Outdoors of Rhaenyra, Alicent, and their youngsters, there are another vital threads within the Targayren household feud that can play into the “Home of the Dragon” Season 2 plot. Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Finest), the so-called “Queen Who By no means Was,” stays neutral for a lot of Season 1 however finally sides with Rhaenyra. This determination is due partly to her having additionally been handed over as soon as for the throne due to her gender, and partly as a result of she disagrees with the Hightower coup. On her approach out of King’s Touchdown, Rhaenys has a chance to wipe the Greens out atop her dragon Meleys, however she lets them stay, retaining a certain quantity of neutrality — at the very least for now.
Rhaenys is a part of Home Velaryon because the spouse of Lord Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint), making Rhaenyra’s youngsters her grandchildren (although her son did not truly father them). As the opposite nice Valyrian household in Westeros, the Velaryons wield immense energy of their very own. They aspect with Rhaneyra’s “Blacks” due to their household ties, regardless of Daemon having beforehand beheaded Corlys’ youthful brother Vaemond (Wil Johnson) when he challenged the parentage of Rhaenyra’s youngsters.
With “Home of the Dragon” Season 2 kicking off, the stage is ready for a warfare that is positive to devastate Westeros and go away the Targaryen household a specter of its former greatness. However hey, it will make for nice TV, proper?