1 00:02:31,359 --> 00:02:36,364 You stand before the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms 2 00:02:37,407 --> 00:02:40,285 with a dragon of House Targaryen! 3 00:02:41,703 --> 00:02:43,830 I had no design upon it! 4 00:02:43,830 --> 00:02:45,415 What do you want? 5 00:02:46,916 --> 00:02:49,836 To learn the ways of dragonriders. 6 00:02:51,379 --> 00:02:53,381 And to serve my queen! 7 00:02:55,091 --> 00:02:56,718 Your Grace! 8 00:03:24,537 --> 00:03:26,831 You kneel quickly 9 00:03:26,831 --> 00:03:29,250 for a man so suddenly elevated. 10 00:03:30,043 --> 00:03:33,797 This dragon came to me, not I to him. 11 00:03:36,132 --> 00:03:39,552 I have sweated blood in service of House Velaryon. 12 00:03:40,178 --> 00:03:41,930 I may appear lowborn 13 00:03:42,764 --> 00:03:45,600 but I know much and more of service! 14 00:03:47,268 --> 00:03:49,229 And if the gods call me to greater things, 15 00:03:49,229 --> 00:03:50,897 who am I to refuse them? 16 00:04:00,573 --> 00:04:01,783 Stand. 17 00:04:10,166 --> 00:04:11,751 What is your parentage? 18 00:04:11,751 --> 00:04:14,004 My mother was a shipwright. 19 00:04:15,171 --> 00:04:16,798 My father is... 20 00:04:18,049 --> 00:04:19,426 no one of consequence. 21 00:04:20,218 --> 00:04:23,263 Your ancestors, any of House Targaryen? 22 00:04:23,263 --> 00:04:26,558 We're not the sort of family to keep annals, Your Grace. 23 00:04:28,810 --> 00:04:30,395 What is your name? 24 00:04:30,395 --> 00:04:32,897 Addam, of Hull. 25 00:04:41,614 --> 00:04:43,825 You have done something 26 00:04:45,201 --> 00:04:47,203 I feared impossible, 27 00:04:48,788 --> 00:04:50,790 Addam of Hull. 28 00:04:55,462 --> 00:04:57,297 I am glad of it. 29 00:05:01,634 --> 00:05:03,636 Do you think you can get him to Dragonstone? 30 00:05:06,723 --> 00:05:08,308 I can try. 31 00:05:14,564 --> 00:05:16,566 All my life, 32 00:05:16,566 --> 00:05:20,653 I have endeavored to serve both my house and the realm. 33 00:05:22,489 --> 00:05:24,199 And somehow none of it matters. 34 00:05:26,451 --> 00:05:28,286 We are cast aside. 35 00:05:30,288 --> 00:05:31,706 Or hated. 36 00:05:34,876 --> 00:05:36,503 You'll have a scar 37 00:05:37,504 --> 00:05:40,799 but it will be easily hidden. 38 00:05:46,012 --> 00:05:47,806 Nothing is clean here. 39 00:05:57,691 --> 00:05:59,901 I wish to go out, Ser Rickard. 40 00:06:00,443 --> 00:06:01,861 Out? 41 00:06:02,487 --> 00:06:04,072 To the Kingswood, I think. 42 00:06:04,072 --> 00:06:05,448 Then I'll have the stewards prepare 43 00:06:05,448 --> 00:06:07,367 - a retinue. - No retinue. 44 00:06:08,576 --> 00:06:10,453 - Then your handmaidens-- - No handmaidens. 45 00:06:11,955 --> 00:06:13,039 Just you. 46 00:06:22,799 --> 00:06:25,802 What are they for? The block or the crow cage? 47 00:06:26,636 --> 00:06:28,263 The Wall. 48 00:06:29,139 --> 00:06:30,932 The prince regent is merciful. 49 00:06:33,935 --> 00:06:36,563 Well, they started a riot. 50 00:06:36,563 --> 00:06:39,482 Justice is served, I suppose. 51 00:06:47,032 --> 00:06:50,452 I have received word of a matter of great importance. 52 00:06:51,536 --> 00:06:54,330 Rumor of a sighting of the dragon Seasmoke 53 00:06:55,665 --> 00:06:57,292 with a rider. 54 00:06:58,418 --> 00:07:00,587 A fine piece of intelligence 55 00:07:00,587 --> 00:07:04,341 and now you seek favor by delivering it to Prince Aemond. 56 00:07:04,341 --> 00:07:08,345 Actually, I thought I might seek your advice, Lord Larys. 57 00:07:08,345 --> 00:07:10,430 Whispers being your province. 58 00:07:10,972 --> 00:07:14,601 Kneel before the Prince Regent Aemond Targaryen! 59 00:07:15,185 --> 00:07:19,856 Oh, but this is your whisper, Lord Jasper, not mine. 60 00:07:19,856 --> 00:07:24,944 But if you consider it valuable, perhaps you could deliver it 61 00:07:24,944 --> 00:07:27,405 and find favor with Aemond yourself. 62 00:07:27,405 --> 00:07:29,866 You will forsake your white cloaks for black. 63 00:07:29,866 --> 00:07:32,660 Serve out your days at The Wall. 64 00:07:32,660 --> 00:07:34,704 Who is this rider? 65 00:07:34,704 --> 00:07:37,665 That is less clear 66 00:07:37,665 --> 00:07:40,126 but it must surely be the Lady Rhaena. 67 00:07:40,126 --> 00:07:41,920 She has wanted for a dragon all her life. 68 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,756 Indeed, but she tried already when she was four and ten. 69 00:07:44,756 --> 00:07:46,925 The beast Seasmoke very nearly devoured her. 70 00:07:46,925 --> 00:07:48,259 Who else? 71 00:07:49,761 --> 00:07:52,555 Yes, it is a shallow pool. 72 00:07:52,555 --> 00:07:54,057 Where did you hear it? 73 00:07:54,474 --> 00:07:55,684 My squire. 74 00:07:57,435 --> 00:07:59,896 He heard it from a stablehand, 75 00:07:59,896 --> 00:08:05,735 who heard it from his father, a fisherman, whose shipmate claims he saw it. 76 00:08:11,616 --> 00:08:13,910 You are, of course, welcome to bring this news 77 00:08:13,910 --> 00:08:16,329 to the prince regent, but 78 00:08:17,455 --> 00:08:21,084 perhaps this is one of those whispers best left to the wind. 79 00:09:01,416 --> 00:09:03,376 The queen is unharmed. 80 00:09:03,376 --> 00:09:06,171 What of the rider? Do we know who he is? 81 00:09:06,171 --> 00:09:09,924 He appears to be a shipwright in your employ, Lord Hand. 82 00:09:09,924 --> 00:09:11,509 A commoner? 83 00:09:11,509 --> 00:09:14,054 With respect to your workers, Lord Corlys, 84 00:09:14,054 --> 00:09:18,141 the lowborn cannot go around seizing dragons. 85 00:09:18,141 --> 00:09:20,226 Has the thief been secured? 86 00:09:20,226 --> 00:09:23,104 Her Grace has commanded that he remain here as a guest. 87 00:09:23,646 --> 00:09:27,609 She wishes him to be instructed in the art of dragonriding, 88 00:09:27,609 --> 00:09:30,612 and that I should teach him some High Valyrian. 89 00:09:30,612 --> 00:09:34,532 We know nothing about this man, save that he is lowborn. 90 00:09:34,532 --> 00:09:36,826 What say you, Lord Hand? 91 00:09:38,536 --> 00:09:40,163 We will await the queen's accounting 92 00:09:41,289 --> 00:09:43,416 before passing judgment. 93 00:09:46,503 --> 00:09:47,879 Where is the queen? 94 00:09:49,964 --> 00:09:52,258 Her Grace sends word she will not be attending. 95 00:09:56,846 --> 00:09:59,474 So he serves you and not himself. 96 00:09:59,808 --> 00:10:02,352 - That is lucky. - Lucky? 97 00:10:02,352 --> 00:10:03,937 Or somehow ordained? 98 00:10:04,646 --> 00:10:06,356 Seasmoke chose him. 99 00:10:06,356 --> 00:10:09,651 He surely has Targaryen blood in him somewhere. 100 00:10:09,651 --> 00:10:12,070 The dragon must sense it. There will be others. 101 00:10:12,070 --> 00:10:14,239 We will find riders for Vermithor and Silverwing. 102 00:10:14,239 --> 00:10:15,657 You trust this man? 103 00:10:16,574 --> 00:10:17,951 What choice do I have? 104 00:10:17,951 --> 00:10:19,411 He has a dragon. 105 00:10:19,411 --> 00:10:23,248 Without him, I have only Syrax who may give Aemond a second thought. 106 00:10:23,915 --> 00:10:25,875 The question is where to look. 107 00:10:26,501 --> 00:10:30,463 Targaryen blood was perhaps too thin in Ser Steffon Darklyn. 108 00:10:30,463 --> 00:10:33,216 If I can find others with a more direct line of breeding. 109 00:10:35,969 --> 00:10:37,887 Forgive me, Your Grace, 110 00:10:40,432 --> 00:10:44,477 but you are better served looking under the sheets and in the woodpiles. 111 00:10:48,565 --> 00:10:50,442 I once worked in a pleasure house 112 00:10:50,442 --> 00:10:54,738 where generations of Targaryen princelings had their revels. 113 00:10:54,738 --> 00:10:59,909 There are four score of their bastard progeny at least, that are known to me. 114 00:10:59,909 --> 00:11:02,037 There are sure to be more. 115 00:11:02,037 --> 00:11:07,042 Perhaps some here, on Dragonstone, the misbegotten offspring of your house. 116 00:11:17,552 --> 00:11:19,012 You speak of the lowborn. 117 00:11:19,012 --> 00:11:20,638 They are as like to serve you 118 00:11:20,638 --> 00:11:24,142 as highborn lords or ladies, perhaps more. 119 00:11:26,603 --> 00:11:29,564 But in the highborn houses there is 120 00:11:30,857 --> 00:11:32,150 an ancient fealty. 121 00:11:33,234 --> 00:11:34,444 There is honor. 122 00:11:35,278 --> 00:11:38,656 Your royal half-brothers, Aegon and Aemond, 123 00:11:38,656 --> 00:11:43,745 whose blood is pure, who wage war against you for your throne, 124 00:11:44,662 --> 00:11:46,122 are they bound by honor? 125 00:11:51,795 --> 00:11:58,593 A common shipwright vows to serve you while your brothers seek to destroy you. 126 00:12:00,303 --> 00:12:04,265 The order of things has changed, Your Grace. 127 00:12:05,225 --> 00:12:07,060 Why not embrace it? 128 00:12:16,903 --> 00:12:19,823 For 20 years, the lords of this realm levied 129 00:12:19,823 --> 00:12:23,535 insults at my sons behind my back. 130 00:12:31,126 --> 00:12:32,335 Well then. 131 00:12:33,628 --> 00:12:37,048 Let us raise an army of bastards. 132 00:12:57,736 --> 00:12:59,988 - My lord. -"My lord"? 133 00:13:00,947 --> 00:13:03,158 How you have come up in the world. 134 00:13:05,577 --> 00:13:07,579 I wish to ask for leave to relinquish my part 135 00:13:07,579 --> 00:13:09,789 as a shipwright in your service. 136 00:13:09,789 --> 00:13:12,542 There are good men and strong who can take my place-- 137 00:13:17,589 --> 00:13:19,674 Your leave is granted. 138 00:13:31,770 --> 00:13:33,146 Well done. 139 00:14:01,925 --> 00:14:04,219 Lord Tully has answered your summons and brought 140 00:14:04,219 --> 00:14:06,721 the Riverlords, my king. 141 00:14:12,018 --> 00:14:15,063 My condolences on the passing of your grandsire 142 00:14:15,063 --> 00:14:17,899 but the crown congratulates you on your ascension to the head of your house 143 00:14:17,899 --> 00:14:19,693 and Lord Paramount in the Riverlands. 144 00:14:19,693 --> 00:14:21,027 Truly glorious. Well done. 145 00:14:22,237 --> 00:14:23,238 I did nothing. 146 00:14:23,238 --> 00:14:26,616 Nevertheless, you are here, which is the important thing. 147 00:14:26,616 --> 00:14:28,410 You were quick enough to dismiss me before. 148 00:14:28,410 --> 00:14:30,412 You were of no significance to me then. 149 00:14:30,954 --> 00:14:32,163 Now... 150 00:14:34,874 --> 00:14:37,085 I shall have my great host. 151 00:14:38,378 --> 00:14:40,714 You have a decision to make. 152 00:14:40,714 --> 00:14:42,841 I presume it is clear to you which is the right one. 153 00:14:43,883 --> 00:14:45,677 You'll forgive me, Your Grace. 154 00:14:45,677 --> 00:14:50,682 I am green in this sort of matter, as you so kindly point out, but 155 00:14:52,642 --> 00:14:56,062 it does seem to me that you've made rather a mess here, 156 00:14:56,062 --> 00:14:59,274 countenancing barbarities in the queen's name. 157 00:15:00,150 --> 00:15:02,152 Whose side are you on? 158 00:15:06,740 --> 00:15:09,743 The Riverlands are held together by oaths. 159 00:15:11,411 --> 00:15:15,040 House Tully swore an oath to King Viserys. 160 00:15:16,833 --> 00:15:20,587 We recognize the authority of the named heir, Queen Rhaenyra, 161 00:15:21,254 --> 00:15:24,841 and your own, as her king consort. 162 00:15:26,259 --> 00:15:27,469 Good. 163 00:15:28,887 --> 00:15:31,723 Then we shall go to face your vassals and you will call your banners to war. 164 00:15:31,723 --> 00:15:34,017 That might be difficult, my king. 165 00:15:39,147 --> 00:15:40,357 Well... 166 00:15:41,858 --> 00:15:45,653 I was told they would come to heel when House Tully declared its allegiance. 167 00:15:45,653 --> 00:15:46,821 That may be the case, 168 00:15:48,031 --> 00:15:50,658 though it is yet to be seen that they will heed my authority 169 00:15:50,658 --> 00:15:52,744 as young as it is. 170 00:15:54,329 --> 00:15:56,206 And there is another problem. 171 00:15:58,375 --> 00:16:00,085 They all hate you. 172 00:16:03,630 --> 00:16:05,423 I don't need their love. 173 00:16:05,423 --> 00:16:07,467 I need their swords. 174 00:16:10,053 --> 00:16:11,763 Your Grace, my lord. 175 00:16:11,763 --> 00:16:13,973 The Riverlords await. 176 00:16:13,973 --> 00:16:16,476 I fear we cannot delay them any longer. 177 00:16:23,149 --> 00:16:25,360 Come along, Lord Oscar. 178 00:16:48,049 --> 00:16:50,260 In the deepest darkness comes the dawn. 179 00:16:51,136 --> 00:16:52,429 A new lord, 180 00:16:52,429 --> 00:16:54,180 a new beginning. 181 00:16:55,348 --> 00:16:57,809 Let us put all the old unpleasantness behind us. 182 00:17:03,982 --> 00:17:05,984 Be welcome, my lords, 183 00:17:07,152 --> 00:17:10,196 and you have my thanks for answering my summons. 184 00:17:10,196 --> 00:17:12,907 I know I'm not the man my grandsire was 185 00:17:12,907 --> 00:17:17,078 but I hope to begin well, and go on from there. 186 00:17:17,912 --> 00:17:20,915 Well said. One thing is clear-- 187 00:17:21,708 --> 00:17:24,794 the Rivermen honor the old ways and abide by tradition. 188 00:17:24,794 --> 00:17:28,340 Here, then, is tradition. Grover Tully is dead. 189 00:17:28,340 --> 00:17:30,258 Lord Oscar raised up in his place. 190 00:17:31,051 --> 00:17:33,845 You have been summoned here to swear anew your fealty to him 191 00:17:33,845 --> 00:17:37,766 and as his bannermen, answer his call. 192 00:17:37,766 --> 00:17:40,101 And what would that call be? 193 00:17:40,101 --> 00:17:44,022 In his wisdom, he has pledged his house, and yours, to me. 194 00:17:46,024 --> 00:17:51,321 Lord Oscar, for generations we have been guided by the judgment of your forebears. 195 00:17:51,821 --> 00:17:55,450 Why should we now follow a boy, younger than my own sons, 196 00:17:55,450 --> 00:17:58,870 when you will align with one who will desecrate the innocent to reach his aims? 197 00:18:00,455 --> 00:18:03,667 I did only what was necessary, my lord. 198 00:18:04,793 --> 00:18:09,255 And I now deliver to you the traitor Amos Bracken and his son. 199 00:18:09,255 --> 00:18:12,384 No more traitor to his land than you, Willem Blackwood. 200 00:18:13,301 --> 00:18:18,848 I take to heart your words, Lord Piper, and I agree, I am young. 201 00:18:21,976 --> 00:18:25,230 And I have no love for Daemon Targaryen. 202 00:18:25,230 --> 00:18:28,316 He has dishonored himself and the crown with his 203 00:18:29,401 --> 00:18:31,027 comportment here. 204 00:18:32,404 --> 00:18:36,282 Nevertheless, having so little experience to guide me, 205 00:18:36,282 --> 00:18:40,161 my best course is to defer to the oath my grandsire swore 206 00:18:40,161 --> 00:18:43,873 to King Viserys when he named Rhaenyra his heir. 207 00:18:47,168 --> 00:18:50,672 I see no reason to cast aside loyalty 208 00:18:50,672 --> 00:18:54,300 no matter how loathsome I may find her representative the prince. 209 00:18:54,300 --> 00:18:55,593 King. 210 00:18:56,594 --> 00:18:58,388 Mind your tongue, boy. 211 00:19:10,483 --> 00:19:12,777 Will you have our army or not? 212 00:19:23,496 --> 00:19:28,335 I am, in the end, a Riverman and the word of my house stands, 213 00:19:28,335 --> 00:19:31,129 even if certain people are unworthy of it. 214 00:19:38,970 --> 00:19:41,389 Your Lord Oscar is bold. 215 00:19:42,766 --> 00:19:45,185 But he is perhaps not wrong. 216 00:19:46,144 --> 00:19:50,815 I may have been a touch enthusiastic in pursuing my aims. 217 00:19:51,816 --> 00:19:54,235 But don't allow my failings to 218 00:19:55,236 --> 00:19:58,365 keep you from supporting an upright man. 219 00:19:58,365 --> 00:20:01,034 Lord Oscar, we honor the old ways, 220 00:20:01,159 --> 00:20:02,535 as Prince Daemon says 221 00:20:03,620 --> 00:20:04,996 and the old ways call 222 00:20:04,996 --> 00:20:07,040 - for justice to be done. - Yes! 223 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:09,459 Justice has been done. 224 00:20:09,459 --> 00:20:13,755 They who bent the knee to the usurper have been brought to heel. 225 00:20:14,673 --> 00:20:19,094 And now, we unite before our liege lord 226 00:20:20,929 --> 00:20:23,098 and our king consort. 227 00:20:37,362 --> 00:20:40,990 I accept you as my vassal, Willem Blackwood 228 00:20:48,164 --> 00:20:49,207 but... 229 00:20:50,959 --> 00:20:54,170 I am Lord Paramount of all River Houses. 230 00:20:56,131 --> 00:20:57,716 And there is only one answer for the crimes 231 00:20:57,716 --> 00:20:59,300 you visited upon your neighbors. 232 00:21:03,596 --> 00:21:07,642 I did only what His Grace the king required of me. 233 00:21:07,642 --> 00:21:11,062 It is true that he made clear his base desires 234 00:21:11,062 --> 00:21:14,357 but you did not have to pursue such savagery. 235 00:21:15,608 --> 00:21:19,404 You did it because you wanted to. 236 00:21:19,404 --> 00:21:22,115 Our young lord speaks truly. 237 00:21:23,825 --> 00:21:25,410 Seize him. 238 00:21:27,370 --> 00:21:28,496 Don't fuckin' do this. 239 00:21:30,915 --> 00:21:33,918 Your Grace, command them. I've only served you. 240 00:21:38,715 --> 00:21:40,675 - Command them. - If His Grace wishes 241 00:21:40,675 --> 00:21:43,178 to show contrition for his acts 242 00:21:43,178 --> 00:21:46,014 and to prove himself deserving of our banners 243 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,226 he must now rectify his grievous error. 244 00:21:50,226 --> 00:21:52,395 Denounce your crimes 245 00:21:54,022 --> 00:21:56,441 and dispense justice. 246 00:21:58,193 --> 00:21:59,235 Oh, dear. 247 00:22:12,457 --> 00:22:14,459 No, no, no! 248 00:22:14,959 --> 00:22:17,921 I did as you asked, Your Grace, I have been faithful. 249 00:23:37,459 --> 00:23:39,461 What is this? 250 00:23:41,338 --> 00:23:43,548 I never wanted it. 251 00:23:46,217 --> 00:23:48,428 I was right not to. 252 00:23:52,265 --> 00:23:54,893 All that pain it caused. 253 00:23:58,563 --> 00:24:01,775 It crushes whoever wears it. 254 00:24:05,779 --> 00:24:08,406 You always wanted it, Daemon. 255 00:24:13,912 --> 00:24:16,331 Do you want it still? 256 00:24:26,383 --> 00:24:27,384 Steady. Slowly. 257 00:24:31,888 --> 00:24:33,181 I can't. 258 00:24:33,181 --> 00:24:35,892 You can. You must try, Your Grace. 259 00:24:44,526 --> 00:24:46,695 I can't, I can't! 260 00:24:51,408 --> 00:24:53,576 I'm sorry, Your Grace. I'm sorry, Your Grace. 261 00:24:53,576 --> 00:24:56,287 Oh, God. Oh, God. 262 00:24:57,455 --> 00:24:58,331 A moment! 263 00:24:59,207 --> 00:25:00,917 A moment, please! 264 00:25:04,713 --> 00:25:08,174 You really oughtn't to be doing that alone, Grand Maester. 265 00:25:16,182 --> 00:25:17,267 Allow me. 266 00:25:20,061 --> 00:25:21,563 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 267 00:25:22,063 --> 00:25:23,690 Forgive me, Your Grace. 268 00:25:35,368 --> 00:25:37,746 - Be careful. - Wait, wait. 269 00:25:48,423 --> 00:25:50,633 Your progress is impressive. 270 00:25:52,469 --> 00:25:56,181 But I'm afraid you must work harder. 271 00:25:57,766 --> 00:25:59,809 Your strength will return. 272 00:25:59,809 --> 00:26:03,813 There are adjustments to the gait and so forth 273 00:26:03,813 --> 00:26:06,524 that you will learn now that you are 274 00:26:07,650 --> 00:26:08,860 as you are. 275 00:26:22,082 --> 00:26:24,084 You should be more cautious. 276 00:26:24,542 --> 00:26:26,920 I should, Lord Larys. 277 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,631 He needs rest. He should be abed. 278 00:26:29,631 --> 00:26:31,925 I push him on your instruction. 279 00:26:32,467 --> 00:26:34,177 I'll have the sentry give you more warning. 280 00:26:36,805 --> 00:26:38,390 Let him try again in a few hours. 281 00:26:38,390 --> 00:26:39,974 He is spent. 282 00:26:43,228 --> 00:26:45,605 It will be long before he may rest again. 283 00:26:58,201 --> 00:26:59,411 Alyn. 284 00:27:02,956 --> 00:27:03,915 My lord. 285 00:27:07,293 --> 00:27:09,921 I have tasks that need your personal attention. 286 00:27:10,380 --> 00:27:13,091 The queen requires ships at her service in King's Landing. 287 00:27:13,091 --> 00:27:15,844 Charter fishing vessels. Pay whatever they demand 288 00:27:15,844 --> 00:27:18,930 but ensure their captains are dependable. 289 00:27:21,391 --> 00:27:23,727 - Put trusted swords aboard. - Yes, m'lord. 290 00:27:23,727 --> 00:27:25,520 Have them wait just outside the harbor. 291 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,440 And there will be a message to carry to one she will name. 292 00:27:35,447 --> 00:27:39,659 The queen has found a new rider for one of her dragons. 293 00:27:40,285 --> 00:27:41,911 I've heard tell of it. 294 00:27:42,787 --> 00:27:43,955 The rider is your brother. 295 00:27:48,710 --> 00:27:51,004 She now makes the call for others. 296 00:27:51,713 --> 00:27:57,385 Our people are of Old Valyria, but we are no dragonlords. 297 00:27:59,137 --> 00:28:03,933 I confess, I knew little of your mother's heritage. 298 00:28:06,561 --> 00:28:08,021 If it is 299 00:28:09,314 --> 00:28:11,316 something in the blood. 300 00:28:16,196 --> 00:28:21,368 My brother was ever restless, yearning for some sign of his worth. 301 00:28:22,786 --> 00:28:24,996 I am of salt and sea. 302 00:28:25,872 --> 00:28:28,041 I yearn for nothing else. 303 00:30:29,496 --> 00:30:31,706 I will retire now, Ser Rickard. 304 00:30:39,089 --> 00:30:42,342 When does Your Grace mean to return to the city? 305 00:30:44,344 --> 00:30:46,346 I'm not yet certain I do. 306 00:30:48,098 --> 00:30:49,057 Good night. 307 00:30:57,774 --> 00:31:02,612 The lowborn claiming dragons, was it her idea? 308 00:31:02,612 --> 00:31:04,572 Lady Mysaria? 309 00:31:04,572 --> 00:31:07,867 You were enthusiastic enough when Ser Steffon made his claim. 310 00:31:07,867 --> 00:31:09,994 He was the Lord Commander of your Queensguard. 311 00:31:09,994 --> 00:31:12,455 Heir to the Dun Fort. These people are-- 312 00:31:12,455 --> 00:31:13,748 Courageous. 313 00:31:14,416 --> 00:31:16,042 Mongrels. 314 00:31:21,715 --> 00:31:22,924 Jace. 315 00:31:25,927 --> 00:31:27,804 Think what is at stake. 316 00:31:27,804 --> 00:31:30,890 I know well what is at stake. 317 00:31:32,934 --> 00:31:35,520 House Targaryen is the blood of the dragon. 318 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,231 If any may lay claim to it, what are we then? 319 00:31:38,815 --> 00:31:41,693 The rightful rulers of the Seven Kingdoms. 320 00:31:42,193 --> 00:31:45,780 And what if one of your baseborn, silver-haired dragonriders 321 00:31:45,780 --> 00:31:48,575 decides he wants to rule the Seven Kingdoms? 322 00:31:48,575 --> 00:31:51,077 Did the Conqueror's dream foretell that? 323 00:31:52,078 --> 00:31:54,706 What else would you have me do? 324 00:31:56,624 --> 00:32:01,046 Prosecute a war, which we will lose, in which thousands will die. 325 00:32:01,046 --> 00:32:03,089 Or fly against Vhagar myself? 326 00:32:03,089 --> 00:32:06,593 Or perhaps you will fly against her on Vermax. 327 00:32:09,262 --> 00:32:13,892 Jace, with these riders, we can end a needless war. 328 00:32:15,143 --> 00:32:17,604 I may take my rightful place on my father's throne. 329 00:32:17,604 --> 00:32:19,522 And when you die? 330 00:32:24,069 --> 00:32:25,820 You are my heir. 331 00:32:39,709 --> 00:32:42,128 Did you think I would have dark hair? 332 00:32:50,303 --> 00:32:54,057 When you took Harwin Strong into your bed, did you think I might favor him, 333 00:32:54,057 --> 00:32:55,642 or did it not cross your mind? 334 00:32:58,311 --> 00:33:01,314 - Jacaerys-- - I'm no fool, Mother! 335 00:33:01,981 --> 00:33:04,192 The proof is here for all to see. 336 00:33:06,986 --> 00:33:11,241 Yet I may argue my legitimacy to succeed you because I have a dragon. 337 00:33:14,536 --> 00:33:16,746 And now you say you will strip that from me too. 338 00:33:32,971 --> 00:33:34,764 I mislike all of this. 339 00:33:37,642 --> 00:33:39,519 Then don't pursue it. 340 00:33:47,902 --> 00:33:53,116 But I cannot gainsay that which the gods have laid before me. 341 00:34:18,558 --> 00:34:21,770 Do whatever you must to see that it finds her. 342 00:34:48,004 --> 00:34:49,631 From the queen. 343 00:35:36,636 --> 00:35:38,221 You won't believe this. 344 00:35:40,140 --> 00:35:43,977 Word is, Rhaenyra's recruiting smallfolk to go to Dragonstone. 345 00:35:43,977 --> 00:35:46,646 - Oh, fuck that. - They wouldn't take you anyway. 346 00:35:49,107 --> 00:35:52,235 They're looking for Targaryen bastards. 347 00:35:53,361 --> 00:35:55,321 Boats leave tonight. Hour of the bat. 348 00:35:55,321 --> 00:35:58,658 Seven hells, Ulf. This is it! 349 00:35:58,658 --> 00:36:00,577 Yeah, a likely story. 350 00:36:00,577 --> 00:36:02,704 - You've been taken in, lads. - No, no, no, no, no. 351 00:36:02,704 --> 00:36:05,498 The queen's own handmaid is here, spreadin' the word. 352 00:36:05,498 --> 00:36:09,919 Well, that's a shame 'cause I'd have been first in line if it wasn't for my injury. 353 00:36:09,919 --> 00:36:11,212 'Cause my leg hasn't been the same since-- 354 00:36:11,212 --> 00:36:14,174 Are you touched? He's saying you can claim a dragon. 355 00:36:14,174 --> 00:36:16,634 The barkeep from the Seven Maesters is goin'. 356 00:36:16,634 --> 00:36:18,303 And two of the girls from Mother's. 357 00:36:18,303 --> 00:36:21,139 - A chance to stick it to Aemond. - And claim a dragon. 358 00:36:21,139 --> 00:36:23,308 - Dragon! - Yeah, no. I know. 359 00:36:23,308 --> 00:36:26,019 - What? - I know. I just-- I can't... 360 00:36:26,895 --> 00:36:29,105 I can't be sure it's all true. 361 00:36:32,609 --> 00:36:35,987 You can't mean that you've been drinkin' 362 00:36:35,987 --> 00:36:38,365 at the expense of all these good people 363 00:36:38,365 --> 00:36:40,492 - for a fiction? No, Ulf. - No, no. 364 00:36:40,492 --> 00:36:42,410 All spark and no tinder? 365 00:36:42,410 --> 00:36:44,079 - They won't be happy. - They'll be very unhappy. 366 00:36:44,079 --> 00:36:46,247 - Never live it down. - Never live it down. 367 00:36:46,247 --> 00:36:48,625 - Come on, Ulf, the time has come! - Come on! 368 00:36:48,625 --> 00:36:50,168 Can I see a little glimmer? 369 00:36:50,168 --> 00:36:52,671 - Where is it? - There's the Ulf I know. 370 00:36:52,671 --> 00:36:54,839 Yes! Yes, there he is! 371 00:36:54,839 --> 00:36:58,510 - Yes, yes! - Wine! Wine for Ulf the Dragonlord! 372 00:36:58,510 --> 00:37:04,599 Ulf the Dragonlord! Ulf the Dragonlord! 373 00:37:15,860 --> 00:37:18,321 I don't want you to go. 374 00:37:18,321 --> 00:37:20,198 I have to, Kat. 375 00:37:20,198 --> 00:37:22,117 We'll go to my brother in Tumbleton. 376 00:37:22,117 --> 00:37:24,494 They'll have food. You'll find work. 377 00:37:24,494 --> 00:37:26,329 I can't ignore this. 378 00:37:30,792 --> 00:37:32,419 I never knew my father. 379 00:37:34,921 --> 00:37:36,923 That much is true. 380 00:37:41,261 --> 00:37:43,263 But I did know my mother. 381 00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:57,736 I hid it from you. 382 00:37:58,570 --> 00:38:00,572 And I'm sorry for that. 383 00:38:04,534 --> 00:38:06,161 She worked 384 00:38:07,454 --> 00:38:08,663 in a pleasure house. 385 00:38:10,373 --> 00:38:12,667 She was granted more freedom than most 386 00:38:13,501 --> 00:38:15,503 because of who she was. 387 00:38:18,173 --> 00:38:21,176 And because rich men paid more to fuck a woman with silver hair. 388 00:38:25,764 --> 00:38:27,599 She used to tell me 389 00:38:28,933 --> 00:38:32,145 I was no different to her brother's boys, 390 00:38:34,314 --> 00:38:37,317 Viserys and Daemon. 391 00:38:43,156 --> 00:38:45,158 But I was ashamed of her. 392 00:38:48,203 --> 00:38:51,206 I tried to make my way with my own hands. 393 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,171 I could not protect you. 394 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,800 I could not keep our girl alive. 395 00:39:09,474 --> 00:39:10,684 And now, 396 00:39:12,519 --> 00:39:15,522 we would never want again. 397 00:39:16,147 --> 00:39:18,566 If I claimed a dragon 398 00:39:19,901 --> 00:39:21,861 they'd make you a lady. 399 00:39:27,492 --> 00:39:30,120 I do not care to be a lady, Hugh. 400 00:39:33,081 --> 00:39:35,500 And neither do I want to be a widow. 401 00:39:43,216 --> 00:39:45,635 I have to do somethin'. 402 00:42:25,211 --> 00:42:27,047 {\an8}THIS IS AN ABOMINATION. 403 00:42:28,673 --> 00:42:30,842 {\an8}WHAT DO YOU SPEAK OF? 404 00:42:30,842 --> 00:42:33,303 {\an8}YOU SENT AN ANDAL BEFORE A DRAGON. 405 00:42:33,303 --> 00:42:35,388 {\an8}THE JUDGEMENT WAS DELIVERED. 406 00:42:35,388 --> 00:42:36,973 {\an8}NOW YOU WOULD SEND MORE? 407 00:42:36,973 --> 00:42:41,102 {\an8}SER STEFFON DARKLYN WAS THE BLOOD OF THE DRAGON. 408 00:42:41,102 --> 00:42:42,979 {\an8}IT WAS A BLASPHEMY. 409 00:42:42,979 --> 00:42:46,191 {\an8}HE WAS NO DRAGONLORD. 410 00:42:46,983 --> 00:42:48,360 {\an8}NEITHER ARE THESE. 411 00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:52,447 {\an8}AND YET THE GODS HAVE SET THEM BEFORE US. 412 00:42:52,781 --> 00:42:54,908 {\an8}YOU HAVE SET THEM BEFORE YOURSELF. 413 00:42:54,908 --> 00:42:57,118 {\an8}THE DRAGONS ARE SACRED; 414 00:42:57,118 --> 00:43:00,997 {\an8}THEY ARE THE LAST MAGIC OF OLD VALYRIA IN THIS SAD WORLD. 415 00:43:01,831 --> 00:43:05,669 {\an8}THEY ARE NOT PLAYTHINGS FOR THE GAMES OF MEN. 416 00:43:06,461 --> 00:43:09,255 {\an8}OUR ORDER WILL TAKE NO PART IN THIS. 417 00:43:46,084 --> 00:43:50,088 I used to think I knew what it was to claim a dragon, but 418 00:43:54,843 --> 00:43:57,178 I understand now that what I thought I knew is 419 00:43:58,054 --> 00:43:59,764 ash in the wind. 420 00:44:12,318 --> 00:44:14,237 Perhaps it is blood. 421 00:44:14,738 --> 00:44:16,156 Or worth. 422 00:44:17,157 --> 00:44:19,367 Or perhaps it's something else. 423 00:44:24,039 --> 00:44:29,627 Each of you has left behind a life to answer this call. 424 00:44:31,046 --> 00:44:35,884 A life to which you might never return. 425 00:44:37,844 --> 00:44:40,847 If you survive, you will be transformed. 426 00:44:42,182 --> 00:44:45,894 No man or woman can face a dragon and be otherwise. 427 00:44:51,691 --> 00:44:55,278 Some of you may welcome the prospect of change, 428 00:44:55,278 --> 00:44:58,990 even death, given the alternatives: 429 00:44:59,407 --> 00:45:03,620 privation, starvation, war. 430 00:45:04,621 --> 00:45:09,334 This is our purpose, to end those hardships. 431 00:45:11,169 --> 00:45:12,587 For you, 432 00:45:14,089 --> 00:45:17,300 for your kin, for all the realm. 433 00:45:18,635 --> 00:45:22,806 With these two dragons added to our number, 434 00:45:22,806 --> 00:45:25,517 the enemy will have no choice but to give way. 435 00:45:27,018 --> 00:45:29,646 And peace will be restored, 436 00:45:32,023 --> 00:45:35,652 suffering will be ended, 437 00:45:35,652 --> 00:45:38,363 and without bloodshed, 438 00:45:39,531 --> 00:45:41,533 gods willing. 439 00:45:56,423 --> 00:45:58,049 The dragon 440 00:45:58,717 --> 00:46:00,719 named Vermithor 441 00:46:02,303 --> 00:46:05,765 is the largest in the world after Vhagar 442 00:46:05,765 --> 00:46:09,477 and, perhaps, the most fierce. 443 00:46:13,732 --> 00:46:15,900 He's called the Bronze Fury. 444 00:46:22,115 --> 00:46:23,742 We'll go to him now. 445 00:46:25,910 --> 00:46:27,120 And... 446 00:46:30,665 --> 00:46:32,292 may the gods bless you. 447 00:47:11,664 --> 00:47:14,000 {\an8}COME FORWARD, 448 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:15,835 {\an8}VERMITHOR. 449 00:48:15,812 --> 00:48:18,481 {\an8}BE CALM, VERMITHOR. 450 00:48:26,740 --> 00:48:27,949 {\an8}BE CALM. 451 00:48:30,452 --> 00:48:31,953 {\an8}SERVE! 452 00:49:34,683 --> 00:49:36,768 Who among you would be first? 453 00:50:06,673 --> 00:50:08,091 I have nothing more to tell you. 454 00:50:08,717 --> 00:50:11,136 It must be the dragon who speaks. 455 00:51:45,689 --> 00:51:48,108 - Your Grace, we must away! - No. 456 00:52:23,977 --> 00:52:25,979 Help me! Help-- 457 00:52:26,604 --> 00:52:27,814 Help me! 458 00:53:15,403 --> 00:53:16,613 Oh, f-- 459 00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:56,486 No! 460 00:54:57,714 --> 00:55:00,675 Here! Here I am! 461 00:55:13,521 --> 00:55:14,898 I'm ready. 462 00:55:30,538 --> 00:55:34,125 Come on! 463 00:59:19,726 --> 00:59:24,147 "Lord Ormund Hightower makes slow progress. 464 00:59:24,147 --> 00:59:26,483 "There is great concern that his host 465 00:59:26,483 --> 00:59:31,154 is threatened on two fronts by armies allied with House Beesbury." 466 00:59:33,782 --> 00:59:37,744 However, in happier tidings, Prince Daeron's dragon, Tessarion, 467 00:59:37,744 --> 00:59:39,579 has at last taken to wing. 468 00:59:39,579 --> 00:59:42,040 Your brother expects to join the fight soon. 469 00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:43,583 Dragon! 470 00:59:44,501 --> 00:59:48,755 And when he does, the Hightower host will be unstoppable. 471 00:59:48,755 --> 00:59:51,758 Dragon! Inside! Now! 472 01:00:06,189 --> 01:00:08,149 Take positions! 473 01:00:47,105 --> 01:00:48,690 Open the gates! 474 01:01:36,488 --> 01:01:38,615 {\an8}NO, VHAGAR. 475 01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:46,790 {\an8}FLEE, VHAGAR. 476 01:01:47,749 --> 01:01:49,042 {\an8}TURN AROUND!