From Lady Stoneheart to Young Griff, the artistic staff behind Game of Thrones took a number of liberties with their sequence adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s guide sequence, A Song of Ice and Fire. Part of it’s because the creator hasn’t truly completed telling the story simply but, with two extra books slated to shut out the sequence every time Martin will get round to it. Another purpose some of these characters by no means made it onto TV screens was on account of their tales being merged with different foremost gamers. This has seemingly been the case in the community’s Game of Thrones prequel sequence, House of the Dragon, as followers have identified that the journey of Rhaena (Phoebe Campbell), appears to be like an terrible lot like the one taken in Fire & Blood by Nettles – particularly on the subject of her bonding with the dragon referred to as Sheepstealer.

In the second season’s finale, Rhaena and Sheepstealer lastly meet face-to-face, though audiences should wait fairly some time to study what occurs subsequent. Thankfully, showrunner and co-creator, Ryan Condal, gave these attending a press convention on Monday morning, like our very personal Therese Lacson, a teaser of what’s to return in Rhaena – and Nettles’ – story.

“Given where we are in the storytelling, I think that’s a, ‘Please stay tuned and keep watching the story,’” Condal mentioned to the attendees.

“I will say that we love Rhaena as a character, and we’ve really done a lot of legwork to set her up from the beginning as somebody in this Targaryen household who does not have a dragon. We saw that with Aemond’s story of how somebody that grows up in this family, even in a time of peace, when you don’t have a dragon, how it changes how you’re identified even within the family. And how desperate Rhaena is for that sort of self-identification as a dragon rider, and is willing to go to fairly dangerous lengths to try to see that realized.”

Ryan Condal and the Rest of the Team Are Having Fun With the Adaptation

Unlike the novels from A Song of Ice and Fire which strictly follow a character-centered structure, Fire & Blood is as a substitute informed by Archmaester Gyldayn. Despite citing sources for his story, the Archmaester remains to be an unreliable narrator, as these tales come from a couple of completely different sources which are inclined to contradict each other. Condal says that this has been one of the gratifying elements about creating House of the Dragon as a result of the artistic staff has a bit extra wiggle room to take the story the place they’d like.

“So I feel half of the enjoyable of adapting
Fire & Blood
is how
we interpret the accepted historical past
that these three completely different historians typically argue about and wrote down, and we’re not attempting to inform the goal fact. We’re offering the tv model of one goal fact of this historical past, and anyone who reads the guide is free to interpret it nonetheless they need to. But
there are loads of paths to interpretation
via this. And I feel the Rhaena story as we’re seeing it unfold is doubtlessly one of these attention-grabbing interpretations that we’ve got to supply, and I might simply say that
we don’t do any of these things flippantly or with out thought
. Many of this stuff, we’ve deliberate many seasons prematurely. So I might simply say, you recognize, buckle up and take the journey with us. And hopefully you want the vacation spot it’s going to.”

Season 2 of House of the Dragon is now streaming on Max in its entirety.

House of the Dragon

The reign of House Targaryen begins with this prequel to the well-liked HBO sequence Game of Thrones. Based on George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood, House of the Dragon is about practically 200 years earlier than Game of Thrones, telling the story of the Targaryen civil struggle with King Viserys.

Release Date

August 21, 2022

Creator

Ryan J. Condal, George R.R. Martin

Main Genre

Drama

Seasons

4

Distributor

HBO

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