Let’s talk about Aegon

[Ed. note: Spoilers for House of the Dragon season 2 episode 4 follow. There are also possible spoilers and speculation for the rest of the season, but they’re not informed by the Fire & Blood source material.]

Home of the Dragon hasn’t had many true cliffhangers in its temporary season and a half on tv to date, but it surely made up for misplaced time in its newest episode. Right here’s our greatest guess at what comes subsequent for Aegon II Targaryen after his very fiery crash in Home of the Dragon season 2 episode 4.

What if he’s useless?

This one is sort of definitely the better of the 2 choices for poor King Aegon. Taking place within the first main battle of a civil struggle is humiliation sufficient for a king, however taking place on dragonback provides insult to damage — none of which he’ll should cope with if he’s already kicked the bucket.

As for the remainder of the realm, Aegon’s demise definitely wouldn’t imply the tip of the struggle. With no son because of Blood and Cheese, and a really important-to-keep precedent establishing patrilineal succession, Aegon’s crown would most probably go to his brother Aemond upon his dying. As we noticed on this very battle — and his potential inclination to complete his brother off — Aemond is much more hawkish than his older brother and could be all in for persevering with the struggle.

What if he’s not?

This might go certainly one of two methods. The primary is that Aegon may come up from Sunfyre’s fiery crash like a phoenix, one way or the other totally unscathed, in all probability satisfied he’s immortal, and able to lead his civil struggle with renewed vigor. The one draw back is that, given how unhealthy Sunfyre appeared to come back out within the combat, Aegon in all probability wouldn’t have a dragon, which would depart him within the debt of his little brother Aemond, rider of the large dragon Vhagar. However a minimum of Aegon would nonetheless have the ability to put on his crown and lead his kingdom.

The opposite risk is that Aegon may survive, however in fairly terrible form. He virtually definitely received burned within the preventing, possible by his personal brother’s dragon, and there’s no approach most of his bones survived a fall from that top. On this case, Aegon would possible be out of fee for a substantial time period, leaving Aemond to as soon as once more tackle the duties of the crown, simply not because the topped king however fairly the prince regent — although he’d nonetheless be named Protector of the Realm by hook or by crook.

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It doesn’t matter what occurs to Aegon himself, it does appear to be Sunfyre might be out of fee for good. This isn’t essentially a dying knell of Aegon’s struggle, but it surely does definitely harm his possibilities in it. There’s no useful resource within the Dance of Dragons better than the dragons themselves, and having one much less — significantly when that one was sufficiently big to be ridden — is definitely a large drawback.

Any approach you slice it, and it doesn’t matter what occurs, Aegon’s resolution to experience out into battle in the hunt for honor and a method to upstage his brother couldn’t presumably have gone worse. He’s down one dragon, crucial useful resource of the struggle, and that could be the least of his issues. Nonetheless, regardless of the destiny of Aegon is, we’ll have to attend till subsequent week to get the decision to Home of the Dragon’s largest cliffhanger but.