![]() ![]() Hopefully, this sheds a bit more light on what you’re looking at when you watch the House of the Dragon opening credits again next week. Surprise, it is King Viserys’ model of Old Valyria, showing how the blood of the ancient freehold flows all the way down from Aegon to his descendent Rhaenyra. As Viserys and Aemma’s bloodline flows into Rhaenyra’s sigil, it overflows, the camera pans under a doorway with a relief of a dragon on it, and we get the big zoom out to the entire city complex that the blood has been trickling through. Image: HBO/YouTube, House of the Dragon Rhaenyra Targaryen, heir to the Iron Throneįrom there we’re off to the final sigil of the video, which bears the image of Rhaenyra Targaryen’s Valyrian steel necklace that she’s given by her uncle Daemon in the series premiere. All I’ll say is there are reasons Laena’s brother Laenor might not be represented in a bloodline graphic like this. I’m not 100% sold on this, although in the brief glimpse you get of the blood beginning to come out of that last sigil, it does appear to be branching out in two more separate streams again, which could represent the coming of Baela and Rhaena Targaryen. This is interesting because Rhaenys and Corlys have two children - Laena, and her brother Laenor. Those bloodlines meld and go into another sigil, which may represent Laena Velaryon. There’s another sigil on the floor in front of it which is most likely Rhaenys Targaryen, the Queen Who Never Was note that the blood flowing out of her sigil is thicker, because it is the blood of the dragon. They’re so far back that it’s hard to make out details, but our best guess is that the biggest, teal sigil on the wall represents Corlys Velaryon. We then see a very brief moment where the camera focuses on a trio of sigils in the background. Image: HBO/YouTube, House of the Dragon House Velaryon But since there’s always another detail, there are also some other things we’ve picked out as well. The account put together a great video that matches up each character and historical figure to their corresponding sigil in the opening. Maegor the Cruel, for instance, doesn’t show up in the opening credits, perhaps because he usurped the throne from his older half brother Aenys I’s family and his lineage didn’t continue to rule afterward. The Targaryens had different branches in their family, not all of whom are represented here. In a nutshell, the opening is showing the progression of the Targaryen dynasty’s bloodline specifically, it’s showing us how the bloodline from Old Valyria flows from one ruler to the next, right down until it gets to Rhaenyra Targaryen. Now that we’ve all had a couple days to sit on the House of the Dragon opening, people are starting to piece together the meaning behind the graphics. Video breaks down each sigil in the House of the Dragon opening ![]() House of the Dragon’s opening also contains information, but it might take a minute to work it out:Ī breakdown of which Targaryens are featured in the #HouseoftheDragon opening credits /qcU1D984Ds It was stylized, but it told us stuff too. Thrones‘ opening was famous not just for how cool it looked, but for how practical and informative it was, zooming around the map to show us which locales we’d see in the episode, what major Houses were in control of them, and more. It’s a hard act to follow.įar more confusing are the visuals. For my part, as much as I kind of wish HBO had made a whole new theme for this show as opposed to trying to aurally trick viewers into thinking they’re still watching Game of Thrones, I can also understand why they chose that music. The new one uses the same iconic theme song from Game of Thrones and takes many stylistic cues from the original visuals. After featuring no opening credits in the premiere episode, the highly-anticipated Game of Thronesprequel series finally debuted its own opening sequence. Fans were in for a surprise when the second episode of House of the Dragon, “The Rogue Prince,” aired this past Sunday. ![]()
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