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Ser Ryam was a strong Lord Commander
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of the Kingsguard.
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But he was ill for some time.
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He passed in peace, I hope.
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Yes, Your Grace.
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He was found to have passed
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gently in his sleep.
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His remains are being prepared
by the Silent Sisters.
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The succeeding Lord Commander,
Ser Harrold,
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would like to make haste in finding
Ser Ryam's replacement on the Kingsguard.
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Your Grace. My lords.
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The Kingsguard must soon be restored
to its full complement of seven.
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With the help of the Hand,
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I've invited a number of
fine candidates to court.
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All have passed fair trials.
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Four ships have now been lost.
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The last one was flying my banner.
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The Stepstones have now
grown into a conflagration,
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yet you sit here
and dither about court business.
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If you've something
to discuss, Lord Corlys--
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I want to know what is to be done
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about my ships and my men.
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The Crown will compensate you
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for your ship and crew,
and make an offering
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- to the men's families.
- I don't want compensation.
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I want to seize the Stepstones by force
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and burn out this Crabfeeder.
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I am not prepared to start
a war with the Free Cities.
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These pirates are not the Free Cities.
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Who do you think provides them
with their ships and tender?
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In all of its history, my lord,
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the Seven Kingdoms have never entered
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open war with the Free Cities.
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Were that to happen,
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the losses would be incalculable.
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What reason does
the Crabfeeder have to fear us?
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The King's own brother has been allowed
to seize Dragonstone
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and fortify it with an army
of his gold cloaks.
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Daemon has squatted there
for over half a year
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without even a protest from The Crown.
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I'll caution you, Lord Corlys,
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a seat at the King's table
does not make you his equal.
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I have acted, Corlys.
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I've sent envoys to Pentos and Volantis
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to see if we might find common cause.
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Ships and men are at the ready.
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The Stepstones will be settled in time.
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You have dragonriders, father.
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Send us.
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It isn't that simple, Rhaenyra.
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It would be a show of force.
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At least the Princess has a plan.
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- I only meant that we should at least--
- Perhaps,
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there's some better use
for the Princess's talents, Your Grace.
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Why don't you take the Princess
to see about the new
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Kingsguard posting, Lord Commander?
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A fine idea, Your Grace.
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This knight will protect you as well.
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You should choose.
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Ser Desmond Caron,
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a fine knight, Princess.
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Step forward, Ser Desmond.
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Son of Ser Royce Caron,
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Ser Desmond has proved strong and steady
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in both the tourney lists and without.
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While traveling through the Kingswood
on his way to King's Landing,
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Ser Desmond recently brought
a would-be poacher
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to justice.
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You might thank him
for his leal service, Princess.
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We thank you for your loyal
service to The Crown, ser.
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Ser Rymun Mallister.
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Son of Lord Lymond Mallister of Seagard.
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Winner of the melee at Cider Hall.
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He was the last mounted
of three-and-twenty knights.
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Ser Rymun was knighted at eight-and-ten.
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Do any of these knights
have combat experience?
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Beyond capturing poachers.
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Ser Criston Cole.
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Son of the steward
of the Lord of Blackhaven.
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Be welcome, Ser Criston.
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You saw combat in the Stormlands.
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Dornish marches, Princess.
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I fought for a year as a foot solider
against the Dornish incursions.
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Ser Arlan Dondarrion
knighted me after we razed
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two of the watchtowers along the Boneway.
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I choose Ser Criston Cole.
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Let's not be too hasty, Princess.
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There's no doubt Ser Criston
is a fine warrior,
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but houses such as Crakehall and Mallister
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are important allies of The Crown.
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Seagard, for instance,
is the realm's prime defense
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against reavers from the Iron Islands.
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Those men are tourney knights.
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My father should be defended by a man
who's known real combat.
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Should he not?
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Of course, Princess.
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Well, let us plan Ser Criston's
investiture then.
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The Valyrian capital
was built into a volcano,
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much like Dragonstone.
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And the dragonlords,
the highest of the nobility,
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lived here, at the volcanic face,
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closest to the source
of their magic and power.
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And this was the Anogrion.
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Where the bloodmages worked their craft.
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It is truly wondrous what you've built.
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Oh no.
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I only pore over the histories
and provide the plans.
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The stonemasons built the structures.
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Do you believe that Westeros
can be another Valyria, Your Grace?
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That depends,
whether you speak of the Freehold
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at its height or at its fall.
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Over a thousand dragons,
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a navy large enough to span
the seas of the world.
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The glory of Old Valyria
will never be seen again.
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Seven Hells.
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Tell me, how is Rhaenyra?
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- What do you mean?
- Well, these days,
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she doesn't say more
than a few words to me.
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I think she might find it difficult
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to discuss personal matters.
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It will take time.
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It did when I lost mine own mother.
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I wish she would approach me.
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What if you went to her?
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There are times when I would rather face
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the Black Dread himself
than mine own daughter of 15.
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I think she would open
herself to you if invited.
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You do have such an easy way about you,
Your Grace.
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You do not mention our talks to Rhaenyra,
do you?
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I just,
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I fear that she wouldn't understand them.
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No, Your Grace.
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It's only been half a year
since my mother died,
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and already they tried
to marry my father off
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and replace me as heir.
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I know those men and how they plot
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in their secret councils
when I've been sent away.
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You cannot worry at the matters
of lords and kings, Rhaenyra.
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What if your father were to remarry?
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Your father loves you.
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He chose you for his heir.
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He didn't choose me. He spurns Daemon.
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Kneel with me.
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I find this is a way to be with my mother.
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Here in the quiet of the Sept,
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I feel close to her.
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- I know it sounds foolish.
- I don't think it's foolish.
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- I don't.
- Good.
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Because I thought you might try.
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If not for me, then, perhaps for them.
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What do I say?
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Whatever you wish.
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It's only for you and the gods to know.
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I want him to see me as
more than his little girl.
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Mine own father does not know
the language of girls either.
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When I wish to talk with him,
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I know that I must make the effort.
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Thank you.
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{\an8}Your Grace.
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{\an8}I'm glad we could meet.
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I know tempers ran hot today,
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and I wanted to assure you
how much I value the bond
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between our houses.
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Rhaenys is my favorite cousin after all.
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I wish to apologize for the tenor
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at the Small Council today, Your Grace.
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It was not my intent to make offense.
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Your fleet is one of the realm's
most important assets, Lord Corlys.
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But you must understand,
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as King, it is my obligation to avoid war
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until such time it is unavoidable.
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None among us desire open war.
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Might I speak plainly, Your Grace?
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I always welcome the unfettered thoughts
of my council.
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I fear that the eyes of our enemies
are presently fixed on the Red Keep.
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The Queen has passed.
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A girl has been named
heir to the Iron Throne,
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the first in its history.
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The King's brother, so disinherited,
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has claimed the Targaryen seat
on Dragonstone
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without challenge.
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And now, a foreign power
has established a colony
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in our most critical shipping lane.
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You paint such an aspirant portrait
of my reign, Lord Corlys.
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It is an honest one, cousin.
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At the moment, The Crown is perceived
as being vulnerable.
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And a blind incursion in the Stepstones
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is the only way to demonstrate
that we are not?
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To elude a storm,
you can either sail into it,
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or around it.
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But you must never await its coming.
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Do you have a specific
course of action to propose,
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my lord?
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Join our families.
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Wed our daughter, Laena.
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Unite the two great surviving
Valyrian houses.
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With the Targaryen dragons
and the Velaryon fleet bound in blood,
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you can show the realm
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that The Crown's strongest days are ahead,
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not behind.
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I must admit,
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I haven't given marriage much thought.
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It hasn't even been half a year
since Aemma passed.
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The realm expects you to take a new wife
soon or late, Your Grace,
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to strengthen your line
and produce more heirs.
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You could not ask for
a stronger match than Laena.
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We haven't spoken much
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since.
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A regret of mine.
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We should be free to speak our minds
to one another.
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You can say whatever you'd like.
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You are the King.
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I loved your mother very much.
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As did I.
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Ser Harrold provided
a fine field of tourney knights.
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Oh?
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But in questioning them,
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I discovered that Ser Criston
was the only man among them
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with true battle experience.
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He'll make a fine
knight of the Kingsguard.
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- Today at Small Council--
- Pay it no mind.
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- I thought I might have had some insight.
- You're young.
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You will learn.
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This is our best chance
to save the digit, Your Grace.
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The maggots will remove the dead flesh
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and hopefully stop the advance of the rot.
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I held an audience earlier today
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with Lord Corlys and Princess Rhaenys.
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That was most charitable
of you, Your Grace.
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I'm sure Lord Corlys
appreciated the spirit of it.
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He proposed a marriage.
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To whom, Your Grace?
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The Lady Laena.
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To combine the strength of our houses,
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and demonstrate my reign's
strongest days are ahead,
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not behind.
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Lord Corlys has overreached, Your Grace.
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Such matters must be discussed
with the Small Council.
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That is what I'm doing, presently.
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So, what is your advice, dear Otto.
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The Lady Laena
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is young, Your Grace.
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Indeed, but the wounds
made by the Great Council
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still linger, my King.
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A match with their daughter
would go a long way towards
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sealing the breach
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and uniting the two great Valyrian houses
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would certainly signal unity
throughout the realm
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and beyond.
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The Grand Maester's reasoning is sound.
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I do fear what Rhaenyra might think.
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What does it matter, Your Grace?
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Her mother has passed.
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Her father must propagate the royal line.
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I dearly loved my own lady wife.
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The pain of her passing still haunts me.
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And to be compelled to
258
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replace her for duty's sake.
259
00:20:54,670 --> 00:20:56,213
You are the King.
260
00:20:57,339 --> 00:20:59,257
But I do not envy you.
261
00:21:28,161 --> 00:21:30,706
What was it like flying the Black Dread?
262
00:21:30,706 --> 00:21:33,667
{\an8}You were Balerion's last rider.
263
00:21:34,251 --> 00:21:37,421
Only for a short time before he died.
264
00:21:37,421 --> 00:21:38,547
With Balerion
265
00:21:38,547 --> 00:21:41,216
died the last memory of Valyria of Old.
266
00:21:42,217 --> 00:21:43,969
But Vhagar still lives
267
00:21:44,594 --> 00:21:46,179
somewhere.
268
00:21:46,263 --> 00:21:48,181
Bit too large for the Dragonpit.
269
00:21:48,807 --> 00:21:51,351
Some would say too large for our world.
270
00:21:52,310 --> 00:21:55,397
- Do you know where she nests?
- I'm sorry?
271
00:21:55,397 --> 00:21:57,482
Do you know where Vhagar is now?
272
00:21:57,566 --> 00:22:00,277
The Dragonkeepers believe she made home
273
00:22:00,277 --> 00:22:02,779
somewhere on the coast of the Narrow Sea.
274
00:22:02,863 --> 00:22:06,491
The workers at Spicetown report
hearing her song at times.
275
00:22:06,575 --> 00:22:08,702
They say it is a sad thing.
276
00:22:10,579 --> 00:22:12,456
I imagine even dragons get lonely.
277
00:22:17,169 --> 00:22:18,420
Your Grace,
278
00:22:19,671 --> 00:22:21,631
it would be a great honor
279
00:22:21,715 --> 00:22:25,886
to join our houses
as they were in Old Valyria.
280
00:22:25,886 --> 00:22:27,179
I would give you many children
281
00:22:27,179 --> 00:22:29,181
of pure Valyrian blood
282
00:22:29,181 --> 00:22:31,433
so that we might strengthen the royal line
283
00:22:31,433 --> 00:22:33,018
and the realm.
284
00:22:33,018 --> 00:22:35,270
Is that what your father told you to say?
285
00:22:40,358 --> 00:22:41,818
What did your mother tell you?
286
00:22:43,779 --> 00:22:46,907
That I wouldn't have to bed you
until I turned 14.
287
00:23:14,392 --> 00:23:15,811
It bothers you, does it not?
288
00:23:21,733 --> 00:23:23,276
My father is a king.
289
00:23:23,985 --> 00:23:27,239
It is his duty to take a new wife
and strengthen his line.
290
00:23:27,239 --> 00:23:28,532
I did not ask for a lesson in politics.
291
00:23:28,532 --> 00:23:29,991
I asked whether this bothers you.
292
00:23:30,075 --> 00:23:31,409
Laena is your daughter, Princess.
293
00:23:31,493 --> 00:23:33,161
Does it bother you?
294
00:23:34,454 --> 00:23:35,580
Of course, it does.
295
00:23:37,624 --> 00:23:40,669
But I understand the order of things.
296
00:23:42,462 --> 00:23:44,798
I'm not sure you do.
297
00:23:47,509 --> 00:23:50,804
If you mean to elicit some anger from me,
298
00:23:50,804 --> 00:23:53,640
you should know that
you're failing, Princess.
299
00:23:54,558 --> 00:23:56,101
Quite the opposite.
300
00:23:59,563 --> 00:24:01,189
Whether it's to my daughter
or to someone else's,
301
00:24:01,273 --> 00:24:04,192
your father will remarry sooner than late.
302
00:24:05,026 --> 00:24:07,612
His new wife will produce new heirs,
303
00:24:07,696 --> 00:24:10,574
and chances are better than not
that one of those will be male.
304
00:24:10,574 --> 00:24:13,243
And when that boy comes of age
and your father has passed,
305
00:24:13,243 --> 00:24:16,204
the men of the realm
will expect him to be heir,
306
00:24:16,288 --> 00:24:17,622
not you.
307
00:24:20,208 --> 00:24:22,127
Because that is the order of things.
308
00:24:24,546 --> 00:24:26,840
When I'm Queen, I will create a new order.
309
00:24:28,425 --> 00:24:30,552
How I wish that could be, Rhaenyra.
310
00:24:31,303 --> 00:24:33,805
But the men of the realm
already had their opportunity
311
00:24:33,889 --> 00:24:36,224
to appoint a ruling queen
at the Great Council
312
00:24:36,308 --> 00:24:37,809
and they denied it.
313
00:24:37,893 --> 00:24:40,770
They denied you, Princess Rhaenys.
314
00:24:41,771 --> 00:24:43,732
"The Queen Who Never Was."
315
00:24:44,482 --> 00:24:47,277
But they bent the knee to me
and called me heir to the throne.
316
00:24:47,277 --> 00:24:50,322
Do you remind your father's men of that
as you carry their cups?
317
00:24:54,868 --> 00:24:56,828
Here is the hard truth,
318
00:24:56,912 --> 00:25:00,081
which no one else has
the heart to tell you.
319
00:25:00,957 --> 00:25:04,628
Men would sooner put
the realm to the torch
320
00:25:04,628 --> 00:25:07,631
than see a woman ascend the Iron Throne.
321
00:25:12,510 --> 00:25:15,096
And your father is no fool.
322
00:25:28,944 --> 00:25:32,530
The Small Council is urging me to remarry.
323
00:25:34,366 --> 00:25:36,910
It seems the realm wants for a new queen.
324
00:25:42,123 --> 00:25:45,627
A good and kind queen
will give comfort to your subjects.
325
00:25:50,715 --> 00:25:54,261
Does the Small Council
have a particular lady in mind?
326
00:25:56,179 --> 00:26:00,850
Lord Corlys Velaryon has offered
the hand of his daughter,
327
00:26:00,934 --> 00:26:02,477
the Lady Laena.
328
00:26:03,603 --> 00:26:05,522
A very strong match, Your Grace.
329
00:26:07,190 --> 00:26:10,735
I must admit,
I don't know Laena very well.
330
00:26:11,611 --> 00:26:13,947
I'm sure that she is good and kind,
331
00:26:13,947 --> 00:26:17,575
and that she will enjoy your company,
as I have, Your Grace.
332
00:26:33,133 --> 00:26:34,676
I brought you something.
333
00:26:55,322 --> 00:26:57,365
I asked the stonemasons to mend it.
334
00:27:01,369 --> 00:27:03,330
This is
335
00:27:03,330 --> 00:27:06,207
a very kind gesture, Alicent.
336
00:27:10,670 --> 00:27:12,589
Very kind.
337
00:27:19,721 --> 00:27:21,556
Come.
338
00:27:24,017 --> 00:27:26,144
The Hand, Your Grace.
339
00:27:30,565 --> 00:27:33,943
Your Grace, I've called the Small Council
to an emergency session.
340
00:27:34,027 --> 00:27:34,944
Why?
341
00:27:36,363 --> 00:27:38,698
I think it best you hear it directly.
342
00:27:40,116 --> 00:27:41,242
Very well.
343
00:28:12,273 --> 00:28:15,110
- Daemon.
- The Prince left a missive,
344
00:28:15,110 --> 00:28:17,195
which I believe might explain.
345
00:28:18,321 --> 00:28:21,032
"It is the pleasure of Daemon Targaryen,
346
00:28:21,116 --> 00:28:22,909
"the Prince of Dragonstone
347
00:28:22,909 --> 00:28:26,913
"and rightful heir to the Iron Throne,
348
00:28:26,913 --> 00:28:29,749
"to announce that he is
to take a second wife
349
00:28:29,833 --> 00:28:32,752
"in the tradition of Old Valyria.
350
00:28:32,836 --> 00:28:37,924
"She is to assume the title
Lady Mysaria of Dragonstone.
351
00:28:37,924 --> 00:28:39,968
"Her Grace is with child
352
00:28:39,968 --> 00:28:45,223
"and is to have a dragon's egg
placed in the babe's cradle
353
00:28:45,223 --> 00:28:48,601
in the custom of House Targaryen."
354
00:28:48,685 --> 00:28:52,313
The Prince has invited you
to his wedding, Your Grace.
355
00:28:53,273 --> 00:28:56,526
- It is in two days' time.
- Gods be good.
356
00:28:56,526 --> 00:28:58,611
Who is Lady Mysaria?
357
00:28:58,695 --> 00:29:00,405
- We believe--
- Daemon's whore.
358
00:29:02,949 --> 00:29:06,119
- This is nothing less than sedition.
- I strongly agree, sire.
359
00:29:06,119 --> 00:29:08,329
My brother wishes to provoke me.
360
00:29:09,122 --> 00:29:11,082
To answer is to give him what he wants.
361
00:29:11,166 --> 00:29:13,460
The realm is watching, Your Grace.
362
00:29:13,460 --> 00:29:15,086
What would you have me do?
363
00:29:15,170 --> 00:29:17,088
Send him to the Wall?
364
00:29:17,714 --> 00:29:19,716
Perhaps I could put his head on a spike.
365
00:29:19,716 --> 00:29:21,676
Daemon has seized Dragonstone,
366
00:29:21,676 --> 00:29:24,512
has surrounded himself
with an army of gold cloaks,
367
00:29:24,596 --> 00:29:26,681
and has now stolen a dangerous weapon.
368
00:29:54,626 --> 00:29:56,628
Assemble a detachment, Otto.
369
00:29:57,879 --> 00:29:59,756
I will go to Dragonstone
and drag Daemon back
370
00:29:59,756 --> 00:30:02,133
- to face justice myself.
- Your Grace.
371
00:30:03,468 --> 00:30:05,678
My apologies, Your Grace,
but I cannot allow it.
372
00:30:05,762 --> 00:30:07,347
It's too dangerous.
373
00:30:07,347 --> 00:30:09,349
Daemon is without limit.
374
00:30:10,391 --> 00:30:12,477
Let me go to Dragonstone.
375
00:30:39,420 --> 00:30:41,798
You're the most comely girl at court.
376
00:30:42,757 --> 00:30:44,884
Why do you destroy yourself?
377
00:30:51,307 --> 00:30:53,434
Will you see the King tonight?
378
00:30:56,396 --> 00:30:57,730
If you wish it.
379
00:31:01,109 --> 00:31:04,070
- Good day, Ser Criston.
- My Lady.
380
00:31:04,070 --> 00:31:07,156
I've assembled 20 of your best
household guards, my Lord Hand.
381
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,367
Sir Harrold will also join us.
382
00:31:13,663 --> 00:31:16,583
Please look after the Hand, Ser Criston.
383
00:32:36,663 --> 00:32:38,790
Welcome to Dragonstone, Otto.
384
00:32:41,250 --> 00:32:44,253
Your occupation of this island
is at an end.
385
00:32:45,421 --> 00:32:47,423
You're to relinquish the dragon's egg,
386
00:32:47,507 --> 00:32:48,966
disband your army,
387
00:32:49,050 --> 00:32:50,843
banish your whore,
388
00:32:52,095 --> 00:32:54,681
and leave Dragonstone
by order of His Grace,
389
00:32:54,681 --> 00:32:57,183
- King Viserys.
- Where is the King? I don't see him.
390
00:32:57,183 --> 00:33:01,062
His Grace would never lower himself
to entertain such a mummer's farce.
391
00:33:06,484 --> 00:33:08,152
Ser Crispin, wasn't it?
392
00:33:08,236 --> 00:33:09,779
Ser Criston Cole, my Prince.
393
00:33:09,779 --> 00:33:11,948
Yes, apologies. I couldn't recall.
394
00:33:12,448 --> 00:33:14,992
Perhaps my Prince recalls
when I knocked him off his horse.
395
00:33:17,245 --> 00:33:18,204
Very good.
396
00:33:18,204 --> 00:33:21,207
This is a truly pathetic show, Daemon.
397
00:33:21,207 --> 00:33:23,126
Are you so desperate
for the King's attention
398
00:33:23,126 --> 00:33:25,837
that you've resorted to skulking about
like a common cutpurse?
399
00:33:25,837 --> 00:33:28,423
I'm simply keeping with
the traditions of my house,
400
00:33:28,423 --> 00:33:30,341
the same as my brother did for his heir.
401
00:33:30,425 --> 00:33:33,302
Those traditions are for the trueborn
children of royalty,
402
00:33:33,386 --> 00:33:36,097
not for bastards fathered
on a common whore.
403
00:33:36,806 --> 00:33:38,766
Lady Mysaria is to be my wife.
404
00:33:38,850 --> 00:33:40,226
This is an abomination.
405
00:33:40,226 --> 00:33:42,145
With every breath you soil your name,
406
00:33:42,145 --> 00:33:44,021
your house, and your brother's reign.
407
00:33:44,105 --> 00:33:47,233
Our love does not know
titles and traditions.
408
00:33:48,609 --> 00:33:50,903
And what of you, men of the City Watch?
409
00:33:50,987 --> 00:33:52,488
Aiding the Prince in his treason?
410
00:33:52,572 --> 00:33:54,532
The King made me their commander.
411
00:33:54,532 --> 00:33:55,950
They are loyal to me.
412
00:33:57,034 --> 00:33:58,953
You've come for the egg.
413
00:34:00,455 --> 00:34:01,706
Here it is.
414
00:34:03,207 --> 00:34:05,084
Are you mad?
415
00:34:05,168 --> 00:34:07,920
- You'd never survive this.
- Well, happily, neither would you.
416
00:34:09,172 --> 00:34:14,051
To chose violence, here,
is to declare war against your King.
417
00:34:14,135 --> 00:34:15,261
Wonderful.
418
00:34:16,637 --> 00:34:19,849
Even if it ends in the death
of your unborn child and its mother?
419
00:34:58,888 --> 00:35:00,014
All of you,
420
00:35:00,681 --> 00:35:02,600
sheathe the fucking steel.
421
00:36:09,917 --> 00:36:12,962
- What are you doing here, Princess?
- Preventing bloodshed.
422
00:36:12,962 --> 00:36:16,048
Ser Criston, please escort
the Princess to safety.
423
00:36:16,132 --> 00:36:18,009
Take care not to startle Syrax, my lords.
424
00:36:18,759 --> 00:36:20,469
She's rather protective of me.
425
00:37:10,895 --> 00:37:12,939
I'm right here, Uncle,
426
00:37:15,107 --> 00:37:17,026
the object of your ire,
427
00:37:17,777 --> 00:37:20,655
the reason that you were disinherited.
428
00:37:20,655 --> 00:37:23,032
If you wish to be restored as heir,
429
00:37:23,032 --> 00:37:24,659
you'll need to kill me.
430
00:37:25,952 --> 00:37:27,078
So, do it.
431
00:37:28,412 --> 00:37:30,539
And be done with all this bother.
432
00:39:23,319 --> 00:39:26,155
You announced that we were to be wed?
433
00:39:27,406 --> 00:39:28,949
On the morrow.
434
00:39:30,659 --> 00:39:32,578
And that I was with child.
435
00:39:33,454 --> 00:39:35,039
Your child.
436
00:39:35,039 --> 00:39:38,375
Well, perhaps when we are wed,
we can make that true.
437
00:39:38,459 --> 00:39:42,421
I ensured long ago that I would never be
threatened by childbirth.
438
00:39:42,505 --> 00:39:45,341
Good. Children can be such
irritating creatures.
439
00:39:45,341 --> 00:39:48,010
You swore to protect me, Daemon.
440
00:39:50,221 --> 00:39:52,348
Dragonstone is quite secure.
441
00:39:54,433 --> 00:39:58,938
Until the King decides to reclaim
his ancestral seat.
442
00:39:58,938 --> 00:40:01,774
His men might not put
the Prince's head on a spike,
443
00:40:01,774 --> 00:40:04,110
but what would they do
with the common whore
444
00:40:04,110 --> 00:40:06,862
he claims he's taken to wife
and made with child?
445
00:40:06,946 --> 00:40:08,489
No one will harm you.
446
00:40:09,698 --> 00:40:13,994
I have been sold as property
more times than I care to count,
447
00:40:14,078 --> 00:40:17,498
beginning in a homeland
I can no longer recall.
448
00:40:18,791 --> 00:40:22,128
Most of my years have been spent
living in terror.
449
00:40:23,003 --> 00:40:25,005
You're safe with me, I swear it.
450
00:40:25,089 --> 00:40:26,465
You are Targaryen.
451
00:40:26,549 --> 00:40:29,718
You can afford to play
your stupid games with the King,
452
00:40:29,802 --> 00:40:31,720
but I cannot.
453
00:40:32,805 --> 00:40:37,518
I didn't come into your service
wanting gold or power
454
00:40:37,518 --> 00:40:39,728
or station.
455
00:40:39,812 --> 00:40:43,566
- I came to you to be liberated.
- Liberated.
456
00:40:46,694 --> 00:40:47,862
From what?
457
00:40:49,196 --> 00:40:50,322
Fear.
458
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,268
No, please, Lord Lyonel.
459
00:41:25,232 --> 00:41:28,027
I have come looking for
an unencumbered opinion.
460
00:41:28,027 --> 00:41:30,571
That's all I would ever give, Your Grace.
461
00:41:31,530 --> 00:41:35,075
Ever since my name was read
by the archmaesters at the Great Council,
462
00:41:35,159 --> 00:41:38,537
I have felt Corlys Velaryon's
envious gaze staring at me
463
00:41:38,621 --> 00:41:40,164
from across the Blackwater.
464
00:41:41,123 --> 00:41:44,543
You sit upon the highest seat
in the realm, Your Grace.
465
00:41:44,627 --> 00:41:46,962
Proud men don't like having to look up.
466
00:41:50,966 --> 00:41:52,927
Laena Velaryon.
467
00:41:54,345 --> 00:41:57,723
Lord Corlys is your Master of Ships
468
00:41:57,723 --> 00:42:01,602
and she is the eldest daughter
of the wealthiest house in the realm.
469
00:42:01,602 --> 00:42:05,439
She comes from
unimpeachable Velaryon stock
470
00:42:05,439 --> 00:42:08,150
and she has Targaryen blood.
471
00:42:08,234 --> 00:42:11,111
- What's to mislike?
- She is 12.
472
00:42:11,195 --> 00:42:12,738
She will mature.
473
00:42:15,282 --> 00:42:16,867
I never asked to remarry.
474
00:42:17,576 --> 00:42:20,704
As King, you have a claim on all things.
475
00:42:21,664 --> 00:42:23,123
Even those you don't want.
476
00:42:23,207 --> 00:42:26,210
Marriage is not an obligation
you can put off for long.
477
00:42:26,210 --> 00:42:28,921
What if I was to reject
Lord Corlys's proposal?
478
00:42:28,921 --> 00:42:31,257
He would not be like to take it well.
479
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:35,636
I fear nothing short of a direct line
to the Iron Throne would satisfy him.
480
00:42:36,470 --> 00:42:39,181
You should also consider
that we find ourselves
481
00:42:39,265 --> 00:42:41,350
on the precipice of war in the Stepstones.
482
00:42:42,393 --> 00:42:45,312
And the Sea Snake holds claim to nearly
half the realm's ships.
483
00:42:45,396 --> 00:42:48,440
He would not dare withhold them
in the face of the realm's need.
484
00:42:49,858 --> 00:42:53,195
- Who is he to hector me?
- No one, Your Grace.
485
00:42:54,780 --> 00:42:58,784
But Driftmark makes for a better ally
than it does an enemy.
486
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,454
The Sea Snake has made a calculated reach,
487
00:43:02,538 --> 00:43:04,665
a fair play for a man of his position.
488
00:43:07,126 --> 00:43:09,503
If you truly want my unencumbered opinion.
489
00:43:09,503 --> 00:43:10,587
I do.
490
00:43:12,006 --> 00:43:14,133
You should wed Laena Velaryon, Your Grace.
491
00:43:15,259 --> 00:43:18,721
Sate Lord Corlys and fix him at your side,
492
00:43:18,721 --> 00:43:20,639
permanently, as an ally.
493
00:43:25,394 --> 00:43:26,770
Your Grace,
494
00:43:26,854 --> 00:43:29,857
the Princess has returned
from Dragonstone.
495
00:43:29,857 --> 00:43:31,608
Dragonstone?
496
00:43:51,587 --> 00:43:52,713
Your Grace.
497
00:43:56,717 --> 00:43:58,886
You disobeyed me.
498
00:43:58,886 --> 00:44:02,973
You fled King's Landing without a word
499
00:44:03,057 --> 00:44:06,602
and you acted without The Crown's leave.
500
00:44:09,772 --> 00:44:11,940
You are my only heir.
501
00:44:13,192 --> 00:44:15,110
You could've been killed.
502
00:44:18,739 --> 00:44:20,115
May I sit?
503
00:44:31,585 --> 00:44:33,879
You went to Dragonstone.
504
00:44:33,879 --> 00:44:36,006
And retrieved the egg without bloodshed.
505
00:44:38,342 --> 00:44:41,470
A feat I'm not sure Ser Otto
could've accomplished alone.
506
00:44:44,598 --> 00:44:46,475
Yes, well,
507
00:44:51,313 --> 00:44:53,857
I sometimes forget
how alike you both were.
508
00:45:04,243 --> 00:45:08,414
Your mother's absence
is a wound that will never heal.
509
00:45:09,832 --> 00:45:11,166
Without her,
510
00:45:11,917 --> 00:45:16,422
the Red Keep has lost a warmth
that I dare say it will never recover.
511
00:45:16,422 --> 00:45:19,633
It pleases me to hear you say this.
512
00:45:23,846 --> 00:45:27,141
To know that I'm not alone in my grief.
513
00:45:27,141 --> 00:45:29,643
I wish I had known better
514
00:45:29,643 --> 00:45:31,937
what to say to you in the aftermath.
515
00:45:34,398 --> 00:45:38,318
I struggled to realize that my daughter
had so quickly become a woman grown.
516
00:45:42,406 --> 00:45:43,949
But I know
517
00:45:44,658 --> 00:45:48,287
she understands
what is now expected of me.
518
00:45:48,287 --> 00:45:50,789
The King must take a new wife.
519
00:45:55,961 --> 00:45:58,088
I could never replace your mother.
520
00:46:00,382 --> 00:46:02,634
No more than I intend
to replace you as heir.
521
00:46:04,470 --> 00:46:06,638
But you are my only heir
522
00:46:06,722 --> 00:46:09,892
and our line is vulnerable,
too easily ended.
523
00:46:11,018 --> 00:46:13,103
And by marrying again,
I may begin to ensure
524
00:46:13,187 --> 00:46:14,730
that we are better defended.
525
00:46:14,730 --> 00:46:15,898
Against whom?
526
00:46:15,898 --> 00:46:18,108
Whomever may dare to challenge us.
527
00:46:24,823 --> 00:46:27,367
I do not wish to make us estranged.
528
00:46:28,285 --> 00:46:29,703
You are the King,
529
00:46:30,287 --> 00:46:33,874
and so, your first duty is to the realm.
530
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:38,879
Mother would've understood this.
531
00:46:41,590 --> 00:46:43,133
Just as I do.
532
00:47:30,097 --> 00:47:32,015
Good morrow, my lords.
533
00:47:43,277 --> 00:47:46,822
I have decided to take a new wife.
534
00:48:05,257 --> 00:48:06,925
I intend to marry
535
00:48:13,599 --> 00:48:15,726
the Lady Alicent Hightower
536
00:48:17,686 --> 00:48:19,605
before spring's end.
537
00:48:26,403 --> 00:48:27,988
This is an absurdity.
538
00:48:29,156 --> 00:48:31,950
My house is Valyrian,
539
00:48:32,034 --> 00:48:34,161
the greatest power in the realm.
540
00:48:35,537 --> 00:48:37,456
And I am your King.
541
00:49:01,980 --> 00:49:03,523
Rhaenyra.
542
00:49:25,921 --> 00:49:29,466
House Velaryon's origins
reach back to Old Valyria.
543
00:49:31,551 --> 00:49:34,096
More ancient even than House Targaryen
544
00:49:36,056 --> 00:49:37,974
according to some texts.
545
00:49:39,476 --> 00:49:42,062
But unlike the Targaryens,
546
00:49:42,062 --> 00:49:44,064
we were no dragonlords.
547
00:49:45,691 --> 00:49:49,986
For centuries, my house had to scratch out
an existence from the sea
548
00:49:50,070 --> 00:49:52,614
with grit and luck.
549
00:49:54,908 --> 00:49:57,244
When I ascended the Driftwood Throne,
550
00:49:58,495 --> 00:50:00,038
I knew what I wanted.
551
00:50:02,124 --> 00:50:04,042
So I went out and seized it.
552
00:50:05,711 --> 00:50:07,087
Unlike every other lord of the realm,
553
00:50:07,087 --> 00:50:10,215
I can say that I built
my house's high seat
554
00:50:10,215 --> 00:50:12,426
with the strength of mine own back.
555
00:50:19,057 --> 00:50:21,727
I've always thought of
you and I as having been
556
00:50:21,727 --> 00:50:23,562
made from the same cloth.
557
00:50:32,571 --> 00:50:35,407
I wasn't aware you had
a king for a brother.
558
00:50:35,407 --> 00:50:38,910
We're both men who have had to cut
our own way through the world.
559
00:50:39,870 --> 00:50:42,789
We've been passed over too often.
560
00:50:45,667 --> 00:50:46,877
Did you call me to Driftmark
561
00:50:46,877 --> 00:50:49,337
to remind me of my
low standing, Lord Corlys,
562
00:50:49,421 --> 00:50:51,339
or was there some other reason?
563
00:50:55,177 --> 00:50:57,304
You've heard of the troubles
in the Stepstones?
564
00:51:00,515 --> 00:51:04,561
Some Myrish Prince
is feeding Westerosi sailors to the crabs.
565
00:51:04,561 --> 00:51:07,314
I have been petitioning
the King to send my navy
566
00:51:07,314 --> 00:51:09,107
into the territory,
567
00:51:09,191 --> 00:51:11,109
but he's denied me.
568
00:51:11,193 --> 00:51:13,612
It was never my brother's strongest trait.
569
00:51:13,612 --> 00:51:14,654
What?
570
00:51:16,198 --> 00:51:17,616
Being King.
571
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:24,498
The Crabfeeder is backed
by powerful entities
572
00:51:24,498 --> 00:51:28,126
within the Free Cities who wish to see
Westeros weakened.
573
00:51:30,295 --> 00:51:33,882
And the King's failures
have allowed him to accumulate strength.
574
00:51:35,759 --> 00:51:38,720
If those shipping lanes fall,
575
00:51:38,804 --> 00:51:40,722
my house will be crippled.
576
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:43,934
And I will not have Driftmark
beggared while our King
577
00:51:43,934 --> 00:51:47,521
idles himself with feasts,
and balls, and tourneys.
578
00:51:47,521 --> 00:51:50,524
I will speak of my brother as I wish.
579
00:51:52,484 --> 00:51:53,985
You will not.
580
00:51:57,405 --> 00:51:59,199
Waiting in the Stepstones
581
00:51:59,199 --> 00:52:01,409
is a chance for you to prove your worth
582
00:52:01,493 --> 00:52:03,787
to any who might yet doubt it.
583
00:52:05,497 --> 00:52:08,041
We are the realm's second sons, Daemon.
584
00:52:09,584 --> 00:52:11,503
Our worth is not given.
585
00:52:13,129 --> 00:52:15,048
It must be made.