GOT – House Of The Dragon Season Prepper #1

The CKC is Back Babyyy and so is Game of Thrones… well almost. In this podcast Jason and Cristina discuss what we know so far about the new GOT series: House Of The Dragon. We go over what characters we will soon grow to love or hate, who is acting in these roles, character background stories, locations, and of course Dragons.

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Podcast Notes –

The story of House Targaryen will be told. House of the Dragon, the prequel to Game of Thrones, is coming to HBO and HBO Max.

About:

Based on Martin’s book Fire & Blood, the series will tell the story of House Targaryen (a.k.a. the House that gave us the Mother of Dragons, Daenerys Targaryen) and take place 300 years before the events of Game of Thrones.

The Dragon crew begin filming April 5 in Los Angeles, London, and Spain. HBO and HBO Max chief content officer Casey Bloys told TVLine that HOD showrunners (Sapochnik & Condal) have drafts of scripts for all 10 episodes of the first season.

“House of the Dragon has been in development for several years (though the title has changed a couple of times during that process),” Martin wrote on his blog in response to news of the series pickup. “It was actually the first concept I pitched to HBO when we started talking about a successor show, way back in the summer of 2016.” Expected – April 2022.
Behind the Scenes:

Showrunners: Miguel Sapochnik & Ryan Condal
Co-Creators: George R.R. Martin & Ryan Condal (Colony, Hercules)
Composer: Ramin Djawadi (GOT, Westworld)
Executive Producers: Martin, Vince Gerardis, Sara Lee Hess, Ron Schmidt
Directors:
• Miguel Sapochnik (6 GOT episodes, won Emmy for “Battle of the Bastards” (Long Night – nominated), Best Drama Series (S8 exec. Producer)
• Clare Kilner (The Alienist: Angel of Darkness, The Wedding Date)
• Geeta V. Patel (Meet the Patels, The Witcher)
• Greg Yaitanes (Banshee, House)

CAST:

NEW FACES & PLACES

Name Title/ Position Dragon Actor
1 Viserys Targaryen King Balerion
“The Black Dread” Paddy Considine
2 Rhaenerys Targaryen Princess Syrax Emma D’Arcy
3 Daemon Targaryen Prince Caraxes
“The Blood Wyrm” Matt Smith
4 Aegon II King Sunfyre, “The Golden”
5 Otto Hightower Hand of the King Rhys Ifans
6 Alicent Hightower Daughter of Otto,
Viserys I 2nd wife Olivia Cooke
7 Corlys Velaryon Lord Steve Toussaint
8 Rhaenys Velaryon Princess Eve Best
9 Mysaria Sonoya Mizuno
10 Cristen Cole Fabien Frankel

King Viserys Targaryen: Paddy Considine
(HBO’s The Third Day and The Outsider)
King of Seven Kingdoms – Viserys I (103-129 AC) was chosen by the lords of Westeros to succeed the Old King, Jaehaerys Targaryen, at the Great Council at Harrenhal. A warm, kind, and decent man, Viserys only wishes to carry forward his grandfather’s legacy, but as we’ve learned from GOT, good men do not necessarily make for great kings. His death in 129 began a great struggle of succession between his eldest child Rhaenyra and his first-born son, Aegon.
Dragon: Balerion, “The Black Dread” (born in Valyria, the last living dragon to have seen the Freehold which the Targaryens left 12 years before the Doom). Black-scaled with black wings and black fire (burned so hot it melted the stone towers of Harrenhal). Died at 200 years old in 94 AC.

Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen: Emma D’Arcy
(Truth Seekers)
King Viserys first-born child. She is of pure Valyrian blood, and she is a dragonrider. Many would say that Rhaenyra was born with everything…but she was not born a man. First-born child of Viserys first wife – Aemma Arryn – who died in childbirth with her second child, a son (also died). Rhaenyra was beautiful and beloved by her father and the people and was nicknamed, “The Realm’s Delight”. As she grew older, she became headstrong and competed with her ambitious stepmother, Alicent. Her followers were called “The Blacks”.
Dragon: Syrax – young, yellow scaled

Prince Daemon Targaryen: Matt Smith
(The Crown, Doctor Who)
The younger brother of King Viserys I and heir to the throne, Daemon is a peerless warrior and a dragonrider who possesses the true blood of the dragon. “Mad, bad, and dangerous – it is said that whenever a Targaryen is born, the gods toss a coin in the air…” A skilled warrior and denizen of disreputable Flea Bottom establishments. Rumored to have taken his teenage niece Rhaenyra’s virginity and was sent into exile by his brother. Years later, he would marry Rhaenyra and upon the death of Viserys, he crowned his own wife, which began the bloody civil war, known as the Dance of the Dragons.
Dragon: Caraxes, “The Blood Wyrm” – lean but fearsome, red

King Aegon II
(129–131 AC) Viserys I’s eldest son by Alicent, married his sister.
Dragon: Sunfyre, “the Golden.”

Otto Hightower: Rhys Ifans
(Notting Hill, The Amazing Spider-Man)
Hand of the King. Who loyally and faithfully serves both his king and his realm. As the Hand sees it, the greatest threat to the realm is the king’s brother, Daemon, and his position as heir to the throne

Alicent Hightower: Olivia Cooke
(Ready Player One)
The daughter of Otto Hightower, the Hand of the King, and the most comely woman in the Seven Kingdoms. She was raised in the Red Keep, close to the king and his innermost circle; she possesses both a courtly grace and a keen political acumen. Viserys I’s second wife (whose followers would see Aegon crowned, were called “the Greens” after a green gown the queen wore during a great tourney where Rhaenyra wore traditional Targaryen black/red).

Lord Corlys Velaryon: Steve Toussaint
(It’s a Sin, Doctor Who)
AKA: “The Sea Snake”. The Lord of House Velaryon, a Valyrian bloodline as old as House Targaryen, “The Sea Snake,” is the most famed nautical adventurer in the history of Westeros. He built his house into a powerful seat that is even richer than the Lannisters and that claims the largest navy in the world.

Princess Rhaenys Velaryon: Eve Best
(Nurse Jackie, The King’s Speech)
A dragonrider and wife to Lord Corlys Velaryon, “The Queen Who Never Was” was passed over as heir to the throne at the Great Council because the realm favored her cousin, Viserys, simply for being male.

Mysaria: Sonoya Mizuno
(Ex Machina, Crazy Rich Asians)
A foreign-born dancing girl, she came to Westeros with nothing. But she rose to become Daemon’s most trusted ally (heir to the throne).

Ser Criston Cole: Fabien Frankel
Of Dornish descent, Ser Criston is the common-born son of the steward to the Lord of Blackhaven. He has no claim to land or titles; all he has to his name is his honor and his preternatural skill with a sword.
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Ser Laenor Velaryon
Married his reluctant cousin Rhaenyra, who remarked to her father, “My half-brothers would be more to his taste.”
Dragon: Seasmoke

Rhaenys Targaryen and Lord Corlys Velaryon
Parents of Laenor Velaryon. She was known as The Queen Who Never Was, because she was passed over as heir to the throne in favor of her uncle. Corlys was known as “The Sea Snake,” because of his prowess at sea.

Harwin Strong (aka “Breakbones”)
Son of Lord Lyonel Strong and heir to Harrenhal, he was Rhaenyra’s lover while she was married to Laenor.

Princes Jacaerys “Jace,” Lucerys “Luke,” and Joffrey “Joff” Velaryon
Rhaenyra and Laenor’s children, though rumored to have been fathered by Strong because they had dark hair like Strong, while cousins Laenor and Rhaenyra both had the Targaryen light silver/gold hair.
Dragons (respectively): Vermax, Arrax, and Tyraxes.

Helaena
Aegon II’s sister-wife, had three children with Aegon.
Dragon: Dreamfyre

Jaehaera & Jaehaerys (twins) and Maelor (younger brother)
The offspring of Aegon II and Helaena.
Aegon III
(131–157 AC) – the son of Daemon and Rhaenyra Targaryen, he ruled after his uncle Aegon II, and at a very young age, married his cousin Jaehaera, who died young. His rule marked the end of the Dance of Dragons. He had five children by his second wife, Daenaera Velaryon. As a child, he grew melancholy after escaping a naval attack by mounting his dragon, but leaving his brother Viserys behind and believing that he had died. The brothers reunited later in life.
Dragon: Stormcloud

Mushroom
A fool in the courts of Viserys I Targaryen, Aegon II Targaryen, Rhaenyra Targaryen, and Aegon III Targaryen. His accounts of his days at court teemed with tales of debauchery and scandal.

Dragonseeds – Nettles, Hugh the Hammer, and Ulf the White
Purportedly bastard Targaryen offspring. They each claimed dragons and fought for Rhaenyra, though Hugh and Ulf later switched allegiance.

Prince Qoren Martell
Dornish ruler who supported the Triarchy (an alliance of the Free Cities of Myr, Lys, and Tyrosh) in a war for the Stepstones.

When it Takes Place
Set 300 years before the events of Game of Thrones, the series tells the story of a turbulent period for House Targaryen, one that set sibling against sibling and dragon against dragon. The Dance of the Dragons was a war of succession fought from 129 to 131 AC — that is, after Aegon I’s conquest of Westeros. The point of contention: who should rule on the Iron Throne, of course.

“If you’d like to know a bit more of what the show will be about… well, I can’t actually spill those beans,” Martin teased in his blog, “but you might want to pick up a copy of two anthologies I did with Gardner Dozois, Dangerous Women and Rogues, and then move on to Archmaester Gyldayn’s history, Fire & Blood.”

The Big Conflict
The Targaryen civil war was a conflict over primogeniture, the system of inheritance by a firstborn child; often, the first-born son. A lord’s first child will inherit the castle and lands of his or her father over an older sibling no matter what his or her aptitude for governance compared to a sibling’s abilities. The Targaryens generally followed primogeniture, though there were exceptions, as during the rule of King Jaehaerys I.
When King Jaehaerys I’s eldest son, Prince Aemon, died, he left a daughter, Rhaenys. King Jaehaerys I then chose his next eldest son, Prince Baelon, to be new Prince of Dragonstone and heir to the throne rather than bestowing the honor on his granddaughter, a move that even Queen Alysanne disapproved of. When Baelon died unexpectedly — as well as Queen Alysanne and one of their daughters — grief-stricken Jaehaerys convened the Great Council to vote on succession, and the council chose Baelon’s son Viserys instead of Rhaenys’ son Laenor.
During his reign, Viserys had named Rhaenyra, his daughter by his first wife, as his heir, but upon Viserys’ death, his eldest son, Aegon, by his second wife instead ascended the throne, causing a great rift in the kingdom. By this time, Rhaenyra was also married to her uncle, the “rogue prince” Daemon Targaryen who had long sought the throne himself.
Fire & Blood recounts the battles between the siblings, their spouses, their offspring, their loyal followers, and, most viciously, the Targaryen dragons.

Likely Locations
Much of the drama takes place in King’s Landing and Dragonstone, but the fighting and bloodshed primarily happens in the Riverlands (led by House Tully at Riverrun). Many of the bloodiest battles occur around Harrenhal and The God’s Eye.
• King’s Landing – the capitol
• Dragonstone – House Targaryen’s family home
• Driftmark – House Velaryon’s family home
• Dorne – The southernmost kingdom in Westeros, it was not under Targaryen rule during the Dance of the Dragons.
• Oldtown – kept safe the Targaryen riches during the Dance of the Dragons
• Lys – one of the Free Cities of Essos; known for its brothels
• The Stepstones – the broken land bridge between Dorne and Essos
• Harrenhal – the massive fortress above Gods Eye melted by Balerion the Dread.

FUN FACTS

On his personal blog, George R.R. Martin stated: “I expect to be involved in [House of the Dragons] to some extent…and, who knows, if things work out, I may even be able to script a few episodes, as I did for the first four seasons of GAME OF THRONES. But… let me make this perfectly clear… I am not taking on any scripts until I have finished and delivered WINDS OF WINTER. Winter is still coming, and WINDS remains my priority, as much as I’d love to write an episode of HOUSE.”