1 00:02:28,140 --> 00:02:29,060 What? 2 00:02:34,150 --> 00:02:35,820 I can't understand. 3 00:02:46,910 --> 00:02:48,410 Speak plainly. 4 00:02:52,580 --> 00:02:54,670 {\an8}- You created me, Daemon. - Stop. 5 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:55,630 {\an8}Yet you are now set 6 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:57,010 {\an8}- on destroying me. - Stop it. 7 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:03,430 {\an8}All because your brother loved me more than he did you. 8 00:03:16,610 --> 00:03:19,530 {\an8}This is what you always wanted, is it not? 9 00:03:29,250 --> 00:03:30,540 There's been a raven. 10 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:37,500 Good morrow, Your Grace. 11 00:03:38,590 --> 00:03:41,130 Slept well, I trust? 12 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:44,050 As I said, there's been a raven. 13 00:03:46,550 --> 00:03:49,850 Aegon's army departed King's Landing a fortnight ago. 14 00:03:50,020 --> 00:03:54,650 The castles of Rosby and Stokeworth have both fallen without siege. 15 00:03:55,310 --> 00:03:57,150 They have raised Aegon's banner 16 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:00,610 and added their levies to Ser Criston Cole's host. 17 00:04:01,570 --> 00:04:03,490 Both houses cited that 18 00:04:04,410 --> 00:04:07,870 sad business with the usurper's son in their declarations. 19 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:10,410 Ser Criston's army, 20 00:04:11,250 --> 00:04:13,080 now tripled in strength, 21 00:04:13,790 --> 00:04:16,500 might have Harrenhal as its destination. 22 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:19,840 Even if you can raise a host of Rivermen, 23 00:04:20,010 --> 00:04:22,840 they will not be ready in time to face him. 24 00:04:29,350 --> 00:04:32,020 Let's see what your Lord Paramount is made of. 25 00:04:37,810 --> 00:04:40,820 My prince... My Grace. 26 00:04:40,980 --> 00:04:41,740 Your Grace. 27 00:04:43,490 --> 00:04:46,280 Lord Grover is looking more hale and healthy than I expected. 28 00:04:46,450 --> 00:04:47,410 This is Ser Oscar Tully, 29 00:04:47,660 --> 00:04:49,120 grandson to Grover Tully. 30 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:50,740 He is heir to Riverrun 31 00:04:50,910 --> 00:04:53,870 and the future Lord Paramount of the Riverlands. 32 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:57,420 His Grace, the King Consort, Daemon Targaryen. 33 00:04:57,630 --> 00:05:00,300 - It is an honor, Your Grace. - Indeed. 34 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:08,760 How fares your grandsire? 35 00:05:12,890 --> 00:05:16,020 Sadly, he remains incapacitated. 36 00:05:16,190 --> 00:05:18,690 He lies in a kind of waking sleep, 37 00:05:18,860 --> 00:05:22,150 unable to do much more than take meager drink. 38 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,690 It is barely enough to sustain him. 39 00:05:25,070 --> 00:05:26,650 So, he's alive? 40 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,030 Yes, gods be good. 41 00:05:29,450 --> 00:05:31,870 Well, my time is short and I have need of an army. 42 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:34,250 Perhaps you might place a feather pillow over his head 43 00:05:34,410 --> 00:05:36,330 and speed along your inheritance? 44 00:05:38,540 --> 00:05:42,090 I love my grandsire, like a father. 45 00:05:43,050 --> 00:05:46,550 My own lord father died suddenly, himself a young man. 46 00:05:47,300 --> 00:05:49,840 Lord Grover raised me in his stead. 47 00:05:50,010 --> 00:05:51,260 All very touching. 48 00:05:51,430 --> 00:05:53,260 Are you here to speak with your grandsire's voice? 49 00:05:53,430 --> 00:05:55,230 For House Tully and the Riverlands? 50 00:05:55,390 --> 00:05:56,640 While he still lives? 51 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:03,070 - That is not our way. - Then you're of no use to me. 52 00:06:04,110 --> 00:06:05,690 I can see why the Blackwoods and the Brackens 53 00:06:05,820 --> 00:06:06,950 did not fear to start a war 54 00:06:07,110 --> 00:06:09,360 beneath the nose of their liege lords. 55 00:06:09,530 --> 00:06:11,570 House Tully is a fish with no head. 56 00:06:11,830 --> 00:06:15,660 Remind me which of your countrymen claim to fight in the name of Aegon? 57 00:06:15,830 --> 00:06:17,870 Was it Bracken or Blackwood? 58 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:20,500 It was House Bracken that declared Green, Your Grace. 59 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:21,710 Who could remember. 60 00:06:23,090 --> 00:06:24,000 Summon the Blackwoods here. 61 00:06:24,170 --> 00:06:27,130 I require men of action to lead my host of Rivermen. 62 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:57,120 M'lady. 63 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,090 "Princess," if we're holding to formalities. 64 00:07:04,840 --> 00:07:07,300 Apologies. Princess. 65 00:07:09,050 --> 00:07:10,590 And you are Alyn. 66 00:07:11,300 --> 00:07:13,260 Yes, Princess. 67 00:07:14,890 --> 00:07:18,020 I'm given to understand my lord husband owes you his life. 68 00:07:21,690 --> 00:07:24,440 But I was not told his savior was so comely. 69 00:07:25,900 --> 00:07:28,110 Your mother must've been very beautiful. 70 00:07:28,490 --> 00:07:29,440 Rhaenys. 71 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:40,500 - Is your work finished? - No, m'lord. 72 00:07:51,930 --> 00:07:53,840 I just had a word with your captains. 73 00:07:55,890 --> 00:07:59,060 He was the sailor who plucked you from your watery grave? 74 00:08:06,940 --> 00:08:07,940 Yes. 75 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,110 You did not think to mention it? 76 00:08:12,070 --> 00:08:13,570 I did not think it relevant. 77 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,120 I know who he is, Corlys. 78 00:08:20,500 --> 00:08:23,250 Alyn's past is no fault of his. 79 00:08:24,170 --> 00:08:25,130 He saved his lord's life. 80 00:08:25,290 --> 00:08:27,590 He should be raised up and honored, not hidden beneath the tides. 81 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:29,380 Is this why you came? 82 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:32,470 To subject me to an inquisition? 83 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:38,600 I came to tell you that Baela has called me to Dragonstone. 84 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:39,760 Baela? 85 00:08:41,140 --> 00:08:43,640 That council is going to dine on her and Jace for supper. 86 00:08:43,850 --> 00:08:45,690 They grow restless in Rhaenyra's absence. 87 00:08:46,230 --> 00:08:49,230 Still, where has that woman gone? 88 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,490 I suspect to try and draw us all back from the abyss. 89 00:09:15,050 --> 00:09:18,050 - Good morrow, Your Grace. - Good morrow, Grand Maester. 90 00:09:22,100 --> 00:09:23,390 As requested. 91 00:09:24,730 --> 00:09:25,940 I brewed it myself. 92 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:27,600 Thank you. 93 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:30,190 I will see it delivered discreetly. 94 00:09:31,900 --> 00:09:35,950 Do report if the recipient has need of any remedy. 95 00:09:36,110 --> 00:09:38,450 The tea is known to disagree with the gut. 96 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:41,240 I shall observe the girl closely. 97 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:49,040 Grand Maester. 98 00:09:55,720 --> 00:10:00,050 You've ever been a practical man, an honorable servant to the crown. 99 00:10:01,350 --> 00:10:03,850 And you served my lord husband in his darkest hours. 100 00:10:05,020 --> 00:10:06,850 Such was my duty, Your Grace. 101 00:10:08,650 --> 00:10:09,850 Tell me. 102 00:10:12,150 --> 00:10:14,980 Do you believe Viserys wanted Aegon to succeed him? 103 00:10:19,740 --> 00:10:22,030 I could not know. 104 00:10:23,830 --> 00:10:26,620 His Grace never raised the matter with me. 105 00:11:26,810 --> 00:11:29,350 Ser Criston Cole's host has taken to exploiting the tree cover 106 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:30,640 to conceal its movements. 107 00:11:30,810 --> 00:11:33,440 He now only travels by night to confound our dragons. 108 00:11:33,610 --> 00:11:35,520 And what is Cole's heading? 109 00:11:35,770 --> 00:11:37,150 It is difficult to say, but there were signs 110 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,150 of an army moving northwest, I believe. 111 00:11:40,570 --> 00:11:41,700 She believes. 112 00:11:41,860 --> 00:11:43,700 You should've burned them when you had the chance. 113 00:11:43,950 --> 00:11:44,910 Perhaps you can, Ser Alfred, 114 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:46,450 when you next sight them on your dragon. 115 00:11:47,870 --> 00:11:51,540 The only reason we know any of this is because of Baela's efforts. 116 00:11:51,710 --> 00:11:53,080 What do we know, my prince? 117 00:11:53,460 --> 00:11:55,500 If you ask me, it is little and less. 118 00:11:55,750 --> 00:11:58,340 We know that Cole possesses a host that is growing in strength 119 00:11:58,510 --> 00:11:59,670 and that it is a problem. 120 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:02,470 Can Daemon hope to meet it with his own in time? 121 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:04,140 And if I know the Riverlands, 122 00:12:04,390 --> 00:12:05,850 he has more disentangling ahead of him 123 00:12:06,050 --> 00:12:08,970 than the end of a Lyseni orgy. 124 00:12:09,270 --> 00:12:12,440 Have you heard word from your father? 125 00:12:15,230 --> 00:12:18,570 - No. - Ravens were sent to Harrenhal 126 00:12:18,820 --> 00:12:21,740 seeking news of Daemon's progress with the Riverlords. 127 00:12:21,990 --> 00:12:24,280 None have, as yet, returned. 128 00:12:24,450 --> 00:12:25,530 Just so. 129 00:12:26,070 --> 00:12:28,370 An enemy host, growing in constitution, 130 00:12:28,540 --> 00:12:33,250 marches somewhere in the vastness of the Crownlands. 131 00:12:33,420 --> 00:12:36,880 We could, perhaps, act if only we had a host of our own. 132 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:38,210 Or someone here to lead us. 133 00:12:39,090 --> 00:12:40,710 Mind your tongue, Ser Alfred. 134 00:12:42,470 --> 00:12:44,680 Does it speak falsely, my prince? 135 00:12:44,930 --> 00:12:46,590 This council is rudderless. 136 00:12:47,350 --> 00:12:49,390 I'm doing my best to steer it, Ser Alfred. 137 00:12:51,350 --> 00:12:54,690 Why should your voice be any louder than ours, Princess? 138 00:12:54,940 --> 00:12:56,730 The queen did not name you Hand. 139 00:12:56,900 --> 00:12:59,150 It is her voice, and that of the king consort, 140 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:02,440 that we need to raise alliances and command our vassals. 141 00:13:02,610 --> 00:13:05,490 - But they are gone. - What has come of this council? 142 00:13:10,910 --> 00:13:11,910 My lord. 143 00:13:15,420 --> 00:13:18,500 Our enemy is on the march. 144 00:13:18,790 --> 00:13:20,750 Is there naught to be done in the absence of the queen 145 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:23,970 but to grouse and claw for power? 146 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:32,680 We do not know the queen's doings. 147 00:13:33,850 --> 00:13:38,230 But we must trust that she seeks the same as each of us at this table. 148 00:13:40,070 --> 00:13:42,480 An end to this conflict. 149 00:14:04,340 --> 00:14:06,220 Men of House Darklyn. 150 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,550 All who bend the knee to the true king, Aegon, 151 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:10,720 will be spared. 152 00:14:12,060 --> 00:14:14,560 You can earn back your honor by raising his banner 153 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:18,980 and fighting in his name against the Whore of Dragonstone. 154 00:14:20,190 --> 00:14:21,610 All who refuse, 155 00:14:23,650 --> 00:14:25,190 will have their death. 156 00:14:39,710 --> 00:14:41,080 Good morrow, Lord Darklyn. 157 00:14:42,090 --> 00:14:44,920 Is there no honor left in this world, Cole? 158 00:14:45,590 --> 00:14:50,220 Sacking your queen's own castles and putting her people to the sword? 159 00:14:50,550 --> 00:14:52,050 "Kingmaker." 160 00:14:56,390 --> 00:14:58,560 You are not fit for the white cloak. 161 00:15:02,310 --> 00:15:04,940 This is a better death than a traitor deserves. 162 00:15:05,820 --> 00:15:07,780 You should thank me for it. 163 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:12,410 Yours will come in kind. 164 00:15:27,710 --> 00:15:28,920 Lord Hand. 165 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:48,070 We'll lead the van northeast, follow the coastline. 166 00:15:49,570 --> 00:15:51,150 I realize you were neither born nor bred 167 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:54,450 anywhere near the Crownlands, my good Lord Hand, 168 00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:56,700 but Harrenhal is to the west. 169 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:02,460 Indeed it is. 170 00:16:05,590 --> 00:16:08,670 Fuck you. I told you we should've sent our dragons. 171 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:10,670 And now look what's happened. 172 00:16:11,090 --> 00:16:13,680 Daemon, of all people, has taken Harrenhal. 173 00:16:14,050 --> 00:16:16,300 I give you a job, and now you just sit there. 174 00:16:16,430 --> 00:16:17,810 It's your fucking castle! 175 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:24,400 Well, that castle is more crippled than I am, Your Grace. 176 00:16:25,940 --> 00:16:28,650 It's like to drive Daemon to madness as he attempts to make use of it. 177 00:16:28,820 --> 00:16:30,900 It is beyond his faculties. 178 00:16:31,950 --> 00:16:35,820 It is also penniless, as I happily control all of its gold. 179 00:16:35,990 --> 00:16:39,450 So, as Harrenhal saps Daemon's resolve, 180 00:16:39,620 --> 00:16:41,830 the false queen remains trapped on her island, 181 00:16:42,210 --> 00:16:45,710 and Ser Criston continues felling castles in the Crownlands. 182 00:16:48,500 --> 00:16:52,130 I need to be informed of these things if I am to make informed rulings. 183 00:16:52,340 --> 00:16:54,970 I will not be made to look a fool in front of my allies and enemies. 184 00:16:55,140 --> 00:16:56,640 Harrenhal must wait. 185 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:02,600 Ser Criston is marching on Rook's Rest. 186 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:05,270 Rook's Re... A pathetic prize. 187 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:07,310 - I gave no such command... - The castle is small, 188 00:17:08,730 --> 00:17:09,820 weakly defended, 189 00:17:10,190 --> 00:17:12,900 and Lord Staunton sits on Rhaenyra's council. 190 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:15,240 After Cole smashes it, 191 00:17:15,410 --> 00:17:17,490 we'll have Dragonstone effectively cut off by land. 192 00:17:19,450 --> 00:17:22,080 This war will not be won with dragons alone 193 00:17:22,250 --> 00:17:25,210 but with dragons flying behind armies of men. 194 00:17:25,370 --> 00:17:29,210 No! Have him turn about. I want Harrenhal back. 195 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:32,840 Cole is already preparing his attack. 196 00:17:34,050 --> 00:17:35,930 How do you know this? 197 00:17:36,090 --> 00:17:38,090 He sent word to me. 198 00:17:39,050 --> 00:17:40,100 To you? 199 00:17:43,060 --> 00:17:44,480 The two of you have been 200 00:17:45,810 --> 00:17:49,480 plotting without my authority? 201 00:17:53,740 --> 00:17:57,780 {\an8}You had more pressing matters to attend to. 202 00:17:58,110 --> 00:18:00,530 {\an8}Such as holding court, 203 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:03,330 {\an8}choosing your sobriquet, 204 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:07,040 {\an8}and naming imbecilic lickspittles to our kingsguard. 205 00:18:12,050 --> 00:18:15,220 {\an8}Do you have a wiser strategy, my king? 206 00:18:17,260 --> 00:18:21,470 {\an8}If so, you should voice it to your council. 207 00:18:22,810 --> 00:18:25,480 {\an8}We all await your answer. 208 00:18:34,980 --> 00:18:37,530 {\an8}I can have to... 209 00:18:38,950 --> 00:18:40,490 {\an8}make a... 210 00:18:41,570 --> 00:18:43,200 {\an8}war? 211 00:18:52,500 --> 00:18:54,630 Harrenhal is a useful morass. 212 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:57,550 It will keep Daemon well-occupied while we strengthen our host 213 00:18:57,920 --> 00:18:59,840 and weaken Rhaenyra's support on the mainland. 214 00:19:00,220 --> 00:19:02,890 We will deal with it in the Riverlands in time. 215 00:19:03,140 --> 00:19:06,890 But right now, Rook's Rest is an easy target 216 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:09,270 and a worthy effort. 217 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:13,520 Don't you agree, my king? 218 00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:29,580 Come. 219 00:19:33,790 --> 00:19:34,500 Lord Larys. 220 00:19:39,420 --> 00:19:41,380 I thought I'd look in on you, Your Grace, 221 00:19:41,550 --> 00:19:44,300 after your absence from the small council. 222 00:19:44,510 --> 00:19:46,430 I feared something was amiss. 223 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:51,940 You're kind to do so, my lord, but indulgence was my sin. 224 00:19:52,190 --> 00:19:55,270 I ventured into the lamprey pie at last night's supper. 225 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:57,110 Too far, I fear. 226 00:20:03,780 --> 00:20:05,700 That is a rich indulgence. 227 00:20:07,410 --> 00:20:10,580 But I believe it is a sin to deny your appetites. 228 00:20:10,750 --> 00:20:13,960 They are what make us fully alive as mortal men. 229 00:20:18,250 --> 00:20:20,550 Was anything of note discussed at the council? 230 00:20:20,970 --> 00:20:22,630 Daemon having seized Harrenhal 231 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:25,390 and His Grace's resulting displeasure. 232 00:20:25,550 --> 00:20:29,180 I would've thought you would be the most aggrieved, my lord. 233 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,690 I see it as a loss for our greater good. 234 00:20:34,230 --> 00:20:36,560 Dragonstone's attentions are greatly divided. 235 00:20:36,690 --> 00:20:38,230 First in the Riverlands and the Gullet, 236 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:39,980 and now the Crownlands. 237 00:20:40,860 --> 00:20:42,650 Ser Criston wins every challenge he faces there. 238 00:20:42,820 --> 00:20:45,910 That truth alone is like to incite Rhaenyra's fury. 239 00:20:46,990 --> 00:20:49,620 He's covered himself in glory, to be sure. 240 00:20:50,750 --> 00:20:53,040 And you must worry for him? 241 00:20:53,710 --> 00:20:56,040 Your sworn sword, 242 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,670 on the march, ever exposed to dragons? 243 00:21:00,050 --> 00:21:01,880 It is a perilous road. 244 00:21:05,300 --> 00:21:07,300 Ser Criston is the Hand of the King. 245 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:11,270 We should all pray for his victory and safe return. 246 00:21:12,390 --> 00:21:13,600 Indeed. 247 00:21:23,530 --> 00:21:26,450 If I may be so bold, my queen, 248 00:21:32,620 --> 00:21:34,160 you have not seemed yourself of late. 249 00:21:36,620 --> 00:21:38,840 Only weeks ago, my lord husband was alive 250 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:40,710 and the realm was at peace. 251 00:21:41,460 --> 00:21:45,010 Now, I've barely had the hours to grieve one tragedy 252 00:21:45,180 --> 00:21:49,220 before suffering the next. I regret if I have not been myself. 253 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:55,980 I did not know you shared your lord husband's love 254 00:21:57,270 --> 00:21:59,110 for the histories. 255 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,440 If not his love, then certainly an abiding interest. 256 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:06,910 The voices of history guided Viserys. 257 00:22:07,070 --> 00:22:09,870 He knew that his wisdom alone could only reach so far. 258 00:22:10,490 --> 00:22:12,990 Do you think that is why he changed his mind 259 00:22:14,370 --> 00:22:15,540 in the end? 260 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,790 No matter how suited he thought Rhaenyra for the crown, 261 00:22:22,500 --> 00:22:25,420 the voices of history, as you say, 262 00:22:25,590 --> 00:22:28,970 would have told him how the realm would react to her succession. 263 00:22:29,140 --> 00:22:30,760 It was impossible to know what steered his thoughts 264 00:22:30,930 --> 00:22:31,760 in those final hours. 265 00:22:34,020 --> 00:22:35,930 Do you now doubt his intentions? 266 00:22:43,940 --> 00:22:46,240 Rhaenyra's supporters will believe what they wish. 267 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:48,990 And so will Aegon's. 268 00:22:50,030 --> 00:22:53,330 The war will be fought, many will die 269 00:22:54,580 --> 00:22:57,210 and the victor will eventually ascend the throne. 270 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:02,380 The significance of Viserys's intentions died with him. 271 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:10,340 Yes, it did. 272 00:24:47,820 --> 00:24:50,320 It's a touch late to be stalkin' about a strange castle, 273 00:24:50,490 --> 00:24:52,240 putting its people to the sword. 274 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:53,070 You. 275 00:24:55,410 --> 00:24:56,570 I'm called Alys. 276 00:24:57,450 --> 00:24:58,790 Strong? 277 00:24:58,950 --> 00:24:59,740 Rivers. 278 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:02,370 A bastard. 279 00:25:02,910 --> 00:25:05,330 Once you get to know me, you'll find I'm not so bad. 280 00:25:06,290 --> 00:25:08,630 So what are you then? Some kind of maester? 281 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:10,630 In a manner of speaking. 282 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,300 I inherited the duties after the last one fled in the night. 283 00:25:14,470 --> 00:25:17,180 - Fled? Why? - Just never settled in. 284 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:21,980 How are you settling in? 285 00:25:22,850 --> 00:25:25,770 I've come to know the face of tortured rest well enough. 286 00:25:26,650 --> 00:25:29,400 Sleep can be thin in this place. 287 00:25:31,150 --> 00:25:32,860 What would you know of my sleep? 288 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,240 Harrenhal's been cursed since its first stone was laid. 289 00:25:38,580 --> 00:25:40,870 Black Harren felled the grove of weirwood trees 290 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,080 that grew on these lands. 291 00:25:43,250 --> 00:25:44,910 Heart trees, imbued with the spirits 292 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,420 of those who lived long before he came. 293 00:25:47,580 --> 00:25:49,670 It's said their whispers can still be heard sometimes. 294 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,380 A midwife's tale. 295 00:25:52,130 --> 00:25:55,130 The very bed you sleep in was made from such a heart tree. 296 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,970 Have you experienced anything of note? 297 00:26:00,890 --> 00:26:03,180 You are a strange kind of woman. 298 00:26:03,770 --> 00:26:06,140 I'm no woman at all. I'm a barn owl. 299 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,520 Cursed to live in human form. 300 00:26:11,270 --> 00:26:13,150 So you've come here after quarreling with your wife? 301 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:15,280 What? 302 00:26:16,820 --> 00:26:21,700 You arrive here alone to claim the castle and yet, send no ravens. 303 00:26:23,910 --> 00:26:26,330 Do you now plan to make your own claim? 304 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,170 - Perhaps to prove yourself to her. - Do not try me 305 00:26:29,330 --> 00:26:31,040 with your insolence, witch. 306 00:26:31,290 --> 00:26:33,710 It's a hard thing, I imagine, to give obeisance 307 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:35,970 to one who replaced you as heir. 308 00:26:39,180 --> 00:26:40,260 And a woman too. A... 309 00:26:41,300 --> 00:26:43,890 girl child you bounced on your knee. 310 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,520 Does it please you that her legitimacy is contested? 311 00:26:49,770 --> 00:26:52,900 As you stand here, with a castle and a dragon 312 00:26:53,980 --> 00:26:55,990 attempting to draw an army of men. 313 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:02,700 Here. Drink this. 314 00:27:04,830 --> 00:27:08,460 You'll need your sleep if you're to win this place to your side. 315 00:27:17,970 --> 00:27:19,220 I now rule my house as regent 316 00:27:19,380 --> 00:27:21,430 until my nephew Benjicot comes of age. 317 00:27:26,980 --> 00:27:29,730 The Brackens are venal cravens 318 00:27:29,890 --> 00:27:33,020 and they must pay for their treachery against the laws of gods and men. 319 00:27:34,690 --> 00:27:36,110 And against the crown. 320 00:27:36,780 --> 00:27:38,070 Who are you? 321 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,820 Ser Willem Blackwood of House Blackwood, Your Grace, 322 00:27:41,410 --> 00:27:42,530 as I said. 323 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,040 Well met. 324 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:50,790 What might I do for you? 325 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,040 It was you who summoned me, 326 00:27:53,290 --> 00:27:54,290 Your Grace. 327 00:27:55,090 --> 00:27:58,130 I was given to understand that you wanted an army. 328 00:27:58,300 --> 00:27:59,920 Well, who doesn't these days? 329 00:28:00,090 --> 00:28:01,800 You Blackwoods certainly never miss a chance 330 00:28:01,970 --> 00:28:05,010 to bloody your swords, do you? 331 00:28:06,010 --> 00:28:09,270 Some 20 years ago, my lord bent the knee to King Viserys 332 00:28:09,430 --> 00:28:10,940 and acknowledged the Princess Rhaenyra 333 00:28:11,100 --> 00:28:12,560 as his rightful heir. 334 00:28:12,810 --> 00:28:14,360 So you fight for this old oath? 335 00:28:14,610 --> 00:28:16,070 Not, of course, for your thousand-year-old feud 336 00:28:16,230 --> 00:28:17,320 with the Brackens. 337 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,450 I once vied for Queen Rhaenyra's hand 338 00:28:22,410 --> 00:28:24,240 before she wed Ser Laenor. 339 00:28:24,910 --> 00:28:26,790 I always liked her spirit. 340 00:28:27,620 --> 00:28:29,410 She had the true blood of the dragon. 341 00:28:29,580 --> 00:28:32,420 And you're prepared to march without the leave of your lord... 342 00:28:56,230 --> 00:28:57,110 Your Grace? 343 00:28:59,030 --> 00:29:00,690 And once you and your dragon 344 00:29:00,860 --> 00:29:03,360 bring the queen's justice to the Brackens 345 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:05,910 our armies will be yours. 346 00:29:15,580 --> 00:29:18,090 Our lords in the Crownlands are grousing. 347 00:29:18,250 --> 00:29:20,050 Their herds of livestock struggle to keep pace 348 00:29:20,210 --> 00:29:21,840 with the dragons' relentless appetites. 349 00:29:22,010 --> 00:29:24,550 - Vhagar's in particular. - They can either provide the crown 350 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,430 what it needs, or we can claim their holdings. 351 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:28,970 Oh, that would be a relief, 352 00:29:29,140 --> 00:29:31,470 as we have no more coin to lend to the effort. 353 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,140 Resources are certainly growing no more plentiful 354 00:29:34,310 --> 00:29:35,270 in the face of the blockade. 355 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,610 The demand on the blacksmiths, armorers and tanners for equipment 356 00:29:37,770 --> 00:29:39,860 has only grown apace with Ser Criston's army. 357 00:29:40,030 --> 00:29:42,030 Well, Cole's done splendidly, at the least, 358 00:29:42,190 --> 00:29:44,030 turning every castle and army he's faced, 359 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,490 including Duskendale, gods bless him. 360 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,120 The Kingmaker, they're calling him. 361 00:29:49,740 --> 00:29:51,700 And with Aemond and Vhagar also at the ready, 362 00:29:51,950 --> 00:29:53,460 we are a formidable opponent. 363 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,830 You bore me. 364 00:29:59,540 --> 00:30:01,550 You all bore me. 365 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,020 Perhaps Ser Criston will be able to procure 366 00:30:20,190 --> 00:30:22,030 more livestock through his campaign. 367 00:30:22,190 --> 00:30:24,690 Any coin we can save will be a welcome bounty. 368 00:30:34,870 --> 00:30:35,620 What are you doing here? 369 00:30:36,330 --> 00:30:37,790 Where are your father's books? 370 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:39,080 I ordered them removed. 371 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,500 With no thought to the centuries of knowledge in those pages. 372 00:30:49,430 --> 00:30:50,510 Your Grace. 373 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,020 I removed them, I didn't burn them. 374 00:31:00,190 --> 00:31:00,860 What is it? 375 00:31:01,980 --> 00:31:04,030 They don't care what I think. 376 00:31:06,860 --> 00:31:09,070 - Who, Aegon? - My council. 377 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,240 Cole. Aemond. They pursue their campaign 378 00:31:11,410 --> 00:31:13,330 without seeking my aid, or even my thoughts. 379 00:31:16,790 --> 00:31:18,000 What thoughts would you have? 380 00:31:20,210 --> 00:31:21,330 I'm the king. 381 00:31:25,050 --> 00:31:28,090 Do you think simply wearing the crown imbues you with wisdom? 382 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,600 Those men at your council table 383 00:31:39,020 --> 00:31:40,310 earned their seats. 384 00:31:41,860 --> 00:31:44,690 It was my hope that once enthroned, 385 00:31:44,860 --> 00:31:46,990 you would honor the burden of your new duties, 386 00:31:47,530 --> 00:31:52,570 be silent, and strive to learn from the more studied minds around you. 387 00:31:54,330 --> 00:31:56,370 In the hope that you might be half the king your father was. 388 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:00,960 - Tread carefully. - Or what? 389 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,630 You'll hang me, as you did your ratcatchers? 390 00:32:06,250 --> 00:32:08,590 Or have me banished, as you did your Hand? 391 00:32:10,260 --> 00:32:11,550 I ruled 392 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:13,890 in your father's absence throughout his long illness, 393 00:32:14,140 --> 00:32:16,640 and Otto Hightower was as cunning a statesman as ever lived. 394 00:32:16,810 --> 00:32:18,270 You should humbly 395 00:32:18,770 --> 00:32:21,810 be seeking our opinions and counsel. 396 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,270 You have no idea the sacrifices that were made 397 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,610 to put you on that throne. 398 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:34,320 Wha... 399 00:32:36,530 --> 00:32:38,500 What would you have me do, Mother? 400 00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:42,790 Do simply what is needed of you: 401 00:32:44,630 --> 00:32:45,880 nothing. 402 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:17,620 On your feet! 403 00:33:19,490 --> 00:33:21,250 To Rook's Rest! 404 00:33:22,710 --> 00:33:24,120 To battle! 405 00:33:29,250 --> 00:33:31,010 It's broad daylight. 406 00:33:31,260 --> 00:33:34,470 We must hold here and ready ourselves to lay siege at nightfall. 407 00:33:35,050 --> 00:33:37,850 We shall move now and strike by day. They will not expect it. 408 00:33:38,220 --> 00:33:41,350 They will not expect it because it is fucking madness. 409 00:33:43,850 --> 00:33:46,190 Did you forget the little encounter we had on the road to Rosby? 410 00:33:47,150 --> 00:33:48,360 I did not. 411 00:33:50,230 --> 00:33:53,240 Dragonstone and their dragons are just across the bay. 412 00:33:54,650 --> 00:33:56,660 What? Grown tired of living, have you? 413 00:33:57,620 --> 00:33:58,990 Are you afraid, Ser? 414 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,330 Worse. I'm rational. 415 00:34:04,620 --> 00:34:06,040 We advance. 416 00:34:26,850 --> 00:34:28,270 I see no other choice. 417 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:29,560 We need to send a dragon. 418 00:34:29,810 --> 00:34:30,650 Where? 419 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:40,160 To support the war that your vassals have been fighting in your absence, 420 00:34:40,330 --> 00:34:41,530 Your Grace. 421 00:34:42,830 --> 00:34:45,910 Cole's host has grown since riding abroad. 422 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,120 He raised the levies of both Rosby and Stokeworth 423 00:34:48,290 --> 00:34:50,920 and, with their combined strength, sacked Duskendale. 424 00:34:51,420 --> 00:34:52,590 Duskendale? 425 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,710 The city has fallen. 426 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:56,720 Many Darklyn men declared for Aegon. 427 00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:58,510 Those who refused were put to the sword. 428 00:34:58,760 --> 00:34:59,970 What of my father? 429 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:01,930 He kept his oath. 430 00:35:02,510 --> 00:35:04,180 Cole took his head for it. 431 00:35:07,060 --> 00:35:09,060 Where have you been, these last days? 432 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,940 You vanished without so much as a word. 433 00:35:12,900 --> 00:35:15,650 Well, I apologize for my absence and the secrecy, 434 00:35:15,820 --> 00:35:17,490 but such was necessary. 435 00:35:18,660 --> 00:35:19,740 I went to King's Landing. 436 00:35:21,620 --> 00:35:23,080 To what possible end? 437 00:35:23,330 --> 00:35:25,450 To meet Queen Alicent and sue for peace. 438 00:35:25,700 --> 00:35:28,290 - You saw Alicent? - Yes, I did. 439 00:35:28,460 --> 00:35:30,580 You could've been taken or slain! 440 00:35:30,830 --> 00:35:34,590 I inherited 80 years of peace from my father. 441 00:35:34,750 --> 00:35:36,260 Before I was to end it, 442 00:35:36,420 --> 00:35:38,220 I needed to know that there was no other path. 443 00:35:41,970 --> 00:35:43,300 And now I do. 444 00:35:47,180 --> 00:35:49,020 Only one choice remains to me: 445 00:35:49,190 --> 00:35:52,480 either I win my claim or die. 446 00:35:55,070 --> 00:35:57,070 We stand at the ready. 447 00:35:58,190 --> 00:36:00,280 Cole's victories have only emboldened him. 448 00:36:00,530 --> 00:36:02,490 He marches on Rook's Rest. 449 00:36:02,660 --> 00:36:04,080 His host was just hours away 450 00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:06,040 when Lord Staunton's ravens took wing. 451 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,500 Why Rook's Rest? After Duskendale? 452 00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:10,670 It is but a small coastal keep. 453 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:14,460 'Cause Lord Staunton is a member of this council. 454 00:36:14,710 --> 00:36:16,710 And because his castle is small and vulnerable 455 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,420 and there for the taking. 456 00:36:18,670 --> 00:36:21,340 Cole knows we have no army on the mainland. 457 00:36:21,590 --> 00:36:23,510 - He is brazen. - He is daring us to act. 458 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:25,680 We need to send a dragon. 459 00:36:33,650 --> 00:36:37,190 There are those who have mistaken my caution for weakness. 460 00:36:42,240 --> 00:36:43,910 Let that be their undoing. 461 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:46,700 - I will go. - My queen... 462 00:36:47,410 --> 00:36:48,790 You cannot. 463 00:36:49,290 --> 00:36:51,540 I will not lose dragons to war whilst I hide here in my castle. 464 00:36:51,670 --> 00:36:54,670 Our allies raise their banners for you, Mother. 465 00:36:54,830 --> 00:36:55,960 Yes, they do. 466 00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,710 If you die, all is lost. 467 00:37:00,090 --> 00:37:01,220 - Send me. - No. 468 00:37:01,380 --> 00:37:03,340 I will burn Cole's lines and withdraw before King's Landing 469 00:37:03,590 --> 00:37:05,220 - could even raise the alarm. - You lack the experience. 470 00:37:08,390 --> 00:37:10,520 You must send me, Your Grace. 471 00:37:13,020 --> 00:37:16,310 Meleys is your largest dragon and no stranger to battle. 472 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:20,820 I will meet Cole. 473 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:30,810 I wish only to fight for you, 474 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,390 for your claim and mine. I... 475 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:37,940 There's something I need to tell you, Jace. 476 00:38:40,730 --> 00:38:43,940 Something I should've told you 477 00:38:44,110 --> 00:38:46,150 when you first became heir to the throne. 478 00:38:47,490 --> 00:38:48,910 It's a secret 479 00:38:49,570 --> 00:38:52,950 that Viserys told me when he named me his successor. 480 00:38:53,790 --> 00:38:56,790 And it has passed from king to heir 481 00:38:57,750 --> 00:39:00,460 since Aegon the Conqueror's time. 482 00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:13,010 I never told you because I was unsure that I believed it myself. 483 00:39:14,140 --> 00:39:17,850 The Targaryen who sits the Iron Throne 484 00:39:18,020 --> 00:39:20,310 is not just a king or a queen. 485 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,270 They are a Protector. 486 00:39:22,690 --> 00:39:25,400 {\an8}We're off to battle again, old girl. 487 00:39:26,650 --> 00:39:30,030 Ordained to lead the Seven Kingdoms, to strengthen them, 488 00:39:32,740 --> 00:39:35,750 and to unite them against a common foe. 489 00:39:41,290 --> 00:39:44,500 Viserys chose me to succeed him. 490 00:39:45,550 --> 00:39:47,630 He held to this the whole of his life. 491 00:39:53,810 --> 00:39:54,970 My father 492 00:39:55,220 --> 00:39:59,390 believed that I, alone, was meant to be this Protector. 493 00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,360 They're 1,400-, 1,500-strong at least, my lord. 494 00:40:04,730 --> 00:40:08,530 But to unite the realm, I had to send the dragons to war. 495 00:40:16,950 --> 00:40:20,330 The horrors I have just loosed cannot be for a crown alone. 496 00:40:22,710 --> 00:40:24,670 That is why I must believe 497 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,800 what Viserys told me when he named me his heir. 498 00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:29,970 What Jaehaerys had told him. 499 00:40:31,300 --> 00:40:33,140 And what I will now tell you. 500 00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:36,970 What is it? 501 00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:45,770 Aegon the Conqueror's Dream. 502 00:40:47,860 --> 00:40:51,570 He called it "The Song of Ice and Fire." 503 00:41:01,410 --> 00:41:03,330 Loose! New rank! 504 00:41:04,580 --> 00:41:07,300 Loose! New rank! 505 00:41:08,460 --> 00:41:11,170 Loose! New rank! 506 00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:16,470 Push it! 507 00:41:17,890 --> 00:41:19,140 Dragon! 508 00:41:20,180 --> 00:41:21,310 Dragon! 509 00:41:25,860 --> 00:41:28,480 To the Seven Hells with you, Cole! 510 00:41:28,940 --> 00:41:31,150 You may as well have sounded horns to announce our coming! 511 00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,200 Order the Darklyn levies to break off and move ahead. 512 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:35,120 We must keep the dragon's attention divided. 513 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,030 - Make the signal. - What signal? 514 00:41:37,660 --> 00:41:39,040 All is going to plan. 515 00:42:36,340 --> 00:42:37,800 {\an8}Idiot. 516 00:42:40,180 --> 00:42:41,890 {\an8}Wait, Vhagar. 517 00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,520 {\an8}Not yet. 518 00:43:11,290 --> 00:43:12,710 Forward, Sunfyre! 519 00:43:13,710 --> 00:43:15,170 Faster! 520 00:43:16,090 --> 00:43:17,550 Dragon! 521 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,010 Whose dragon is that? 522 00:43:19,930 --> 00:43:21,510 His Grace, the king's. 523 00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:24,680 This was your secret plot, Cole? 524 00:43:24,850 --> 00:43:26,480 For the king himself to lay ambush 525 00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:28,690 - and mayhaps die in the attempt? - No! 526 00:43:28,940 --> 00:43:30,770 Loose more signal arrows! 527 00:43:34,190 --> 00:43:36,240 Stalwart men of House Targaryen, 528 00:43:37,740 --> 00:43:40,160 your king has joined you! 529 00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:42,370 Hold to your courage! 530 00:43:42,620 --> 00:43:43,660 Hold to your wits! 531 00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:45,870 For the Seven have blessed 532 00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:48,960 and shielded this host with divine purpose! 533 00:43:49,170 --> 00:43:51,840 For the one true king, Aegon! 534 00:43:52,210 --> 00:43:54,460 Advance! 535 00:44:02,970 --> 00:44:04,680 Where are you, Aemond? 536 00:44:17,150 --> 00:44:18,740 {\an8}Attack, Meleys! 537 00:44:19,990 --> 00:44:21,240 Dracarys! 538 00:45:00,490 --> 00:45:02,360 Another one there! 539 00:45:02,530 --> 00:45:04,660 Send a volley to those Rosby men! 540 00:45:04,820 --> 00:45:06,830 Give them no quarter! 541 00:45:16,210 --> 00:45:18,210 We'd best get you to cover, my lord. 542 00:46:06,970 --> 00:46:08,600 Thank the gods! 543 00:46:10,350 --> 00:46:11,350 Dracarys! 544 00:46:17,230 --> 00:46:18,980 No! No! 545 00:46:38,710 --> 00:46:40,000 Your Grace! 546 00:46:56,770 --> 00:46:58,610 {\an8}Attack, Meleys. 547 00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:48,520 Fall in behind me! 548 00:51:49,770 --> 00:51:51,610 Into the breach! 549 00:52:23,300 --> 00:52:25,560 The king has fallen. We must find him. 550 00:53:15,940 --> 00:53:17,110 Aemond! 551 00:53:32,710 --> 00:53:34,250 Where's His Grace?