“The House of the Dragon” faces the civil war that is looming for the Targaryens

the dragon housethe first series derived from Game of Thrones, Max returns today with its second season and its return comes with two news, one good and one bad. The good thing is that before the premiere of its new chapters the series already has been renewed for a third season. The bad news follows from this and implies that the events to come will not reach a resolution at the end of the season, but will instead leave fans hanging on the story for future episodes.

In the second season that debuts this Monday, House Targaryen appears destined for confrontation and divided into two internal factions, the Green Council and the Black Council., formed by sectors of the same family that believe they have the rights to have supreme power and occupy the Iron Throne. In the background, a debate, as medieval as it is current, about whether the fact of being a woman can penalize a first-born daughter compared to her male siblings.

As creator Ryan Condal explains in statements to Efe, this is not a story of good and bad, but simply a story of “a broken family.” «They are human, with problems, complicated people, but there are no good or bad.. In this season the only thing we do is solve the problems that we opened in the first season. There is more play, the universe opens up and everything is broader. That’s why there is going to be more conflict, more war, more dragons and more blood,” he highlights.

“We are much more interesting than the Blacks,” says Glynn-Carney, who plays King Aegon II Targaryen and one of the main heirs to the Throne from the Green Council, flatly says. “Although they surpass us in weapons, dragons and naval fleet, we are in the fortress of the castle, we have grown up there and we have the support of the entire town,” he stressed to Efe.

The legitimacy of the sides

On the opposite side is House Velaryon, which defends that the Blacks are the side with the greatest legitimacy in the civil war that is approaching in Westeros. They are led by Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) and her uncle Daemon (Matt Smith).

«Princess Rhaenyra was robbed of the Throne that was rightfully hers. All the lords saw it, knelt down and swore allegiance to a king who was not. “They are breaking the law and, therefore, breaking their word and honor, which is something important,” Steve Toussaint (who plays Lord Corlys Velaryon, nicknamed The Sea Serpent) argues to Efe.

The house of Lord Corlys and Princess Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Best) will be a great help to the Blacks. Their strategic prowess, along with a huge fleet of ships, could be the key to turning the tide of the battle against the Greens, who have several figures from the ancient court of King Viserys and one of the most powerful dragons in existence, Vhagar. , who obeys Prince Aemond (Ewan Mitchell). «Aemond and Vhagar will be the key pieces of the war. They form a very powerful and dangerous team together, but also separately. Since he lost his eye, Prince Aemond withdrew into himself and became more violent. Even though he thinks he should be the one who should have inherited the Throne and not his brother, he will support him and be his trusted warrior,” notes Glynn-Carney.

the basis of the dragon house is the novel of Fire and blood, by George RR Martin, and in these eight chapters the civil war of House Targaryen will begin, the “dance of the dragons” that will mark a turning point in the history of Westeros.