“A Wooden Throne”: What Helaena’s Prophecy About Aegon Really Means

WARNING! This article contains major spoilers for the House of the Dragon Season 2 finale and George R.R. Martin’s Blood and Fire novels!

Summary

• Aegon is seen sitting on a wooden throne, most likely a reference to the stretcher he was carried on after breaking his leg.
• Helena predicted Aegon’s victory, but unfortunately, they never meet again in the series.
• Helena’s bizarre visions break the rules of the dragon dream and foreshadow tragic endings for key characters.

Helena foretells her family’s future in Aegon and Aemond Dragon House Aegon will sit on the “wooden throne” in Season 2. Helena Targaryen, the daughter of Alicent and Viserys, has shown a talent for dragon dreams since she was a child, and her visions have become more powerful and clearer as she has grown older. Dragon House The finale of Season 2. In addition to prophesying Aemond’s death, Aegon becoming king again, and a larger “story” that cannot be changed, she begins to appear powerfully in visions of others, just as she appears in Daemon’s vision of the weirwood at Harrenhal.

When Aemond asks Helena to take the Dreamfyre into battle, she refuses and asks him if he will burn her like Aegon did, explaining that she saw Aemond burn, and then let Aegon fall on Crow’s Perch. Before Helena warns Aemond that he will die on the God’s Eye, she tells him, “Aegon will be king again. He has not seen victory yet. He sits on a wooden throne. And you… you will die.“Helena’s dire prophecy and George R.R. Martin’s Blood and Fire The books include details about Aegon’s use of a throne other than the Iron Throne.

Aegon’s wooden throne was probably what was left after he broke his leg.

Aegon sitting on a wooden chair beneath the Iron Throne when he returned to King’s Landing

Aegon has fallen ill and is bedridden. Dragon House As Helena predicted, his condition worsened during the Dance with the Dragons. After Larys helped Aegon escape King’s Landing, he hid out on Dragonstone and orchestrated a coup, with some members of the Black Team switching alliances and helping him capture the castle. During the fall of Dragonstone, Aegon flew aboard the Blaze and fought Bella Targaryen aboard the Moon Dance, culminating in Aegon leaping from his dragon and breaking both legs in the fall. Afterwards, Aegon was unable to walk and had to be carried on a wooden stretcher.

Both Bella Targaryen and Aegon Targaryen survived the battle, but their dragons Moondancer and Sunfyre died from their wounds.

therefore,”Wooden throneHelena may have foreseen that Aegon’s legs were broken and he sat on a stretcher. This is consistent with Helena’s prediction that Aegon saw “victory“After Aegon killed Rhaenyra Targaryen on Dragonstone and recaptured King’s Landing, he was unable to ascend the steps of the Iron Throne. Therefore,Carved, upholstered wooden seat” is placed at the bottom of the steps to the Iron Throne, the “wooden throne” that King Aegon II Targaryen used to rule his country and hold court.

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Helena and Aegon never meet again in House of the Dragon

Helena died before Aegon could see victory.

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Although Helena saw Aegon in a vision, the two siblings and husband/wife never met again. Dragon HouseThe last time Helena and Aegon spoke face to face was likely when they paused together on the steps after Prince Jaehaerys’ death. Blood and FireAbout six months into Rhaenyra’s reign in King’s Landing, Helena Targaryen tragically committed suicide, while Aegon remained at Dragonstone. Since Aegon and Helena seemed to have some feelings for each other, it was a sad reality that they never reunited after all the tragedy they had shared.

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