Who Might Die in ‘Home of the Dragon’ Finale? What ‘Hearth and Blood’ Tells Us

Home of the Dragon Season 1 is sort of at its finish, and the finale is prone to deliver bloodshed upon the Targaryen family.

The present is predicated on George R. R. Martin’s Hearth and Blood, and the guide teases a number of potentialities for what is ready to happen within the present’s final episode, together with which characters may probably die.

Who Might Die in ‘Home of the Dragon’ Finale? What ‘Hearth and Blood’ Tells Us

The present has up to now largely adopted the story factors in Hearth and Blood, but it surely has additionally added issues and made tweaks to Martin’s plot, corresponding to Laenor Velaryon (John Macmillan) faking his personal demise, relatively than being killed as he’s within the guide.

The penultimate episode ended with Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) placing her eldest son Aegon on the Iron Throne upon her husband Viserys II’s demise, usurping her husband’s chosen inheritor, and daughter from his first marriage, Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy).

Martin’s guide reveals that the following a part of the story sees Rhaenyra to arrange for a counterattack by forming her personal council and getting as many supporters as she will, with husband Daemon (Matt Smith) and their respective youngsters gearing up for battle.

Per Hearth and Blood, the early phases of the battle between the Greens (Alicent’s supporters) and the Blacks (Rhaenyra’s supporters) sees a number of deaths happen, together with Rhaenyra’s second-born son Lucerys.

Within the guide, Lucerys Velaryon (Elliot Grihault) goes up towards Aemond Targaryen (Ewan Mitchell) at Storm’s Finish, and the pair combat one another on dragonback with Lucerys and his dragon Arrax finally dropping their lives.

It’s with this demise that the Dance of the Dragons begins in earnest, with each side out for blood and eliminating any earlier notions of diplomacy.

Lucerys’ youthful brother Joffrey is alleged to have sworn an oath of vengeance towards Aemond for the killing, whereas Daemon proclaimed that they might have revenge by taking “a son for a son.”

This, the guide reveals, results in the demise of Queen Helaena and Aegon II’s eldest son, Jaehaerys.

Jaehaerys is slain after Helaena is pressured to decide on between her sons or danger all of her youngsters being murdered, although she initially selected her youngest son Maelor to be killed as a result of she felt he’d be too younger to appreciate what was occurring.

Whereas Home of the Dragon might not essentially observe this trajectory, the teaser trailer for the finale means that the combat between Lucerys and Aemond will occur as each are seen taking on arms.

Home of the Dragon Season 1 concludes on Sunday, October 23, at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.