Warning: Spoilers forward for “Home of the Dragon” season two, episode two, and for the e book “Fireplace and Blood.”
One other week, one other new character introduction that you just’d finest not overlook on “Home of the Dragon.”
Viewers met Alyn of Hull in episode one. Corlys Velaryon approaches Alyn, who offers him a report on the standing of his ship. Alyn additionally presents Corlys with a dagger — one which Corlys commissioned as a present for Lucerys, his now-deceased inheritor. However there’s yet another essential piece of data Corlys offers us: Alyn was the one who saved his life, and Corlys feels that he owes him a debt.
In episode two, we meet Alyn’s brother Addam, a shipwright from Hull engaged on the Velaryon fleet. Addam urges his brother to money in on his favor from Corlys, and sail with him. Alyn reminds him that Corlys by no means supplied.
“Don’t be silly, Alyn. To serve with the Sea Snake is to make your fortune. Had I such an opportunity, I’d leap at it,” Addam tells Alyn.
Alyn reminds his brother that there is a actual, impending conflict. Addam thinks that Corlys owes Alyn (presumably for saving his life), however then cryptically provides that Corlys owes each of them.
The writers are telegraphing fairly onerous that these are characters we’ll see once more — here is what occurs to them in “Fireplace and Blood.”
Main potential present spoilers forward.
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Addam of Hull turns into a dragon rider
Within the occasions of “Fireplace and Blood,” Jaecaerys Velaryon guarantees wealth to any man capable of declare a dragon. Addam efficiently claims Seasmoke, the previous dragon of Laenor Velaryon, Rhaenyra’s husband.
It is probably the present will go this route too; in episode two, Addam observes a pale dragon resembling Seasmoke flying above him as he picks up a crab on the seaside. Fairly sturdy foreshadowing!
Within the e book, each Alyn and Addam are described as having silver hair and purple eyes, hallmarks of Valyrian descent. Their mom was a lady named Marilda, who gave beginning to Addam when she was 16, and Alyn when she was 18. Each of her sons served on her fleet of ships.
Marilda claimed that her sons have been Laenor Velaryon’s bastards. However Mushroom, who gives one of many historic accounts referenced in “Fireplace and Blood,” posits that Corlys was their father as a substitute. After Addam efficiently bonded with Seasmoke, Corlys requested Rhaenyra to legitimize him as a Velaryon. She did so, making Addam Velaryon the inheritor to Driftmark.
As a dragonrider, Addam performed a vital half within the conflict. He ultimately helped to say King’s Touchdown for Rhaenyra, and defended it whereas Daemon sought out Aemond and Vhagar.
Later within the conflict, Addam’s destiny is loosely tied to that of the opposite dragon riders, a few of whom betray Rhaenyra. Finally, he and Seasmoke die in a dragon struggle.
Alyn of Hull turns into Corlys Velaryon’s inheritor
After failing to find the wild dragon Gray Ghost, Alyn unsuccessfully tried to say one other dragon referred to as Sheepstealer. He was wounded within the course of when Sheepstealer set his cloak aflame, however Addam and Seasmoke saved him.
Later, Corlys asserted that each Alyn and Adam have been Velaryons, and appropriate heirs to his throne. After Rhaenyra’s dying, and with Corlys sequestered in King’s Touchdown, Alyn assumed management of the Velaryon fleet.
Finally, Alyn turned Corlys’ chosen inheritor. After Corlys’ dying, he turned the brand new Lord of the Tides, and ultimately wed Baela Targaryen.
