Vhagar, who’s solely talked about as a legendary beast in “Home of the Dragon” Season 1 earlier than she makes her display debut, is without doubt one of the greatest dragons in your entire “Sport of Thrones” universe … and at any time when she’s on display, she positively does look fairly big. (In “A Son for a Son,” Matt Smith’s Daemon Targaryen refers to her, winningly, as a “hoary outdated b*tch.”) Once we do first see Vhagar in “The Princess and the Queen,” the sixth episode of Season 1, it is throughout a particularly tragic second as her rider, Laena Velaryon (Nanna Blondell), is experiencing a lethal childbirth — and chooses to die by dragonfire somewhat than succumb to her accidents. After that, Vhagar is supposed to move to Laena’s eldest daughter Baela (performed as a baby by Shani Smethurst), however she’s stolen at nighttime by younger Aemond Targaryen (Leo Ashton); within the altercation over the dragon, Aemond loses a watch after being struck by his nephew Lucerys Velaryon (Harvey Sadler).
That is all to say that, years later, Aemond and Lucerys — now performed by Ewan Mitchell and Elliott Grihault — meet once more on dragonback, and it is fairly clear that Vhagar is drastically bigger than Lucerys’ dragon Arrax. The 2 find yourself locked in a dragon battle that abruptly ends when Vhagar, burned by a blast of fireplace from Arrax, goes rogue and fatally assaults Lucerys and Arrax, killing them each.
Vhagar is definitely a large behemoth, however up to now, the opposite dragons on “Home of the Dragon” should measure up, in keeping with followers. The present airs new episodes each Sunday on HBO and Max at 9 P.M. EST.