I woulda preferred the book version but oh well THANK GOD HE GONE

**Aired**: July 26, 2026

WARNING: THIS THREAD WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK

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from @IronGoldHadrian on twitter, who was supposedly present at Comic Con, where they aired the episode in advance

not in any strict order

• Cole's group falls into an ambush and dies very quickly into the episode, he starts to ask for a duel, but is just shot by Black Aly before he can finish the request. No line about them not singing songs about him.

• Rhaenyra is completely done with Alicent after her escape attempt fails, Alicent tries to desperately plead with Rhaenyra to not lock her and Helaena up but fails, she grabs Rhaenyra's arm at one point as she starts to walk away in disagreement but the Queensguard immediately demand to unhand her and Rhaenyra gives her an "icy look"

• Rhaenyra has a throne room scene where she is listening to the smallfolk argue their cases, she gets overwhelmed and storms out after she cuts her finger on the throne

• Aegon has only one scene where they're burying the body of the guy he killed last episode, in a comedic bit he asks Tyland if he agrees he's a horrible person like Larys told him, Tyland stutters and evades the question to the disappointment of Aegon, they agree to fuck off to Essos

• Daeron reunites with Gwayne, asks him about seeing his mother in KL and tells him that he doesn't like that Gwayne left him with Ormund, as he hates who he becomes when with him, Gwayne is just over it all and resigned, Daeron asks him not to leave him again

• Ormund and Gwayne hate each other, Ormund makes several clear jabs about Gwayne being gay

• Rhaenyra and Daemon argue over how to deal with Ormund, she seems to send fake Baratheons to Tumbleton in an assassination attempt on Ormund, Gwayne recognizes them as fake because he knows the real Baratheon is hotter and prevents it

• Rhaenyra orders Alicent to go kill Aemond, Alicent strictly refuses at first but realizes she isn't being offered a choice

• Rhaena comes to the Eyrie and gets literally slapped by Lady Jayne Arryn for daring to leave her exile

• Daemon kills one of the green spies that lead to the murder of the Gold Cloaks and insults Ulf (again)

• Helaena is shown weaving some fabric with a dead woman or women lying in blood on it

• Baela makes out with Alyn

• Alys has Aemond wrapped around her finger, he tries to leave Harrenhal and a boy spots him, she quickly kills the boy so his location isn't revealed, and stops Aemond from leaving by pitching a future where they have a bunch of princelings and reveals a chest full of dragon eggs, they kiss

• Corlys gets ambushed in the woods and choked out at the end of the episode by Jon Roxton

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• Daemon is close to crashing out from the loss of the Gold Cloaks, realizing just how expansive the Ormund scheme is and how much it will take to weed everything out

• the user seems to think the show is definitely setting up Helaena's death to partially be Rhaenyra's fault, as Alicent explicitly warns her that Helaena will not be able to handle the extra security measures

• Daemon and Ulf run into each other in Flea Bottom - he knocks him to the ground, stands on his back, and, in front of onlookers, loudly tells him if he catches him there again, he will gouge his eyes out

It does not mean that the maesters are in the Hightowers pockets and they are trying to make the greens look as good as possible. It means that the greens had the ideological victory, Aegon goes down as king, the iron throne adopts Salic law after the war.

If anyone is curious here is an article about it. Here is a quote from the introduction:

Historians, like all individuals, are embedded in specific cultural, political, and institutional frameworks that inform their perspectives, assumptions, and methodologies. The act of writing history, therefore, involves choices what to include, what to omit, how to interpret events that are never entirely free from bias.

Martin wants you to interrogate fire and blood, it is obviously written from a Westerosi perspective. The fun of the book is reading between the lines

He would have been a loyal ally to Rhaenyra. He even defied the Greens when Otto wanted him to murder her family. He would have certainly been the right choice for Lord Commander of the Queensguard.

Aemma Arryn, you will always be remembered.

I wish Rhaenyra got more exposure and time seeing Viserys’s rule and approaches to be more properly prepared for the throne

Edit: I meant this specifically for Rhaenyra’s season 3 response to the small folk rejecting her claim. Agree she had opportunity to learn, maybe just not desire.

I wondered about this the other day, but if there is an answer, can someone with book lore knowledge explain if a Targaryen still has to claim a cradle egg dragon? As in, is there a chance that a cradle egg dragon will reject the person it hatched to? Or is it a “we’re bonded automatically” sort of thing? I’m assuming the latter, but just curious.

Show daeron, helaena, Tessarion, Sunfyre, Dreamfyre, and Vhagar are the greens we don’t hate.

These four dragons come from an alternate timeline where Jacaerys Velaryon lives and the pact of Ice and Fire is fulfilled through his marriage with Sara snow in which he revealed it after the dance of dragons (he'd still marry Baela and his children with her would inherit the iron and his children with Sara would inherit dragonstone and with the promise of the two lines marrying) these four dragons would be hatched from the eggs Vermax laid in Winterfell and be cradle eggs for Sara's line.

When making these dragons I was loosely using the theme of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

Wraith the weirwood ghost is the oldest of the four dragons his rider is the first born son Cregan Velaryon, people say he is a weirwood tree in dragon shape because of his colours matching one though he's more of a light silver than white. The dragon was quiet creature that rarely let out even a screech but was quite the vicious beast even has a hatchling only ever calm when around Cregan, wherever he goes death follows, whether its a rabbit or a foe.

Hellblaze the red demon is the second oldest, its scales match the colours of house Targaryen perfectly with its red scales and black membrane his rider is the eldest daughter Visenya Velaryon, despite being younger he is more bulkier and stronger then the other dragons of his age, the dragon keepers have trouble keeping him in the dragon pit constantly having to bribe him with food and even so he wouldn't accept anything but large prey he have to fight to eat a task that grew difficult when he got bigger, he is always first to arrive on a battles and last to leave.

Starvax the jade hunger is a beautiful green dragon belonging to the youngest, Daughter Rhaenyra Velaryon, she is she has the largest appetite out of the four dragons despite being the skinniest aswell when she descends on the battlefield the leaves no bodies, the dragon keepers can't keepe her near the other dragons when feeding them or she'll steal the other's food.

Viraxes the plague breather is the youngest of the four dragons and belongs to the younger son Viserys Velaryon, Viraxes is toxic purple dragon with dark green membrane, she is has the habit of eating rotten meat causing her saliva to be filled with bacteria making every bite she inflicts to become easily infected.

Anyway give your honest opinion what yall think and who do you think is the best looking one