Daemon’s Cruelty
At his finest, Daemon Targaryen is an enthralling, extremely advanced man who’s bold, courageous, and constant. However he’s additionally able to unimaginable darkness—from his frequent selfishness and informal violence towards ladies to his penchant for homicide. He holds grudges, schemes always, and repeatedly makes chaotic performs for energy, even towards the very folks claims to assist. He’s definitely not the worst Targaryen on this regard (Maegor the Merciless says hiya!) and numerous his ugliest traits are at the very least considerably balanced out by the truth that he genuinely appears to like each Rhaenyra and his kids, however when Daemon decides to unleash his worst self, it’s so much. (See additionally: The Blood and Cheese incident.)
His six occasions great-grandaughter is equally able to nice cruelty when she feels it’s justified. Daenerys’ worst deed is the burning of Kings Touchdown, seemingly killing tens of 1000’s of harmless folks in her quest to sack and punish town, however that’s hardly the primary time her anger acquired the most effective of her. She takes a sadistic pleasure in Khal Drogo’s homicide of her (admittedly, abusive) brother by dumping molten gold over his face. She gleefully burns the witch Mirri Maz Duur and crucifies over 150 random Meereenese aristocrats in retaliation for the (once more, admittedly, horrific) actions of town’s leaders. She feeds folks—some seemingly harmless—to Rhaegal and Viserion in response to the Sons of the Harpy assault. However Dany believes herself to be the rightful queen of Westeros, and in that’s justified in crushing her enemies. By no matter means mandatory.
Rhaenyra’s Take care of the Smallfolk
All through most of Home of the Dragon’s run to this point Rhaenyra Targaryen has been proof against full-on struggle. There are numerous causes for this: selecting sides will actually tear her household aside, unleashing the dragons to maim and kill each other (in addition to anybody standing of their means) is a typically unhealthy concept, and her consciousness of the larger considerations that revolve round Aegon’s Track of Ice and Fireplace prophecy implies that she is aware of it is a battle with doubtlessly generational stakes hooked up. That she does her finest to forestall preventing and decrease collateral injury, even after her personal son is brutally murdered by Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) and Vhaegar is a credit score to her, and stems from a real take care of the realm and all of the folks in it.
Rhaenyra has all the time had a particular affection for the smallfolk of Westeros. Often called the Realm’s Delight as a baby, she was typically preferred by the frequent folks and seen because the rightful inheritor to the throne. Her desperation to forestall 1000’s of pointless deaths is pushed largely by the truth that she is aware of that in a struggle between dragons, it’s the folks with the least who will undoubtedly endure probably the most. Her half-brother Aegon, in distinction, favors extra tyrannical insurance policies of heavy taxation and deprivation, that means that the smallfolk of Kings Touchdown typically needed to battle to seek out meals whereas watching processions of provisions meant to feed the king’s dragons go them by. Was Rhaenyra’s choice to ship meals into Kings Touchdown politically motivated? In fact, however it additionally helped hold her folks fed.
Equally, Daenerys has a novel rapport with the smallfolk of each Westeros and Essos. She sees them as those that are most oppressed by the ruling elite and vows to “break the wheel” that retains all of them in chains (whether or not literal or figurative). She has seen the struggling of the frequent people up shut and it has made her empathetic to their plight, a perception which is mirrored in her actions from killing slave masters and liberating their captives to chaining up her personal dragons when one among them eats an area farmer. Dany fights to free slaves and feed the impoverished, so it’s not onerous to see why the smallfolk would love her for that. And it’s in the end what makes her choice to kill so many innocents in Kings Touchdown much more horrifying than it will have been in any other case.
A Trio of Literal Dragons
In, “The Burning Mill,” the third episode of Home of the Dragon’s second season, Rhaenyra sends her step-daughter, Rhaena (Phoebe Campbell) to escort her youngest kids off of Dragonstone to security. They’re meant to journey first to the Vale and Girl Jeyne Arryn’s (Amanda Collins) hold earlier than hopefully persevering with on throughout the Slender Sea to Pentos. However along with Rhaenyra’s younger sons Aegon and Viserys and their fledgling dragons Veraxes and Stormcould, Rhaena can be carrying a unique sort of particular cargo: 4 dragon eggs.
