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*Warning – Spoilers forward for Home of the Dragon, season two, episode three*
The Home of the Dragon director has confirmed a serious connection to Recreation of Thrones within the prequel spin-off’s newest episode.
The brand new sequence is predicated on George RR Martin’s guide Hearth & Blood and takes place roughly 200 years earlier than the occasions of Thrones.
Within the third episode of Home of the Dragon’s second sequence, Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) decides to ship her youngest youngsters away as warfare appears inevitable. She duties Rhaena Targaryen (Phoebe Campbell) with accompanying her sons Aegon and Viserys to the Vale, together with their younger dragons Tyraxes and Stormcloud, and 4 dragon eggs.
Although Rhaena is reluctant to depart, her half in defending the eggs will play an enormous position in the way forward for Westeros. Three of the eggs – one gold, one inexperienced, and one reddish-black – match up with the colours of the eggs Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) receives from Illyrio Mopatis (Roger Allam) within the pilot of Recreation of Thrones.
“These are Daenerys’ eggs,” episode three director Geeta Vasant Patel confirmed to Mashable. “All of us who work on this present are huge Recreation of Thrones followers, so it was very thrilling to shoot that scene.”
Patel’s assertion introduces a slight alteration from Martin’s supply materials. In Hearth & Blood, Martin means that the dragon eggs discovered their technique to Essos effectively earlier than the Dance of the Dragons, throughout Jaehaerys I’s reign.
Elissa Farman, a noblewoman and sailor who was romantically concerned with Princess Rhaena Targaryen (not the Rhaena in Home of the Dragon) took three dragon eggs from Dragonstone and traveled to Braavos. The guide states that Farman bought the eggs to the Sealord of Braavos and used the proceeds to finance her seafaring adventures.
Eager-eyed viewers may have observed a line in episode three that hinted on the demise of a primary character from season one.
There have already been a number of moments the place it grew to become clear the prequel will reward readers of George RR Martin’s Hearth & Blood, in addition to his A Tune of Ice and Hearth guide sequence. You’ll find an evidence of Aegon Targaryen’s Tune of Ice and Hearth prophecy right here.
New episodes of Home of the Dragon season 2 air on HBO and Max on Sundays at 9pm ET.
