
Who? (I feel bad for this joke after season 6, but I’m going to leave it) So here’s 52 major characters ranked instead.Ī total jackass, Viserys had maybe the best death in the whole series: having molten gold dumped on his head. But even with quarantine still in full swing - or at least my quarantine is, since I’m lucky enough to have a job that doesn’t require me to leave my apartment - I don’t have time for all that. If I had an unlimited amount of time, I’d rank every single person who ever had a speaking part over the course of the show’s eight seasons. In one shot we get a glimpse of his wife Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Best) and son Laenor Velaryon (Theo Nate), who gets married to Rhaenyra.“Game of Thrones” has a lot of characters. We also see Steve Toussaint as Corlys Velaryon, the leader of a powerful house of the time. Of course, Targaryens aren’t the only characters in this story. He’s Daemon’s older brother and Rhaenyra’s father. We also see Paddy Considine as King Viserys I Targaryen sitting on the Iron Throne. The trailer gives us glimpses of Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) and young Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly Alcock), uncle and niece (and later husband and wife, because that’s how this twisted family does). There’s Rhaenys Targaryen, who the smallfolk called the Queen Who Never Was, and so on. There’s the unpredictable Daemon Targaryen, who fights his nephew Aemond Targaryen on dragonback in one of the war’s most exciting chapters. There’s Rhaenyra Targaryen and Aegon II Targaryen, half-siblings who fight for the Iron Throne.

We’re about to be introduced to a whole new crop of characters, many of them Targaryens. HBO will be exploring that history in House of the Dragon, a new prequel show all about a brutal Targaryen civil war that tore the realm apart over 100 years before the events of the story we know. Martin dreamed up for his A Song of Ice and Fireseries go back in time and you can plenty of a similarities (and differences) between Daenerys and some of her many forebears, who ruled Westeros for a long time before she and her brother Viserys were exiled across the Narrow Sea. Her story is plenty fascinating on its own, but it’s backed up by centuries of fake history George R.R. Take the journey of Daenerys Targaryen, who went from waifish chess piece to would-be conqueror of the Seven Kingdoms. One of the best things about Game of Throneswas that there was always a ton going on under the surface.
