Rhaenyra and Alicent’s Friendship Fails
Being the inheritor to the throne is a heavy burden, however fortunately Rhaenyra has her outdated good friend Alicent Hightower (Emily Carey) to lean on. Alicent is the daughter of Ser Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans), who has been King Viserys I’s devoted Hand for years, so the women have at all times been shut. Unfortunately their relationship begins to collapse for a number of causes.
For starters, Ser Otto convinces King Viserys to marry Alicent after the dying of Aemma. Then Alicent turns into scandalized upon studying that Rhaenyra had intercourse together with her bodyguard Ser Criston Cole (Fabian Frankel). That’s not even to say the truth that Rhaenyra appears weirdly shut together with her Uncle Daemon. When Alicent provides delivery to Viserys’ first son, Aegon, Rhaenyra’s standing is formally threatened and the women’ friendship is strained greater than ever.
Daemon and Corlys’ War within the Stepstones
As all of this is happening, Prince Daemon Targaryen is actually living out a Michael Bay action film. After his brother angrily banished him from court docket, Daemon teamed up with Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint), lord of Driftmark and proprietor of essentially the most highly effective fleet of ships on the earth, to go combat a warfare within the island chain off the southeast coast of Westeros referred to as “The Stepstones.”
A gang of upjumped pirates calling themselves the “Triarchy” are colonizing the Stepstones and jeopardizing commerce to the Seven Kingdoms. Daemon and the Velaryons make fast work of them and their grotesque chief referred to as The Crabfeeder. When Daemon returns to King’s Landing sporting the Crabfeeder’s crown, the court docket is worried he may need sights on usurping his brother. Instead, nevertheless, Daemon palms the crown over to Viserys and acknowledges him because the one true king. From that second on, Viserys and Daemon take pleasure in a a lot happier relationship.
Rhaenyra and Laenor’s Wedding
Viserys convinces the cussed Rhaenyra that a part of being his inheritor means getting married and having a household, whether or not she needs to or not. After a lot arguing, Rhaenyra lastly consents to marry Corlys’ son Ser Laenor Velaryon (Theo Nate). He’s an amazing match politically as a consequence of his success within the Stepstones, his Valyrian blood, and his father’s navy. He’s additionally an amazing match romantically since he has a devoted male lover named Joffrey Lonmouth (Solly McLeod) and he makes clear that Rhaenyra can proceed her dalliances with whomever she chooses.
Of course, weddings hardly ever go properly on the earth of Game of Thrones and Rhaenyra and Laenor’s wedding turns out to be another bloodbath. When Joffrey will get somewhat too conversant in Ser Criston, intimating that he is aware of he’s certainly one of Rhaenyra’s paramours, Ser Criston lashes out and kills the person. Even earlier than that second of violence, Alicent makes waves by arriving to the marriage in an excellent inexperienced gown – making her allegiance to her House Hightower clear and upstaging Rhaenyra on her marriage ceremony day.
