The conflict in the Targaryen family, already shown in the first season of HBO’s prequel to Games of Thrones, evolves into an all-out civil war in the teaser of House of the Dragon Season 2.
Dropped by the makers on Sunday, the one-minute-25-second-long teaser starts right from the end of the first season of the Game of Thrones prequel — with Lucerys Velaryon’s (Elliot Grihault) death. It shows Lucery’s mother Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D'Arcy), who is vying for the right to sit on the Iron Throne, kicking off a civil war between her supporters and the followers of her half-brother Aegon II Targaryen (Tom Glynne-Carney).
With Otto Hightower’s (Rhys Ifans) foreboding voiceover, the scene shifts to Aegon II walking to the Iron Throne accompanied by his guards, next cutting to Matt Smith’s Daemon dressed in his dragon armour and heading off to battle. We also hear Aegon II’s mother, Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke), saying, “The war will be fought, many will die, and the victor will eventually ascend the throne,” along with glimpses of both parties gearing up for battle.
Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) also appears in the video. He now wears the Hand of the King necklace, which indicates that he is now the Hand of the King after replacing Otto Hightower.
The teaser also introduces new characters like the Dragonseeds, who are dragonriders recruited by Rhaenyra’s supporters to gather all the rider-less dragons. A shot shows Addam of Hull (Clinton Liberty) looking up at a massive grey-silver dragon which has been rider-less since Rhaenyra’s first husband Laenor Velaryon’s (John MacMillan) disappearance.
Shots of battles, the North, the Iron Throne and all the important characters seen in Season 1 are shown with Rhaenys Targaryen’s (Eve Best) voiceover telling Rhaenyra, “There is no war so hateful to the gods as a war between kin, and no war so bloody as a war between dragons.”
The teaser ends with a burst of flame engulfing the three-headed dragon sigil of the Targaryen House.
Season 2 of House of the Dragon, inspired by George RR Martin’s 2018 book Fire & Blood, will drop in the summer of 2024, though the exact date is yet to be shared by the makers.
