1 00:02:28,148 --> 00:02:29,107 What? 2 00:02:34,029 --> 00:02:35,864 I can't understand. 3 00:02:46,833 --> 00:02:48,460 Speak plainly. 4 00:02:52,630 --> 00:02:53,965 {\an8}YOU CREATED ME, DAEMON. 5 00:02:53,965 --> 00:02:55,050 {\an8}Stop. 6 00:02:55,050 --> 00:02:56,092 {\an8}YET YOU ARE NOW SET ON DESTROYING ME. 7 00:02:56,092 --> 00:02:57,177 {\an8}Stop it. 8 00:02:58,928 --> 00:03:03,350 {\an8}ALL BECAUSE YOUR BROTHER LOVED ME MORE THAN HE DID YOU. 9 00:03:16,071 --> 00:03:18,990 {\an8}THIS IS WHAT YOU ALWAYS WANTED, IS IT NOT? 10 00:03:29,292 --> 00:03:30,627 There's been a raven. 11 00:03:35,674 --> 00:03:37,592 Good morrow, Your Grace. 12 00:03:38,510 --> 00:03:41,221 Slept well, I trust? 13 00:03:41,721 --> 00:03:44,140 As I said, there's been a raven. 14 00:03:46,601 --> 00:03:49,896 Aegon's army departed King's Landing a fortnight ago. 15 00:03:49,896 --> 00:03:54,776 The castles of Rosby and Stokeworth have both fallen without siege. 16 00:03:54,776 --> 00:03:57,153 They have raised Aegon's banner 17 00:03:57,153 --> 00:04:00,657 and added their levies to Ser Criston Cole's host. 18 00:04:01,616 --> 00:04:04,244 Both houses cited that 19 00:04:04,244 --> 00:04:07,914 sad business with the usurper's son in their declarations. 20 00:04:08,998 --> 00:04:10,583 Ser Criston's army, 21 00:04:11,292 --> 00:04:16,589 now tripled in strength, might have Harrenhal as its destination. 22 00:04:16,589 --> 00:04:19,968 Even if you can raise a host of Rivermen, 23 00:04:19,968 --> 00:04:23,013 they will not be ready in time to face him. 24 00:04:29,227 --> 00:04:32,063 Let's see what your Lord Paramount is made of. 25 00:04:37,736 --> 00:04:40,947 My prince-- My Grace. 26 00:04:40,947 --> 00:04:42,449 Your Grace. 27 00:04:43,366 --> 00:04:46,411 Lord Grover is looking more hale and healthy than I expected. 28 00:04:46,411 --> 00:04:49,205 This is Ser Oscar Tully, grandson to Grover Tully. 29 00:04:49,205 --> 00:04:50,874 He is heir to Riverrun 30 00:04:50,874 --> 00:04:54,002 and the future Lord Paramount of the Riverlands. 31 00:04:54,002 --> 00:04:57,547 His Grace, the King Consort, Daemon Targaryen. 32 00:04:57,547 --> 00:05:00,300 - It is an honor, Your Grace. - Indeed. 33 00:05:06,723 --> 00:05:08,808 How fares your grandsire? 34 00:05:12,771 --> 00:05:16,024 Sadly, he remains incapacitated. 35 00:05:16,024 --> 00:05:18,735 He lies in a kind of waking sleep, 36 00:05:18,735 --> 00:05:22,280 unable to do much more than take meager drink. 37 00:05:22,280 --> 00:05:24,240 It is barely enough to sustain him. 38 00:05:24,949 --> 00:05:26,701 So, he's alive? 39 00:05:26,701 --> 00:05:29,120 Yes, gods be good. 40 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,873 Well, my time is short and I have need of an army. 41 00:05:31,873 --> 00:05:34,167 Perhaps you might place a feather pillow over his head 42 00:05:34,167 --> 00:05:36,503 and speed along your inheritance? 43 00:05:38,588 --> 00:05:42,258 I love my grandsire, like a father. 44 00:05:42,967 --> 00:05:46,596 My own lord father died suddenly, himself a young man. 45 00:05:47,263 --> 00:05:49,849 Lord Grover raised me in his stead. 46 00:05:49,849 --> 00:05:51,226 All very touching. 47 00:05:51,226 --> 00:05:53,228 Are you here to speak with your grandsire's voice? 48 00:05:53,228 --> 00:05:55,230 For House Tully and the Riverlands? 49 00:05:55,230 --> 00:05:56,815 While he still lives? 50 00:05:59,484 --> 00:06:02,987 - That is not our way. - Then you're of no use to me. 51 00:06:03,947 --> 00:06:05,657 I can see why the Blackwoods and the Brackens 52 00:06:05,657 --> 00:06:09,369 did not fear to start a war beneath the nose of their liege lords. 53 00:06:09,369 --> 00:06:11,663 House Tully is a fish with no head. 54 00:06:11,663 --> 00:06:15,667 Remind me which of your countrymen claim to fight in the name of Aegon? 55 00:06:15,667 --> 00:06:17,877 Was it Bracken or Blackwood? 56 00:06:17,877 --> 00:06:20,588 It was House Bracken that declared Green, Your Grace. 57 00:06:20,588 --> 00:06:21,881 Who could remember. 58 00:06:23,008 --> 00:06:24,009 Summon the Blackwoods here. 59 00:06:24,009 --> 00:06:27,178 I require men of action to lead my host of Rivermen. 60 00:06:56,041 --> 00:06:57,459 M'lady. 61 00:07:01,004 --> 00:07:04,674 "Princess," if we're holding to formalities. 62 00:07:04,674 --> 00:07:07,385 Apologies. Princess. 63 00:07:08,762 --> 00:07:10,680 And you are Alyn. 64 00:07:11,222 --> 00:07:13,433 Yes, Princess. 65 00:07:14,809 --> 00:07:18,313 I'm given to understand my lord husband owes you his life. 66 00:07:21,483 --> 00:07:24,527 But I was not told his savior was so comely. 67 00:07:25,820 --> 00:07:28,323 Your mother must've been very beautiful. 68 00:07:28,323 --> 00:07:29,532 Rhaenys. 69 00:07:38,166 --> 00:07:40,418 - Is your work finished? - No, m'lord. 70 00:07:51,721 --> 00:07:53,765 I just had a word with your captains. 71 00:07:55,809 --> 00:07:59,145 He was the sailor who plucked you from your watery grave? 72 00:08:06,861 --> 00:08:07,862 Yes. 73 00:08:09,364 --> 00:08:11,032 You did not think to mention it? 74 00:08:11,991 --> 00:08:13,660 I did not think it relevant. 75 00:08:16,037 --> 00:08:18,039 I know who he is, Corlys. 76 00:08:20,417 --> 00:08:23,336 Alyn's past is no fault of his. 77 00:08:24,087 --> 00:08:25,130 He saved his lord's life. 78 00:08:25,130 --> 00:08:27,674 He should be raised up and honored, not hidden beneath the tides. 79 00:08:27,674 --> 00:08:29,759 Is this why you came? 80 00:08:30,885 --> 00:08:32,554 To subject me to an inquisition? 81 00:08:34,806 --> 00:08:38,601 I came to tell you that Baela has called me to Dragonstone. 82 00:08:38,601 --> 00:08:39,936 Baela? 83 00:08:41,062 --> 00:08:43,648 That council is going to dine on her and Jace for supper. 84 00:08:43,648 --> 00:08:45,775 They grow restless in Rhaenyra's absence. 85 00:08:45,775 --> 00:08:49,237 Still, where has that woman gone? 86 00:08:49,237 --> 00:08:52,407 I suspect to try and draw us all back from the abyss. 87 00:09:14,971 --> 00:09:18,224 - Good morrow, Your Grace. - Good morrow, Grand Maester. 88 00:09:22,020 --> 00:09:23,646 As requested. 89 00:09:24,647 --> 00:09:27,275 - I brewed it myself. - Thank you. 90 00:09:28,276 --> 00:09:30,278 I will see it delivered discreetly. 91 00:09:31,780 --> 00:09:35,950 Do report if the recipient has need of any remedy. 92 00:09:35,950 --> 00:09:38,370 The tea is known to disagree with the gut. 93 00:09:39,204 --> 00:09:41,331 I shall observe the girl closely. 94 00:09:47,962 --> 00:09:49,589 Grand Maester. 95 00:09:55,595 --> 00:09:59,974 You've ever been a practical man, an honorable servant to the crown. 96 00:10:01,267 --> 00:10:03,770 And you served my lord husband in his darkest hours. 97 00:10:04,938 --> 00:10:06,773 Such was my duty, Your Grace. 98 00:10:08,566 --> 00:10:09,776 Tell me. 99 00:10:12,070 --> 00:10:15,073 Do you believe Viserys wanted Aegon to succeed him? 100 00:10:19,619 --> 00:10:21,830 I could not know. 101 00:10:23,748 --> 00:10:26,751 His Grace never raised the matter with me. 102 00:11:26,353 --> 00:11:29,356 Ser Criston Cole's host has taken to exploiting the tree cover 103 00:11:29,356 --> 00:11:30,648 to conceal its movements. 104 00:11:30,648 --> 00:11:33,651 He now only travels by night to confound our dragons. 105 00:11:33,651 --> 00:11:35,612 And what is Cole's heading? 106 00:11:35,612 --> 00:11:37,155 It is difficult to say, but there were signs 107 00:11:37,155 --> 00:11:40,241 of an army moving northwest, I believe. 108 00:11:40,241 --> 00:11:41,701 She believes. 109 00:11:41,701 --> 00:11:43,787 You should've burned them when you had the chance. 110 00:11:43,787 --> 00:11:46,539 Perhaps you can, Ser Alfred, when you next sight them on your dragon. 111 00:11:47,791 --> 00:11:51,544 The only reason we know any of this is because of Baela's efforts. 112 00:11:51,544 --> 00:11:53,213 What do we know, my prince? 113 00:11:53,213 --> 00:11:55,590 If you ask me, it is little and less. 114 00:11:55,590 --> 00:11:58,343 We know that Cole possesses a host that is growing in strength 115 00:11:58,343 --> 00:11:59,636 and that it is a problem. 116 00:11:59,636 --> 00:12:02,555 Can Daemon hope to meet it with his own in time? 117 00:12:02,555 --> 00:12:03,848 And if I know the Riverlands, 118 00:12:03,848 --> 00:12:09,062 he has more disentangling ahead of him than the end of a Lyseni orgy. 119 00:12:09,062 --> 00:12:12,607 Have you heard word from your father? 120 00:12:15,151 --> 00:12:18,655 - No. - Ravens were sent to Harrenhal 121 00:12:18,655 --> 00:12:21,825 seeking news of Daemon's progress with the Riverlords. 122 00:12:21,825 --> 00:12:24,285 None have, as yet, returned. 123 00:12:24,285 --> 00:12:25,453 Just so. 124 00:12:25,995 --> 00:12:28,373 An enemy host, growing in constitution, 125 00:12:28,373 --> 00:12:33,253 marches somewhere in the vastness of the Crownlands. 126 00:12:33,253 --> 00:12:36,923 We could, perhaps, act if only we had a host of our own. 127 00:12:36,923 --> 00:12:38,299 Or someone here to lead us. 128 00:12:39,009 --> 00:12:40,885 Mind your tongue, Ser Alfred. 129 00:12:42,387 --> 00:12:44,764 Does it speak falsely, my prince? 130 00:12:44,764 --> 00:12:47,225 This council is rudderless. 131 00:12:47,225 --> 00:12:49,561 I'm doing my best to steer it, Ser Alfred. 132 00:12:51,146 --> 00:12:54,774 Why should your voice be any louder than ours, Princess? 133 00:12:54,774 --> 00:12:56,693 The queen did not name you Hand. 134 00:12:56,693 --> 00:12:59,154 It is her voice, and that of the king consort, 135 00:12:59,154 --> 00:13:02,449 that we need to raise alliances and command our vassals. 136 00:13:02,449 --> 00:13:05,410 - But they are gone. - What has come of this council? 137 00:13:10,790 --> 00:13:12,208 My lord. 138 00:13:15,211 --> 00:13:18,590 Our enemy is on the march. 139 00:13:18,590 --> 00:13:20,717 Is there naught to be done in the absence of the queen 140 00:13:20,717 --> 00:13:24,054 but to grouse and claw for power? 141 00:13:30,185 --> 00:13:32,604 We do not know the queen's doings. 142 00:13:33,772 --> 00:13:38,360 But we must trust that she seeks the same as each of us at this table. 143 00:13:39,986 --> 00:13:42,405 An end to this conflict. 144 00:14:04,260 --> 00:14:06,721 Men of House Darklyn. 145 00:14:06,721 --> 00:14:10,809 All who bend the knee to the true king, Aegon, will be spared. 146 00:14:11,976 --> 00:14:14,562 You can earn back your honor by raising his banner 147 00:14:14,562 --> 00:14:19,150 and fighting in his name against the Whore of Dragonstone. 148 00:14:20,110 --> 00:14:22,112 All who refuse, 149 00:14:23,571 --> 00:14:25,573 will have their death. 150 00:14:39,629 --> 00:14:41,172 Good morrow, Lord Darklyn. 151 00:14:42,007 --> 00:14:45,427 Is there no honor left in this world, Cole? 152 00:14:45,427 --> 00:14:50,265 Sacking your queen's own castles and putting her people to the sword? 153 00:14:50,265 --> 00:14:51,975 "Kingmaker." 154 00:14:56,312 --> 00:14:58,648 You are not fit for the white cloak. 155 00:15:02,235 --> 00:15:05,238 This is a better death than a traitor deserves. 156 00:15:05,739 --> 00:15:07,866 You should thank me for it. 157 00:15:10,076 --> 00:15:12,328 Yours will come in kind. 158 00:15:27,635 --> 00:15:28,845 Lord Hand. 159 00:15:44,319 --> 00:15:47,947 We'll lead the van northeast, follow the coastline. 160 00:15:49,491 --> 00:15:51,076 I realize you were neither born nor bred 161 00:15:51,076 --> 00:15:54,454 anywhere near the Crownlands, my good Lord Hand, 162 00:15:54,454 --> 00:15:56,956 but Harrenhal is to the west. 163 00:16:01,002 --> 00:16:02,545 Indeed it is. 164 00:16:05,507 --> 00:16:08,677 Fuck you. I told you we should've sent our dragons. 165 00:16:08,677 --> 00:16:10,595 And now look what's happened. 166 00:16:11,012 --> 00:16:13,765 Daemon, of all people, has taken Harrenhal. 167 00:16:13,765 --> 00:16:16,267 I give you a job, and now you just sit there. 168 00:16:16,267 --> 00:16:18,770 It's your fucking castle! 169 00:16:20,522 --> 00:16:24,484 Well, that castle is more crippled than I am, Your Grace. 170 00:16:25,860 --> 00:16:28,655 It's like to drive Daemon to madness as he attempts to make use of it. 171 00:16:28,655 --> 00:16:30,990 It is beyond his faculties. 172 00:16:31,866 --> 00:16:35,829 It is also penniless, as I happily control all of its gold. 173 00:16:35,829 --> 00:16:39,457 So, as Harrenhal saps Daemon's resolve, 174 00:16:39,457 --> 00:16:41,918 the false queen remains trapped on her island, 175 00:16:41,918 --> 00:16:45,255 and Ser Criston continues felling castles in the Crownlands. 176 00:16:47,799 --> 00:16:52,137 I need to be informed of these things if I am to make informed rulings. 177 00:16:52,137 --> 00:16:54,055 I will not be made to look a fool in front of 178 00:16:54,055 --> 00:16:56,725 - my allies and enemies. - Harrenhal must wait. 179 00:17:00,353 --> 00:17:02,689 Ser Criston is marching on Rook's Rest. 180 00:17:03,565 --> 00:17:05,275 Rook's Re-- A pathetic prize. 181 00:17:05,275 --> 00:17:07,402 - I gave no such command-- - The castle is small, 182 00:17:08,653 --> 00:17:09,904 weakly defended, 183 00:17:09,904 --> 00:17:13,033 and Lord Staunton sits on Rhaenyra's council. 184 00:17:13,033 --> 00:17:15,243 After Cole smashes it, 185 00:17:15,243 --> 00:17:17,579 we'll have Dragonstone effectively cut off by land. 186 00:17:19,372 --> 00:17:22,083 This war will not be won with dragons alone 187 00:17:22,083 --> 00:17:25,211 but with dragons flying behind armies of men. 188 00:17:25,211 --> 00:17:29,132 No! Have him turn about. I want Harrenhal back. 189 00:17:30,300 --> 00:17:32,510 Cole is already preparing his attack. 190 00:17:33,970 --> 00:17:35,930 How do you know this? 191 00:17:35,930 --> 00:17:38,016 He sent word to me. 192 00:17:38,975 --> 00:17:40,185 To you? 193 00:17:42,979 --> 00:17:45,190 The two of you have been 194 00:17:45,732 --> 00:17:49,569 plotting without my authority? 195 00:17:53,740 --> 00:17:57,327 {\an8}YOU HAD MORE PRESSING MATTERS TO ATTEND TO. 196 00:17:58,036 --> 00:18:03,375 {\an8}SUCH AS HOLDING COURT, CHOOSING YOUR SOBRIQUET, 197 00:18:03,917 --> 00:18:07,337 {\an8}AND NAMING IMBECILIC LICKSPITTLES TO OUR KINGSGUARD. 198 00:18:11,925 --> 00:18:15,303 {\an8}DO YOU HAVE A WISER STRATEGY, MY KING? 199 00:18:17,222 --> 00:18:21,518 {\an8}IF SO, YOU SHOULD VOICE IT TO YOUR COUNCIL. 200 00:18:22,852 --> 00:18:25,689 {\an8}WE ALL AWAIT YOUR ANSWER. 201 00:18:34,948 --> 00:18:37,242 {\an8}I CAN HAVE TO... 202 00:18:38,702 --> 00:18:40,870 {\an8}MAKE A... 203 00:18:41,538 --> 00:18:42,872 {\an8}WAR? 204 00:18:52,424 --> 00:18:54,718 Harrenhal is a useful morass. 205 00:18:54,718 --> 00:18:57,679 It will keep Daemon well-occupied while we strengthen our host 206 00:18:57,679 --> 00:18:59,931 and weaken Rhaenyra's support on the mainland. 207 00:18:59,931 --> 00:19:02,976 We will deal with it in the Riverlands in time. 208 00:19:02,976 --> 00:19:07,355 But right now, Rook's Rest is an easy target 209 00:19:07,355 --> 00:19:09,357 and a worthy effort. 210 00:19:10,483 --> 00:19:13,445 Don't you agree, my king? 211 00:19:28,418 --> 00:19:29,711 Come. 212 00:19:33,882 --> 00:19:35,508 Lord Larys. 213 00:19:39,346 --> 00:19:44,309 I thought I'd look in on you, Your Grace, after your absence from the small council. 214 00:19:44,309 --> 00:19:46,353 I feared something was amiss. 215 00:19:47,479 --> 00:19:52,025 You're kind to do so, my lord, but indulgence was my sin. 216 00:19:52,025 --> 00:19:55,278 I ventured into the lamprey pie at last night's supper. 217 00:19:55,278 --> 00:19:57,197 Too far, I fear. 218 00:20:03,703 --> 00:20:06,122 That is a rich indulgence. 219 00:20:06,998 --> 00:20:10,585 But I believe it is a sin to deny your appetites. 220 00:20:10,585 --> 00:20:13,880 They are what make us fully alive as mortal men. 221 00:20:18,176 --> 00:20:20,553 Was anything of note discussed at the council? 222 00:20:20,553 --> 00:20:25,392 Daemon having seized Harrenhal and His Grace's resulting displeasure. 223 00:20:25,392 --> 00:20:29,270 I would've thought you would be the most aggrieved, my lord. 224 00:20:30,397 --> 00:20:32,607 I see it as a loss for our greater good. 225 00:20:34,150 --> 00:20:36,528 Dragonstone's attentions are greatly divided. 226 00:20:36,528 --> 00:20:39,781 First in the Riverlands and the Gullet, and now the Crownlands. 227 00:20:40,782 --> 00:20:42,659 Ser Criston wins every challenge he faces there. 228 00:20:42,659 --> 00:20:46,162 That truth alone is like to incite Rhaenyra's fury. 229 00:20:46,913 --> 00:20:49,541 He's covered himself in glory, to be sure. 230 00:20:50,667 --> 00:20:53,128 And you must worry for him? 231 00:20:53,628 --> 00:20:55,839 Your sworn sword, 232 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,759 on the march, ever exposed to dragons? 233 00:20:59,759 --> 00:21:01,803 It is a perilous road. 234 00:21:05,223 --> 00:21:07,225 Ser Criston is the Hand of the King. 235 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:11,187 We should all pray for his victory and safe return. 236 00:21:12,272 --> 00:21:13,481 Indeed. 237 00:21:23,450 --> 00:21:26,870 If I may be so bold, my queen, 238 00:21:32,584 --> 00:21:35,003 you have not seemed yourself of late. 239 00:21:36,546 --> 00:21:38,840 Only weeks ago, my lord husband was alive 240 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,925 and the realm was at peace. 241 00:21:41,384 --> 00:21:46,181 Now, I've barely had the hours to grieve one tragedy before suffering the next. 242 00:21:46,181 --> 00:21:49,142 I regret if I have not been myself. 243 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,107 I did not know you shared your lord husband's love 244 00:21:57,192 --> 00:21:59,027 for the histories. 245 00:22:00,445 --> 00:22:03,365 If not his love, then certainly an abiding interest. 246 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:06,910 The voices of history guided Viserys. 247 00:22:06,910 --> 00:22:10,038 He knew that his wisdom alone could only reach so far. 248 00:22:10,413 --> 00:22:12,916 Do you think that is why he changed his mind 249 00:22:14,292 --> 00:22:15,710 in the end? 250 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,799 No matter how suited he thought Rhaenyra for the crown, 251 00:22:20,799 --> 00:22:25,428 the voices of history, as you say, 252 00:22:25,428 --> 00:22:29,140 would have told him how the realm would react to her succession. 253 00:22:29,140 --> 00:22:30,767 It was impossible to know what steered his thoughts 254 00:22:30,767 --> 00:22:32,686 in those final hours. 255 00:22:33,937 --> 00:22:36,147 Do you now doubt his intentions? 256 00:22:43,863 --> 00:22:46,491 Rhaenyra's supporters will believe what they wish. 257 00:22:47,117 --> 00:22:49,119 And so will Aegon's. 258 00:22:49,953 --> 00:22:53,248 The war will be fought, many will die 259 00:22:54,499 --> 00:22:57,127 and the victor will eventually ascend the throne. 260 00:22:59,045 --> 00:23:02,048 The significance of Viserys's intentions died with him. 261 00:23:08,805 --> 00:23:10,265 Yes, it did. 262 00:24:47,737 --> 00:24:50,323 It's a touch late to be stalkin' about a strange castle, 263 00:24:50,323 --> 00:24:52,450 putting its people to the sword. 264 00:24:52,450 --> 00:24:53,743 You. 265 00:24:54,953 --> 00:24:56,788 I'm called Alys. 266 00:24:57,372 --> 00:24:58,790 Strong? 267 00:24:58,790 --> 00:25:00,041 Rivers. 268 00:25:01,084 --> 00:25:02,293 A bastard. 269 00:25:02,836 --> 00:25:05,463 Once you get to know me, you'll find I'm not so bad. 270 00:25:06,214 --> 00:25:08,675 So what are you then? Some kind of maester? 271 00:25:08,675 --> 00:25:10,635 In a manner of speaking. 272 00:25:10,635 --> 00:25:14,305 I inherited the duties after the last one fled in the night. 273 00:25:14,305 --> 00:25:17,308 - Fled? Why? - Just never settled in. 274 00:25:20,061 --> 00:25:22,063 How are you settling in? 275 00:25:22,731 --> 00:25:25,900 I've come to know the face of tortured rest well enough. 276 00:25:26,526 --> 00:25:29,529 Sleep can be thin in this place. 277 00:25:31,114 --> 00:25:33,033 What would you know of my sleep? 278 00:25:34,159 --> 00:25:37,412 Harrenhal's been cursed since its first stone was laid. 279 00:25:38,496 --> 00:25:40,874 Black Harren felled the grove of weirwood trees 280 00:25:40,874 --> 00:25:43,084 that grew on these lands. 281 00:25:43,084 --> 00:25:47,422 Heart trees, imbued with the spirits of those who lived long before he came. 282 00:25:47,422 --> 00:25:49,674 It's said their whispers can still be heard sometimes. 283 00:25:49,674 --> 00:25:51,176 A midwife's tale. 284 00:25:51,176 --> 00:25:54,888 The very bed you sleep in was made from such a heart tree. 285 00:25:56,598 --> 00:26:00,143 Have you experienced anything of note? 286 00:26:00,810 --> 00:26:03,229 You are a strange kind of woman. 287 00:26:03,688 --> 00:26:05,857 I'm no woman at all. I'm a barn owl. 288 00:26:06,441 --> 00:26:08,443 Cursed to live in human form. 289 00:26:11,321 --> 00:26:13,239 So you've come here after quarreling with your wife? 290 00:26:14,324 --> 00:26:15,408 What? 291 00:26:16,743 --> 00:26:21,623 You arrive here alone to claim the castle and yet, send no ravens. 292 00:26:23,833 --> 00:26:26,503 Do you now plan to make your own claim? 293 00:26:27,003 --> 00:26:29,172 - Perhaps to prove yourself to her. - Do not try me 294 00:26:29,172 --> 00:26:31,132 with your insolence, witch. 295 00:26:31,132 --> 00:26:35,887 It's a hard thing, I imagine, to give obeisance to one who replaced you as heir. 296 00:26:39,099 --> 00:26:40,433 And a woman too. A... 297 00:26:41,393 --> 00:26:44,020 girl child you bounced on your knee. 298 00:26:46,398 --> 00:26:49,109 Does it please you that her legitimacy is contested? 299 00:26:49,109 --> 00:26:53,071 As you stand here, with a castle and a dragon 300 00:26:53,905 --> 00:26:56,116 attempting to draw an army of men. 301 00:27:01,204 --> 00:27:02,831 Here. Drink this. 302 00:27:04,749 --> 00:27:08,378 You'll need your sleep if you're to win this place to your side. 303 00:27:17,887 --> 00:27:21,349 I now rule my house as regent until my nephew Benjicot comes of age. 304 00:27:26,730 --> 00:27:29,733 The Brackens are venal cravens 305 00:27:29,733 --> 00:27:32,944 and they must pay for their treachery against the laws of gods and men. 306 00:27:34,612 --> 00:27:36,281 And against the crown. 307 00:27:36,698 --> 00:27:38,158 Who are you? 308 00:27:38,158 --> 00:27:39,826 Ser Willem Blackwood of House Blackwood, 309 00:27:39,826 --> 00:27:42,454 Your Grace, as I said. 310 00:27:46,750 --> 00:27:47,959 Well met. 311 00:27:49,002 --> 00:27:50,795 What might I do for you? 312 00:27:50,795 --> 00:27:54,049 It was you who summoned me, Your Grace. 313 00:27:55,133 --> 00:27:58,136 I was given to understand that you wanted an army. 314 00:27:58,136 --> 00:27:59,929 Well, who doesn't these days? 315 00:27:59,929 --> 00:28:01,806 You Blackwoods certainly never miss a chance 316 00:28:01,806 --> 00:28:04,893 to bloody your swords, do you? 317 00:28:05,935 --> 00:28:09,272 Some 20 years ago, my lord bent the knee to King Viserys 318 00:28:09,272 --> 00:28:12,650 and acknowledged the Princess Rhaenyra as his rightful heir. 319 00:28:12,650 --> 00:28:14,444 So you fight for this old oath? 320 00:28:14,444 --> 00:28:17,489 Not, of course, for your thousand-year-old feud with the Brackens. 321 00:28:19,199 --> 00:28:21,618 I once vied for Queen Rhaenyra's hand 322 00:28:22,327 --> 00:28:24,162 before she wed Ser Laenor. 323 00:28:24,829 --> 00:28:26,956 I always liked her spirit. 324 00:28:27,540 --> 00:28:29,417 She had the true blood of the dragon. 325 00:28:29,417 --> 00:28:33,088 And you're prepared to march without the leave of your lord... 326 00:28:55,777 --> 00:28:57,028 Your Grace? 327 00:28:58,947 --> 00:29:00,657 And once you and your dragon 328 00:29:00,657 --> 00:29:03,827 bring the queen's justice to the Brackens 329 00:29:04,285 --> 00:29:06,287 our armies will be yours. 330 00:29:15,505 --> 00:29:18,091 Our lords in the Crownlands are grousing. 331 00:29:18,091 --> 00:29:20,051 Their herds of livestock struggle to keep pace 332 00:29:20,051 --> 00:29:21,845 with the dragons' relentless appetites. 333 00:29:21,845 --> 00:29:24,264 - Vhagar's in particular. - They can either provide 334 00:29:24,264 --> 00:29:27,434 the crown what it needs, or we can claim their holdings. 335 00:29:27,434 --> 00:29:28,977 Oh, that would be a relief, 336 00:29:28,977 --> 00:29:31,479 as we have no more coin to lend to the effort. 337 00:29:31,479 --> 00:29:34,149 Resources are certainly growing no more plentiful 338 00:29:34,149 --> 00:29:35,275 in the face of the blockade. 339 00:29:35,275 --> 00:29:37,610 The demand on the blacksmiths, armorers and tanners for equipment 340 00:29:37,610 --> 00:29:39,988 has only grown apace with Ser Criston's army. 341 00:29:39,988 --> 00:29:42,032 Well, Cole's done splendidly, at the least, 342 00:29:42,032 --> 00:29:45,910 turning every castle and army he's faced, including Duskendale, gods bless him. 343 00:29:47,162 --> 00:29:49,122 The Kingmaker, they're calling him. 344 00:29:49,122 --> 00:29:51,416 And with Aemond and Vhagar also at the ready, 345 00:29:51,416 --> 00:29:53,626 we are a formidable opponent. 346 00:29:54,919 --> 00:29:56,629 You bore me. 347 00:29:59,466 --> 00:30:01,468 You all bore me. 348 00:30:17,525 --> 00:30:20,028 Perhaps Ser Criston will be able to procure 349 00:30:20,028 --> 00:30:22,030 more livestock through his campaign. 350 00:30:22,030 --> 00:30:24,783 Any coin we can save will be a welcome bounty. 351 00:30:34,793 --> 00:30:36,169 What are you doing here? 352 00:30:36,169 --> 00:30:37,796 Where are your father's books? 353 00:30:37,796 --> 00:30:39,005 I ordered them removed. 354 00:30:39,798 --> 00:30:42,592 With no thought to the centuries of knowledge in those pages. 355 00:30:49,349 --> 00:30:50,975 Your Grace. 356 00:30:52,519 --> 00:30:55,188 I removed them, I didn't burn them. 357 00:31:00,402 --> 00:31:01,778 What is it? 358 00:31:01,778 --> 00:31:04,114 They don't care what I think. 359 00:31:06,783 --> 00:31:09,077 - Who, Aegon? - My council. 360 00:31:09,077 --> 00:31:11,246 Cole. Aemond. They pursue their campaign 361 00:31:11,246 --> 00:31:13,415 without seeking my aid, or even my thoughts. 362 00:31:16,710 --> 00:31:18,169 What thoughts would you have? 363 00:31:19,629 --> 00:31:21,506 I'm the king. 364 00:31:24,968 --> 00:31:27,804 Do you think simply wearing the crown imbues you with wisdom? 365 00:31:34,519 --> 00:31:37,939 Those men at your council table 366 00:31:38,898 --> 00:31:40,900 earned their seats. 367 00:31:41,401 --> 00:31:44,696 It was my hope that once enthroned, 368 00:31:44,696 --> 00:31:47,073 you would honor the burden of your new duties, 369 00:31:47,073 --> 00:31:49,034 be silent, 370 00:31:49,034 --> 00:31:52,746 and strive to learn from the more studied minds around you. 371 00:31:54,247 --> 00:31:57,250 In the hope that you might be half the king your father was. 372 00:31:58,877 --> 00:32:00,879 - Tread carefully. - Or what? 373 00:32:03,006 --> 00:32:06,051 You'll hang me, as you did your ratcatchers? 374 00:32:06,051 --> 00:32:08,511 Or have me banished, as you did your Hand? 375 00:32:10,180 --> 00:32:11,556 I ruled 376 00:32:11,556 --> 00:32:13,975 in your father's absence throughout his long illness, 377 00:32:13,975 --> 00:32:16,644 and Otto Hightower was as cunning a statesman as ever lived. 378 00:32:16,644 --> 00:32:21,941 You should humbly be seeking our opinions and counsel. 379 00:32:24,277 --> 00:32:26,237 You have no idea the sacrifices that were made 380 00:32:26,237 --> 00:32:28,531 to put you on that throne. 381 00:32:33,244 --> 00:32:34,245 Wha-- 382 00:32:36,456 --> 00:32:38,416 What would you have me do, Mother? 383 00:32:40,418 --> 00:32:42,837 Do simply what is needed of you: 384 00:32:44,547 --> 00:32:45,965 nothing. 385 00:33:16,121 --> 00:33:17,539 On your feet! 386 00:33:19,416 --> 00:33:21,334 To Rook's Rest! 387 00:33:22,627 --> 00:33:24,045 To battle! 388 00:33:29,175 --> 00:33:31,094 It's broad daylight. 389 00:33:31,094 --> 00:33:34,556 We must hold here and ready ourselves to lay siege at nightfall. 390 00:33:34,556 --> 00:33:37,934 We shall move now and strike by day. They will not expect it. 391 00:33:37,934 --> 00:33:41,438 They will not expect it because it is fucking madness. 392 00:33:43,773 --> 00:33:46,276 Did you forget the little encounter we had on the road to Rosby? 393 00:33:47,027 --> 00:33:48,236 I did not. 394 00:33:50,155 --> 00:33:53,158 Dragonstone and their dragons are just across the bay. 395 00:33:54,576 --> 00:33:56,578 What? Grown tired of living, have you? 396 00:33:57,537 --> 00:33:59,080 Are you afraid, Ser? 397 00:34:00,165 --> 00:34:02,417 Worse. I'm rational. 398 00:34:04,544 --> 00:34:05,962 We advance. 399 00:34:26,566 --> 00:34:28,318 I see no other choice. 400 00:34:28,318 --> 00:34:30,695 - We need to send a dragon. - Where? 401 00:34:36,076 --> 00:34:40,163 To support the war that your vassals have been fighting in your absence, 402 00:34:40,163 --> 00:34:41,456 Your Grace. 403 00:34:42,749 --> 00:34:45,919 Cole's host has grown since riding abroad. 404 00:34:45,919 --> 00:34:48,129 He raised the levies of both Rosby and Stokeworth 405 00:34:48,129 --> 00:34:51,049 and, with their combined strength, sacked Duskendale. 406 00:34:51,049 --> 00:34:52,676 Duskendale? 407 00:34:52,676 --> 00:34:54,719 The city has fallen. 408 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:56,721 Many Darklyn men declared for Aegon. 409 00:34:56,721 --> 00:34:58,598 Those who refused were put to the sword. 410 00:34:58,598 --> 00:35:00,433 What of my father? 411 00:35:00,433 --> 00:35:01,851 He kept his oath. 412 00:35:02,435 --> 00:35:04,270 Cole took his head for it. 413 00:35:06,481 --> 00:35:09,150 Where have you been, these last days? 414 00:35:09,150 --> 00:35:11,861 You vanished without so much as a word. 415 00:35:12,612 --> 00:35:15,657 Well, I apologize for my absence and the secrecy, 416 00:35:15,657 --> 00:35:17,742 but such was necessary. 417 00:35:18,576 --> 00:35:19,911 I went to King's Landing. 418 00:35:21,538 --> 00:35:23,164 To what possible end? 419 00:35:23,164 --> 00:35:25,542 To meet Queen Alicent and sue for peace. 420 00:35:25,542 --> 00:35:28,294 - You saw Alicent? - Yes, I did. 421 00:35:28,294 --> 00:35:30,672 You could've been taken or slain! 422 00:35:30,672 --> 00:35:34,592 I inherited 80 years of peace from my father. 423 00:35:34,592 --> 00:35:36,261 Before I was to end it, 424 00:35:36,261 --> 00:35:39,347 I needed to know that there was no other path. 425 00:35:41,891 --> 00:35:43,518 And now I do. 426 00:35:47,105 --> 00:35:49,024 Only one choice remains to me: 427 00:35:49,024 --> 00:35:52,235 either I win my claim or die. 428 00:35:54,988 --> 00:35:57,240 We stand at the ready. 429 00:35:58,158 --> 00:36:00,368 Cole's victories have only emboldened him. 430 00:36:00,368 --> 00:36:02,495 He marches on Rook's Rest. 431 00:36:02,495 --> 00:36:06,124 His host was just hours away when Lord Staunton's ravens took wing. 432 00:36:06,124 --> 00:36:08,626 Why Rook's Rest? After Duskendale? 433 00:36:08,626 --> 00:36:10,795 It is but a small coastal keep. 434 00:36:10,795 --> 00:36:14,549 'Cause Lord Staunton is a member of this council. 435 00:36:14,549 --> 00:36:18,511 And because his castle is small and vulnerable and there for the taking. 436 00:36:18,511 --> 00:36:20,972 Cole knows we have no army on the mainland. 437 00:36:20,972 --> 00:36:23,516 - He is brazen. - He is daring us to act. 438 00:36:23,516 --> 00:36:25,852 We need to send a dragon. 439 00:36:33,568 --> 00:36:37,113 There are those who have mistaken my caution for weakness. 440 00:36:42,202 --> 00:36:44,204 Let that be their undoing. 441 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,248 - I will go. - My queen-- 442 00:36:47,248 --> 00:36:50,126 - You cannot. - I will not lose dragons to war 443 00:36:50,126 --> 00:36:51,503 whilst I hide here in my castle. 444 00:36:51,503 --> 00:36:54,673 Our allies raise their banners for you, Mother. 445 00:36:54,673 --> 00:36:56,716 Yes, they do. 446 00:36:56,716 --> 00:36:59,844 If you die, all is lost. 447 00:36:59,844 --> 00:37:01,429 - Send me. - No. 448 00:37:01,429 --> 00:37:03,431 I will burn Cole's lines and withdraw before King's Landing 449 00:37:03,431 --> 00:37:05,308 - could even raise the alarm. - You lack the experience. 450 00:37:08,395 --> 00:37:10,689 You must send me, Your Grace. 451 00:37:12,941 --> 00:37:16,403 Meleys is your largest dragon and no stranger to battle. 452 00:37:19,197 --> 00:37:20,990 I will meet Cole. 453 00:38:29,642 --> 00:38:33,480 I wish only to fight for you, for your claim and mine. 454 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,023 I-- 455 00:38:36,441 --> 00:38:38,109 There's something I need to tell you, Jace. 456 00:38:40,653 --> 00:38:46,326 Something I should've told you when you first became heir to the throne. 457 00:38:47,619 --> 00:38:52,707 It's a secret that Viserys told me when he named me his successor. 458 00:38:53,708 --> 00:38:56,711 And it has passed from king to heir 459 00:38:57,545 --> 00:39:00,382 since Aegon the Conqueror's time. 460 00:39:08,682 --> 00:39:12,519 I never told you because I was unsure that I believed it myself. 461 00:39:14,062 --> 00:39:17,857 The Targaryen who sits the Iron Throne 462 00:39:17,857 --> 00:39:20,318 is not just a king or a queen. 463 00:39:20,318 --> 00:39:22,112 They are a Protector. 464 00:39:26,574 --> 00:39:30,120 Ordained to lead the Seven Kingdoms, to strengthen them, 465 00:39:32,664 --> 00:39:36,668 and to unite them against a common foe. 466 00:39:41,214 --> 00:39:44,426 Viserys chose me to succeed him. 467 00:39:45,468 --> 00:39:47,721 He held to this the whole of his life. 468 00:39:53,727 --> 00:39:58,940 My father believed that I, alone, was meant to be this Protector. 469 00:40:00,108 --> 00:40:03,069 They're 1,400-, 1,500-strong at least, my lord. 470 00:40:04,654 --> 00:40:08,033 But to unite the realm, I had to send the dragons to war. 471 00:40:16,875 --> 00:40:20,420 The horrors I have just loosed cannot be for a crown alone. 472 00:40:22,630 --> 00:40:24,674 That is why I must believe 473 00:40:24,674 --> 00:40:27,802 what Viserys told me when he named me his heir. 474 00:40:27,802 --> 00:40:30,096 What Jaehaerys had told him. 475 00:40:30,930 --> 00:40:33,224 And what I will now tell you. 476 00:40:36,019 --> 00:40:37,062 What is it? 477 00:40:43,443 --> 00:40:45,653 Aegon the Conqueror's Dream. 478 00:40:47,822 --> 00:40:51,451 He called it "The Song of Ice and Fire." 479 00:41:01,211 --> 00:41:03,254 Loose! New rank! 480 00:41:04,464 --> 00:41:07,384 Loose! New rank! 481 00:41:08,551 --> 00:41:10,929 Loose! New rank! 482 00:41:15,642 --> 00:41:16,643 Push it! 483 00:41:17,811 --> 00:41:19,062 Dragon! 484 00:41:19,646 --> 00:41:21,231 Dragon! 485 00:41:25,777 --> 00:41:28,405 To the Seven Hells with you, Cole! 486 00:41:28,863 --> 00:41:31,157 You may as well have sounded horns to announce our coming! 487 00:41:31,157 --> 00:41:33,201 Order the Darklyn levies to break off and move ahead. 488 00:41:33,201 --> 00:41:35,120 We must keep the dragon's attention divided. 489 00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,122 - Make the signal. - What signal? 490 00:41:37,122 --> 00:41:38,957 All is going to plan. 491 00:42:36,473 --> 00:42:37,432 {\an8}IDIOT. 492 00:42:39,601 --> 00:42:42,103 {\an8}WAIT, VHAGAR. 493 00:42:42,103 --> 00:42:44,981 {\an8}NOT YET. 494 00:43:11,216 --> 00:43:12,801 Forward, Sunfyre! 495 00:43:13,593 --> 00:43:15,095 Faster! 496 00:43:15,637 --> 00:43:17,639 Dragon! 497 00:43:17,639 --> 00:43:18,932 Whose dragon is that? 498 00:43:19,808 --> 00:43:21,434 His Grace, the king's. 499 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:24,688 This was your secret plot, Cole? 500 00:43:24,688 --> 00:43:26,481 For the king himself to lay ambush 501 00:43:26,481 --> 00:43:28,775 - and mayhaps die in the attempt? - No! 502 00:43:28,775 --> 00:43:30,694 Loose more signal arrows! 503 00:43:34,322 --> 00:43:36,324 Stalwart men of House Targaryen, 504 00:43:37,659 --> 00:43:40,078 your king has joined you! 505 00:43:41,037 --> 00:43:43,790 Hold to your courage! Hold to your wits! 506 00:43:43,790 --> 00:43:49,004 For the Seven have blessed and shielded this host with divine purpose! 507 00:43:49,004 --> 00:43:51,923 For the one true king, Aegon! 508 00:43:51,923 --> 00:43:54,551 Advance! 509 00:44:02,767 --> 00:44:04,769 Where are you, Aemond? 510 00:44:16,656 --> 00:44:18,700 {\an8}ATTACK, MELEYS! 511 00:44:19,909 --> 00:44:21,327 Dracarys! 512 00:45:00,408 --> 00:45:02,369 Another one there! 513 00:45:02,369 --> 00:45:04,662 Send a volley to those Rosby men! 514 00:45:04,662 --> 00:45:06,748 Give them no quarter! 515 00:45:16,132 --> 00:45:18,134 We'd best get you to cover, my lord. 516 00:46:06,766 --> 00:46:08,685 Thank the gods! 517 00:46:10,270 --> 00:46:11,438 Dracarys! 518 00:46:17,027 --> 00:46:19,070 No! No! 519 00:46:38,506 --> 00:46:39,924 Your Grace! 520 00:46:56,775 --> 00:46:58,693 {\an8}ATTACK, MELEYS. 521 00:51:46,523 --> 00:51:48,733 Fall in behind me! 522 00:51:49,693 --> 00:51:51,653 Into the breach! 523 00:52:23,226 --> 00:52:25,729 The king has fallen. We must find him. 524 00:53:15,862 --> 00:53:17,238 Aemond! 525 00:53:32,629 --> 00:53:34,172 Where's His Grace?