1 00:02:11,922 --> 00:02:15,342 Ser ryam was a strong lord commander of the kingsguard. 2 00:02:17,052 --> 00:02:19,012 But he was ill for some time. 3 00:02:19,096 --> 00:02:20,722 He passed in peace, I hope. 4 00:02:20,806 --> 00:02:21,806 Yes, your grace. 5 00:02:21,848 --> 00:02:24,851 He was found to have passed gently in his sleep. 6 00:02:25,227 --> 00:02:28,438 His remains are being prepared by the silent sisters. 7 00:02:28,522 --> 00:02:31,858 The succeeding lord commander, ser harrold, 8 00:02:31,942 --> 00:02:33,652 would like to make haste in finding 9 00:02:33,735 --> 00:02:36,321 ser ryam's replacement on the kingsguard. 10 00:02:36,405 --> 00:02:38,407 Your grace. My lords. 11 00:02:38,990 --> 00:02:41,993 The kingsguard must soon be restored to its full complement of seven. 12 00:02:43,286 --> 00:02:44,705 With the help of the hand, 13 00:02:44,788 --> 00:02:47,290 I've invited a number of fine candidates to court. 14 00:02:47,374 --> 00:02:49,334 All have passed fair trials. 15 00:02:53,630 --> 00:02:55,424 Four ships have now been lost. 16 00:02:55,507 --> 00:02:56,967 The last one was flying my banner. 17 00:02:57,884 --> 00:02:59,886 The stepstones have now grown into a conflagration, 18 00:02:59,970 --> 00:03:02,389 yet you sit here and dither about court business. 19 00:03:02,472 --> 00:03:04,433 If you've something to discuss, lord corlys... 20 00:03:04,516 --> 00:03:06,518 I want to know what is to be done 21 00:03:06,601 --> 00:03:08,520 about my ships and my men. 22 00:03:08,603 --> 00:03:09,980 The crown will compensate you 23 00:03:10,063 --> 00:03:11,898 for your ship and crew, and make an offering 24 00:03:11,982 --> 00:03:15,819 - to the men's families. - I don't want compensation. 25 00:03:17,487 --> 00:03:19,865 I want to seize the stepstones by force 26 00:03:19,948 --> 00:03:21,575 and burn out this crabfeeder. 27 00:03:21,658 --> 00:03:24,411 I am not prepared to start a war with the free cities. 28 00:03:24,494 --> 00:03:27,205 These pirates are not the free cities. 29 00:03:27,289 --> 00:03:30,459 Who do you think provides them with their ships and tender? 30 00:03:30,834 --> 00:03:32,674 In all of its history, my lord, 31 00:03:32,753 --> 00:03:34,629 the seven kingdoms have never entered 32 00:03:34,713 --> 00:03:36,423 open war with the free cities. 33 00:03:36,506 --> 00:03:38,133 Were that to happen, 34 00:03:38,216 --> 00:03:41,219 the losses would be incalculable. 35 00:03:45,015 --> 00:03:47,601 What reason does the crabfeeder have to fear us? 36 00:03:50,645 --> 00:03:53,190 The king's own brother has been allowed to seize dragonstone 37 00:03:53,273 --> 00:03:56,193 and fortify it with an army of his gold cloaks. 38 00:03:56,276 --> 00:03:59,029 Daemon has squatted there for over half a year 39 00:03:59,112 --> 00:04:00,989 without even a protest from the crown. 40 00:04:01,072 --> 00:04:03,784 I'll caution you, lord corlys, 41 00:04:03,867 --> 00:04:07,412 a seat at the king's table does not make you his equal. 42 00:04:10,874 --> 00:04:12,375 I have acted, corlys. 43 00:04:13,627 --> 00:04:16,630 I've sent envoys to pentos and volantis 44 00:04:16,713 --> 00:04:18,673 to see if we might find common cause. 45 00:04:19,382 --> 00:04:21,802 Ships and men are at the ready. 46 00:04:22,594 --> 00:04:26,014 The stepstones will be settled in time. 47 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:28,892 You have dragonriders, father. 48 00:04:35,357 --> 00:04:36,525 Send us. 49 00:04:41,363 --> 00:04:44,616 It isn't that simple, rhaenyra. 50 00:04:44,699 --> 00:04:46,368 It would be a show of force. 51 00:04:46,868 --> 00:04:48,954 At least the Princess has a plan. 52 00:04:52,666 --> 00:04:55,210 - I only meant that we should at least... - Perhaps, uh, 53 00:04:55,293 --> 00:04:59,548 there's some better use for the Princess' talents, your grace. 54 00:05:02,217 --> 00:05:04,427 Why don't you take the Princess to see about the new 55 00:05:04,511 --> 00:05:06,221 kingsguard posting, lord commander? 56 00:05:08,014 --> 00:05:09,599 A fine idea, your grace. 57 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:14,145 This knight will protect you as well. 58 00:05:14,229 --> 00:05:15,480 You should choose. 59 00:05:36,418 --> 00:05:38,461 Ser Desmond caron, 60 00:05:38,545 --> 00:05:40,964 a fine knight, Princess. 61 00:05:41,047 --> 00:05:43,049 Step fonnard, ser Desmond. 62 00:05:45,260 --> 00:05:46,845 Son of ser Royce caron, 63 00:05:46,928 --> 00:05:49,472 ser Desmond has proved strong and steady 64 00:05:49,556 --> 00:05:52,475 in both the tourney lists and without. 65 00:05:52,559 --> 00:05:55,395 While traveling through the kingswood on his way to king's landing, 66 00:05:55,478 --> 00:05:58,440 ser Desmond recently brought a would-be poacher 67 00:05:58,523 --> 00:05:59,733 to justice. 68 00:06:10,452 --> 00:06:13,997 You might thank him for his leal service, Princess. 69 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:17,083 We thank you for your loyal service to the crown, ser. 70 00:06:28,803 --> 00:06:30,805 Ser rymun mallister. 71 00:06:33,141 --> 00:06:36,061 Son of lord lymond mallister of seagard. 72 00:06:36,144 --> 00:06:38,229 Winner of the melee at cider hall. 73 00:06:38,688 --> 00:06:41,483 He was the last mounted of three-and-twenty knights. 74 00:06:41,566 --> 00:06:43,610 Ser rymun was knighted at eight-and-ten. 75 00:06:43,693 --> 00:06:45,862 Do any of these knights have combat experience? 76 00:06:47,238 --> 00:06:49,074 Beyond capturing poachers. 77 00:06:57,165 --> 00:06:59,167 Ser criston Cole. 78 00:07:05,131 --> 00:07:08,134 Son of the steward of the lord of blackhaven. 79 00:07:10,261 --> 00:07:12,055 Be welcome, ser criston. 80 00:07:14,349 --> 00:07:16,601 You saw combat in the stormlands. 81 00:07:16,685 --> 00:07:18,853 Dornish marches, Princess. 82 00:07:18,937 --> 00:07:22,107 I fought for a year as a foot solider against the dornish incursions. 83 00:07:23,191 --> 00:07:25,151 Serarlan dondarrion knighted me after we razed 84 00:07:25,235 --> 00:07:27,237 two of the watchtowers along the boneway. 85 00:07:32,867 --> 00:07:34,619 I choose ser criston Cole. 86 00:07:35,078 --> 00:07:38,206 Let's not be too hasty, Princess. 87 00:07:39,332 --> 00:07:42,419 There's no doubt ser criston is a fine warrior, 88 00:07:42,502 --> 00:07:44,963 buthouses such as crakehall and mallister 89 00:07:45,046 --> 00:07:47,632 are important allies of the crown. 90 00:07:47,716 --> 00:07:50,427 Seagard, for instance, is the realm's prime defense 91 00:07:50,510 --> 00:07:52,178 against reavers from the iron islands. 92 00:07:52,262 --> 00:07:53,888 Those men are tourney knights. 93 00:07:54,431 --> 00:07:57,434 My father should be defended by a man who's known real combat. 94 00:07:59,519 --> 00:08:00,729 Should he not? 95 00:08:02,939 --> 00:08:04,774 Of course, Princess. 96 00:08:04,858 --> 00:08:07,485 Well, let us plan ser criston's investiture then. 97 00:08:15,910 --> 00:08:18,830 The valyrian capital was built into a volcano, 98 00:08:18,913 --> 00:08:20,457 much like dragonstone. 99 00:08:21,458 --> 00:08:24,502 And the dragonlords, the highest of the nobility, 100 00:08:24,586 --> 00:08:27,505 lived here, at the volcanic face, 101 00:08:27,589 --> 00:08:30,759 closest to the source of their magic and power. 102 00:08:30,842 --> 00:08:32,677 And this was the anogrion. 103 00:08:34,804 --> 00:08:37,015 Where the bloodmages worked their craft. 104 00:08:39,601 --> 00:08:41,811 It is truly wondrous what you've built. 105 00:08:41,895 --> 00:08:42,979 Oh, no. 106 00:08:44,230 --> 00:08:47,776 I only pore over the histories and provide the plans. 107 00:08:47,859 --> 00:08:50,236 The stonemasons built the structures. 108 00:08:50,653 --> 00:08:53,531 Do you believe that Westeros can be another valyria, your grace? 109 00:08:53,615 --> 00:08:55,784 That depends, whether you speak of the freehold 110 00:08:55,867 --> 00:08:57,869 at its height or at its fall. 111 00:08:59,287 --> 00:09:00,955 Over a thousand dragons, 112 00:09:01,039 --> 00:09:04,042 a Navy large enough to span the seas of the world. 113 00:09:07,212 --> 00:09:10,215 The glory of old valyria will never be seen again. 114 00:09:11,382 --> 00:09:13,009 Seven hells. 115 00:09:28,817 --> 00:09:30,610 Tell me, how is rhaenyra? 116 00:09:31,277 --> 00:09:32,946 - What do you mean? - Well, these days, 117 00:09:33,029 --> 00:09:35,406 she doesn't say more than a few words to me. 118 00:09:35,782 --> 00:09:38,034 I think she might find it difficult 119 00:09:39,327 --> 00:09:41,329 to discuss personal matters. 120 00:09:42,997 --> 00:09:44,249 It will take time. 121 00:09:46,417 --> 00:09:48,294 It did when I lost mine own mother. 122 00:09:54,634 --> 00:09:56,636 I wish she would approach me. 123 00:09:58,221 --> 00:09:59,514 What if you went to her? 124 00:10:00,473 --> 00:10:02,267 There are times when I would rather face 125 00:10:02,350 --> 00:10:05,145 the black dread himself than mine own daughter of 15. 126 00:10:08,565 --> 00:10:11,568 I think she would open herself to you if invited. 127 00:10:12,527 --> 00:10:15,947 You do have such an easy way about you, your grace. 128 00:10:20,034 --> 00:10:23,037 You do not mention our talks to rhaenyra, do you? 129 00:10:25,456 --> 00:10:26,666 just, 130 00:10:28,001 --> 00:10:30,128 I fear that she wouldn't understand them. 131 00:10:30,879 --> 00:10:32,505 No, your grace. 132 00:10:46,019 --> 00:10:48,730 It's only been half a year since my mother died, 133 00:10:48,813 --> 00:10:50,815 and already they tried to marry my father off 134 00:10:50,899 --> 00:10:53,067 and replace me as heir. 135 00:10:53,151 --> 00:10:55,195 I know those men and how they plot 136 00:10:55,278 --> 00:10:58,489 in their secret councils when I've been sent away. 137 00:10:58,573 --> 00:11:01,534 You cannot worry at the matters of lords and kings, rhaenyra. 138 00:11:04,329 --> 00:11:06,206 What if your father were to remarry? 139 00:11:14,839 --> 00:11:16,132 Your father loves you. 140 00:11:22,931 --> 00:11:24,933 He chose you for his heir. 141 00:11:26,059 --> 00:11:28,686 He didn't choose me. He spurns daemon. 142 00:11:46,246 --> 00:11:47,872 Kneel with me. 143 00:12:04,931 --> 00:12:06,891 I find this is a way to be with my mother. 144 00:12:09,269 --> 00:12:11,271 Here in the quiet of the sept, 145 00:12:12,647 --> 00:12:13,815 I feel close to her. 146 00:12:19,570 --> 00:12:23,199 - I know it sounds foolish. - I don't think it's foolish. 147 00:12:24,367 --> 00:12:26,369 - I don't. - Good. 148 00:12:29,789 --> 00:12:31,791 Because I thought you might try. 149 00:12:35,128 --> 00:12:38,673 If not for me, then, perhaps for them. 150 00:13:04,157 --> 00:13:06,159 What do I say? 151 00:13:06,909 --> 00:13:08,536 Whatever you wish. 152 00:13:09,746 --> 00:13:11,581 It's only for you and the gods to know. 153 00:13:46,783 --> 00:13:50,078 I want him to see me as more than his little girl. 154 00:13:52,622 --> 00:13:55,041 Mine own father does not know the language of girls either. 155 00:14:00,088 --> 00:14:02,048 When I wish to talk with him, 156 00:14:02,965 --> 00:14:05,176 I know that I must make the effort. 157 00:14:08,888 --> 00:14:09,889 Thank you. 158 00:14:22,235 --> 00:14:24,112 Your grace. 159 00:14:24,195 --> 00:14:25,613 I'm glad we could meet. 160 00:14:26,322 --> 00:14:27,907 I know tempers ran hot today, 161 00:14:27,990 --> 00:14:30,076 and I wanted to assure you how much I value the bond 162 00:14:30,159 --> 00:14:31,786 between our houses. 163 00:14:32,245 --> 00:14:34,664 Rhaenys is my favorite cousin after all. 164 00:14:36,332 --> 00:14:39,293 I wish to apologize for the tenor 165 00:14:39,377 --> 00:14:41,671 at the small council today, your grace. 166 00:14:41,754 --> 00:14:43,423 It was not my intent to make offense. 167 00:14:44,632 --> 00:14:48,344 Your fleet is one of the realm's most important assets, lord corlys. 168 00:14:48,886 --> 00:14:50,430 But you must understand, 169 00:14:50,513 --> 00:14:52,932 as king, it is my obligation to avoid war 170 00:14:53,015 --> 00:14:55,226 until such time it is unavoidable. 171 00:14:55,309 --> 00:14:57,520 None among us desire open war. 172 00:14:59,147 --> 00:15:01,524 Might I speak plainly, your grace? 173 00:15:02,817 --> 00:15:06,195 I always welcome the unfettered thoughts of my council. 174 00:15:06,279 --> 00:15:10,700 I fear that the eyes of our enemies are presently fixed on the red keep. 175 00:15:11,492 --> 00:15:12,994 The queen has passed. 176 00:15:13,077 --> 00:15:15,163 A girl has been named heir to the iron throne, 177 00:15:15,246 --> 00:15:17,123 the first in its history. 178 00:15:17,206 --> 00:15:18,833 The king's brother, so disinherited, 179 00:15:18,916 --> 00:15:20,960 has claimed the Targaryen seat on dragonstone 180 00:15:21,043 --> 00:15:22,670 without challenge. 181 00:15:23,629 --> 00:15:26,215 And now, a foreign power has established a colony 182 00:15:26,299 --> 00:15:28,509 in our most critical shipping Lane. 183 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:33,264 You paint such an aspirant portrait of my reign, lord corlys. 184 00:15:33,347 --> 00:15:35,349 It is an honest one, cousin. 185 00:15:36,559 --> 00:15:39,604 At the moment, the crown is perceived as being vulnerable. 186 00:15:40,438 --> 00:15:42,356 And a blind incursion in the stepstones 187 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:44,692 is the only way to demonstrate that we are not? 188 00:15:44,775 --> 00:15:48,321 To elude a storm, you can either sail into it, 189 00:15:48,404 --> 00:15:49,989 or around it. 190 00:15:50,072 --> 00:15:52,617 But you must never await its coming. 191 00:15:53,993 --> 00:15:56,746 Do you have a specific course of action to propose, 192 00:15:56,829 --> 00:15:58,456 my lord? 193 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:02,877 Join our families. 194 00:16:03,586 --> 00:16:05,213 Wed our daughter, laena. 195 00:16:05,296 --> 00:16:08,508 Unite the two great surviving valyrian houses. 196 00:16:08,591 --> 00:16:11,802 With the Targaryen dragons and the velaryon fleet bound in blood, 197 00:16:11,886 --> 00:16:13,346 you can show the realm 198 00:16:13,429 --> 00:16:16,182 that the crown's strongest days are ahead, 199 00:16:16,265 --> 00:16:17,433 not behind. 200 00:16:22,313 --> 00:16:23,940 I must admit, 201 00:16:24,565 --> 00:16:26,567 I haven't given marriage much thought. 202 00:16:27,276 --> 00:16:29,570 It hasn't even been half a year since aemma passed. 203 00:16:29,654 --> 00:16:33,199 The realm expects you to take a new wife soon or late, your grace, 204 00:16:33,282 --> 00:16:36,410 to strengthen your line and produce more heirs. 205 00:16:36,494 --> 00:16:39,705 You could not ask for a stronger match than laena. 206 00:17:07,692 --> 00:17:09,902 We haven't spoken much... 207 00:17:12,572 --> 00:17:13,823 Since. 208 00:17:17,285 --> 00:17:18,953 A regret of mine. 209 00:17:20,621 --> 00:17:24,208 We should be free to speak our minds to one another. 210 00:17:24,292 --> 00:17:25,835 You can say whatever you'd like. 211 00:17:25,918 --> 00:17:27,670 You are the king. 212 00:17:35,845 --> 00:17:39,890 I loved your mother very much. 213 00:17:43,185 --> 00:17:44,604 As did I. 214 00:18:00,911 --> 00:18:03,956 Ser harrold provided a fine field of tourney knights. 215 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:05,040 Oh? 216 00:18:06,500 --> 00:18:08,127 But in questioning them, 217 00:18:08,210 --> 00:18:10,838 I discovered that ser criston was the only man among them 218 00:18:10,921 --> 00:18:12,923 with true battle experience. 219 00:18:13,883 --> 00:18:16,510 He'll make a fine knight of the kingsguard. 220 00:18:21,932 --> 00:18:25,519 - Today at small council... - Pay it no mind. 221 00:18:25,603 --> 00:18:27,188 I thought I might have had some insight. 222 00:18:27,271 --> 00:18:28,439 You're young. 223 00:18:29,523 --> 00:18:30,733 You will learn. 224 00:18:55,466 --> 00:18:59,095 This is our best chance to save the digit, your grace. 225 00:19:01,138 --> 00:19:03,265 The maggots will remove the dead flesh 226 00:19:03,349 --> 00:19:05,935 and hopefully stop the advance of the rot. 227 00:19:11,732 --> 00:19:14,443 I held an audience earlier today 228 00:19:14,527 --> 00:19:16,696 with lord corlys and Princess rhaenys. 229 00:19:16,779 --> 00:19:18,948 That was most charitable of you, your grace. 230 00:19:19,031 --> 00:19:21,951 I'm sure lord corlys appreciated the spirit of it. 231 00:19:22,410 --> 00:19:24,412 He proposed a marriage. 232 00:19:25,746 --> 00:19:28,040 To whom, your grace? 233 00:19:28,749 --> 00:19:30,334 The lady laena. 234 00:19:31,127 --> 00:19:33,212 To combine the strength of our houses, 235 00:19:33,713 --> 00:19:36,590 and demonstrate my reign's strongest days are ahead, 236 00:19:36,674 --> 00:19:37,967 not behind. 237 00:19:38,050 --> 00:19:40,928 Lord corlys has overreached, your grace. 238 00:19:41,011 --> 00:19:44,473 Such matters must be discussed with the small council. 239 00:19:44,557 --> 00:19:47,309 That is what I'm doing, presently. 240 00:19:48,811 --> 00:19:52,440 So, what is your advice, dear Otto. 241 00:19:53,482 --> 00:19:55,109 The lady laena 242 00:19:55,985 --> 00:19:58,904 is young, your grace. 243 00:19:58,988 --> 00:20:01,991 Indeed, but the wounds made by the great council 244 00:20:02,074 --> 00:20:03,868 still linger, my king. 245 00:20:03,951 --> 00:20:07,204 A match with their daughter would go a long way towards 246 00:20:07,288 --> 00:20:08,831 sealing the breach 247 00:20:09,373 --> 00:20:12,251 and uniting the two great valyrian houses 248 00:20:12,334 --> 00:20:15,796 would certainly signal unity throughout the realm 249 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:17,465 and beyond. 250 00:20:18,132 --> 00:20:20,551 The grand maester's reasoning is sound. 251 00:20:22,386 --> 00:20:24,180 I do fear what rhaenyra might think. 252 00:20:24,263 --> 00:20:26,182 What does it matter, your grace? 253 00:20:26,265 --> 00:20:27,600 Her mother has passed. 254 00:20:28,684 --> 00:20:31,103 Her father must propagate the royal line. 255 00:20:38,152 --> 00:20:42,156 I, uh, dearly loved my own lady wife. 256 00:20:43,199 --> 00:20:46,202 The pain of her passing still haunts me. 257 00:20:47,912 --> 00:20:49,914 And to be compelled to... 258 00:20:51,081 --> 00:20:53,709 Replace her for duty's sake. 259 00:20:55,377 --> 00:20:57,004 You are the king. 260 00:20:58,047 --> 00:21:00,049 But I do not envy you. 261 00:21:28,869 --> 00:21:31,413 What was it like flying the black dread? 262 00:21:31,497 --> 00:21:34,458 You were balerion's last rider. 263 00:21:34,959 --> 00:21:38,337 Only for a short time before he died. 264 00:21:38,420 --> 00:21:42,007 With balerion died the last memory of valyria of old. 265 00:21:42,925 --> 00:21:44,760 But vhagar still lives 266 00:21:45,469 --> 00:21:46,887 somewhere. 267 00:21:46,971 --> 00:21:48,973 Bit too large for the dragonpit. 268 00:21:49,515 --> 00:21:52,142 Some would say too large for our world. 269 00:21:53,018 --> 00:21:56,105 - Do you know where she nests? - I'm sorry? 270 00:21:56,188 --> 00:21:58,190 Do you know where vhagar is now? 271 00:21:58,274 --> 00:22:00,985 Uh, the dragonkeepers believe she made home 272 00:22:01,068 --> 00:22:03,487 somewhere on the coast of the narrow sea. 273 00:22:03,571 --> 00:22:07,199 The workers at spicetown report hearing her song at times. 274 00:22:07,283 --> 00:22:09,493 They say it is a sad thing. 275 00:22:11,287 --> 00:22:13,289 I imagine even dragons get lonely. 276 00:22:17,877 --> 00:22:19,211 Your grace, 277 00:22:20,379 --> 00:22:22,339 it would be a great honor 278 00:22:22,423 --> 00:22:26,594 to join our houses as they were in old valyria. 279 00:22:26,677 --> 00:22:29,889 I would give you many children of pure valyrian blood 280 00:22:29,972 --> 00:22:33,726 so that we might strengthen the royal line and the realm. 281 00:22:33,809 --> 00:22:36,103 Is that what your father told you to say? 282 00:22:41,066 --> 00:22:42,651 What did your mother tell you? 283 00:22:44,486 --> 00:22:47,698 That I wouldn't have to bed you until I turned 14. 284 00:23:15,100 --> 00:23:16,602 It bothers you, does it not? 285 00:23:22,441 --> 00:23:24,068 My father is a king. 286 00:23:24,693 --> 00:23:27,947 It is his duty to take a new wife and strengthen his line. 287 00:23:28,030 --> 00:23:30,759 I did not ask for a lesson in politics. I asked whether this bothers you. 288 00:23:30,783 --> 00:23:33,953 Laena is your daughter, Princess. Does it bother you? 289 00:23:35,162 --> 00:23:36,372 Of course, it does. 290 00:23:38,457 --> 00:23:41,460 But I understand the order of things. 291 00:23:43,170 --> 00:23:45,589 I'm not sure you do. 292 00:23:48,217 --> 00:23:51,512 If you mean to elicit some anger from me, 293 00:23:51,595 --> 00:23:54,473 you should know that you're failing, Princess. 294 00:23:55,265 --> 00:23:56,892 Quite the opposite. 295 00:23:59,895 --> 00:24:01,897 Whether it's to my daughter or to someone else's, 296 00:24:01,981 --> 00:24:04,984 your father will remarry sooner than late. 297 00:24:05,901 --> 00:24:08,320 His new wife will produce new heirs, 298 00:24:08,404 --> 00:24:11,281 and chances are, better than not, that one of those will be male. 299 00:24:11,365 --> 00:24:13,951 And when that boy comes of age and your father has passed, 300 00:24:14,034 --> 00:24:16,912 the men of the realm will expect him to be heir, 301 00:24:16,996 --> 00:24:18,414 notyou. 302 00:24:20,916 --> 00:24:22,918 Because that is the order of things. 303 00:24:25,254 --> 00:24:27,631 When I'm queen, I will create a new order. 304 00:24:29,133 --> 00:24:31,343 How I wish that could be, rhaenyra. 305 00:24:32,011 --> 00:24:34,513 But the men of the realm already had their opportunity 306 00:24:34,596 --> 00:24:36,932 to appoint a ruling queen at the great council 307 00:24:37,016 --> 00:24:38,517 and they denied it. 308 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,562 They denied you, Princess rhaenys. 309 00:24:42,730 --> 00:24:44,523 "The queen who never was." 310 00:24:45,190 --> 00:24:47,985 But they bent the knee to me and called me heir to the throne. 311 00:24:48,068 --> 00:24:51,113 Do you remind your father's men of that as you carry their cups? 312 00:24:55,701 --> 00:24:57,536 Here is the hard truth, 313 00:24:57,619 --> 00:25:00,914 which no one else has the heart to tell you. 314 00:25:01,665 --> 00:25:04,334 Men would sooner put the realm to the torch 315 00:25:05,419 --> 00:25:08,422 than see a woman ascend the iron throne. 316 00:25:13,218 --> 00:25:15,888 And your father is no fool. 317 00:25:29,651 --> 00:25:32,654 The small council is urging me to remarry. 318 00:25:35,074 --> 00:25:37,493 It seems the realm wants for a new queen. 319 00:25:42,831 --> 00:25:46,376 A good and kind queen will give comfort to your subjects. 320 00:25:51,423 --> 00:25:54,426 Does the small council have a particular lady in mind? 321 00:25:56,887 --> 00:26:01,558 Lord corlys velaryon has offered the hand of his daughter, 322 00:26:01,642 --> 00:26:03,268 the lady laena. 323 00:26:04,311 --> 00:26:06,313 A very strong match, your grace. 324 00:26:07,898 --> 00:26:11,527 I must admit, I don't know laena very well. 325 00:26:12,319 --> 00:26:14,655 I'm sure that she is good and kind, 326 00:26:14,738 --> 00:26:18,575 and that she will enjoy your company, as I have, your grace. 327 00:26:33,841 --> 00:26:35,467 I brought you something. 328 00:26:56,029 --> 00:26:58,157 I asked the stonemasons to mend it. 329 00:27:02,077 --> 00:27:04,037 This is, uh... 330 00:27:04,121 --> 00:27:06,957 A very kind gesture, alicent. 331 00:27:11,086 --> 00:27:12,086 Very kind. 332 00:27:20,429 --> 00:27:22,347 Come. 333 00:27:24,725 --> 00:27:26,727 The hand, your grace. 334 00:27:31,273 --> 00:27:33,150 Your grace, I've called the small council 335 00:27:33,233 --> 00:27:34,443 to an emergency session. 336 00:27:37,154 --> 00:27:39,448 I think it best you hear it directly. 337 00:27:40,824 --> 00:27:42,034 Very well. 338 00:28:12,981 --> 00:28:15,817 - Daemon. - The prince left a missive, 339 00:28:15,901 --> 00:28:17,986 which I believe might explain. 340 00:28:19,029 --> 00:28:21,740 "It is the pleasure of daemon Targaryen, 341 00:28:21,823 --> 00:28:23,617 the prince of dragonstone 342 00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:27,621 and rightful heir to the iron throne, 343 00:28:27,704 --> 00:28:30,540 to announce that he is to take a second wife 344 00:28:30,624 --> 00:28:33,460 in the tradition of old valyria. 345 00:28:33,543 --> 00:28:38,632 She is to assume the title lady mysaria of dragonstone. 346 00:28:38,715 --> 00:28:40,676 Her grace is with child 347 00:28:40,759 --> 00:28:45,931 and is to have a dragon's egg placed in the babe's cradle 348 00:28:46,014 --> 00:28:49,309 in the custom of house Targaryen." 349 00:28:49,393 --> 00:28:53,897 The prince has invited you to his wedding, your grace. 350 00:28:53,981 --> 00:28:57,234 - It is in two days' time. - Gods be good. 351 00:28:57,317 --> 00:28:59,319 Who is lady mysaria? 352 00:28:59,403 --> 00:29:01,323 - We believe... - Daemon's whore. 353 00:29:03,657 --> 00:29:06,827 - This is nothing less than sedition. - I strongly agree, sire. 354 00:29:06,910 --> 00:29:09,121 My brother wishes to provoke me. 355 00:29:09,830 --> 00:29:11,790 To answer is to give him what he wants. 356 00:29:11,873 --> 00:29:14,167 The realm is watching, your grace. 357 00:29:14,251 --> 00:29:15,794 What would you have me do? 358 00:29:15,877 --> 00:29:17,504 Send him to the wall? 359 00:29:18,422 --> 00:29:20,424 Perhaps I could put his head on a spike. 360 00:29:20,507 --> 00:29:22,384 Daemon has seized dragonstone, 361 00:29:22,467 --> 00:29:25,220 has surrounded himself with an army of gold cloaks, 362 00:29:25,304 --> 00:29:27,472 and has now stolen a dangerous weapon. 363 00:29:55,334 --> 00:29:57,419 Assemble a detachment, Otto. 364 00:29:58,587 --> 00:30:00,464 I will go to dragonstone and drag daemon back 365 00:30:00,547 --> 00:30:02,924 - to face justice myself. - Your grace. 366 00:30:04,176 --> 00:30:06,386 My apologies, your grace, but I cannot allow it. 367 00:30:06,470 --> 00:30:08,055 It's too dangerous. 368 00:30:08,138 --> 00:30:10,140 Daemon is without limit. 369 00:30:11,099 --> 00:30:13,268 Let me go to dragonstone. 370 00:30:40,128 --> 00:30:42,547 You're the most comely girl at court. 371 00:30:43,465 --> 00:30:45,675 Why do you destroy yourself? 372 00:30:52,015 --> 00:30:54,184 Will you see the king tonight? 373 00:30:57,104 --> 00:30:58,522 If you wish it. 374 00:31:01,817 --> 00:31:04,778 - Good day, ser criston. - My lady. 375 00:31:04,861 --> 00:31:07,864 I've assembled 20 of your best household guards, my lord hand. 376 00:31:07,948 --> 00:31:10,158 Sir harrold will also join us. 377 00:31:14,371 --> 00:31:17,374 Please look after the hand, ser criston. 378 00:32:37,370 --> 00:32:39,581 Welcome to dragonstone, Otto. 379 00:32:41,958 --> 00:32:45,045 Your occupation of this island is at an end. 380 00:32:46,129 --> 00:32:48,131 You're to relinquish the dragon's egg, 381 00:32:48,215 --> 00:32:49,758 disband your army, 382 00:32:49,841 --> 00:32:51,635 banish your whore, 383 00:32:52,802 --> 00:32:55,388 and leave dragonstone by order of his grace, 384 00:32:55,472 --> 00:32:57,891 - king viserys. - Where is the king? I don't see him. 385 00:32:57,974 --> 00:33:01,811 His grace would never lower himself to entertain such a mummer's farce. 386 00:33:07,192 --> 00:33:08,860 Ser crispin, wasn't it? 387 00:33:08,944 --> 00:33:10,487 Ser criston Cole, my prince. 388 00:33:10,570 --> 00:33:12,697 Ah, yes, apologies. I couldn't recall. 389 00:33:13,114 --> 00:33:15,742 Perhaps my prince recalls when I knocked him off his horse. 390 00:33:17,953 --> 00:33:18,953 Very good. 391 00:33:18,995 --> 00:33:21,915 This is a truly pathetic show, daemon. 392 00:33:21,998 --> 00:33:23,833 Are you so desperate for the king's attention 393 00:33:23,917 --> 00:33:26,461 that you've resorted to skulking about like a common cutpurse? 394 00:33:26,545 --> 00:33:29,214 I'm simply keeping with the traditions of my house, 395 00:33:29,297 --> 00:33:31,049 the same as my brother did for his heir. 396 00:33:31,132 --> 00:33:34,010 Those traditions are for the trueborn children of royalty, 397 00:33:34,094 --> 00:33:36,930 not for bastards fathered on a common whore. 398 00:33:37,514 --> 00:33:39,474 Lady mysaria is to be my wife. 399 00:33:39,558 --> 00:33:40,934 This is an abomination. 400 00:33:41,017 --> 00:33:42,852 With every breath you soil your name, 401 00:33:42,936 --> 00:33:44,729 your house, and your brother's reign. 402 00:33:44,813 --> 00:33:48,024 Our love does not know titles and traditions. 403 00:33:49,317 --> 00:33:51,611 And what of you, men of the city watch? 404 00:33:51,695 --> 00:33:53,196 Aiding the prince in his treason? 405 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,240 The king made me their commander. 406 00:33:55,323 --> 00:33:56,700 They are loyal to me. 407 00:33:57,742 --> 00:33:59,744 You've come for the egg. 408 00:34:01,162 --> 00:34:02,455 Here it is. 409 00:34:03,915 --> 00:34:05,792 Are you mad? 410 00:34:05,875 --> 00:34:08,712 - You'd never survive this. - Well, happily, neither would you. 411 00:34:09,879 --> 00:34:14,759 To chose violence, here, is to declare war against your king. 412 00:34:14,843 --> 00:34:16,052 Wonderful. 413 00:34:17,345 --> 00:34:20,640 Even if it ends in the death of your unborn child and its mother? 414 00:34:59,596 --> 00:35:01,306 All of you, 415 00:35:01,389 --> 00:35:03,391 sheathe the fucking steel. 416 00:36:10,625 --> 00:36:13,670 - What are you doing here, Princess? - Preventing bloodshed. 417 00:36:13,753 --> 00:36:16,381 Ser criston, please escort the Princess to safety. 418 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,800 Take care not to startle syrax, my lords. 419 00:36:19,467 --> 00:36:21,261 She's rather protective of me. 420 00:37:11,603 --> 00:37:13,730 I'm right here, uncle, 421 00:37:15,815 --> 00:37:17,817 the object of your ire, 422 00:37:18,485 --> 00:37:21,362 the reason that you were disinherited. 423 00:37:21,446 --> 00:37:23,740 If you wish to be restored as heir, 424 00:37:23,823 --> 00:37:25,450 you'll need to kill me. 425 00:37:26,659 --> 00:37:27,869 So, do it. 426 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,331 And be done with all this bother. 427 00:39:24,027 --> 00:39:26,988 You announced that we were to be wed? 428 00:39:28,114 --> 00:39:29,741 On the morrow. 429 00:39:31,367 --> 00:39:33,369 And that I was with child. 430 00:39:34,162 --> 00:39:35,747 Your child. 431 00:39:35,830 --> 00:39:39,083 Well, perhaps when we are wed, we can make that true. 432 00:39:39,167 --> 00:39:43,129 I ensured long ago that I would never be threatened by childbirth. 433 00:39:43,212 --> 00:39:46,049 Good. Children can be such irritating creatures. 434 00:39:46,132 --> 00:39:48,760 You swore to protect me, daemon. 435 00:39:50,929 --> 00:39:52,597 Dragonstone is quite secure. 436 00:39:55,141 --> 00:39:59,646 Until the king decides to reclaim his ancestral seat. 437 00:39:59,729 --> 00:40:02,482 His men might not put the prince's head on a spike, 438 00:40:02,565 --> 00:40:04,817 but what would they do with the common whore 439 00:40:04,901 --> 00:40:07,570 he claims he's taken to wife and made with child? 440 00:40:07,654 --> 00:40:09,280 No one will harm you. 441 00:40:10,406 --> 00:40:14,702 I have been sold as property more times than I care to count, 442 00:40:14,786 --> 00:40:18,331 beginning in a homeland I can no longer recall. 443 00:40:19,499 --> 00:40:22,919 Most of my years have been spent living in terror. 444 00:40:23,711 --> 00:40:25,713 You're safe with me, I swear it. 445 00:40:25,797 --> 00:40:27,173 You are Targaryen. 446 00:40:27,256 --> 00:40:30,426 You can afford to play your stupid games with the king, 447 00:40:30,510 --> 00:40:32,512 but I cannot. 448 00:40:33,513 --> 00:40:38,226 I didn't come into your service wanting gold or power 449 00:40:38,309 --> 00:40:39,310 or station. 450 00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:44,315 - I came to you to be liberated. - Liberated. 451 00:40:47,402 --> 00:40:48,611 From what? 452 00:40:49,904 --> 00:40:51,114 Fean 453 00:41:18,307 --> 00:41:20,059 No, please, lord lyonel. 454 00:41:25,940 --> 00:41:28,860 I have come looking for an unencumbered opinion. 455 00:41:28,943 --> 00:41:31,320 That's all I would ever give, your grace. 456 00:41:32,238 --> 00:41:33,573 Ever since my name was read 457 00:41:33,656 --> 00:41:35,783 by the archmaesters at the great council, 458 00:41:35,867 --> 00:41:39,245 I have felt corlys velaryon's envious gaze staring at me 459 00:41:39,328 --> 00:41:40,955 from across the Blackwater. 460 00:41:41,831 --> 00:41:45,251 You sit upon the highest seat in the realm, your grace. 461 00:41:45,334 --> 00:41:47,712 Proud men don't like having to look up. 462 00:41:51,674 --> 00:41:52,842 Laena velaryon. 463 00:41:55,053 --> 00:41:57,430 Lord corlys is your master of ships 464 00:41:58,514 --> 00:42:02,310 and she is the eldest daughter of the wealthiest house in the realm. 465 00:42:02,393 --> 00:42:06,147 She comes from unimpeachable valyrian stock 466 00:42:06,230 --> 00:42:08,858 and she has Targaryen blood. 467 00:42:08,941 --> 00:42:12,028 - What's to mislike? - She is 12. 468 00:42:12,111 --> 00:42:13,529 She will mature. 469 00:42:15,990 --> 00:42:17,617 I never asked to remarry. 470 00:42:18,284 --> 00:42:21,496 As king, you have a claim on all things. 471 00:42:22,371 --> 00:42:23,831 Even those you don't want. 472 00:42:23,915 --> 00:42:26,667 Marriage is not an obligation you can put off for long. 473 00:42:26,751 --> 00:42:29,420 What if I was to reject lord corlys's proposal? 474 00:42:29,504 --> 00:42:32,006 He would not be like to take it well. 475 00:42:32,548 --> 00:42:36,427 I fear nothing short of a direct line to the iron throne would satisfy him. 476 00:42:37,595 --> 00:42:40,014 You should also consider that we find ourselves 477 00:42:40,098 --> 00:42:42,100 on the precipice of war in the stepstones. 478 00:42:43,101 --> 00:42:46,020 And the sea snake holds claim to nearly half the realm's ships. 479 00:42:46,104 --> 00:42:49,190 He would not dare withhold them in the face of the realm's need. 480 00:42:50,566 --> 00:42:53,945 - Who is he to Hector me? - No one, your grace. 481 00:42:55,488 --> 00:42:59,534 But driftmark makes for a better ally than it does an enemy. 482 00:43:00,952 --> 00:43:03,162 The sea snake has made a calculated reach, 483 00:43:03,246 --> 00:43:05,414 a fair play for a man of his position. 484 00:43:07,834 --> 00:43:10,211 If you truly want my unencumbered opinion. 485 00:43:10,294 --> 00:43:11,379 I do. 486 00:43:12,713 --> 00:43:14,882 You should wed laena velaryon, your grace. 487 00:43:15,967 --> 00:43:19,428 Sate lord corlys and fix him at your side, 488 00:43:19,512 --> 00:43:20,972 permanently, as an ally. 489 00:43:26,102 --> 00:43:27,478 Your grace, 490 00:43:27,562 --> 00:43:30,565 the Princess has returned from dragonstone. 491 00:43:30,648 --> 00:43:32,275 Dragonstone? 492 00:43:52,295 --> 00:43:53,504 Your grace. 493 00:43:57,425 --> 00:43:59,594 You disobeyed me. 494 00:43:59,677 --> 00:44:02,680 You fled king's landing without a word 495 00:44:03,764 --> 00:44:07,393 and you acted without the crown's leave. 496 00:44:10,479 --> 00:44:12,690 You are my only heir. 497 00:44:13,900 --> 00:44:15,902 You could've been killed. 498 00:44:19,447 --> 00:44:20,865 May I sit? 499 00:44:32,293 --> 00:44:34,587 You went to dragonstone. 500 00:44:34,670 --> 00:44:36,756 And retrieved the egg without bloodshed. 501 00:44:39,050 --> 00:44:42,261 A feat I'm not sure ser Otto could've accomplished alone. 502 00:44:45,306 --> 00:44:47,266 Yes, well... 503 00:44:52,021 --> 00:44:54,607 I sometimes forget how alike you both were. 504 00:45:04,951 --> 00:45:09,205 Your mother's absence is a wound that will never heal. 505 00:45:10,539 --> 00:45:12,541 Without her, 506 00:45:12,625 --> 00:45:17,129 the red keep has lost a warmth that I dare say it will never recover. 507 00:45:17,213 --> 00:45:20,424 It pleases me to hear you say this. 508 00:45:24,553 --> 00:45:27,848 To know that I'm not alone in my grief. 509 00:45:27,932 --> 00:45:30,351 I wish I had known better 510 00:45:30,434 --> 00:45:32,687 what to say to you in the aftermath. 511 00:45:35,106 --> 00:45:39,068 I struggled to realize that my daughter had so quickly become a woman grown. 512 00:45:43,114 --> 00:45:44,740 But I know 513 00:45:45,366 --> 00:45:48,995 she understands what is now expected of me. 514 00:45:49,078 --> 00:45:51,539 The king must take a new wife. 515 00:45:56,669 --> 00:45:58,879 I could never replace your mother. 516 00:46:01,090 --> 00:46:03,384 No more than I intend to replace you as heir. 517 00:46:05,177 --> 00:46:07,346 But you are my only heir 518 00:46:07,430 --> 00:46:10,641 and our line is vulnerable, too easily ended. 519 00:46:11,726 --> 00:46:13,936 And by marrying again, I may begin to ensure 520 00:46:14,020 --> 00:46:15,438 that we are better defended. 521 00:46:15,521 --> 00:46:16,605 Against whom? 522 00:46:16,689 --> 00:46:18,858 Whomever may dare to challenge us. 523 00:46:25,531 --> 00:46:28,159 I do not wish to make us estranged. 524 00:46:28,993 --> 00:46:30,453 You are the king, 525 00:46:30,995 --> 00:46:34,623 and so, your first duty is to the realm. 526 00:46:37,668 --> 00:46:39,670 Mother would've understood this. 527 00:46:42,298 --> 00:46:43,924 Just as I do. 528 00:47:30,805 --> 00:47:32,807 Good morrow, my lords. 529 00:47:43,984 --> 00:47:47,613 I have decided to take a new wife. 530 00:48:05,965 --> 00:48:07,716 I intend to marry... 531 00:48:14,306 --> 00:48:16,517 The lady alicent hightower... 532 00:48:18,394 --> 00:48:20,396 Before spring's end. 533 00:48:27,111 --> 00:48:28,779 This is an absurdity. 534 00:48:29,864 --> 00:48:32,658 My house is valyrian, 535 00:48:32,741 --> 00:48:34,952 the greatest power in the realm. 536 00:48:36,245 --> 00:48:38,247 And I am your king. 537 00:49:02,855 --> 00:49:04,273 Rhaenyra. 538 00:49:26,629 --> 00:49:30,257 House velaryon's origins reach back to old valyria. 539 00:49:32,259 --> 00:49:34,887 More ancient even than house Targaryen 540 00:49:36,764 --> 00:49:38,766 according to some texts. 541 00:49:40,184 --> 00:49:41,769 But unlike the targaryens, 542 00:49:42,853 --> 00:49:44,855 we were no dragonlords. 543 00:49:46,398 --> 00:49:49,026 For centuries, my house had to scratch out 544 00:49:49,109 --> 00:49:53,113 an existence from the sea with grit and luck. 545 00:49:55,616 --> 00:49:58,035 When I ascended the driftwood throne, 546 00:49:59,203 --> 00:50:00,829 I knew what I wanted. 547 00:50:02,831 --> 00:50:04,833 So I went out and seized it. 548 00:50:06,293 --> 00:50:07,795 Unlike every other lord of the realm, 549 00:50:07,878 --> 00:50:10,923 I can say that I built my house's high seat 550 00:50:11,006 --> 00:50:13,217 with the strength of mine own back. 551 00:50:19,765 --> 00:50:22,434 I've always thought of you and I as having been 552 00:50:22,518 --> 00:50:24,353 made from the same cloth. 553 00:50:33,279 --> 00:50:36,115 I wasn't aware you had a king for a brother. 554 00:50:36,198 --> 00:50:39,702 We're both men who have had to cut our own way through the world. 555 00:50:40,578 --> 00:50:43,581 We've been passed over too often. 556 00:50:46,375 --> 00:50:47,585 Did you call me to driftmark 557 00:50:47,668 --> 00:50:50,045 to remind me of my low standing, lord corlys, 558 00:50:50,129 --> 00:50:52,131 or was there some other reason? 559 00:50:55,884 --> 00:50:58,137 You've heard of the troubles in the stepstones? 560 00:51:01,223 --> 00:51:05,269 Some myrish prince is feeding westerosi sailors to the crabs. 561 00:51:05,352 --> 00:51:08,022 I have been petitioning the king to send my Navy 562 00:51:08,105 --> 00:51:09,815 into the territory, 563 00:51:09,898 --> 00:51:12,067 but he's denied me. 564 00:51:12,151 --> 00:51:14,320 It was never my brother's strongest trait. 565 00:51:14,403 --> 00:51:15,487 What? 566 00:51:16,864 --> 00:51:18,365 Being king. 567 00:51:22,828 --> 00:51:25,205 The crabfeeder is backed by powerful entities 568 00:51:25,289 --> 00:51:28,917 within the free cities who wish to see Westeros weakened. 569 00:51:31,003 --> 00:51:34,673 And the king's failures have allowed him to accumulate strength. 570 00:51:36,467 --> 00:51:38,469 If those shipping lanes fall, 571 00:51:39,511 --> 00:51:41,513 my house will be crippled. 572 00:51:42,348 --> 00:51:44,642 And I will not have driftmark beggared while our king 573 00:51:44,725 --> 00:51:48,228 idles himselfwith feasts, and balls, and tourneys. 574 00:51:48,312 --> 00:51:51,315 I will speak of my brother as I wish. 575 00:51:53,192 --> 00:51:54,318 You will not. 576 00:51:58,113 --> 00:51:59,907 Waiting in the stepstones 577 00:51:59,990 --> 00:52:02,242 is a chance for you to prove your worth 578 00:52:02,326 --> 00:52:04,536 to any who might yet doubt it. 579 00:52:06,205 --> 00:52:08,832 We are the realm's second sons, daemon. 580 00:52:10,292 --> 00:52:12,294 Our worth is not given. 581 00:52:13,837 --> 00:52:15,839 It must be made.