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- Only one.
- That's enough, stand back.
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Behold!
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The traitor dragon Meleys!
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Slain at Rook's Rest by your king!
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To Aegon!
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- It can't be...
- They killed a dragon!
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Mark my words, this is a black omen.
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Rhaenyra will answer this.
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'Tis an abomination.
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Don't they realize we won the battle?
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Strange victory
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if it was one.
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Behold!
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The traitor dragon Meleys!
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I thought the dragons was gods.
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Slain at Rook's Rest by your king!
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It's just meat.
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Is he alive?
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His Grace
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remains with us, for the moment.
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Is my son going to die?
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I'm afraid I cannot say.
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Now, if you'll excuse me, Your Grace,
these next hours are most critical.
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Of course.
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Easy as you can.
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Someone will have to rule in his stead.
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- What happened?
- We took the castle.
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At the cost of some 900 men.
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So I've heard.
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I left a meager garrison
behind to protect it
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and the king's dragon.
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Sunfyre was long in the dying.
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The king, Ser Criston, what befell him?
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His Grace fought valiantly.
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And Aemond?
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What was his part in this?
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I could not say.
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Our largest dragon has been killed.
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Criston Cole marches
about the Crownlands unchallenged.
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Duskendale and Rook's Rest are gone.
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We still have no ground army
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but the one we hope
that Daemon will raise.
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He who has left us,
after some marital spat.
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Do you take issue with me, Ser Alfred?
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My loyalty to you is proven, my queen.
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Your loyalty, perhaps,
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but your willingness to give me deference
in a time of war.
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I could never doubt your capability,
or your quickness of mind.
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It is merely that the gentler sex,
heretofore, has not been much privy
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to the strategies of battle,
or their execution.
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There has been peace in our lifetime.
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You've seen no more battles than I have.
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Send to Maidenpool and to Crackclaw Point.
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Let them man their garrisons
and give them stores or weapons
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if they find them wanting.
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If Cole pursues his campaign,
our allies must be ready.
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We must answer Rook's Rest
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- and Duskendale.
- They are lost already.
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But Vhagar is depleted
after such a hard-fought battle.
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If Aegon is dead--
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We will soon know it.
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'Twould be a victory in name only.
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They will soon prop up another
in his stead.
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The time is ripe.
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If we can strike King's Landing
before their dragon is recovered--
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Then I myself must do it.
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My queen, you are the crown.
It is out of the question.
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What would you have me do?
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Jace?
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Where are you going?
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To Harrenhal.
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To treat with Daemon.
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Rhaenys is fallen.
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He must affirm his loyalty to my mother
and report his standing.
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And you think you will tame him
when the queen herself could not?
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My mother gladly sends you away
to scout, to fight,
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whilst I'm here being forced to play
the coddled princeling.
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It's humiliating, Baela.
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She only protects you.
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You are the succession.
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Then I must be seen to act for her claim
and mine.
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I can sit still no longer.
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I must act.
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The Freys.
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They control the crossing at the Twins.
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Cregan Stark's graybeards
are marching south.
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If his men had a direct route
into the Riverlands,
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we would not have to wait
for Daemon to act.
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I will treat with The Freys to secure it.
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She will not like it.
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Then don't tell her. Not until I'm away.
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{\an8}The hour is late
and my dragon is hungry.
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{\an8}You have no choice but to submit.
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Our terms are simple, Lord Bracken.
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Renounce the false king Aegon as a usurper
and bend the knee to me
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or your house burns.
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I would sooner be
the Lord of Bones and Cinders
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than bend my knee before some heathen
Blackwood cunt
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and his hired dragon.
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The Brackens were a people hatched out
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of the deepest of the Seven Hells,
Your Grace.
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It would be a kindness to oblige them
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and send them back whence they came.
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Did your brother's head
keep on its way back to you, Willem?
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I heard the maggots got to it.
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That is quite the impression,
Lord Bracken.
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But alas, not an answer.
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We choose fire.
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I did not think they would be
so eager to die.
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They made their choice.
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- You should've indulged them.
- I need them alive.
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I came here to raise swords, not corpses.
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But now you see what my house
has known for generations.
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They are pigheaded, intransigent--
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They would rather burn than succumb.
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Exactly the kind of men I need.
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It may yet be possible, I think,
for both of us to achieve our ends.
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We have fought them for an age and more.
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Then perhaps you could try
less fighting and more
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persuading.
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They are unyielding in battle.
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But every man has a weakness.
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You take my meaning, then.
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There are things the crown itself must
not been seen to do.
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Show them your worst.
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I am your servant, Your Grace.
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Over the centuries,
many and more armies
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have broken themselves
against my bloody gate.
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Are you listening?
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My lady.
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The Eyrie itself is impregnable.
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Unless, of course,
we're descended upon from the sky.
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You promised the Queen Rhaenyra
15,000 swords--
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In return for protection. A dragon.
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Then she has exceeded your terms.
She sent two.
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Both still wet from the egg.
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I have hunting hounds
that are more fearsome.
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They are dragons nonetheless.
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I do not recall you specifying
the size of the beast in your request.
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Will you goad me, child?
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When your bread and shelter
now depend on my pleasure?
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The dragons will grow
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- in time.
- I don't have time.
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I mislike feeling powerless.
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So do I.
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This will be your chamber.
I'll expect you at supper this evening?
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My sympathies for the death
of your grandmother.
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The way they spoke
at my small council today.
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Do they hold you responsible
for Rhaenys and her dragon?
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I would rather they had.
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They speak around me, not to me.
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They would make me queen,
but they wish to keep me here, confined.
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They betray their own smallness.
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In truth, I cannot fault them.
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I am now the sovereign.
I cannot do as I please.
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And war has ever been for men to make.
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You are your father’s chosen successor.
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He did not prepare me to fight.
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If I had been a son,
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a sword thrust into my hand
the moment I could walk.
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Instead, I was given my father's cup,
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taught the name of every lord and castle
between Storm's End and the Twins,
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but not the difference
between hilt and foible.
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And they know it.
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And Daemon as well--
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Shall your evening meal
be served here, Your Grace?
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Not now.
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Will you send to him?
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For too long,
I have looked to him for strength.
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If I must be supplicant to my own husband,
what does that make me?
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I do not know my part, Mysaria.
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The path I walk has never been trod.
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Criston Cole made a mistake.
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Parading a dragon's head
through the streets like a prize of war,
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but the people see an ill omen.
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Yes, as do I.
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They are afraid, bread is scarce,
the king has fallen,
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they whisper to each other
that when Viserys lived,
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there was peace.
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But will whispers tear down stone,
or break shields?
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Do not underestimate your subjects.
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They are a thousand-thousand
living in the shadow of the Red Keep
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and forgotten for too long.
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And you think they will turn to me.
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To the discontented, rumors are feed.
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Your Grace.
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What you cannot do, let others do for you.
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There is more than one way to fight a war.
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The thought of her lying in a field,
broken amongst her enemies.
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Did your grandmother ever tell you
of the night she claimed Meleys?
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She snuck into the Dragonpit.
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She knew that place better than any Elder.
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They say she could see in the dark.
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My father was furious.
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His own mother's dragon,
the fastest beast ever known
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and she'd have none of him.
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But bent her neck to Rhaenys.
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She was fierce
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in love and in anger.
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She did not always care for me, but
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for what she gave me in the end,
I'm grateful.
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I wished I had known her
when she was young.
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You are very like her in some ways.
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And with her gone,
I must rely on you, I think.
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Your Grace?
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Would you give this to your grandsire?
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I do not wish to stand alone.
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Daemon.
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Daemon.
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You were always the strong one.
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The finest swordsman.
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The fearless dragonrider.
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{\an8}Your brother had great love in his heart
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but he lacked your constitution.
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Viserys was unsuited for the crown
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but you, Daemon,
you were made to wear it.
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If only you'd been born first.
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My favorite son.
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Is the duck not to your liking,
Your Grace?
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There's also goose, if you'd prefer it.
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I like the goose, myself.
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I'm not hungry.
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I was saying, given the rather dire news
from Rook's Rest
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it appears the winds have shifted
and each side has suffered great loss
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and will be unsure of what is to follow.
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A good time, then, for a show of strength.
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I believe Willem Blackwood
is bringing House Bracken to heel.
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We must ready the castle
to receive a great host.
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You seem sure of this.
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All men may be led, Ser Simon.
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Even Rivermen.
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'Tis a matter of showing them
whom it behooves them to follow.
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How does the work here progress?
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Oh...
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We're drawing water for the kitchens
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- and lighting the forges.
- Very well.
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That is merely the beginning, of course.
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The roof alone has needed tending
since the reign of Aenys.
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And the storerooms. And...
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and the Wailing Tower.
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The bats have made the corridors
almost impassable
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with the quantity of their...
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Their shit.
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{\an8}I venture there are smiths and armorers
to be found near Nutton and Riverbend.
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{\an8}Well, send for them, and levy the farmers
from Antlers to High Heart.
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Task their huntsmen
to bring us meat and wood.
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There is, of course,
the matter of payment.
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After the tragedy that befell his father,
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Larys transferred his family's wealth
to King's Landing.
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Is there any gold left in your coffers?
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Enough to keep this small establishment
you see fed and warm.
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Relatively.
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I rather thought, Your Grace,
as emissary to the Queen
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00:26:51,152 --> 00:26:54,948
that perhaps she could provide
the necessary coin
255
00:26:54,948 --> 00:26:57,575
- if you could only write to her.
- No.
256
00:26:58,576 --> 00:27:00,578
Harrenhal is my command.
257
00:27:01,162 --> 00:27:03,790
I shall guarantee the payment myself.
258
00:27:04,874 --> 00:27:06,459
Up, up.
259
00:27:09,587 --> 00:27:11,589
Very well, Your Grace.
260
00:27:12,090 --> 00:27:14,884
You should address me as "my king."
261
00:27:15,468 --> 00:27:17,178
But you're the prince.
262
00:27:17,721 --> 00:27:19,889
What would you call
the husband of the queen?
263
00:27:19,889 --> 00:27:21,558
- Well, the king...
- There it is, then.
264
00:27:21,558 --> 00:27:23,059
...consort.
265
00:27:24,310 --> 00:27:26,938
That last bit seems unnecessary,
don't you think?
266
00:27:32,902 --> 00:27:35,030
The armor was Valyrian steel
267
00:27:35,030 --> 00:27:39,075
but His Grace suffered grievous burns over
much of his body.
268
00:27:40,243 --> 00:27:42,120
He has many broken bones.
269
00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:47,500
I fear there are more injuries within,
injuries we cannot see.
270
00:27:49,878 --> 00:27:52,297
We are grateful for your works,
Grand Maester.
271
00:27:53,548 --> 00:27:55,967
- Has he woken?
- No.
272
00:27:57,594 --> 00:28:02,182
I must admit,
I'm not sure he will ever wake.
273
00:28:02,182 --> 00:28:05,602
I have plied my crafts
to their fullest extents.
274
00:28:05,602 --> 00:28:09,564
Our king's fate lies with the gods now.
275
00:28:20,367 --> 00:28:22,369
A king cannot rule in his sleep.
276
00:28:23,453 --> 00:28:25,663
The realm will have noticed his absence.
277
00:28:26,373 --> 00:28:28,583
Let them hear of his great deeds
at Rook's Rest.
278
00:28:30,085 --> 00:28:32,796
But now we must name a regent
to take his place
279
00:28:32,796 --> 00:28:34,506
until he recovers
280
00:28:36,883 --> 00:28:38,093
or does not.
281
00:28:39,761 --> 00:28:42,055
A wise strategy, Your Grace.
282
00:28:42,055 --> 00:28:46,184
A regency will assure the people
of the stability of the crown.
283
00:28:49,020 --> 00:28:52,023
Did you have a candidate in mind,
Your Grace?
284
00:28:52,691 --> 00:28:54,401
I myself served in this role
for my husband.
285
00:28:54,401 --> 00:28:55,944
I am well-prepared to do it again.
286
00:28:55,944 --> 00:28:59,072
You played your part admirably
in a time of peace, Your Grace,
287
00:28:59,072 --> 00:29:01,032
but circumstances have changed.
288
00:29:01,783 --> 00:29:03,410
And here I had forgotten.
289
00:29:03,410 --> 00:29:05,704
The king does not lack for heirs.
290
00:29:05,704 --> 00:29:10,542
The obvious choice is
his immediate successor, Prince Aemond.
291
00:29:10,542 --> 00:29:11,960
Agreed.
292
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:13,670
Aemond is young.
293
00:29:15,088 --> 00:29:17,590
And his lack of restraint
has already cost us dearly.
294
00:29:27,267 --> 00:29:31,229
It is experience that offers
the surest path to security.
295
00:29:31,229 --> 00:29:34,357
Queen Alicent ably
shouldered the duties of the realm
296
00:29:34,357 --> 00:29:35,984
when her husband's health failed him.
297
00:29:35,984 --> 00:29:38,903
Experience is valuable, yes,
but the dowager queen is a woman.
298
00:29:39,029 --> 00:29:42,073
I am no stranger to rule
or to sitting at this council.
299
00:29:42,073 --> 00:29:43,575
Aemond is a fearsome dragonrider.
300
00:29:43,575 --> 00:29:44,951
His skill is best employed in the field
301
00:29:44,951 --> 00:29:47,746
but my experience is needed here,
at this table.
302
00:29:47,746 --> 00:29:50,206
No offense was meant, Your Grace, but
303
00:29:50,206 --> 00:29:54,294
- at a time when we must show strength.
- Lord Larys?
304
00:29:55,545 --> 00:29:57,797
I agree, Your Grace.
It must be Prince Aemond.
305
00:30:00,091 --> 00:30:02,385
What would it say if,
in response to Rhaenyra's crowning,
306
00:30:02,385 --> 00:30:04,679
we raised up a woman of our own?
307
00:30:07,182 --> 00:30:08,183
But...
308
00:30:10,518 --> 00:30:14,481
but the Hand speaks for the king's voice.
Ser Criston, what say you?
309
00:30:21,488 --> 00:30:23,698
Aemond is the next in line.
310
00:30:25,867 --> 00:30:27,285
It must be him.
311
00:30:31,915 --> 00:30:33,917
It's agreed then.
312
00:30:55,438 --> 00:30:57,691
What is our standing in the Riverlands?
313
00:30:59,567 --> 00:31:04,072
The banners of House Tully
are in disarray, Your Grace.
314
00:31:04,072 --> 00:31:08,451
Prince Daemon has little hope
of fielding an army of any size, for now.
315
00:31:09,703 --> 00:31:11,663
We would do well to send word
to young Oscar Tully.
316
00:31:12,414 --> 00:31:15,875
It's only a matter of time
before he inherits his grandsire's mantle.
317
00:31:15,875 --> 00:31:19,587
Tell me, Lord Strong,
how I can trust the counsel of a man
318
00:31:19,587 --> 00:31:22,966
who leaves the jewel of the Riverlands
to be plucked by our enemy?
319
00:31:27,345 --> 00:31:28,722
Your brother's host can meet Daemon.
320
00:31:28,722 --> 00:31:31,224
He should quicken its pace
and check the Rivermen
321
00:31:31,224 --> 00:31:32,851
while their banners are in disarray.
322
00:31:32,851 --> 00:31:35,228
I shall send Lord Jason encouragement.
323
00:31:35,228 --> 00:31:37,939
- What else?
- We might turn our attention
324
00:31:37,939 --> 00:31:40,442
to the smallfolk here in King's Landing.
325
00:31:40,442 --> 00:31:42,944
They have grown weary
of the Sea Snake's blockade.
326
00:31:42,944 --> 00:31:45,155
So have we all.
327
00:31:45,155 --> 00:31:49,701
Many are fleeing the city,
spreading word of their fear and unrest.
328
00:31:50,827 --> 00:31:53,079
Then let the gates be closed.
329
00:31:55,373 --> 00:31:57,834
No one is to leave or enter,
save with our consent.
330
00:31:57,834 --> 00:32:00,754
Merchants, so forth.
331
00:32:05,008 --> 00:32:06,843
Go to your tasks.
332
00:32:07,761 --> 00:32:10,138
We shall meet again at first light.
333
00:32:10,138 --> 00:32:13,933
Oh, and someone cut down
the fucking ratcatchers.
334
00:32:21,107 --> 00:32:23,318
The city's safe no longer.
335
00:32:25,153 --> 00:32:26,571
There is no food.
336
00:32:27,655 --> 00:32:29,449
Our neighbors are stealing
from each other.
337
00:32:29,449 --> 00:32:30,825
We must get out.
338
00:32:30,825 --> 00:32:32,202
{\an8}And where would you have us go?
339
00:32:32,786 --> 00:32:34,996
North, maybe? South?
340
00:32:35,747 --> 00:32:37,749
For all we know, every road leads
into the dragons' teeth.
341
00:32:37,874 --> 00:32:40,085
Like the one they carted
through the streets?
342
00:32:41,002 --> 00:32:45,006
You think Rhaenyra will let
such an affront go unchallenged?
343
00:32:48,093 --> 00:32:50,804
We should make for Tumbleton.
344
00:32:50,804 --> 00:32:52,847
My brother will have room.
345
00:32:52,847 --> 00:32:54,766
You would have me turn beggar?
346
00:33:00,814 --> 00:33:02,816
Are we not beggars already?
347
00:33:03,817 --> 00:33:06,403
Have you been paid for those machines
you were forced to build?
348
00:33:06,403 --> 00:33:08,071
The king has promised payment.
349
00:33:08,071 --> 00:33:10,990
The king has lied!
350
00:33:22,585 --> 00:33:24,421
By all means,
351
00:33:25,255 --> 00:33:28,675
stay and wait
for his empty promises, husband.
352
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,596
With them, you can feed
the mouths of ghosts.
353
00:34:12,969 --> 00:34:14,637
Presumed you'd be here.
354
00:34:15,430 --> 00:34:17,974
Seeing faithfully
to the Prince Regent's commands.
355
00:34:18,767 --> 00:34:20,810
Aemond is the next in line.
356
00:34:20,810 --> 00:34:22,062
It is the order of things.
357
00:34:22,062 --> 00:34:23,813
You know what he is,
358
00:34:23,813 --> 00:34:25,899
what he has somehow become.
359
00:34:29,110 --> 00:34:31,988
Has your loyalty faded?
Or does it flourish only at night
360
00:34:31,988 --> 00:34:34,741
and flee the sunrise like a moth?
361
00:34:38,620 --> 00:34:40,038
What I saw at Rook's Rest--
362
00:34:40,038 --> 00:34:43,333
What? What did you see?
363
00:34:47,504 --> 00:34:49,506
Their armor melted.
364
00:34:51,257 --> 00:34:53,885
There were men walking. They were on fire.
365
00:34:57,305 --> 00:34:59,516
We have given the war to the dragons.
366
00:35:01,101 --> 00:35:02,644
A dragonrider should lead us.
367
00:35:07,107 --> 00:35:11,903
And what of justice, of temperance?
Or is strength now to be our only god?
368
00:35:17,909 --> 00:35:19,911
So you cast me aside.
369
00:35:21,079 --> 00:35:23,081
Have I not spared you?
370
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,628
What we must do now is terrible.
371
00:35:30,588 --> 00:35:32,590
Will you preside over it?
372
00:35:33,216 --> 00:35:36,136
- Is this who you are, Alicent?
- I did not ask to be spared.
373
00:35:40,306 --> 00:35:42,308
And I did not give you leave
to speak my name.
374
00:35:55,697 --> 00:35:56,781
Halt!
375
00:36:02,787 --> 00:36:03,913
Stay back!
376
00:36:05,790 --> 00:36:07,417
We've got to get out!
377
00:36:08,293 --> 00:36:09,794
Somebody get him!
378
00:36:10,545 --> 00:36:12,630
Stay back! No!
379
00:36:12,630 --> 00:36:15,050
Holdfast, holdfast!
380
00:36:15,508 --> 00:36:17,344
Stay back! Hold!
381
00:36:22,474 --> 00:36:23,308
Back!
382
00:36:24,351 --> 00:36:27,187
Disperse, disperse!
383
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,815
By order of Aemond Targaryen,
384
00:36:30,815 --> 00:36:33,693
Prince Regent
and Protector of the Realm...
385
00:36:33,693 --> 00:36:36,196
- Aemond?
- Does he mean the king?
386
00:36:36,196 --> 00:36:38,573
- I don't know.
- You cannot keep us here!
387
00:36:38,573 --> 00:36:41,534
- You are ordered to return to your homes!
- We want meat!
388
00:36:41,534 --> 00:36:43,119
- Meat!
- Meat!
389
00:36:53,421 --> 00:36:54,839
Stay back!
390
00:37:02,847 --> 00:37:06,059
Our Lord Grover Tully
has not declared for Rhaenyra.
391
00:37:07,268 --> 00:37:09,354
It means death to bare steel
against your liege,
392
00:37:09,354 --> 00:37:11,648
as I'm sure my prince is aware.
393
00:37:13,191 --> 00:37:15,151
And against your queen?
394
00:37:23,827 --> 00:37:26,162
Jason Lannister is marshaling to the west.
395
00:37:27,205 --> 00:37:29,207
We need to check him
before he reaches Riverrun.
396
00:37:30,208 --> 00:37:32,127
That requires passage.
397
00:37:32,127 --> 00:37:36,381
And if Stark's army is too slow?
The wind's rising.
398
00:37:36,381 --> 00:37:38,049
Winter is nigh upon us.
399
00:37:38,049 --> 00:37:41,803
Our hesitance does not lie
in Rhaenyra as Queen,
400
00:37:41,803 --> 00:37:45,306
nor in the ruminations
of Lord Tully, the oaf.
401
00:37:46,141 --> 00:37:49,019
Our fear lies in Vhagar.
402
00:37:49,019 --> 00:37:54,691
You fear a dragon leagues away
when mine own sits outside your walls?
403
00:37:59,029 --> 00:38:02,282
- Do you offer us your protection?
- I do.
404
00:38:08,997 --> 00:38:10,915
And the protection of my uncle.
405
00:38:12,208 --> 00:38:16,379
And Daemon, I'm sure,
has consented to this?
406
00:38:16,379 --> 00:38:18,465
He will do as his queen commands.
407
00:38:18,465 --> 00:38:20,425
That does lend us some comfort.
408
00:38:20,425 --> 00:38:23,595
Though it occurs to me that dragons
cannot be in two places at once.
409
00:38:23,595 --> 00:38:25,221
Or three.
410
00:38:28,183 --> 00:38:29,934
What do you want?
411
00:38:32,312 --> 00:38:36,232
Larys Strong has been
relieved of his castle.
412
00:38:36,232 --> 00:38:39,277
Does the queen intend
to raise up a new lord?
413
00:38:43,823 --> 00:38:45,158
You want Harrenhal.
414
00:39:04,177 --> 00:39:08,014
For that, my mother will want
more than your crossing.
415
00:39:10,892 --> 00:39:12,894
What does Her Grace desire?
416
00:39:15,522 --> 00:39:17,732
Bent knees.
417
00:40:11,578 --> 00:40:12,787
Up.
418
00:40:13,997 --> 00:40:17,834
You were born to wield a sword,
but not so much an axe, perhaps.
419
00:40:19,461 --> 00:40:21,212
There are others who would sit idle
420
00:40:21,212 --> 00:40:23,256
and wait for their claims
to be brought to them.
421
00:40:23,256 --> 00:40:24,299
That is not my way.
422
00:40:24,299 --> 00:40:26,593
Does splitting firewood justify
what's followed you here?
423
00:40:26,593 --> 00:40:31,014
Let it not be said that Daemon Targaryen
failed to dirty his hands in this war.
424
00:40:31,014 --> 00:40:32,932
Let me see them.
425
00:40:34,434 --> 00:40:35,352
Sit.
426
00:40:36,102 --> 00:40:37,312
Sit!
427
00:40:42,192 --> 00:40:47,322
I hear strange things from Bracken land,
from Stone Hedge and Lambswold and Mory.
428
00:40:48,406 --> 00:40:50,450
There's news, then?
429
00:40:50,450 --> 00:40:51,618
News?
430
00:40:52,911 --> 00:40:53,912
No.
431
00:40:56,081 --> 00:40:58,792
What I hear, I hear in the wind.
432
00:41:00,043 --> 00:41:01,878
Cries of anguish.
433
00:41:03,838 --> 00:41:05,882
Children being taken from their mothers,
434
00:41:05,882 --> 00:41:09,803
men coming home
to find their doors unlatched,
435
00:41:09,803 --> 00:41:12,055
their wives carried away.
436
00:41:14,265 --> 00:41:16,476
War is a terrible thing.
437
00:41:17,018 --> 00:41:18,853
This is not war.
438
00:41:19,646 --> 00:41:24,484
These are crimes against the innocent,
that any upright man would repudiate.
439
00:41:24,484 --> 00:41:27,028
Surely you haven't mistaken me
for an upright man.
440
00:41:29,155 --> 00:41:31,908
The Brackens had their chance
to do as I required.
441
00:41:32,826 --> 00:41:34,786
They will perhaps think better
of their decision
442
00:41:34,786 --> 00:41:38,123
if their children's lives
are staked on it.
443
00:41:39,416 --> 00:41:41,835
Is that the kind of army you would raise?
444
00:41:42,836 --> 00:41:44,838
Men who hate you,
445
00:41:45,547 --> 00:41:47,257
who serve you under duress?
446
00:41:47,257 --> 00:41:50,343
Well, once they agree to serve me,
I'll treat them fairly.
447
00:41:50,343 --> 00:41:53,763
Set an example for the rest
of the Riverlands to follow.
448
00:41:53,763 --> 00:41:56,224
And once again, in the name of power,
449
00:41:56,224 --> 00:41:59,060
it's the weak and the women
who must endure.
450
00:42:01,938 --> 00:42:04,774
That fool, Aegon, is unlike to survive.
451
00:42:06,901 --> 00:42:09,112
The realm will suffer
if Aemond One-Eye rules.
452
00:42:10,739 --> 00:42:12,198
You should pray you never meet him.
453
00:42:12,907 --> 00:42:15,201
He will cut you down
soon as wish you good-day.
454
00:42:15,201 --> 00:42:17,912
I'd heard the same thing about you.
But I'll cross you no further.
455
00:42:17,912 --> 00:42:21,249
I'm sure your tactics are, after all,
approved by the queen.
456
00:42:26,838 --> 00:42:28,673
She cannot succeed, Alys.
457
00:42:29,716 --> 00:42:31,885
Even if I willed it to be so.
458
00:42:31,885 --> 00:42:34,012
The people who support her
will not be led by her.
459
00:42:34,012 --> 00:42:36,139
They look to a man for strength.
460
00:42:36,139 --> 00:42:39,726
Who's better suited to it?
The Hightowers with their scheming?
461
00:42:39,726 --> 00:42:42,020
Or Viserys's first true heir?
462
00:42:43,188 --> 00:42:45,565
When I take King's Landing,
463
00:42:45,565 --> 00:42:49,611
Rhaenyra is welcome to join me there
and take her place by my side.
464
00:42:49,611 --> 00:42:53,698
King and queen, ruling together.
465
00:42:54,324 --> 00:42:56,993
- And if you lose?
- Then I'll be dead,
466
00:42:56,993 --> 00:42:59,329
and none of this will be my problem.
467
00:42:59,329 --> 00:43:02,582
It's a pity, don't you think,
that you never knew your mother?
468
00:43:06,252 --> 00:43:08,338
A message, Your Grace.
469
00:43:13,718 --> 00:43:16,304
Fresh news from Stone Hedge.
470
00:43:16,304 --> 00:43:18,598
The Blackwoods have overwhelmed
the Brackens
471
00:43:18,598 --> 00:43:21,935
and Lord Amos has pledged
his banner to you.
472
00:43:22,435 --> 00:43:24,646
House Bracken is yours.
473
00:43:26,064 --> 00:43:28,650
Call Ser Willem here
so that I might congratulate him.
474
00:43:29,150 --> 00:43:31,778
The Blackwoods will be
feted in these halls.
475
00:43:43,206 --> 00:43:45,208
I sought you at High Tide.
476
00:43:45,959 --> 00:43:48,253
I was surprised when they said
you were here.
477
00:43:49,379 --> 00:43:51,381
My castle is a tomb.
478
00:43:52,716 --> 00:43:54,926
Empty. Haunted.
479
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,680
I am sad to have missed its highest days.
480
00:43:59,681 --> 00:44:03,393
I imagine your Hall of Nine
filled with lords and kings,
481
00:44:03,393 --> 00:44:06,521
all eager to treat with the legendary
Lord of the Tides.
482
00:44:08,398 --> 00:44:11,067
The wealth you brought back
from Yi Ti and Asshai,
483
00:44:11,067 --> 00:44:14,070
inspiring awe and envy.
484
00:44:16,531 --> 00:44:18,533
I wonder if any of them knew
it was all for her.
485
00:44:27,667 --> 00:44:29,961
Queen Rhaenyra wishes to name you Hand.
486
00:44:33,381 --> 00:44:36,801
Even the death of my wife
does not content her.
487
00:44:39,554 --> 00:44:41,765
Has she not asked enough of my house?
488
00:44:42,265 --> 00:44:44,893
It is a sign of her great esteem.
489
00:44:46,019 --> 00:44:49,272
Or does she think the position
will compensate me for my loss?
490
00:44:50,523 --> 00:44:52,150
Pledge your peace to King's Landing, then.
491
00:44:52,859 --> 00:44:55,153
They will accept it most gleefully.
492
00:44:57,781 --> 00:45:00,408
Rather I would sail
into the West and be lost.
493
00:45:01,576 --> 00:45:03,578
You have done so before,
494
00:45:03,578 --> 00:45:06,373
at great cost to yourself
and those who loved you.
495
00:45:08,917 --> 00:45:14,631
Rhaenys was not only your wife,
not a thing to be taken from you.
496
00:45:15,465 --> 00:45:18,093
She was a Targaryen princess.
497
00:45:18,843 --> 00:45:20,303
The Queen Who Never Was.
498
00:45:20,303 --> 00:45:22,847
And she flew to Rook's Rest
of her own will.
499
00:45:22,847 --> 00:45:25,308
- In defense of her kin.
- And she died.
500
00:45:25,308 --> 00:45:27,435
She died as she would have
wished to die,
501
00:45:28,103 --> 00:45:31,106
with honor, in dragonfire.
502
00:45:31,690 --> 00:45:33,024
The way my mother chose
503
00:45:35,318 --> 00:45:38,154
and the way I myself wish to meet my end.
504
00:45:45,328 --> 00:45:50,792
I grieve my grandmother who loved me
but I carry her on with me.
505
00:45:52,085 --> 00:45:56,297
I will see Rhaenyra ascend
the Iron Throne, as Rhaenys wished.
506
00:45:56,923 --> 00:45:58,925
As Rhaenys herself should have.
507
00:46:01,720 --> 00:46:04,347
You yourself may do as you see fit.
508
00:46:07,934 --> 00:46:09,519
Granddaughter.
509
00:46:17,027 --> 00:46:20,113
I would make you my heir.
510
00:46:21,698 --> 00:46:23,700
I am blood and fire.
511
00:46:24,284 --> 00:46:27,287
Driftmark must pass to salt and sea.
512
00:46:46,056 --> 00:46:47,265
Your Grace.
513
00:46:50,935 --> 00:46:52,270
You were correct
514
00:46:53,897 --> 00:46:56,524
in saying our best hope of an army
is with Daemon.
515
00:46:59,194 --> 00:47:04,616
And I have, perhaps,
erred in waiting for him to prove himself.
516
00:47:06,659 --> 00:47:08,661
I wish you to go to Harrenhal.
517
00:47:10,413 --> 00:47:12,832
Are you removing me from your council?
518
00:47:14,376 --> 00:47:15,794
Ser Alfred,
519
00:47:16,753 --> 00:47:20,256
I will not deny you have tried
my patience of late,
520
00:47:20,256 --> 00:47:24,094
or that I would prefer a council
more inclined to champion their queen
521
00:47:24,094 --> 00:47:25,637
but...
522
00:47:26,888 --> 00:47:30,183
you and your house served my father well
523
00:47:30,183 --> 00:47:33,311
and I know you will never
accept the Hightower claim.
524
00:47:34,938 --> 00:47:37,565
Not while I live, Your Grace.
525
00:47:40,402 --> 00:47:44,239
We cannot challenge King's Landing
without the Riverlands
526
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:47,951
but I will not send a message by raven
for Daemon to disregard.
527
00:47:50,328 --> 00:47:55,166
I ask you to reason with him.
528
00:47:56,459 --> 00:48:00,755
Find out his state of mind
and his intentions.
529
00:48:02,966 --> 00:48:04,384
Intentions?
530
00:48:05,552 --> 00:48:08,972
Whether he means to raise a host for me
or for himself.
531
00:48:12,017 --> 00:48:13,351
He would not dare.
532
00:48:13,977 --> 00:48:16,104
Have you known Daemon to lack in daring?
533
00:48:17,689 --> 00:48:22,110
Go now with haste.
I'll send good men to see to your safety.
534
00:48:29,701 --> 00:48:32,328
Have you any message for him?
535
00:48:36,291 --> 00:48:39,502
Tell him I would much like to finish
our last conversation.
536
00:48:42,005 --> 00:48:43,214
Your Grace.
537
00:49:19,584 --> 00:49:21,002
Your Grace.
538
00:49:24,798 --> 00:49:29,010
What is it, Ser Simon?
Is the pudding now served?
539
00:49:29,678 --> 00:49:32,055
The Riverlords have come, Your Grace.
540
00:49:32,055 --> 00:49:34,974
- They wish an audience.
- Now?
541
00:49:35,558 --> 00:49:37,977
- What godless hour is it?
- The wolf.
542
00:49:38,728 --> 00:49:40,563
They are demanding to speak presently.
543
00:50:11,594 --> 00:50:14,889
I see I must begin here
with a lesson in etiquette.
544
00:50:14,889 --> 00:50:18,226
Or failing that, in proper fear
of your Targaryen master.
545
00:50:20,020 --> 00:50:24,232
Is there some reason you feel free
to wake a king in his bed?
546
00:50:25,108 --> 00:50:27,569
Or shall I now begin your education?
547
00:50:27,569 --> 00:50:32,949
House Bracken have been brought to heel
at the hands of Willem Blackwood.
548
00:50:32,949 --> 00:50:36,244
- That news is stale.
- Yes.
549
00:50:36,244 --> 00:50:38,204
There have been complications.
550
00:50:38,204 --> 00:50:42,417
The sacred septs on Bracken lands
were looted and burned.
551
00:50:42,417 --> 00:50:44,127
As were the fields and farms.
552
00:50:44,127 --> 00:50:47,589
The livestock was stolen
and our peasants put to the sword.
553
00:50:47,589 --> 00:50:49,883
They pursued the women and the children.
554
00:50:49,883 --> 00:50:51,426
There were works of barbarity.
555
00:50:51,426 --> 00:50:55,388
Punishing Bracken for his own treasons
is one thing, aye.
556
00:50:55,388 --> 00:50:58,141
- But these other acts.
- The Brackens were given their chance.
557
00:50:58,141 --> 00:51:00,602
- They would not see reason.
- The Blackwoods have exploited
558
00:51:00,602 --> 00:51:02,645
the war for the crown to visit atrocities
559
00:51:02,645 --> 00:51:04,314
- upon their old rivals.
- I have seen my fair share of
560
00:51:04,314 --> 00:51:06,566
their quarrels, and I tell you,
there is no honor in a fight
561
00:51:06,566 --> 00:51:08,610
- such as this.
- Honor? What of common decency?
562
00:51:08,610 --> 00:51:12,739
These beasts proudly carried
the banner of House Targaryen.
563
00:51:12,739 --> 00:51:14,699
Red dragon on black.
564
00:51:21,289 --> 00:51:24,501
A terrible war
is being fought in these lands.
565
00:51:28,004 --> 00:51:30,006
Have you looked after our girls?
566
00:51:37,555 --> 00:51:39,557
We should've expected
nothing more from a man
567
00:51:39,557 --> 00:51:43,144
who ordered the slaughter of a child
in his mother's arms.
568
00:51:45,397 --> 00:51:48,608
That is a lie. And I will have the man
who told it brought before me.
569
00:51:48,608 --> 00:51:53,321
Well, your man is half the kingdom,
my prince.
570
00:51:56,282 --> 00:51:58,284
Know this, interloper:
571
00:51:58,993 --> 00:52:01,788
the Riverlands are an ancient place,
572
00:52:01,788 --> 00:52:05,291
watched closely by the eyes
of old gods and new.
573
00:52:05,792 --> 00:52:07,627
And dragon or no,
574
00:52:07,627 --> 00:52:10,922
we shall not raise
our banners for a tyrant.
575
00:53:18,948 --> 00:53:22,786
- Move along, lass.
- I have an errand for the lady Mysaria.
576
00:53:24,037 --> 00:53:25,246
I thought she was dead.
577
00:53:26,164 --> 00:53:28,375
Would she die without collecting her due?
578
00:53:30,043 --> 00:53:31,878
I must see an old friend.
579
00:53:33,630 --> 00:53:35,632
Most people want out these days.
580
00:54:20,927 --> 00:54:21,886
Elinda.
581
00:55:13,772 --> 00:55:15,774
Was it worth the price?
582
00:56:06,825 --> 00:56:08,451
{\an8}Mummy.
583
00:56:25,635 --> 00:56:27,053
Prince Jacaerys, Your Grace.
584
00:56:51,828 --> 00:56:53,246
Visenya.
585
00:56:54,247 --> 00:56:59,085
Vhagar's first rider,
and the first wielder of Dark Sister.
586
00:57:01,463 --> 00:57:03,757
I hope you do not mean to use her
as an example.
587
00:57:03,757 --> 00:57:05,425
Why shouldn't I?
588
00:57:05,425 --> 00:57:07,677
It was a long time ago.
589
00:57:17,979 --> 00:57:20,190
What is the mood at the Twins?
590
00:57:21,816 --> 00:57:24,027
Did his lordship quibble?
591
00:57:26,529 --> 00:57:30,158
He wishes for the Freys
to be granted Harrenhal.
592
00:57:31,659 --> 00:57:33,870
At war's end. Assuming.
593
00:57:36,664 --> 00:57:40,669
I'm proud of you, Jace.
You have done our cause a great service.
594
00:57:43,171 --> 00:57:45,924
Then, why do you look angry?
595
00:57:54,349 --> 00:57:57,268
You chafed at being prevented from action.
596
00:57:57,268 --> 00:58:02,899
Imagine my lot. I'm a dragonrider as well,
with a war being fought over my ascension.
597
00:58:04,109 --> 00:58:06,111
And yet, I must wait here,
598
00:58:07,070 --> 00:58:08,905
always prudent,
599
00:58:09,531 --> 00:58:13,201
sending others to fight
and be felled in my name.
600
00:58:13,743 --> 00:58:15,954
Even you have managed to do your part.
601
00:58:16,621 --> 00:58:18,248
You are the queen,
602
00:58:18,790 --> 00:58:20,083
the tie that binds us.
603
00:58:20,083 --> 00:58:21,751
- No harm can come to you.
- And you are my son,
604
00:58:21,751 --> 00:58:23,837
and I did not give you leave to go.
605
00:58:25,964 --> 00:58:28,591
You do not give me
leave to go to anything.
606
00:58:29,009 --> 00:58:32,137
But who else is there? Rhaenys is dead,
and Baela cannot bear the burden alone.
607
00:58:32,137 --> 00:58:34,264
And when Aemond comes hunting for you?
608
00:58:34,889 --> 00:58:37,142
Your dragon is young.
609
00:58:37,142 --> 00:58:39,227
Will you fly before Vhagar as Luke did?
610
00:58:46,192 --> 00:58:48,028
Perhaps Daemon could--
611
00:58:51,531 --> 00:58:53,366
Daemon is not here.
612
00:58:54,242 --> 00:58:56,453
And Aemond now rules in King's Landing.
613
00:58:58,038 --> 00:58:59,372
Is Aegon dead?
614
00:58:59,372 --> 00:59:02,083
Dead or alive,
we have no answer for Vhagar.
615
00:59:02,083 --> 00:59:05,378
Aemond will not wait long
to press his advantage. And then what?
616
00:59:07,881 --> 00:59:11,718
I have done all I can from here,
sent my messages, invoked my alliances.
617
00:59:12,677 --> 00:59:14,846
But if all else fails,
it is I who must fight.
618
00:59:16,765 --> 00:59:19,726
Vhagar is big, but Syrax is quicker.
619
00:59:19,726 --> 00:59:20,894
So was Meleys.
620
00:59:20,894 --> 00:59:24,230
Meleys fought two dragons
and one of them is slain.
621
00:59:26,149 --> 00:59:27,233
Shall I fight for my birthright?
622
00:59:27,233 --> 00:59:29,944
Or shall I wait here
until we are all destroyed?
623
00:59:35,784 --> 00:59:37,702
I need dragons.
624
00:59:41,206 --> 00:59:44,125
We have no dearth of dragons.
625
00:59:45,001 --> 00:59:48,004
We have two large enough
to stand against Vhagar.
626
00:59:48,004 --> 00:59:52,842
They are called Vermithor and Silverwing
and they sleep just beneath our feet.
627
00:59:52,842 --> 00:59:56,179
Yes, and if only they had riders,
none could stand against me.
628
00:59:56,930 --> 01:00:00,141
I would go forth in strength
and not from necessity.
629
01:00:01,518 --> 01:00:02,894
There is Rhaena.
630
01:00:03,603 --> 01:00:05,980
Who nearly lost
her life in her last attempt.
631
01:00:07,482 --> 01:00:09,484
I would not risk it again.
632
01:00:15,407 --> 01:00:18,410
There are those of our line
who never ruled.
633
01:00:19,285 --> 01:00:25,583
Those who married into other noble houses,
their children born with other names.
634
01:00:25,583 --> 01:00:29,170
A generation ago, or more.
Their blood would be thin.
635
01:00:29,170 --> 01:00:30,672
And yet...
636
01:00:32,048 --> 01:00:36,177
A dragon will only accept
a dragonlord to ride it.
637
01:00:36,177 --> 01:00:40,223
- Or so say the histories.
- Valyrian histories.
638
01:00:40,223 --> 01:00:42,142
Written to gild us in glory.
639
01:00:45,145 --> 01:00:47,772
Are you suggesting we put
a Mallister on a dragon?
640
01:00:48,356 --> 01:00:51,776
- A Tarly?
- It's better than death and defeat.
641
01:00:57,782 --> 01:01:01,244
There are records here,
surely, of our line
642
01:01:01,244 --> 01:01:03,496
and of those who fell out of it.
643
01:01:11,004 --> 01:01:12,630
There could be scores of them.
644
01:01:20,305 --> 01:01:22,140
It's a mad thought.