Warning: This text discusses main spoilers for the “Home of the Dragon” season 2 finale, the e-book “Hearth & Blood,” and doubtlessly future episodes of the sequence. Significantly. Listed here are extra daring phrases to warn you about spoilers.
“Home of the Dragon” has been a gradual push and pull of violence. Very similar to how “Recreation of Thrones” was in regards to the return of dragons and magic to the world, so is “Home of the Dragon” in regards to the return of struggle and bloodshed to Westeros. The primary season was principally spent in council rooms the place backstabbing and political scheming planted the seeds of battle and struggle, however not a lot combating befell — aside from when the Crabfeeder mounted a formidable resistance in opposition to the corruption of Westeros and practically introduced the continent to its knees. Relaxation in peace, king.
This present season, nonetheless, has fired on all cylinders. Season 2 confirmed us each the eagerness of some individuals to leap to bloody warfare, but additionally the reluctance of others to let issues cross that line. Daemon has dedicated a number of struggle crimes, whereas Rhaenyra flew all the best way to King’s Touchdown to attempt to keep away from a struggle in a incredible scene invented for the present. Nonetheless, it isn’t like “Home of the Dragon” season 2 was fully devoid of motion, as we acquired the thrilling and fairly bloody Battle at Rook’s Relaxation, which gave us loads of fire-breathing dragon motion.
All this season, “Home of the Dragon” has teased one other big battle, a battle at Harrenhaal the place Groups Black and Inexperienced would meet with all their forces. Up to now, Ser Criston Cole has prevented that confrontation, diverting his forces to Rook’s Relaxation and going through off with a a lot smaller drive. Nonetheless, the season 2 finale units the desk for probably the most epic battle within the Dance of the Dragons and all of “Hearth & Blood” — The Battle Above the Gods Eye.
Prophecies in Home of the Dragon season 2
Within the season 2 finale of “Home of the Dragon,” Helaena sheds any doubt that she is a greenseer, as we see her in Daemon’s imaginative and prescient, totally conscious of her environment inside one other individual’s dream. Then, when her brother Aemond tries to drive her to assist him in battle, she declares ominously that Aemond will die, “swallowed up by the Gods Eye.” Granted, this might simply be a creepy try and scare her brother, who she truly confronts for making an attempt to kill her husband, the king, however possibly it is not. Once more, the episode all however confirms that Helaena can truly see future occasions, or not less than will get eerie visions.
There’s additionally every thing creepy that has been occurring in Daemon’s personal “Luigi’s Mansion” storyline at Harrenhal. Except for simply being a moderately entertaining, unnerving, bizarre, and at instances humorous subplot, there are hints of prophecy in Daemon’s goals and his dealings with Alys Rivers, who has ominously teased Daemon’s personal doom. Within the season 2 finale, Daemon has yet one more imaginative and prescient after touching the weirwood tree at Harrenhal.
Taken on their very own, this stuff do not essentially imply something, and “Gods Eye” may imply many issues. However e-book readers know that Helaena simply spoiled one other huge a part of “Hearth & Blood.”
The Battle Above the Gods Eye defined
Greater than some other location, “Home of the Dragon” season 2 actually needed the viewers to know that Harrenhal is a particular and crucial place — and it’s. Within the books, that is the positioning of Aegon the Conqueror’s first monumental victory, when he roasted Harren Hoare (generally known as Harren the Black) and his whole home alive within the tallest tower of Harrenhal, initially meant to be the largest and most majestic of castles in all of Westeros. However as seen in “Home of the Dragon,” the ruins of Harrenhal appear to deliver nothing however bother to whoever takes up residence there, as if cursed by Harren the Black.
In “Hearth & Blood,” this culminates within the Battle Above the Gods Eye, a battle which befell above Harrenhal and the close by Gods Eye, the biggest lake within the Seven Kingdoms. When Daemon challenged Aemond to a duel, he waited at Harrenhal for the present King Regent to cease burning the riverlands and are available face him. When the 2 lastly began combating, it was a battle that lit up the sky, and each the 2 riders are believed to have perished within the battle alongside their dragons — Caraxes and Vhagar — as they fell right down to the lake under.
In addition to the prophecies and omens, “Home of the Dragon” has accomplished one thing fascinating to tease the 2 dragonriders as being on equal footing. We have seen Aemond as form of dangerous at commanding outdated Vhagar. In the meantime, Daemon is a wonderful fighter and dragonrider, however Caraxes is just half Vhagar’s dimension. Because of this the 2 are prone to be equally as robust when going through one another, ensuing within the loss of life of the 2 coolest anime characters in “Home of the Dragon.”
“Home of the Dragon” will return for season 3 at a yet-to-be-announced date.