As Home of the Dragon Season 2, episode 6 made clear, Harrenhal healer/witch Alys Rivers (Gayle Rating) will not be a personality you wish to cross.
She’s already been exerting her energy over Daemon (Matt Smith) with some spectacular thoughts video games, shortly earlier than lending him her assist by (in all probability) killing off Lord Tully — however did episode 6 reveal one other character she could have already got exerted her affect over?
Who else would possibly Alys Rivers have influenced?
It is clear that poisoning Lord Tully, and messing with Daemon, is not Alys Rivers’ first rodeo. We do not know precisely how lengthy she’s been hanging round Harrenhal, however her actions make it clear that she’s no novice. So, which different key characters do we all know which have doubtless crossed paths together with her earlier than?
Properly, the household that resides in Harrenhal – and has finished for the reason that begin of Home of the Dragon – is the Sturdy household. Apart from the ever-amusing Castellan Ser Simon Sturdy (Simon Russell Beale), the one different key surviving Sturdy is Grasp of Whispers on the Purple Maintain, Larys (Matthew Needham).
Though Larys has by no means spoken of Alys Rivers, he does briefly contact on his childhood at Harrenhal for the primary time in episode 6 — and he says one thing that might be greater than a easy coincidence.
What did Larys Sturdy say to Aegon?
Larys Sturdy visits Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney) at his bedside in episode 6, and shares a uncommon, weak second.
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“I came screaming into the world in the bowels of one of Harrenhal’s great towers,” Sturdy tells Aegon, who’s awake however very badly (in all probability completely) injured. “My lungs were strong, but my foot was so twisted that my father named it sorcery. Accusing a member of our household of casting maligned spells.”
Larys opens as much as Aegon.
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Larys has membership foot, an actual situation that the NHS says at the moment impacts one child in each thousand born within the UK. Per the NHS, “in most cases the cause of club foot is not known. There may be a genetic link, as it can run in families.” In actual life, there may be, after all, no connection in any respect between the situation and sorcery.
Within the context of Home of the Dragon, although, Sturdy’s discuss of sorcery and maligned spells is tough to disregard when juxtaposed with the actions of Alys Rivers — the identical Alys Rivers who would doubtless have been at Harrenhal when he was a baby.
We all know Alys is a strong character able to altering historical past — she’s already proven us that. Is it potential that she additionally influenced a younger Larys? Even when she did not instantly use magic, perhaps she obtained in his head in the identical manner she’s at the moment entering into Daemon’s, planting the seeds that ultimately result in him murdering his personal brother and father in an arson assault on the fort.
It is tough to know what her motivation for this may need been, however it’s unattainable to disregard that Larys’ actions have instantly led to the present state of Harrenhal, and Alys’ conferences there with Daemon.
Is it potential she’s already had a bigger impression on this story than any of us have realised?
New episodes of Home of the Dragon air Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and Max.
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