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‘House of the Dragon’ Episode 1 Deep Dive | House of R

The Ringer-Verse

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The Fall Spring of 281 AC

Rhaegar found prophecy in a scroll or elsewhere and was like, Oh God, this is coming. And he freaked out because of this prophecy. The idea that the Mad King Eris is mad as he and awful as he might have been. Rhaegar who was convinced because of his own dragon dreams that he needed three sons and that's why he carries off Leona. I can't wait to do a complete reread now with this in mind and see what stands out differently. It changes everything that we know about every Targaryen leader leading up to this.

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