House of the DragonIs Teasing an Infamously Gruesome Plot for Season 2

Any timeGeorge R.R. Martingets to write a history of fantasy people being utterly terrible to each other , you know the man ’s going to get up to some messed - up murdering at some gunpoint , andFire & Blood , his retelling of House Targaryen’slong , mussy history , was no elision . Which means , of course , House of the Dragon is getting ready to dig into some of that bloodthirstiness too .

Or rather , some of that cheesiness — as it ’s not Fire and rip that specially cool down the heart of anyone familiar with Martin ’s history of the Targaryens outside of what House of the Dragon coveredin its first season , but the musical phrase “ line of descent and Cheese . ” To an foreigner it sound like aparticularly nasty amuse bouche , but to Westerosi lore - head it ’s a quiet down reference to a gruesome moment in the conflict between Rhaenyra and Daemon ’s Blacks , and Alicent ’s Greens , in the polite war that will buck House Targaryen aside . And it look like House of the Dragon is going to be bring forth into it by the end of time of year two .

“ We are currently writing the closing curtain of season two , ” author Sara Hess recently toldVarietywhen asked just when the show might get round to hash out Fire and Blood ’s most ill-famed revenge plot . “ I do n’t cerebrate you will be let down . ”

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But for those unfamiliar with what might be do in season two ’s conclusion , well …

Who Are Blood and Cheese in Fire and Blood?

“ stemma and Cheese ” is not an case per se like the Red Wedding was in Game of Thrones , but the pseudonym of two assassins . Blood is a sellsword , a former goldcloak in King ’s landing place ousted from the force for the drunken murder of a sexual urge worker , while Cheese is a ratcatcher employed by the Targaryens in the Red Keep . They are both rent by Mysaria ( played by Sonya Mizuno in House of the Dragon ) on behalf of Daemon Targaryen , her lover and Rhaenyra ’s unofficial spymistress , to reenact a retaliation plot against the Greens for the death of Lucerys Velaryon , Daemon and Rhaenyra ’s young son — who we get a line perish in the first season ’s conclusion , accidentally killed by Aemond Targaryen and his dragon Vhagar .

Using Cheese ’s knowledge of the passing underneath the Red Keep , the two killers sneak into the private bedchambers of tabby dowager Alicent Hightower , gagging her to lie in wait for Alicent ’s daughter — and the babe - married woman of now - King Aegon II — Queen Helaena and her children . After killing Helaena ’s bodyguard , Blood and Cheese make Helaena an whirl on Daemon ’s behalf : choose which one of her youthful sons , Jaehaerys or Maelor , will perish to pay for Lucerys ’ death .

After Helaena offers herself , she finally choses her unseasoned Logos Maelor ( who is just two at the meter ) , but Blood ignore her and promptly beheads Jaehaerys , the first in business to the Iron Throne , fleeing with Cheese back through the Red Keep ’s passageway with the six - twelvemonth - sure-enough ’s sever oral sex to prove their deed .

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What Happens After Blood and Cheese in Fire and Blood?

bloodline is captured Clarence Day after the blackwash while attempt to leave King ’s Landing , and under agony that eventually kill him , reveals his connective to Mysaria and the Blacks . Cheese is never found , but in a fit of furiousness Aegon has every ratcatcher employed by the Red Keep fulfill and replaced with cats . Aegon also want to directly round Dragonstone in revenge for his son ’s death , but on the advice of Criston Cole , back down . Cole edict Kingsguard Arryk Cargyll ( one half of the twins play by Luke and Elliott Tittensor on House of the Dragon ) to penetrate Dragonstone disguised as his brother Erryk , presumably in an attempt to kill Daemon , Rhaenyra , or one of their children . Arryk is or else face by Erryk , blowing his covering , and the two duel to the dying .

Poor Maelor does n’t last much longer after the assassination of his brother , either . Just a year later he is killed after take flight King ’s landing place after Rhaenyra , Daemon , and the Velayron fleet besiege the uppercase , demonstrate Rhaenyra as Queen of the Seven Kingdoms .

What Does Blood and Cheese Mean for House of the Dragon Season 2?

If Victor Franz Hess ’ tease places the death of Prince Jaehaerys in the season closing curtain of House of the Dragon ’s soph showing , it ’s for the most part go to mean more thing for the eventual third time of year of the show than anything else . We know that , although HBO has not reincarnate the series beyond season two so far , House of the Dragon has had afour - season planin the works since before it debuted , so placing Rhaenyra ’s eventual salary increase to power during time of year three and dedicate a terminal season to her downfall ( is it really a spoiler to say that this show is not going to cease well for any of the character we be intimate at this item ? ) makes sensory faculty . It just means we ’re become to have to wait a longsighted clock time for one of the most disgraceful moments in the story — especially considering we ’re already await until next twelvemonth for season two in the first place .

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