Here, Prince Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) gifts a pendant made of Dark Sister to his niece, Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock).
In season two of Game of Thrones, Arya (Maisie Williams), while posing as a servant, mentions Visenya’s weapon to Tywin Lannister (Charles Dance) while discussing her role in the burning of Harrenhal. Whether this season will feature a moment as surprising as Ned’s death remains to be seen…ĭark Sister is the name of the Valyrian steel sword belonging to Visenya Targaryen, the sister-wife of Aegon the Conqueror. Instead, he died after having molten gold poured onto his head by Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa).Įarly on in the series, Ser Harrold Westerling (Graham McTavish) mentions that he’s keen to avoid having his “head on a spike” – a fate Game of Thrones viewers know was suffered by Ned Stark. Lloyd’s Viserys was the older brother of Daenerys and, unlike his distant uncle, was not destined for the Iron throne. Game of Thrones will remember that, in season one, Harry Lloyd played a character named Viserys, a distant nephew of Considine’s character. Viserys Targaryen is the charcater played by Paddy Considine. Anna Karen left majority of fortune to EastEnders co-star ahead of house fire deathīelow, we run through every reference and Easter egg to Game of Thrones featured in House of the Dragon episode one.
When does House of the Dragon come out on NOW TV?Īmong the references are nods to Ned Stark (Sean Bean), Jaime lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and, of course, the Mother of Dragons herself, Daenerys (Emilia Clarke). House of the Dragon: The huge Game of Thrones season 1 callback you might have missedįans of Game of Thrones, which drew to a close in 2019, have been left feeling nostalgic for the series, thanks to the many references featured in the prequel’s season premiere. The show, which is the first of the network’s planned spin-offs, is set almost 200 years before the events of Thrones and tells the story of the Targaryens.
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New HBO epic House of the Dragon is transporting TV viewers back into the world of Game of Thrones.