Though set over the course of a number of a long time, “Home of the Dragon” can not help however really feel like an train in, “Effectively, that escalated shortly.” The large time-jump between episodes 5 and 6 of season 1 contributes to that, plunging viewers in a really totally different established order now that Alicent and Rhaenyra have grown up and allowed a decade of unresolved anger between them to fester. (To be honest to Rhaenyra, her bestie marrying her personal father Viserys, giving him sons, and thus changing into a continuing menace to her declare to the Throne will inevitably have that impact.) However very quickly in any respect, it turns into inescapably obvious that Home Targaryen has a second dilemma of succession on its palms.
All of it begins when Viserys and his spouse Aemma (Sian Brooke) are unable to conceive of a son, giving the king a patriarchal successor. When Aemma tragically dies in childbirth and the newborn alongside along with her, Viserys lastly smooths issues over together with his estranged daughter by naming her his official inheritor. Although the pair would proceed to have their justifiable share of non-public points through the years, the king by no means as soon as reneges on his royal decree. In fact, that is additional sophisticated when Alicent provides start to quite a few strapping boys (firstborn Aegon and the vicious Aemond amongst them) who, within the eyes of the Seven Kingdom, make a way more apparent match for the Throne than a lady like Rhaenyra or her personal heirs, Jacaerys and Lucerys — each of whom gas rumors of their mom’s extramarital affair, owing to their noticeably un-Targaryen-like appearances.
When the long-held grudge between Alicent and Rhaenyra spills over to their youngsters in a brutal act of violence that prices Aemond his eye, the fuse has been formally lit.