House Of The Dragon’s first season was lots of setup: introducing the characters, their place in established Westerosi lore, and watching them flip their relationships into warring factions. But when Aemond’s dragon kills Rhaenyra’s son Luke (with Aemond’s culpability and intentions considerably up for debate), the distinction of opinion over who ought to sit on The Iron Throne turns much more private and livid. The Greens and the Blacks are headed for full, all-out struggle.
The first, temporary have a look at HotD’s second season picks up the place we left off, opening on the picture of a furious, heartbroken Rhaenyra. The clip is actually a teaser, with a fast have a look at most everybody in the primary forged, and with out a complete lot of details about the plot apart from stuff you in all probability anticipated primarily based on how the final season ended. “War might be fought, many will die, and the victor will ascend to the throne,” Alicent Hightower tells us, and it’s fairly exhausting to argue with that assertion. “There is not any struggle so hateful to the gods as a struggle between kin, and no struggle so bloody as a struggle between dragons,” Princess Rhaenys intones. Hey, while you’re proper, you’re proper.
Outside of the teaser, HBO introduced an entire slew of latest forged additions; Clinton Liberty will seem as Addam of Hull, Jamie Kenna as Ser Alfred Broome, Kieran Bew as Hugh, Tom Bennett as Ulf, Tom Taylor as Lord Cregan Stark, and Vincent Regan as Ser Rickard Thorne. The teaser additionally reaffirms the free launch date of summer season 2024, which had beforehand been introduced final month.
