> 00:12:35,838 To prince jacaerys as the heir to the iron throne. 138 00:12:40,843 --> 00:12:41,843 Or... 139 00:12:41,886 --> 00:12:44,264 If you support the usurper, speak it now... 140 00:12:46,140 --> 00:12:48,700 And you will have a clean and honorable death. 141 00:12:49,477 --> 00:12:51,354 But if you choose treachery, 142 00:12:51,896 --> 00:12:55,275 if you swear fealty now only to later turn your cloaks... 143 00:12:58,152 --> 00:13:02,031 Know that you will die... screaming. 144 00:13:08,288 --> 00:13:09,956 Princess, let us help you. 145 00:13:12,709 --> 00:13:14,627 No. 146 00:13:17,005 --> 00:13:19,757 - Get out! - Princess, please. 147 00:13:19,841 --> 00:13:21,652 - Get out. - You should not do this alone, Princess. 148 00:13:21,676 --> 00:13:22,802 Let us help you. 149 00:13:36,441 --> 00:13:37,775 Ah! 150 00:13:43,865 --> 00:13:44,865 Ah! 151 00:16:47,965 --> 00:16:49,445 I mean no harm, brothers. 152 00:17:13,074 --> 00:17:14,867 I swear to ward the queen... 153 00:17:17,745 --> 00:17:18,788 With all my strength... 154 00:17:21,207 --> 00:17:23,334 And give my blood for hers. 155 00:17:28,381 --> 00:17:29,840 I shall take no wife... 156 00:17:32,009 --> 00:17:33,427 Hold no lands... 157 00:17:34,845 --> 00:17:37,139 Father no children. 158 00:17:37,515 --> 00:17:39,809 I shall guard her secrets... 159 00:17:40,268 --> 00:17:42,061 Obey her commands... 160 00:17:43,145 --> 00:17:46,232 Ride at her side, and defend her name and honor. 161 00:18:13,467 --> 00:18:14,552 My queen. 162 00:19:56,737 --> 00:19:58,572 Queen rhaenyra Targaryen, 163 00:19:58,656 --> 00:20:00,616 first of her name, 164 00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:03,160 queen of the andals and the rhoynar and the first men. 165 00:20:04,787 --> 00:20:07,581 Lady of the seven kingdoms and protector of the realm. 166 00:20:12,002 --> 00:20:13,003 Your grace. 167 00:20:22,096 --> 00:20:23,514 Wine, my queen. 168 00:20:26,851 --> 00:20:27,851 Thank you, rhaena. 169 00:20:29,228 --> 00:20:30,271 Come. 170 00:20:54,837 --> 00:20:56,815 - What is our standing? - We have 30 knights, 171 00:20:56,839 --> 00:20:59,383 a hundred crossbowmen, and 300 men-at-arms. 172 00:20:59,467 --> 00:21:01,343 Dragonstone is relatively easy to defend, 173 00:21:01,427 --> 00:21:02,747 but as an instrument of conquest, 174 00:21:02,803 --> 00:21:05,055 our army leaves a lot to be desired. 175 00:21:05,139 --> 00:21:07,308 We have sent word to my loyal men in the city watch. 176 00:21:07,391 --> 00:21:09,911 I'll have some support there, but I cannot speak to the numbers. 177 00:21:09,977 --> 00:21:13,481 We already have declarations from celtigar and staunton, 178 00:21:13,564 --> 00:21:15,608 massey, darklyn, bar emmon. 179 00:21:18,778 --> 00:21:20,863 My lady mother was an arryn. 180 00:21:20,946 --> 00:21:23,365 The vale will not turn cloak against their own kin. 181 00:21:23,449 --> 00:21:26,827 Riverrun was always a close friend to your father, your grace. 182 00:21:26,911 --> 00:21:28,454 With prince daemon's acquiescence, 183 00:21:28,537 --> 00:21:31,040 I've already sent ravens to lord grover. 184 00:21:34,877 --> 00:21:37,254 Lord grover is fickle and easily swayed. 185 00:21:37,338 --> 00:21:39,698 He will need to be convinced of the strength of our position 186 00:21:39,757 --> 00:21:42,468 and that we will support him should it come to war. 187 00:21:42,551 --> 00:21:44,595 I'm going to treat with him myself. 188 00:21:44,678 --> 00:21:46,388 What of storm's end and winterfell? 189 00:21:46,472 --> 00:21:49,099 There has never lived a stark who forgot an oath. 190 00:21:49,183 --> 00:21:51,894 And with house stark, the north will follow. 191 00:21:51,977 --> 00:21:55,606 Lord borros Baratheon will need to be reminded of his father's promises. 192 00:22:08,702 --> 00:22:10,204 What news from driftmark? 193 00:22:13,499 --> 00:22:15,376 Lord corlys sails for dragonstone. 194 00:22:15,459 --> 00:22:17,086 To declare for his queen. 195 00:22:19,088 --> 00:22:22,049 The velaryon fleet is in my husband's yoke. 196 00:22:22,132 --> 00:22:24,009 He decides where they sail. 197 00:22:24,093 --> 00:22:27,388 We shall pray for both you and your husband's support. 198 00:22:27,471 --> 00:22:30,558 Just as we prayed nightly for the sea snake's return to good health. 199 00:22:32,184 --> 00:22:33,912 There's no port on the narrow sea would dare to make 200 00:22:33,936 --> 00:22:35,896 an enemy of the velaryon fleet. 201 00:22:37,982 --> 00:22:38,982 And our enemies? 202 00:22:39,024 --> 00:22:40,624 We have no friends among the lannisters. 203 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:44,363 Tyland has served the hand too long to turn against him. 204 00:22:44,446 --> 00:22:46,615 And Otto hightower needs the Lannister fleet. 205 00:22:46,699 --> 00:22:48,260 Without the lannisters, we are not like to find 206 00:22:48,284 --> 00:22:50,644 - any allies west of the golden tooth. - No. 207 00:22:53,789 --> 00:22:55,708 The riverlands are essential, your grace. 208 00:22:57,376 --> 00:23:00,754 Pray forgive my bluntness, your grace, but talk of men is moot. 209 00:23:01,422 --> 00:23:05,050 Your cause owns a power that has not been seen in this world 210 00:23:05,134 --> 00:23:07,636 since the days of old valyria. 211 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:08,846 Dragons. 212 00:23:12,099 --> 00:23:13,517 The Greens have dragons as well. 213 00:23:13,601 --> 00:23:15,603 They have three adults, by my count. 214 00:23:15,686 --> 00:23:18,522 We have syrax, caraxes, and meleys. 215 00:23:18,606 --> 00:23:21,525 Your sons have vermax, arrax, and tyraxes. 216 00:23:21,609 --> 00:23:23,527 Baela has moondancer. 217 00:23:23,611 --> 00:23:25,371 Daemon, none of our dragons have been to war. 218 00:23:25,404 --> 00:23:27,907 There are also unclaimed dragons. 219 00:23:27,990 --> 00:23:29,617 Seasmoke still resides on driftmark. 220 00:23:29,700 --> 00:23:32,578 Vermithor and silvenning dwell on the dragonmont, 221 00:23:32,661 --> 00:23:33,829 still riderless. 222 00:23:34,830 --> 00:23:37,249 Then there are the three wild dragons, all of whom nest here. 223 00:23:37,333 --> 00:23:38,602 And who is to ride them? 224 00:23:38,626 --> 00:23:41,003 Dragonstone has 13 to their 4. 225 00:23:42,046 --> 00:23:45,215 I also have a score of eggs incubating in the dragonmont. 226 00:23:45,299 --> 00:23:48,761 Now... we need a place to gather, 227 00:23:48,844 --> 00:23:52,431 a toehold large enough to house a sizable host. 228 00:23:52,514 --> 00:23:53,515 Here, at harrenhal. 229 00:23:53,599 --> 00:23:54,516 We cut off the west, 230 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,200 surround king's landing with the dragons. 231 00:23:56,226 --> 00:23:58,079 And we could have every green head mounted on spikes 232 00:23:58,103 --> 00:23:59,980 before the fucking moon turns. 233 00:24:00,064 --> 00:24:01,649 Your grace... 234 00:24:01,732 --> 00:24:03,525 A ship has been sighted offshore, 235 00:24:03,609 --> 00:24:06,153 alone galleon, flying a banner of a three-headed green dragon. 236 00:24:06,236 --> 00:24:08,556 Alert the watchtowers. Sight the skies. 237 00:24:46,110 --> 00:24:49,071 I come at the behest of the dowager queen alicent, 238 00:24:49,154 --> 00:24:51,323 mother of king aegon, second of his name, 239 00:24:51,407 --> 00:24:54,201 lord and protector of the seven kingdoms. 240 00:24:55,035 --> 00:24:58,580 I've been directed to deliver her message only to Princess rhaenyra. 241 00:25:00,374 --> 00:25:02,292 Where is the Princess? 242 00:25:56,722 --> 00:25:58,766 Princess rhaenyra. 243 00:25:59,725 --> 00:26:01,018 I'm queen rhaenyra now. 244 00:26:02,603 --> 00:26:04,855 And you all are traitors to the realm. 245 00:26:05,355 --> 00:26:09,151 King aegon Targaryen, second of his name... 246 00:26:10,861 --> 00:26:14,323 In his wisdom and desire for peace, 247 00:26:14,406 --> 00:26:15,908 is offering terms. 248 00:26:18,285 --> 00:26:19,995 Acknowledge aegon as king 249 00:26:20,079 --> 00:26:22,915 and swear obeisance before the iron throne. 250 00:26:22,998 --> 00:26:26,710 In exchange, his grace will confirm your possession of dragonstone. 251 00:26:27,544 --> 00:26:31,173 It will pass to your trueborn son, jacaerys, upon your death. 252 00:26:31,256 --> 00:26:34,593 Lucerys will be confirmed as the legitimate heir to driftmark 253 00:26:34,676 --> 00:26:37,554 and all the lands and holdings of house velaryon. 254 00:26:37,638 --> 00:26:39,431 Your sons by prince daemon 255 00:26:39,515 --> 00:26:42,434 will also be given places of high honor at court, 256 00:26:42,976 --> 00:26:44,978 aegon the younger as the king's squire, 257 00:26:45,062 --> 00:26:47,106 viserys as his cupbearer. 258 00:26:47,189 --> 00:26:49,149 Finally, the king, in his good grace, 259 00:26:49,233 --> 00:26:53,695 will pardon any knight or lord who conspired against his ascent. 260 00:26:54,404 --> 00:26:57,157 I would rather feed my sons to the dragons 261 00:26:57,241 --> 00:27:00,369 than have them carry shields and cups 262 00:27:00,452 --> 00:27:04,123 for your drunken, usurper cunt of a king. 263 00:27:04,581 --> 00:27:07,793 Aegon Targaryen sits the iron throne. 264 00:27:09,044 --> 00:27:10,838 He wears the conqueror's crown, 265 00:27:10,921 --> 00:27:12,673 wields the conqueror's sword, 266 00:27:12,756 --> 00:27:14,174 has the conqueror's name. 267 00:27:14,633 --> 00:27:17,052 He was anointed by a septon of the faith 268 00:27:17,136 --> 00:27:19,012 before the eyes of thousands. 269 00:27:19,096 --> 00:27:23,016 Every symbol of legitimacy belongs to him. 270 00:27:25,561 --> 00:27:28,856 And then there is stark, Tully, Baratheon. 271 00:27:28,939 --> 00:27:32,985 Houses that have also received, and are at present, 272 00:27:33,068 --> 00:27:36,280 considering generous terms from their king. 273 00:27:38,073 --> 00:27:40,951 Stark, Tully, and Baratheon all swore to me 274 00:27:42,202 --> 00:27:44,872 when king viserys named me his heir. 275 00:27:45,581 --> 00:27:49,418 Stale oaths will not put you on the iron throne, Princess. 276 00:27:50,085 --> 00:27:54,089 The succession changed the day your father sired a son. 277 00:27:54,590 --> 00:27:58,510 I only regret that you and he were the last to see the truth of it. 278 00:27:59,511 --> 00:28:01,805 You are no more hand than aegon is king. 279 00:28:01,889 --> 00:28:03,515 Fucking traitor. 280 00:28:15,277 --> 00:28:16,904 Grand maester. 281 00:28:22,201 --> 00:28:23,368 What the fuck is this? 282 00:28:38,926 --> 00:28:42,512 Queen alicent has not forgotten the love you once had for each other. 283 00:28:44,056 --> 00:28:49,561 No blood need be spilled. The realm can carry on in peace. 284 00:28:53,065 --> 00:28:55,359 Queen alicent eagerly awaits your answer. 285 00:28:55,442 --> 00:28:57,723 She can have her answer now, stuffed in her father's mouth 286 00:28:57,778 --> 00:28:58,987 along with his withered cock. 287 00:28:59,071 --> 00:29:00,781 Let's end this mummer's farce. 288 00:29:02,532 --> 00:29:05,869 Ser erryk, bring me lord hightower so I may take the pleasure myself. 289 00:29:23,637 --> 00:29:25,806 King's landing will have my answer on the morrow. 290 00:29:48,287 --> 00:29:51,248 It's no easy thing for a man to be a dragonslayer. 291 00:29:52,332 --> 00:29:54,751 But dragons can kill dragons. And have. 292 00:29:56,295 --> 00:29:59,464 The simple truth is this, we have more dragons than aegon. 293 00:29:59,715 --> 00:30:02,134 Viserys spoke often of the valyrian histories. 294 00:30:02,217 --> 00:30:03,218 I know them well. 295 00:30:04,469 --> 00:30:06,179 When dragons flew to war... 296 00:30:07,514 --> 00:30:08,682 Everything burned. 297 00:30:11,101 --> 00:30:14,187 I do not wish to rule over a kingdom of ash and bone. 298 00:30:14,271 --> 00:30:16,690 Are you considering the hightowers' terms, your grace? 299 00:30:17,607 --> 00:30:21,320 As queen, what is my true duty to the realm, lord bartimos? 300 00:30:21,820 --> 00:30:23,363 Ensuring peace and unity? 301 00:30:23,447 --> 00:30:26,325 Or that I sit the iron throne, no matter the cost? 302 00:30:26,408 --> 00:30:28,702 - That's your father talking. - My father's dead. 303 00:30:30,787 --> 00:30:32,998 And he chose me as his successor... 304 00:30:35,375 --> 00:30:37,919 To defend the realm, not cast it headlong into war. 305 00:30:38,003 --> 00:30:39,379 Well, the enemy have declared war. 306 00:30:40,255 --> 00:30:41,798 What are you gonna do about it? 307 00:30:45,385 --> 00:30:46,595 Clear the room. 308 00:31:17,084 --> 00:31:18,668 Does the promise of war excite you? 309 00:31:18,752 --> 00:31:20,545 You cannot bend the knee to the hightowers. 310 00:31:20,629 --> 00:31:22,172 They stole your birthright. 311 00:31:22,255 --> 00:31:23,941 If you could take the iron throne 312 00:31:23,965 --> 00:31:26,051 without putting Otto hightower's head on a spike, 313 00:31:26,134 --> 00:31:27,653 - would you? - Are you not angry? 314 00:31:27,677 --> 00:31:30,073 - I should declare war because I'm angry? - No. 315 00:31:30,097 --> 00:31:32,140 Because it's your duty as queen to crush rebellion. 316 00:31:32,224 --> 00:31:35,936 You know my oath reaches beyond our personal ambitions. 317 00:31:39,231 --> 00:31:40,732 A song of ice and fire. 318 00:31:43,860 --> 00:31:44,861 What? 319 00:31:46,363 --> 00:31:48,132 The coming war against the darkness in the north. 320 00:31:48,156 --> 00:31:49,241 The conqueror's dream. 321 00:31:50,283 --> 00:31:52,244 Viserys shared it with me when he named me heir. 322 00:31:57,290 --> 00:32:01,294 My brother... was a slave to his omens and portents. 323 00:32:02,546 --> 00:32:05,799 Anything to make his feckless reign appear to have purpose. 324 00:32:09,803 --> 00:32:11,346 Dreams didn't make us kings. 325 00:32:12,848 --> 00:32:13,932 Dragons did. 326 00:32:32,409 --> 00:32:33,743 He never told you... 327 00:32:37,789 --> 00:32:38,999 Did he? 328 00:33:16,286 --> 00:33:20,123 I've had men whipped for falling asleep on their watch. 329 00:33:26,671 --> 00:33:27,756 You are no man. 330 00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:34,221 You abandoned me... 331 00:33:36,598 --> 00:33:37,807 When I most needed you. 332 00:33:39,518 --> 00:33:41,311 Both our children stolen from us. 333 00:33:43,188 --> 00:33:44,356 I needed you. 334 00:33:45,065 --> 00:33:46,483 Baela and rhaena needed you, 335 00:33:46,566 --> 00:33:49,653 and you abandoned us for more adventure at sea. 336 00:33:49,736 --> 00:33:51,780 As has always been your way. 337 00:33:53,490 --> 00:33:55,575 I had no other place to turn. 338 00:33:57,369 --> 00:34:00,247 - I lost everything. - We lost, corlys. 339 00:34:16,721 --> 00:34:18,265 I understand we have a new king. 340 00:34:19,099 --> 00:34:21,893 The stranger casts a long shadow over this family. 341 00:34:28,858 --> 00:34:30,443 Your brother is also dead. 342 00:34:35,699 --> 00:34:38,660 In his haste to Bury you and claim your seat, 343 00:34:38,743 --> 00:34:40,245 he stood before the king 344 00:34:40,328 --> 00:34:43,206 and denounced laenor's sons as illegitimate. 345 00:34:48,295 --> 00:34:49,754 Daemon took his head for it. 346 00:34:55,468 --> 00:34:59,180 Heedless ambition has always been a velaryon weakness. 347 00:35:04,311 --> 00:35:05,937 You were right, rhaenys. 348 00:35:08,064 --> 00:35:11,318 I reached too far. And for nothing. 349 00:35:13,945 --> 00:35:18,533 Our pursuit of the iron throne... Is at an end. 350 00:35:23,246 --> 00:35:25,665 We shall declare for no one. 351 00:35:27,667 --> 00:35:29,294 We will retire to high tide 352 00:35:29,919 --> 00:35:31,046 to be content... 353 00:35:32,088 --> 00:35:34,466 With our grandchildren and... 354 00:35:34,549 --> 00:35:37,260 Jace, Luke, and joff are claimants to the throne. 355 00:35:39,429 --> 00:35:41,973 Those boys'll not be safe so long as aegon is king. 356 00:35:44,809 --> 00:35:48,605 Rhaenyra was complicit in our son's death. 357 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,068 That girl destroys everything she touches. 358 00:35:53,151 --> 00:35:55,111 That "girl"... 359 00:35:55,195 --> 00:35:57,197 Is holding the realm together at present. 360 00:35:58,448 --> 00:36:00,241 Every man standing 'round the painted table 361 00:36:00,325 --> 00:36:02,160 urges her to plunge the realm into war. 362 00:36:04,871 --> 00:36:08,083 Rhaenyra's the only one who's demonstrated restraint. 363 00:36:08,166 --> 00:36:10,335 The purpose of war is to fill graveyards, 364 00:36:10,418 --> 00:36:11,503 my dear lord staunton. 365 00:36:11,586 --> 00:36:14,756 The trick is to put more of their men in the ground than your own. 366 00:36:14,839 --> 00:36:16,442 Easy words for a lord who commands 367 00:36:16,466 --> 00:36:18,069 - from the safety of his castle. - Doesn't make it any less true. 368 00:36:18,093 --> 00:36:19,453 The lord of the tides! 369 00:36:20,387 --> 00:36:21,805 Lord corlys velaryon... 370 00:36:23,264 --> 00:36:26,434 And his wife, the Princess rhaenys Targaryen. 371 00:36:38,196 --> 00:36:39,781 My lords. 372 00:36:39,864 --> 00:36:41,491 Lord corlys. 373 00:36:42,325 --> 00:36:45,036 It brings much relief to see you hale and healthy again. 374 00:36:47,455 --> 00:36:50,291 I'm very sorry about your father, Princess. 375 00:36:50,834 --> 00:36:52,836 He was a good man. 376 00:37:04,097 --> 00:37:05,306 Where is daemon? 377 00:37:06,433 --> 00:37:09,436 There were other concerns which demanded the prince's attention. 378 00:37:10,979 --> 00:37:11,979 Mmm. 379 00:37:20,780 --> 00:37:22,198 Your declared allies? 380 00:37:23,742 --> 00:37:26,745 - Yes. - Too few to win a war for the throne. 381 00:37:28,997 --> 00:37:31,666 Well, we would also hope to have the support 382 00:37:31,750 --> 00:37:34,753 - of houses arryn, Baratheon, and stark. - Hope... 383 00:37:35,628 --> 00:37:37,172 Is the fool's ally. 384 00:37:38,798 --> 00:37:42,010 Both arryn and Baratheon share blood with my house. 385 00:37:42,093 --> 00:37:44,137 But all of them swore oaths to me. 386 00:37:44,220 --> 00:37:46,055 As did house hightower... 387 00:37:46,139 --> 00:37:47,307 If I remember. 388 00:37:47,390 --> 00:37:50,435 As did you, lord corlys. 389 00:38:04,199 --> 00:38:05,617 Your father's realm... 390 00:38:06,743 --> 00:38:09,662 Was one of justice and honor. 391 00:38:10,705 --> 00:38:14,793 Our houses are bound by common blood and common cause. 392 00:38:16,711 --> 00:38:19,714 This hightower treason cannot stand. 393 00:38:25,345 --> 00:38:28,556 You have the full support of our fleet and house. 394 00:38:30,517 --> 00:38:31,518 Your grace. 395 00:38:40,568 --> 00:38:42,362 You honor me, lord corlys. 396 00:38:48,535 --> 00:38:50,578 Princess rhaenys. 397 00:38:54,582 --> 00:38:58,253 But, as I said to my bannermen, 398 00:38:58,336 --> 00:39:01,965 I made a promise to my father to hold the realm strong and united. 399 00:39:03,883 --> 00:39:06,970 If war's first stroke is to fall, it will not be by my hand. 400 00:39:08,429 --> 00:39:09,806 You do not mean to act? 401 00:39:09,889 --> 00:39:13,393 Taking caution does not mean standing fast. 402 00:39:13,476 --> 00:39:18,481 I wish to know who my allies are before I send them to war. 403 00:39:26,197 --> 00:39:27,532 The consequence of my... 404 00:39:28,741 --> 00:39:31,744 Near-demise in the stepstones... 405 00:39:32,996 --> 00:39:34,831 Is that we now control them. 406 00:39:35,498 --> 00:39:38,084 I took care to fully Garrison the territory this time. 407 00:39:38,167 --> 00:39:40,003 A total blockade of the shipping lanes 408 00:39:40,086 --> 00:39:43,131 will be in place in days, if not already. 409 00:39:43,214 --> 00:39:45,633 The triarchy have been routed. 410 00:39:45,717 --> 00:39:47,677 The narrow sea is ours. 411 00:39:50,471 --> 00:39:53,266 If we further seal the gullet, 412 00:39:53,349 --> 00:39:56,352 we can cut off all seaborne travel and trade 413 00:39:56,436 --> 00:39:57,687 to king's landing. 414 00:39:58,688 --> 00:40:01,190 I shall take meleys and patrol the gullet myself. 415 00:40:06,404 --> 00:40:08,114 When we drain the narrow sea, 416 00:40:09,282 --> 00:40:11,284 we can surround king's landing, 417 00:40:11,367 --> 00:40:13,620 lay siege to the red keep, 418 00:40:13,703 --> 00:40:16,164 and force the Greens' surrender. 419 00:40:16,247 --> 00:40:19,959 If we are to have enough swords to surround king's landing, 420 00:40:20,043 --> 00:40:23,671 we must first secure the support of winterfell, the eyrie, and storm's end. 421 00:40:23,755 --> 00:40:25,798 I'll prepare the ravens, your grace. 422 00:40:26,633 --> 00:40:28,233 We should bear those messages. 423 00:40:30,178 --> 00:40:32,263 Dragons can fly faster than ravens 424 00:40:33,222 --> 00:40:34,349 and they're more convincing. 425 00:40:38,394 --> 00:40:39,604 Send us. 426 00:40:41,522 --> 00:40:42,982 The prince is right, your grace. 427 00:40:52,617 --> 00:40:53,660 Very well. 428 00:40:54,661 --> 00:40:56,788 Prince jacaerys will fly north. 429 00:40:57,830 --> 00:41:01,000 First to the eyrie to see my mother's cousin, the lady jeyne arryn, 430 00:41:01,084 --> 00:41:04,003 and then to winterfell to treat with lord cregan stark 431 00:41:04,087 --> 00:41:06,005 for the support of the north. 432 00:41:07,131 --> 00:41:09,926 Prince lucerys will fly south to storm's end 433 00:41:10,009 --> 00:41:12,804 and treat with lord borros Baratheon. 434 00:41:12,887 --> 00:41:17,016 We must remind these lords of the oaths they swore. 435 00:41:18,643 --> 00:41:21,104 And... the cost of breaking them. 436 00:41:45,753 --> 00:41:50,299 It's been said that as targaryens, we are closer to gods than to men. 437 00:41:52,844 --> 00:41:55,346 And the iron throne puts us a touch closer, perhaps. 438 00:41:57,557 --> 00:42:01,185 But, if we are to serve the seven kingdoms... 439 00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,981 We must answer to their gods. 440 00:42:05,523 --> 00:42:10,069 If you take this errand, you go as messengers... not as warriors. 441 00:42:10,695 --> 00:42:12,864 You must take no part in any fighting. 442 00:42:14,699 --> 00:42:18,036 Swear it to me now under the eyes of the seven. 443 00:42:23,541 --> 00:42:24,709 I swear it. 444 00:42:29,589 --> 00:42:30,757 I swear it. 445 00:42:31,966 --> 00:42:32,967 Thank you. 446 00:42:36,679 --> 00:42:38,681 Cregan stark is... 447 00:42:39,557 --> 00:42:41,100 Closer to your age than to mine. 448 00:42:41,726 --> 00:42:45,396 I would hope, that as men, you can find some common interest. 449 00:42:46,606 --> 00:42:47,690 Yes, your grace. 450 00:42:56,365 --> 00:42:58,576 Storm's end is a short flight from here. 451 00:43:00,369 --> 00:43:03,873 You have Baratheon blood from your grandmother, rhaenys. 452 00:43:03,956 --> 00:43:05,291 And... 453 00:43:05,374 --> 00:43:07,794 Lord borros is an eternally proud man. 454 00:43:08,753 --> 00:43:11,631 He will be honored to host a prince of the realm... 455 00:43:12,882 --> 00:43:14,217 And his dragon. 456 00:43:23,184 --> 00:43:25,728 I expect you will receive a very warm welcome. 457 00:43:27,772 --> 00:43:29,524 Yes, mother. Your grace. 458 00:43:39,033 --> 00:43:40,785 Go to it then. 459 00:47:21,964 --> 00:47:23,716 I am prince lucerys velaryon. 460 00:47:24,717 --> 00:47:26,802 I bring a message to lord borros from the queen. 461 00:47:43,861 --> 00:47:45,488 Prince lucerys velaryon. 462 00:47:52,370 --> 00:47:55,373 Son of Princess rhaenyra Targaryen. 463 00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:01,379 Lord borros... 464 00:48:03,172 --> 00:48:04,882 I brought you a message from my mother... 465 00:48:06,300 --> 00:48:07,510 The queen. 466 00:48:08,552 --> 00:48:11,514 Yet earlier this day, I received an envoy from the king. 467 00:48:13,140 --> 00:48:14,183 Which is it? 468 00:48:14,892 --> 00:48:17,603 King or queen? 469 00:48:17,686 --> 00:48:20,189 The house of the dragon does not seem to know who rules it. 470 00:48:23,192 --> 00:48:24,985 What's your mother's message? 471 00:48:41,919 --> 00:48:43,629 Where's the bloody maester? 472 00:49:18,456 --> 00:49:21,709 "Remind" me of my father's oath? 473 00:49:23,544 --> 00:49:25,504 King aegon at least came with an offer, 474 00:49:25,588 --> 00:49:28,382 my swords and banners for a marriage pact. 475 00:49:29,675 --> 00:49:31,635 If I do as your mother bids... 476 00:49:32,970 --> 00:49:35,306 Which one of my daughters will you wed... 477 00:49:39,185 --> 00:49:42,271 My lord... I am not free to marry. 478 00:49:43,689 --> 00:49:45,024 I'm already betrothed. 479 00:49:47,359 --> 00:49:49,653 So you come with empty hands. 480 00:49:51,864 --> 00:49:54,033 Go home, pup. 481 00:49:54,116 --> 00:49:56,285 And tell your mother that the lord of storm's end 482 00:49:56,368 --> 00:50:00,956 is not some dog that she can whistle up at need to set against her foes. 483 00:50:03,125 --> 00:50:06,462 I shall take your answer to the queen, my lord. 484 00:50:13,219 --> 00:50:14,303 Wait... 485 00:50:16,597 --> 00:50:18,015 My lord strong. 486 00:50:23,062 --> 00:50:27,399 Did you really think that you could just fly about the realm 487 00:50:27,483 --> 00:50:30,110 trying to steal my brother's throne at no cost? 488 00:50:31,862 --> 00:50:33,072 I will not fight you. 489 00:50:34,615 --> 00:50:37,493 I came as a messenger, not a warrior. 490 00:50:37,576 --> 00:50:39,203 A fight would be little challenge. 491 00:50:44,375 --> 00:50:46,377 I want you to put out your eye. 492 00:50:49,296 --> 00:50:50,631 As payment for mine. 493 00:50:53,050 --> 00:50:54,134 One will serve. 494 00:50:58,389 --> 00:50:59,598 I would not blind you. 495 00:51:02,935 --> 00:51:05,145 Plan to make a gift of it to my mother. 496 00:51:11,694 --> 00:51:13,654 Then you are craven as well as a traitor. 497 00:51:13,737 --> 00:51:15,781 - Not here. - Give me your eye, 498 00:51:16,365 --> 00:51:17,992 or I will take it, bastard! 499 00:51:18,993 --> 00:51:20,411 Not in my hall! 500 00:51:21,579 --> 00:51:23,372 The boy came as an envoy. 501 00:51:23,455 --> 00:51:25,416 I'll not have bloodshed beneath my roof. 502 00:51:26,083 --> 00:51:28,252 Take prince lucerys back to his dragon. 503 00:51:29,086 --> 00:51:30,087 Now. 504 00:53:31,083 --> 00:53:32,710 {933931 - 505 00:55:09,139 --> 00:55:13,560 No, no, no, no, no! No, vhagar! No! 506 00:55:14,561 --> 00:55:15,914 Serve me, vhagar! No! 507 00:55:39,419 --> 00:55:42,548 Vhagar! No! No.