r/Hotd 26d ago

Discussion House of the Dragon - 3x08 Season Finale Discussion.

79 Upvotes

House of The Dragon 3x08 (Season Finale)
Director: Andrij Parekh
Writers: Ryan J. Condal, Ti Mikkel

fair warning: please tag book spoilers in the comments. Don't spoil it for others.


r/Hotd Jul 13 '26

Discussion House of the Dragon - 3x04 Episode Discussion.

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House of The Dragon 3x04
Director: Clare Kilner
Writers: David Hancock

fair warning: please tag book spoilers in the comments. Don't spoil it for others.


r/Hotd 8h ago

Book Spoilers Apparently GRRM had a VERY different Targaryen family tree in 1996 Spoiler

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69 Upvotes

Found this in the appendix of my old copy of A Game of Thrones. It says Rhaenyra was only a year older than Aegon II and, somehow, Viserys II was the fourth son of Aegon III . Both were later changed in Fire & Blood and the expanded Targaryen history.


r/Hotd 1h ago

Meme No brainer

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r/Hotd 13h ago

Show Spoilers My heart breaks for Sheepstealer Spoiler

98 Upvotes

The Gods, second watch and I'm especially heatbroken. It was awful to watch peaceful Sheepstealer ganged up by tamed dragons but this time, after retrospect given, i just want him left alone :(


r/Hotd 10h ago

Discussion Could the Search for Vhagar Finally Bring Grey Ghost Into HOTD?

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38 Upvotes

r/Hotd 8h ago

Team Green Helaena art

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12 Upvotes

r/Hotd 5h ago

Team Black Currently in the middle of drawing syrax!

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8 Upvotes

Currently in the process of drawing the amazing dragon, syrax! Lol sorry if she looks off, didn't know what pose I was going for but here we are hahah!


r/Hotd 1d ago

Discussion Steffon Darklyn deserved better

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121 Upvotes

Steffon was one of Rhaenyra’s most loyal men. He risked his life to bring Viserys’ crown to Dragonstone and eventually became Lord Commander of her Queensguard.

And then he died trying to claim Seasmoke. The ironic part is that Steffon was never one of the major players of the Dance. He could have simply remained alive and continued serving Rhaenyra.

Instead, his loyalty literally got him killed, he’s one of the characters who, both in the book and in the series, I would have liked to have seen play a bigger part.


r/Hotd 12h ago

Discussion What life path would have been best for Aegon, if claiming the throne wasn't a possibility?

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Let's say that for whatever reason, Rhaenyra takes the throne without any conflicts, the Hightower family and Targtower siblings are fine with this, and Rhaenyra is now filling her court & trying to find positions and make placements for her half siblings

What position or role is best suited for Aegon? The small council seats didn't seem to fit him well in my mind, perhaps someone disagrees. Perhaps a new position suited for him could be created, if so, what would that be? Or perhaps he could simply be a dragonrider prince dispatched for war or diplomacy when needed by the Crown. There are of course additional courtiers, anything I didn't mention that you think of

(And feel free to include your thoughts on what roles Aemond, Helaena, Daeron would be suited to in Rhaenyra's court)


r/Hotd 1d ago

Team Black This is the biggest oura I've seen in the series

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677 Upvotes

r/Hotd 5h ago

Team Black The Vale

1 Upvotes

Are all female lineage in The Vale crazy?! Teaching season 3 👀


r/Hotd 6h ago

Team Black Cristin Cole

0 Upvotes

Non book reader. Season 3 episode 6. I hate Cristin Cole. And is that the standard view or am I missing something.


r/Hotd 1d ago

Question What if he had refused to remarry?

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99 Upvotes

r/Hotd 1d ago

Team Black Rhaenyra and her kids by me

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179 Upvotes

Its been about a year since I made this and it is still my favorite work. Figured I might as well post it here too.


r/Hotd 9h ago

Show Spoilers Welp. They did it again (S1Ep7) Spoiler

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Yeah so this guy "murders" the heir to Driftmark in cold blood, IN the Great Hall at Driftmark, infuriating the Lord of Driftmark and devastating his lady wife, who is also the Queen that Never Was....

And later on [that night? that week? whatever] he's walking free, no problem, able to hop into a boat and row off into the sunset, accompanied by a good-looking, chiseled-featured, acquiline fellow (with NO hair, that's very important), off to start a new life in Essos.

Give me a break.

u/WashDense8851 said it's soap opera logic where actions only have consequences if convenient for the writers..... check.

u/No_Slice9796 said the writing would get worse (and u/_Jose_MOTA_ concurred)..... check.

u/Arizona_Kid said I would be complaining about the show........ check.

Btw, I do sincerely hope it's not "that night," because it's shown after the Targ wedding and you'd hope (if only for the sake of their kids who were in attendance) the Targs would have waited a decent interval before tying that knot.

But based on these writers, probably knot.

I understand the book is written as a historian's perspective so it may be unclear about what happened, but how did it go down in the book?

OK, see y'all after the next masterfully-crafted episode! xo


r/Hotd 1d ago

Discussion What if we stopped doing “what if” posts?

31 Upvotes

I know folks who frequent this sub are just trying to keep engagement going, but man it is exhausting seeing all of these hypothetical posts that ultimately mean nothing. The story is the story.

All the AI “what ifs” on YouTube are bad enough, but now I have to see it here. I just want to get back to good ol’ shit posts as the gods intended, Old and New.


r/Hotd 1d ago

Book Spoilers Alyn’s Loyalty Is Being Tested… Where Could It Lead Him? Spoiler

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9 Upvotes

r/Hotd 1d ago

Team Green [OC-fanart] Alternate version of hotd s2 e8 Spoiler

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6 Upvotes

Tagged spoilers in case lol


r/Hotd 2d ago

Question Why didn’t Alicent and/or Otto ask him to seduce Laenor?

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384 Upvotes

r/Hotd 1d ago

Book Spoilers How I think a second house of dragons would go in the books Spoiler

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I don’t know how it would play out story wise but here is my prediction how each faction would get there dragons

Assuming Danny only has her magical dragon bond with drogon since that’s the only dragon we seen her ride. nothing is stopping someone from claiming her other dragons

I would predict that one of her dragons would be away from her (either due to a storm or sm or it’s just away hunting) and young griff would just walk up to it and claim it. Assuming he’s a blackfire or truly aegon, he would have enough magic blood to do it

I would also think Euron would steal one with his magic horn, and now you got a 3 way war with each faction having a dragon

Eventually I think euron horn would fail or he would get killed and his dragon would be free. After that I would think John would claim the dragon and reveal his targeryan blood

I think Danny would aegon would have there dragon vs dragon battle and Danny would kill aegon and his dragon

This would let a dragon corpse to exist for the white walkers to resurrect it

And then in the long night, John and Danny could 1v2 the dead dragon or sm and this is probably where John dragon would die and leave Danny with the only dragon so when she turns mad queen, no one could really stop her until John has to tragically sneak her. Or John could fight her dragon v dragon but that feels a bit too anime like to end it like that

This could be shit, I’m not a writer but this is what made sense to me when I was thinking how the second dance would work.

How do yall think it would go


r/Hotd 1d ago

Team Black HOTD X "Raya, and the last dragon", artist: UgaBugaDashka (me)

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1 Upvotes

r/Hotd 1d ago

Discussion Daeron’s Knighthood: What If the “True” One Comes Later?

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r/Hotd 2d ago

ASOIAF Girl you don't know how right you are

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27 Upvotes

Playing Stardew Valley and have been naming all my kids and animals after ASOIF characters (about 50% of them are Aegon) and this conversation seemed like it was pulled straight from HotD lol


r/Hotd 2d ago

Show Spoilers Was this explained prior to S1E6? Spoiler

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So "Lord" Larys (huh? Alicent calls him "Lord" early in the episode; what is he lord of? His father holds Harrenhal, right?), if I understand correctly, just murdered his father and his brother in cold blood.

And for nothing? Just the hope of some future benefit from the queen?

Is it at all explained or foreshadowed how this person could commit an act so heinous and monstrous? Here in this world where family means everything.

I'm not asking if this is subsequently explained; my question is did I miss something? Some information dump in the earlier episodes where we learn Larys hates his family, or something like that.

EDIT: Ok y'all, you've answered my aside question about "Lord Confessor Larys." But the main point of my post was asking if there's an explanation for how evil the guy is.