Daenerys Targaryen may still be more than two centuries removed from the battle for Kings Landing, but the roots of her revolution are planted in The house of the dragon.
In Sunday’s episode Game of Thrones prequel series, Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) sent her stepdaughter Rhaena (Phoebe Campbell) and her sons Joffrey, Aegon and Viserys to Pentos to stay safe as the war for the Iron Throne escalated — and her parting gift was a full Targaryen teaches.
She gave Rhaena — daughter of Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) and the late Laena Velaryon — four dragon eggs to take with her on her journey, and told her that “if all here fail, you will carry our hope for the future,” referring to the future of the dragon house .
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Geeta Vasant Patel, who directed the episode, told Mashable that the eggs Rhaena took to Pentos would later belong to Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) in the original HBO series.
“Those are Daenerys’ eggs,” she confirmed. “All of us who work on this play are great Game of Thrones fans, so it was very exciting to shoot that scene.”
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Phoebe Campbell and Emma D’Arcy in ‘Dragon House’.
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IN Game of Thrones, Daenerys, who is known as the Mother of Dragons, has three dragons: Drogon, Rhaegel, and Viserion. Their eggs are given to her as a wedding gift after marrying Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa) in season one, and she becomes the first Targaryen in over 100 years to own a dragon — or ride one.
She told PEOPLE in June that fans’ continued love for the show, which ran from 2011 to 2019 for eight seasons, “means the world” as she reflected on its continued success.
“The further I am from Game of Thronesthe more I can quantify it,” she admitted. “When I started, you don’t know what you’re doing, you don’t know what you’re surrounded by, and you don’t know what you’re taking part in.”
“Now, as more and more time passes between it and me doing it, I’m more like it was incredibly special and it was incredibly rare.”
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Clarke, 37, likened the experience to “lightning in a bottle,” as she said, “I was incredibly, incredibly happy to have that experience, 100 percent.”
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Despite her love for Game of Thrones universe, she admittedly struggled with the fact that there was already a prequel series about her fictional family — and she couldn’t watch it because it was “too weird.”
Although she said she was “overwhelmed” by the cast, she just found it too “weird” to watch.
“I just can’t do it. It’s so weird. It’s so weird,” she said Diversity in 2023. “It’s like someone saying, ‘You want to go to this school reunion that’s not your year? Do you want to go to that school reunion?’ It feels like I’m avoiding it.”
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The house of the dragon airs Sundays at 9:00 PM ET/PT on HBO, and all eight seasons Game of Thrones stream on Max.
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