[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 transient season and a half on tv to this point, however it 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.
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What if he’s useless?
This one is sort of actually the better of the 2 choices for poor King Aegon. Taking place within the first main battle of a civil warfare is humiliation sufficient for a king, however happening on dragonback provides insult to damage — none of which he’ll should take care of if he’s already kicked the bucket.
As for the remainder of the realm, Aegon’s demise actually wouldn’t imply the tip of the warfare. With no son due to Blood and Cheese, and a really important-to-keep precedent establishing patrilineal succession, Aegon’s crown would probably go to his brother Aemond upon his demise. As we noticed on this very battle — and his attainable inclination to complete his brother off — Aemond is much more hawkish than his older brother and can be all in for persevering with the warfare.
What if he’s not?
This might go considered one of two methods. The primary is that Aegon may come up from Sunfyre’s fiery crash like a phoenix, someway completely unscathed, in all probability satisfied he’s immortal, and able to lead his civil warfare with renewed vigor. The one draw back is that, given how unhealthy Sunfyre appeared to return out within the struggle, 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 at the very least Aegon would nonetheless be capable to put on his crown and lead his kingdom.
The opposite chance is that Aegon may survive, however in fairly terrible form. He nearly actually bought burned within the preventing, probably by his personal brother’s dragon, and there’s no manner most of his bones survived a fall from that top. On this case, Aegon would probably be out of fee for a substantial time period, leaving Aemond to as soon as once more tackle the obligations of the crown, simply not because the topped king however reasonably 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 demise knell of Aegon’s warfare, however it does actually damage his possibilities in it. There’s no useful resource within the Dance of Dragons larger than the dragons themselves, and having one much less — significantly when that one was sufficiently big to be ridden — is actually a large drawback.
Any manner you slice it, and it doesn’t matter what occurs, Aegon’s choice to trip out into battle searching for honor and a approach to upstage his brother couldn’t presumably have gone worse. He’s down one dragon, a very powerful useful resource of the warfare, 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 greatest cliffhanger but.
