She wants to rule, she has the qualifications, but a bunch of dudes keep getting in her way. It appears most of the action will center on her. Her father favors her as his successor, but there are several other contenders at play. Princess Rhaenyra is Viserys’ daughter by his first wife.His kids and loved ones are the ones fighting to inherit power for when he eventually kicks it. To give an idea of the time frame here, Viserys I is Daenerys’ great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather. King Viserys I is the current king of Westeros.
In HoD, they are (presumably) alive and well. In the original GoT series, all of those dragons have been dead for a while.
Keep in mind that, during the peak of their power, the Targaryens were a dragon-riding terror, hence their house motto: “Fire and Blood.” Their scaled steeds brought the family from their original home of Valyria and helped them conquer all of Westeros. The Targaryen Family Shillelagh, if you will.)Īnyway, HoD takes place 200 years before the events of “Game of Thrones,” when the Targaryens are in full power and about to enter a very nasty, fiery war of succession known as the “Dance of Dragons.” (The Targaryen family tree is very narrow, yet complicated. Daenerys Targaryen is one of the few that remain in GoT-times, and even she gets prematurely sent off to the Shadow Lands by her nephew-lover, Jon Snow. In the original “Game of Thrones” show and in the “Song of Ice And Fire” book series, the powerful House Targaryen has all but died off thanks to regicide and what seems to be a familial lack of impulse control from generations of inbreeding. “House of the Dragon” is a prequel series that focuses on the Targaryen dynasty they of myth, madness, incest and purple shampoo. Remember these guys? There's more where that came from! HBO
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