‘Home of the Dragon’ Season 3: Here is what occurs subsequent, in line with ‘Hearth and Blood’

If Home of the Dragon‘s Season 2 finale left you questioning, “Wait, what comes next?” you are in the proper place.

The finale, titled “The Queen Who Ever Was,” set a whole lot of pivotal storylines in movement with out a lot payoff, resulting in a reasonably irritating end result (that undoubtedly may have benefitted from two extra episodes). Fortunately, Home of the Dragon‘s supply materials, George R.R. Martin’s Hearth & Blood, offers us a reasonably good roadmap for what we will count on subsequent.

Learn on to be taught extra about what Season 3 might need in retailer, however be forewarned: Spoilers are in full impact right here, so get able to find out about some fairly large deaths. It is also price noting that Home of the Dragon has made some appreciable deviations from Hearth & Blood, which is in itself a fictional historic account stuffed with ambiguities, so what performs out on the web page may play out otherwise on-screen. With that in thoughts, let’s get into what we’d see in Season 3.

Sure, we’ll get the Battle of the Gullet quickly.

For all of Season 2, Corlys Velaryon’s (Steve Toussaint) naval blockade of the Gullet — a stretch of sea close to Dragonstone and Driftmark — has held sturdy, creating large issues for King’s Touchdown. However by the tip of the season, Aemond Targaryen (Ewan Mitchell) has a plan to interrupt it. He sends Tyland Lannister (Jefferson Corridor) as an emissary to the Triarchy, the place he secures the assistance of their navy and admiral Sharako Lohar (Abigail Thorn). In Season 2’s finale minutes, we see them using in direction of the Gullet — simply as Corlys and Alyn of Hull (Abubakar Salim) experience out to hitch the blockade.

We’ll have to attend till subsequent season to witness the conflict between the 2 forces, however once they do meet, you may wager it will likely be a spectacle to behold. In Hearth & Blood, many dragonriders be part of the battle, together with Jacaerys Velaryon (Harry Collett) on Vermax, Addam of Hull (Clinton Liberty) on Seasmoke, Hugh Hammer (Kieran Bew) on Vermithor, and Ulf the White (Tom Bennett) on Silverwing. The dragonseed Nettles and her dragon Sheepstealer are additionally current, however Home of the Dragon seems to have reduce her totally and merged her story with Rhaena’s (Phoebe Campbell) journey within the Vale.

In what’s sure to be Season 3’s tragic first loss, Jace dies in battle. In the meantime, his youthful brothers Aegon and Viserys, crusing from the Vale to Pentos on the ship the Homosexual Abandon, are captured by the Triarchy. Aegon manages to flee on his fledgling dragon Stormcloud, however Viserys finds himself in Lohar’s grasp. Principally, if you happen to’re considered one of Rhaenyra Targaryen’s (Emma D’Arcy) sons, you must avoid the Gullet.

Many different battles will quickly observe.

“The Queen Who Ever Was” does not simply finish with a promise of naval motion, however with a promise of land motion too. By now, Aemond and Criston Cole’s (Fabien Frankel) forces, together with these of Home Lannister and Home Hightower, are transferring in direction of the Riverlands, the place Daemon has consolidated the Riverlords’ armies. In the meantime, the Winter Wolves, launched a tad earlier right here than within the guide, are on their manner south to help Rhaenyra.

When these armies inevitably meet up, there will probably be important bloodshed. On the Battle of the Honeywine, Prince Daeron and his dragon Tessarion will show their mettle within the struggle, whereas the Battle on the Pink Fork and the Fishfeed end in expensive losses for the Lannisters and Crew Inexperienced as a complete.

Home of the Dragon Season 2 did an awesome job of selecting which battles we bought to see play out on-screen, prioritizing Rook’s Relaxation and successfully slicing across the Battle of the Burning Mill and the Taking of Stone Hedge. (The one exception to that is teasing the Gullet, then not following by.) So whereas we in all probability will not be seeing all these battles play out of their entirety, count on to listen to about them and the way necessary they’re.

King’s Touchdown and Harrenhal swap palms.

Aemond lastly takes Harrenhal through the chaos of the various battles following the Gullet — however he does so with out going through Daemon.

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That is as a result of as quickly as Aemond leaves King’s Touchdown, Daemon rejoins Rhaenyra and her dragonriders for an assault on the town. With out Vhagar’s safety, and within the face of an onslaught of dragons and the Velaryon fleet, King’s Touchdown falls in lower than a day. It isn’t lengthy earlier than Alicent surrenders it, after which she’s imprisoned.

Primarily based on Alicent’s proposal within the Season 2 finale, we already know that she plans to provide King’s Touchdown over to Rhaenyra. However a part of that proposal was giving up Aegon Targaryen’s (Tom Glynn-Carney) life as effectively. And there is one small drawback with that: Larys Sturdy (Matthew Needham) has smuggled Aegon out of King’s Touchdown. Aegon’s absence certainly will not sit effectively with Rhaenyra. She may even suppose Alicent was accountable! And if that is the case, it is straight to jail for Alicent.

Aemond does not take too kindly to dropping King’s Touchdown, so he goes on a one-man barbecuing tour across the Riverlands. He additionally shakes issues up at Harrenhal, killing beloved, fashion-forward castellan Ser Simon Sturdy (Sir Simon Russell Beale) and kicking off a relationship with witch (and attainable barn owl) Alys Rivers (Gayle Rankin). Will her signature ghost imaginative and prescient remedy work on him, too?

The dragonseeds betray Rhaenyra at Tumbleton.

“The Queen Who Ever Was” teased some stress between Rhaenyra and new dragonrider Ulf, whose lack of decorum — like placing his ft up on the Painted Desk! — is aware of no bounds. He is additionally made some large calls for of her, together with mainly ordering her to make him a knight in entrance of everybody. However given what occurs in Hearth & Blood, that is only the start.

The guide sees Ulf develop too large for his britches. His need for extra energy results in him betraying Rhaenyra on the Battle of Tumbleton, turning Silverwing in opposition to his Queen’s personal forces. Becoming a member of him on this endeavor is Hugh, whose present counterpart appears way more deferential to Rhaenyra at this second. In fact, so much may change between now and Tumbleton, however one factor is for certain: The betrayal at Tumbleton will push Rhaenyra even additional down the warpath.

In Hearth & Blood, Rhaenyra questions the loyalty of remaining dragonseeds Nettles (nonetheless presumably reduce from the present and changed with Rhaena) and Addam. Addam narrowly escapes questioning and imprisonment and units out to show his loyalty.

Aemond and Daemon face off.

Bear in mind when Alys informed Daemon he would die close to Harrenhal? And when Helaena Targaryen (Phia Saban) prophesied that Aemond would die and be “swallowed up in the Gods Eye”? We’ll possible see precisely what each of these eerie statements imply in Home of the Dragon Season 3.

Aemond will lastly get the Daemon battle he all the time needed when his uncle returns to Harrenhal. The 2 take to the skies on Vhagar and Caraxes and have a spectacular dragon dogfight above the Gods Eye lake. Ultimately, although, there aren’t any victors: Each Daemon and Aemond perish within the battle, together with their respective dragons. And as if the lack of Caraxes and Vhagar wasn’t sufficient, extra dragon demise is on the menu for the remainder of Home of the Dragon…

The King’s Touchdown smallfolk storm the Dragonpit.

The smallfolk of King’s Touchdown have grown stressed throughout Rhaenyra’s tumultuous reign. Their discontent reaches a fever pitch when Helaena dies by suicide. Rumors unfold that she was really murdered, sparking a large riot all through the town. Throughout this time, a one-handed prophet named the Shepherd — who we could have already met within the present — leads a mob to the Dragonpit, the place the rioters resolve, “You know what? We can take on a bunch of dragons and live!”

Clearly, lots of of smallfolk get toasted on this endeavor. However since there are such a lot of of them, it is not lengthy earlier than 4 of the chained-up dragons within the Dragonpit — together with Helaena’s Dreamfyre and Joffrey Velaryon’s (Oscar Eskinazi) Tyraxes — are lifeless as effectively.

Over within the Pink Maintain, Joffrey decides to steal his mom’s dragon so he can rise up to the Dragonpit and put an finish to this insanity. Syrax doesn’t take kindly to having a brand new, unbonded rider and bucks him off mid-flight, all the way down to his demise. She then heads over to the Dragonpit to assist her scaly brethren, solely to fall sufferer to the smallfolk as effectively. With out her dragon, and grieving the final of her sons with Harwin Sturdy (Ryan Corr), Rhaenyra flees King’s Touchdown.

And the place’s Aegon been this complete time?

In the meantime, Aegon’s been hiding out in probably the most sudden of locations. Home of the Dragon‘s model of Larys proposed that the 2 cover out in Braavos in the interim. Nevertheless, Hearth & Blood sees Aegon heading to Crew Black stronghold Dragonstone, the place he levels a coup and takes over. By the point an overthrown Rhaenyra returns from King’s Touchdown, she’s in for a impolite shock — and a violent household reunion. However is not that par for the course for the Targaryens?

Home of the Dragon Season 2 is now streaming on Max.