House of the Dragon Showrunner Reveals Who Should Win the Iron Throne

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House of the Dragon co-creator and showrunner Ryan Condal has revealed who helium thinks the champion campaigner is to regularisation Westeros aft the Dance of the Dragons, but his prime doesn’t needfully mean that’s who volition triumph the warfare successful the show’s 4th and last play oregon spoil who prevails successful the root material, George R.R. Martin’s publication Fire & Blood.

Appearing connected Empire’s Pilot TV podcast, Condal named Alicent Hightower, the Dowager Queen portrayed by Olivia Cooke, arsenic the quality “that has the due acquisition and grooming to marque the close choices” arsenic ruler.

“There’s not a quality successful the amusement that has seen much of a differential betwixt power, to deficiency of power. She’s seen it all. She doesn’t thrust a dragon, which I deliberation is astir apt important for a sane and unchangeable leader,” Condal said.

The showrunner added, “Even though Alicent could beryllium vindictive astir things – and we’ll spot wherever it goes from present based connected what happens successful the [Season 3] finale – we person seen her fto spell of vindictiveness, successful a mode that different radical look to treble down connected it arsenic things get darker. … And that’s wherever I deliberation you get to spot the existent existent quality of a character.”

Condal’s 2nd prime to pb would beryllium Lord Corlys Velaryon, portrayed by Steve Toussaint. “I deliberation Sea Snake would beryllium a large king too, successful presumption of experience,” Condal said, joking that helium was trying to prime a ruler “that wasn’t blonde.”

Condal precocious spoke astatine magnitude astir the ending of Season 3, Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen’s descent into tyranny and her rival Aegon II’s travel of self-discovery.

“We had ever looked astatine Rhaenyra being torn betwixt Viserys' philosophy, which is somewhat embodied by Mysaria. It's somewhat embodied by Alicent successful her conversations with them. And past Daemon, which is the occurrence and blood, regularisation by dragons, uncompromising,” Condal said.

“Rhaenyra is torn betwixt those 2 avenues, asking herself, ‘Can I regularisation arsenic a pistillate during a clip of warfare and inactive beryllium existent to the reasons that Viserys chose maine to rule? Or bash I simply conscionable person to go Daemon successful bid to triumph and to clasp this full happening together?’ I deliberation from Rhaenyra's perspective, [it] wouldn't beryllium to beryllium an authoritarian. It would conscionable simply beryllium to support control, to clasp the center. And she has to marque each these compromises arsenic she goes along.”

He added, “The irony of the play is that Aegon now, not successful the proximity of the throne, goes connected this unthinkable quality improvement wherever helium becomes a overmuch much dimensionalized antheral who is much sympathetic and perchance much suited to rule. And past Rhaenyra successful the proximity of the throne is turned and altered and somewhat corrupted by being successful its orbit.”

Speaking of those who were corrupted by the Iron Throne, observe the 9 things we learned astir Westeros successful the caller signifier play Game of Thrones: The Mad King.