Daeron Targaryen is a significant character in George R. R. Martin’s epic fantasy novel Fireplace & Blood, on which Max‘s Home of the Dragon is predicated. Regardless of his significance, he’s by no means made an look within the present, and his dad and mom seem to have largely forgotten about him.
He didn’t even get a point out within the first season and are available season 2, his title lastly will get dropped throughout a tense dialog between Alicent and her scheming father, Otto Hightower, as they plan their subsequent transfer. “The Hightowers nonetheless have energy and you’ve got a son there who will take extra kindly to instruction. Daeron might but assist us in weeks to come back,” Otto says.
Whereas Daeron’s absence from the present has been a scorching subject of dialog, the id of his dad and mom means he might have a significant stake within the throne.
Who’re Daeron Targaryen’s dad and mom?
Daeron Targaryen is the fourth and youngest son of King Viserys I (Paddy Considine) and Woman Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke). He performed a major function within the Targaryen civil struggle referred to as the Dance of the Dragons, combating for his half-brother Aegon II Targaryen. Daeron was a dragon rider, using the dragon Tessarion, referred to as the Blue Queen. Due to this tenacity and bravado within the face of struggle, Daeron is sometimes called Daeron the Daring.
The factor is, if Aegon dies, the throne doesn’t cross onto Aemond, a indisputable fact that even Aemond forgets and the one cause the Greens have a declare to the throne is due to the King’s youngsters. In response to the lore established by the books, if Rhaenys had been to slaughter the entire Greens faction at Aegon’s coronation then the declare would cross to Daeron, which might make for an attention-grabbing season 3 of Home of the Dragon, to make certain.
However “Daeron has not been solid but. I’ve mentioned he’s a personality within the present, however at this level within the story, he’s in Oldtown the place he was warded off as a younger youngster. So we don’t have a point-of-view character in that world but and there’s no dramatic cause to go there. This occurred on a regular basis in medieval instances, notably within the excessive the Aristocracy,” showrunner Ryan Condal defined to Selection in late June 2024.
“You’d take your youngest youngsters and ward them off to different locations, so that they develop up away from courtroom and be taught issues and have their very own place and station on the planet. We all know he’s not but a dragon rider, however he’s had a dragon born to him. So he’ll come to the narrative and have a job to play, simply as he does within the ebook—we’re simply not there but within the storytelling.”
Home of the Dragon is available to stream on Max, with new episodes arriving every Sunday.
