Prince Daemon (Matt Smith) likes to break rules. But this time, for once, he hasn’t committed any crime. Image: HBO.
Warning, spoilers: The following article contains potential spoilers for House of the Dragon Season 2, Episode 6 The common people
and the underlying book template Fire & Blood
by Author George RR Martin.
The lore, or rather the background story of the Game of Thrones universe, is complex. Series creator George RR Martin has been working on his fantasy masterpiece for 30 years now and has filled several thousand pages of the book during this time.
The American author has invented countless kings, dynasties and dragonsand – if he was dissatisfied – discarded it again. With all the names and complicated subplots, it is difficult for TV adaptations in particular to portray everything in detail. Game of Thrones was no exception and simply threw entire subplots overboard or brought different characters together.
However, simply breaking the author’s established rules is a different matter. This is what happened in House of the Dragon with a rule about the Targaryen dragons that George RR Martin had only recently established. We reveal what it is about.
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Where the dragons live
In the latest episode The common people
Rhaena Targaryen (Phoebe Campbell) learns that a wild, untamed dragon roams the Vale of the Arryn family. The series suggests that it is the dragon Sheep Thief. In the course of the book, this gets Fire & Blood
a rider, but not as depicted in the series.
According to author George RR Martin, dragons do not actually live in the Riverlands or the Vale. As the author recently on his private blog
The three wild dragons mentioned in Fire & Blood have their lairs on Dragonstone. The others can be found in the dragon pit in King’s Landing or in the deep caves beneath Dragonmount.
Luke flies Arrax to Storm’s End and Jace to Winterfell, but the dragons would not have flown there on their own except under very special circumstances. There are no dragons hunting in the Riverlands, or the Vale, or roaming the Northl ands or the mountains of Dorne.
George R. R. Martin
The author posted the corresponding blog entry on July 11, just a week and a half before the episode was released. Should this statement therefore be understood as criticism of the series or is the timing just a coincidence? The conflict between the book canon and the series is certainly interesting.
In addition, the series has a completely different problem with the dragon Sheep ThiefBecause as it currently looks, House of the Dragon is completely ignoring its actual rider, Nettle. The character has not yet appeared in the series. Her role as Sheepstealer’s rider will probably be merged with that of Rhaena Targaryen, who still needs a dragon.
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