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# House of the Dragon S3E5 Breakdown: Every Detail You Missed!

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## Summary

This video provides a detailed breakdown of House of the Dragon Season 3, Episode 5, analyzing key scenes, character arcs, and hidden details. The host explores the updated opening credits, the Riverlands campaign, the political intrigue in King's Landing, and the supernatural elements at Harrenhal, while also offering theories based on the source material 'Fire and Blood'.

### Key Points

- **Opening Credits Update** [00:02] — The tapestry animation now includes Jefferson Hall's name, hinting at Tailwind Lannister's survival. Damon's position replaces Allison and Helena, who are shown sneaking away. Two mystery figures appear, possibly foreshadowing future events.
- **Riverlands Strategy** [01:35] — Lord Oscar Tully and Rodrik Dustin plan to cross a dismantled bridge by securing a barge from Stony Sept. Lord Peter Piper is sent to retrieve it but is killed by Criston Cole, who uses the plan to get ahead.
- **Harrenhal and Alice Rivers** [03:04] — Aemon is haunted by dreams and visited by Alice Rivers, who speaks of the castle's history and its weirwood trees. She suggests the castle is alive and hungry, and she comforts Aemon, calling him 'mother'.
- **Moon Tea and Pregnancy** [06:06] — Orwyle brings moon tea to Helena, but she refuses it. Allison pressures her, fearing a male child would rival Rhaenyra's heirs. The tea is later consumed by Allison herself, who claims it's for her own use.
- **Small Council Dynamics** [10:43] — Rhaenyra's council includes new members like Lady Sabitha Frey and Torren Manderly. Tensions arise over priorities: Rhaenyra focuses on Vhagar, Damon on Goldcloak security, and Mysaria on smallfolk welfare.
- **Gwayne and Criston's March** [14:08] — Gwayne tells Criston about his childhood game of running the Hightower with Ormund. They discuss honor and service, while Criston's nihilism grows. The Greens use crows' feet to disable enemy horses.
- **Ormund's Spy Network** [17:28] — A pigeon message reveals Ormund's operative in King's Landing is killing Goldcloaks. Ormund orders John Braxton to secure battlements and mentions Bitterbridge, hinting at future events.
- **Cyvasse Game** [19:12] — Daeron plays cyvasse with Ormund, demonstrating Targaryen ambition by checkmating him. Ormund clears the board in frustration, but later praises Daeron's victory, calling him a 'Hightower'.
- **Helena's Puzzle** [22:09] — Helena discusses nightshade and caterpillars with Jaehaera, implying a puzzle about life and prophecy. Allison plans to escape through a secret passage, but Helena notes it was sealed after Blood and Cheese.
- **Aegon and Larys** [25:27] — Larys gives Aegon tough love, calling him a terrible king and man. Aegon kills Jonos Bracken, and Tailwind Lannister is revealed to be alive, potentially aiding the Greens.
- **Damon's Speech** [29:39] — Damon rallies Goldcloaks with a vision of expanding the Seven Kingdoms to nine or twelve, promising spoils. He inspires them to follow him, but later finds them murdered in a gruesome display.
- **Criston's Prayer** [31:22] — Criston invokes the Stranger as he leads his men to ruin, reflecting his death wish. The episode ends with Allison and Helena trapped in a sealed passage, and Damon discovering the murdered Goldcloaks.

### Conclusion

The episode sets up major conflicts: the Battle of Tumbleton, the Butcher's Ball, and the eventual showdown over the God's Eye Lake. Character arcs deepen, with Damon's misplaced focus and Allison's escape attempt leading to dire consequences.

## Transcript

that I don't want an invite to. Barf. I'm Eric Boss of the New Rockstars channel and this is a breakdown of House of the Dragon season 3 episode 5. Let's scene analysis and explanation of everything that's going on, details that
potential spoilers for future plot events from the book Fire and Blood. I'm dungeon at the end of this video. One of the best ways you can support what we're doing here at New Rockstars is to grab one of these House Crest designs
available exclusively at our merch store, nerdrite.shop. If you have any take a selfie of yourself wearing it, post it, tag us, and we'll shout you out Rass. All right, the opening tapestry animation has been updated. For one,
you'll see Jefferson Hall's name back among the opening credits. And since one was already beheaded, it's an early clue that somehow Tailwind Lannister survived. And then back to the shot of Rainer triumphant. We're back to seeing
Damon, but in the spot that previously contained Allison and Helena. Now it's character that just went pew. Instead, we see Allison and Helena sneaking off somewhere else as they try to escape the Red Keep at the end of this episode.
Then these two mystery figures, a bearded man and a dark-haired white-roed figure, each under a blanket or at a table that now tears apart. I was Orund? I actually think it's going to be something that we see next episode
weird and random that did not apply to anything that happened in last episode this episode. I think these opening tapestry animations might be like a week up for something we'll see next week. We begin this episode in the Riverlands as
the host of Lord Oscar Tully and Winter Wolf Rodrik Dustin Rody the Ruin make camp before a bridge that has been dismantled preventing their crossing on tells Lord Piper to take riders up to the Stony Sept and secure the barge
that's there. This guy is Lord Peter Piper of House Piper of the Riverlands that has always sworn feely to Raineira. The Stony Sept would be west of where Blackwater Rush, which this river must be connected to. So, I'm guessing the
plan is to float that barge down this river and then use that barge to cross it. Now, Rodri here is sharpening his headsman's axe, itching to use it again after he beheaded Jason Lancer. And he says he's sick of Christian Cole slowing
wolves to hunt him down while Lord Oscar suggests to just play at Kristen's game. After all, Oscar is really on his home Riverland turf, and he knows these the Greens do. But before Lord Peter Piper can get that barge, he pays the
Piper as Kristen knifs him. Kristen and Wayne's small band of Greens have they indicate that they were eavesdropping on that stony Sept plan, and they plan to get even further ahead of Oscar on that. Kristen, and their men
now wear a kind of facial camouflage that at first seemed like it was three wondering if it could be kind of a middle finger to Reineer in the form of sigil. A sigil that everyone here in the Riverlands would recognize and get the
it looks like there's just four lines. So, I guess it's just kind of a a lame camouflage. Meanwhile, Rain soaks the ruined castle of Harrenhal as this goat walks about. This black goat is of course always a form that Alice Rivers
takes. Three assassins seeking Rineer's bounty on Aean derive dripping wet from appears from around a corner and looks very much unwet. untouched by the rain. Alice says there's no aim one eye here, but there is a blind in both eyes,
also. >> And then there are the ghosts. >> Yeah, literally one of the five towers of Harrenhal is called the tower of ghosts. She schools these boys on not knowing the history of Harrenhal and its
as she calls him. This is really the first time we've heard her the Black of suggesting Alice is speaking for the 40-year long construction. Thousands of captives did die in the quaries, chained
to their sledges, and weirwood trees that had stood 3,000 years were cut down to form the rafters and beams and the bed that the guests of this place sleep weirwood trees are what Alice and her green man buddy are most upset about, as
that would be a huge insult to the old gods that seem to give them their power. Alice anthropomorphizes the castle, saying, "She breathes, swallows the greedy and the heedless, and she's always hungry." And then she tosses one
of these blooded stones she's talking about over her shoulder and bats. I'm swarmed out of the tower when Vagar first flew over the castle in season 3, episode 2. We hear screams and laughter in Aean's nightmare.
laughing as he dragged him down into the dark. And yeah, we did actually hear Tom Glenn Card's voice in the audio there, doing something Aegon hasn't really been The screaming was the sound that he made over the battle of Rook's Rest in season
2 when his face was melted. But Alice says it was just the dream again, recurring dream, potentially a dream that she wants Aean to have, like the spooky dream she seemed to haunt Damon with in this same castle in this same
bed in season 2. But for now, Aean says >> she saw it. everything. >> He's referring to his conversation with episode 8. >> Ewin won't be king again. And you you'll
be dead. You were swallowed up in the god's eye and you are never seen again. >> In a way, this is already coming true. Amen is certainly being metaphorically swallowed up in this thirsty castle beside the God's Eye Lake, unfindable by
anyone seeking him. While his brother Aegon, who actually never stopped being more things to say here that I'll get into in the spoiler dungeon. Alice hums a lullaby to calm Aemon and he says, "Mother." Yes, as I suspected, Aean
kissing his mother, Allison, was all to set up Alice seducing him with his mommy issues. I mean, their names, Alice, Allison, are even similar. And Aegon second son, Aemon, was always the one doted upon by Allison over his facial
scarring. Dotating that Aegon, whose face was scarred at an older age, likely feels that he never received equally. Alice's humming continues to echo over the red keep as Orw hurries down the steps with another brew of moon tea.
Alinda notices as she turns past him while she was delivering her own tea since Elinda is Misaria's spy and since she's seen the moon tea before when it was brought to Ra. This is how Mizaria figures all of this out later. And it
to wonder if Alice's lullabi humming brought over is meant to be seen as some kind of connection to this herbal remedy coming from the same kind of woods witch magic that she operates in. Or since
it's being brought for Helena, the dragon dreamer prophet who Aean was just talking about with Alice, Alice might just have some divine insight into going to say that this lullabi kind of sounds like Jenny of Oldstones, but no,
yet because it's about events that haven't happened yet in history, but Alice Rivers might have been connected to. Like, it's possible that she just were not put to that melody until sometime later. And yes, you'll notice
Orw cats. The Red Keep Jellical Ball has begun after Allan suggested it to detail of Auto High Tower ordering 100 hung rat catchers is now finally happening. These are the cats that will
overtake King's Landing in the Game of Thrones era, including Tommen's cat of guard that the potion is for menstrual cramping, something that both of these guards are now probably feeling anxiety over knowing nothing about since they
king. Or Wildhile sets aside the smaller container. And then hidden in his robes underneath the maester chains, the larger pot of plan tea. Reminder that Allison used this moon tea in season 2, episode 4 after getting pregnant from
that Darren might have been Kristen's son in the show's continuity, though Tisarion less likely according to the show's logic. Either way, it gives influence in the HBO series to be the maester involved in ending these
pregnancies for Rara, Allison, and potentially Helena while prolonging the Helena's on the floor setting out food here. I think she might be laying out the red keep, which certainly pays off later when this cat comes in this room
passageway. But Helena does not want the moon tea. But Allison is right to point out that if the baby is male, it will be Aegon's heir. Aegon, who is still alive, making that potential child a true rival to Rea's heir of Joffrey and ruin the
delicate temporary peace Allison has worked out with Reara. And speaking of her brother, Aean, Helena says, >> "He burns but without fire." I like how her mom Allison just has to react like, "Okay, my bug girl saying some bug girl
[ __ ] again." So, to a dragon dreamer like Helena, to burn without fire must mean to suffer from confusing and terrifying dreams that plague your mind. In the full Targaryen lineage, there are ultimately two negative fiery fates that
they're famous for. To literally burn from dragon fire, from their own dragons or a rival in their family, or from their minds burning as they go insane. insane from absolute power, from paranoia, from dreams that they can't
make sense of. That mental burning seems to have afflicted Aean and Damon and a bit of Raineira and in the future certainly the mad king and his daughter Daenerys. Allison points out that this child, whatever it is, will be used as a
ward hostage to keep Aean from attacking King's Landing. I guess you could read possibility that this child's father is Aean. But I don't know. I think there's season 2 to now. In truth, it's only been just a few months since season 2,
episode 4 when Aegon was injured at Rook's rest. It's totally possible for Helena before that happened for her to just start showing now. And yes, I have very gross to me that we are doing all
siblings. I know it's just a reality of this world, but it's still just crazy to to normalize it and they expect us to normalize it. Allison describes the moon That's some high tower thinking right
headquartered in Oldtown whose starry sept overlooks the citadel full of these Targaryenss, their blessings come from dragons and from dreams. But for the high towers, their blessings come from the seven and from these herbal remedies
them to contain and restrain their vices. Lady Sabatha Frey returns from season 2, episode 5. Remember when Jace visited her at the twins and scored the deal with the Freys to let the Winter Wolves cross in exchange for Harrenhal?
Should Ray retake the throne? Rineer's hasty offer of Harrenhal as a bounty for would upset the phrase. And I'm glad the show didn't just forget about this. Sabbath of Frey is described in Fire and Blood as a quote sharp featured sharp
tonged Heridan of House Vipin who would sooner ride than dance, wore male instead of silk, and was fond of killing men and kissing women. She actually shares a tent with Black Alley in events that the show hasn't gotten to yet. The
different direction with Lady Frey. She's now going to be a member of Lady Frey on the show is another example, like Lady Sher's Footley, of these proud, noble women of the realm, feeling emboldened by Raya's ascent and
positioned to manage the realm on a regional level. Adam and Ba report a vagar sighting on the outskirts of Windishtown. Windishtown is in the continent, actually closer to the area often threatened by the Iron Islands.
Torren Manderly whispers to Lady Frey throughout this meeting to catch her up grade school where last year's new kid is kind of grateful to have another new kid so he doesn't feel like the new kid anymore. Actually, these two seem to be
the nobles who were added to the opening titles tapestry back in episode 4, the identify, which makes it very weird that they were included in the tapestry for episode 4 and not in this episode 5 when this is the episode that pairs the two
Harbor in the north, Torren Manderly would be a geographic neighbor to Lady that they'd couple up like this. But just to round up this weird small Allan of Hall is acting hand to the queen filling in for his father Corus.
Damon is kind of in this nebulous position as a king consort. Misaria is a mistress of whispers. Orwhile is the grand maester. Torren Manderly is the master of coin. Adrienne Redfort is I'm assuming the new lord commander, the
queen's guard, which would make Sabbath of Frey maybe the mistress of laws or mistress of laws because she does kind of seem to be, you know, a rule just sitting in. Remember, Reineer did away with the whole attendance balls, so
having specific titles in her cabinet. Demon notes this gossiping that this describes Naria. >> The white worm, she was called, "But out soon enough." >> The Mhm.
at the city's dragon gate. Damon saying that Mazzaria handing out food isn't Goldcloaks prosecuting the pettiest crimes amounts to overkill. Overall, Rara is singularly focused on Vagar, Damon on Goldcloak security, and Misaria
on small folk welfare and spying. Adam says Baya and Moondancer are tired, so Rea orders Damon and Caraxis to go to the Riverlands instead, but Damon says, instead investigate these Goldcloaks attacks personally rather than leave it
the Goldcolaks are historically Damon's good old boys, the local force that any to maintain power in the city, Damon just feels particularly loyal to them. Elinda reports that Joffrey and Tyrais have returned from the veil. But Reineer
doesn't meet with him. Only later does she make time after he fell asleep what gives? Why doesn't she want to talk to her brown-haired boy? I was wondering if Joffrey reminds Reineer too much of Jace and Luke and she just doesn't want
she just needs to keep her focus on other things right now. Or maybe the rumor is just making her want to have some distance from Joffrey. But I do going to have a consequence in future episodes. Mizaria confronts Allison
claiming it's for Helena's headaches, she just admits to having taken a lover about, she says, and says that the moon tea is for her, and she chugs it down, those awful side effects later when she's putting that damp cloth against
lover was a lord or a commoner, or perhaps both, indicating that she who began as a commoner and then was made lord as Aegon's lord hand. Guianne tells Kristen about the game he and his cousin Orand used to play as kids in
Oldtown to run the high tower. Starting at dawn to try to make it to the top to sunrise. Remember when Sam in Game of Thrones went to Oldtown? We actually got it has this big lighthouse in its harbor. That's what they're talking
about. And Gwane says that he would always let his annoying cousin Orund competitive Orand is when it comes to these leisure games. And as they march, the green soldiers cover the perimeter, but we see a spiderweb as they are
green's poor horses. Gwane offers Sir it's kind of just a job offered to serve House High Tower as a knight, not a lord. This whole honor of serving as a knight versus the honor of ruling as a
lord is just an interesting parallel with the conflict brewing on both sides, don't want to be knights, they want to be lords. Kristen doesn't really get these high towers and these Targaryenss telling him, "Hey, wouldn't it be great
if you like worked for us?" Yeah. And it seems like Oscar Tully's we can play at Greens would just make for the Stony Sept that if they were there burning to what their plans were and they took a shortcut ahead to mark the path with
crow's feet to disable the horses. Allison notices this chambermaid eyeing her and then takes off her necklace, forming her plan to bribe this maid in later. Sir Luther Large tells Damon that most of his men were still swaddled
babies when Damon last captain the gold cloaks. Meaning Sir Luther was probably like a teenager when he served Damon. And as a teenager, he probably did think would punish petty crimes cruy and aggressively. But before Luther and
Damon find two more goldc cloaks having been disembowled with cutthroats, we see this girl spying on them. We'll see this girl running back later to these dudes burning messages from carrier pigeons. And we see all heterocchromia again.
green soldiers on the battlements of the Red Keep with Sir Frederick back in interesting close-up when Sir Frederick ordered to stand down from the scorpions why we got that close-up of this guy
looks like instead this green soldier laid low in flea bottom and is working as an assassin and an operative for Orand High Tower. He's likely the one who painted the queen of bastards graffiti. So much for my orhile Banksy
if he's communicating via messages from pigeons like this. Now, it is yet Game of Thrones characters after Baylor Targaryen in the Night of the Seven that was really an eye contact worn by Birdie Carville to match actor Oscar
naturally has heterocchromia. Either way, it's a choice that these producers down on for whatever reason. I'm guessing the choice with Richard Pepper was to make him visually memorable so that we remembered him from episode 2.
some bloodline connection between this green soldier and Mariah Martell, the mother of Prince Bor, who passed down her Dornish features to him. Or maybe guy memorable to give him a similar arc to the character of Sir Perkin the Flea,
in Flea Bottom, who causes a lot of problems for Reara. But Perkin in the book is kind of a nutcase on his own quest, whereas this guy is clearly fully an agent of the Greens and kind of like an Edge Gene serial killer. He uses
Mazaria are currently monitoring all incoming and outgoing raven traffic in the city. And ravens can fly long distances. You only need a pigeon if King's Landing to Tumbleton. Where do we see this pigeon go to Orund High Tower?
The message reads, "Gold blood spilled. Three marked in the tally. The account lies open." I'm assuming the account refers to an account that Ormond would deposit these Darren coins in. Orund orders John Braxton to secure the
battlements from felling every tree from here to Bitterbridge. Even mentioning events to come. More on that in the spoiler dungeon. But Darren tells Orund on learning the family history on the high tower side. Orund objects to it
being called dry. Even though it is far less interesting than the fire and blood reminds me a lot of the elder of Shelbyville in the Simpsons trying to that the lemon tree was actually haunted and that turnip juice is actually
the shelvilians who want to marry their cousins. It sounds like the only real claims to fame of House High Tower are settling a dispute among the Greyjoys, the Peaks, the Osgres, and Gardeners houses among the Iron Islands in the
Reach. Wow, what a cool career day, Flex Orand. So instead, Orman just kind of claims the tales of another family that his ancestors briefly were aligned with, the Martell's, referencing Maria Martell, the yellow toad of Dorne,
Martell, the yellow toad of Dorne, >> a blind princess, hideous, hairless, >> Yes, Maria Martell of Dorne was the ruler of Dorne, who resisted Aegon's usurper, which is really the origin of the Martell house words of unbowed,
Maria never submitted, but actually poisoned her wells and hid in the arrived and took their halls, they snuck in at night and slaughtered the how he admires that cunning hardship as he plans to do something similar with
They're playing this game of Civas, originating from Balantis. It's played between two players with 10 types of pieces, each with different powers and attributes. The goal being to take your
about their Dornish allies remaining unbroken to this day, counting the new gold coins he minted with Darren's face, Darren moves his dragon figure across the board to put Orund in checkmate. This full scene he was telling this boy
Targaryenss are only strong, not smart, only to see Darren's Targaryen side ambition to go for the kill in this match. With one move, he proves his
undercuts Orman's whole point about intellectual superiority. And Darren can once again concede when Orman is about to crash out over not getting his way. yes, Orman clears the board kind of like I do when I lose it. Settlers to Katon.
he pivots. >> Never apologize for victory. >> Or recognizes that only Targaryenss are ones who lose their temper like that. So more civilized. The coins Ormond minted of Darren are getting way ahead of the
be coins of Azeris probably still in circulation. And many on the Greens alive. And technically, Aund would be the next in line, but Orind calls Darren high tower. >> Ah, this line gives us context to
letting Orund win in those run the tower games. For Orund growing up, I guess that gave him a false sense of confidence and unearned superiority when win. Orman says, "Darren is that shining beacon from the lowliest of the faithful
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It's a puzzle. >> Huh. So, Nightshade is a poisonous plant Grandmaster Pycel accuses Tyrion of stealing nightshade in order to frame Tyrion for Joffrey's poisoning in a storm of swords. essence of nightshade
this shows how Helena is not only a bug girl, she's also a horiculturist. And of that outofseason caterpillar and the butterfly of Nth. I assume this is the mean by it's a puzzle? Well, it seems
learn her interests, making me think that Jiara might be a dreamer as well. Is she telling her daughter that all of life, all of the future, all of their have to assemble the pieces of from signs importance around them in order to
make sense of the future? More on this in the spoiler dungeon. Allison says chamber in her bed chamber, the one that, as Helena points out, blood and that Allison trusts that route and
it or sealed it off, suggests that she truly believes Rara had nothing to do known that that passage existed. Meanwhile, Baya wonders if Vagar and Aean might be hiding in the Westerlands, hiding in the caves near Casterly Rock.
undervalued by the crown and will eventually be married off to some lord debts. I mean, that wouldn't be a bad plan for Reineer. The Greyjoys and Pike flushed with cash considering the Triarchy is in rough shape and is now
fighting amongst themselves. Aund awakens in that same weirwood bed that suffered similar nightmares. And now Aemon is dreaming of Vagar's eye opening. Aemon recalls how Aegon tortured him when they were children,
brother would team up with Jace and Luke and tried to bond this dragonless Aemon with the pink dread. Oink oink. Alice says that mothers sometimes love most the son that grieves them. And she calls herself someone who's been grieved,
positioning herself as this motherly figure to her. But also, Alice Rivers is super old. Has she borne children before? So many questions about Alice her is part of the reason why she seems to be surrounded by this interesting
cloud of mystery. While Aean feels like he was a less loved brother, his brother Aegon feels the same way, lamenting the same thing to Laris. That Aeund was the champion with the sword and attorneys and fluent in Valyrian ribbas
scabby little eye even more than him. But while Alice Rivers doted on Aean, Laris kind of plays the stern father, giving this son figure some tough love. >> We're a terrible king, but worse than that, you are terrible man.
exactly what Aegon needs to hear. Rene praise at the same canal covered altar where she met me Allison in season 2. And another Septa and Septton pass. So discuss the mystery threat that's been murdering the Goldcloaks. A threat that
Rene recognizes is within. These other Septans definitely side eye these Targaryenss for even speaking Valyrian in this Westerosi house of worship. Rea in this Westerosi house of worship. Rea says
that she's starting to feel as ruler feels cold to her. an interesting she's currently being warmed by dozens of candles in front of her. But I think it is the song of ice and fire that she's actually dreading. Larry is
spotted in the Rook's rest camp by this man. This is the same dude who joined touching Sunfire back in episode 4. So now Larry knows that Jonos is going to learn that these two first came up upon the Rook's rest area pretending to be
obsessed with Sunfire. Aegon finally gives up on his quest and he lets Laris familiar voice returns. >> What [ __ ] might that be? Seven hells. >> Thailand Lannister lives somehow. I mean, those rocks of the Dragonstone
Pass and his heavy, heavy armor in season 3, episode 1 made him look like he was done for, especially considering the dragon seeds were patrolling every that this guy somehow survived. But we know some of those triarchy pirates did
Allison and Helena trying to sneak out appeals to the White Worm to play all sides and not just be lap dog to the queen, smartly bringing up that Damon is a pretty bad influence on Reineer and
always win out over Misaria's arguments. Helena interrupts here. >> I need to see the moon. >> Why does Helena need to see the moon? the moon and how the nightshade plant would interact with those phases upon
which this Nth caterpillar could cocoon. The scene does end with Helena looking carry out of there where this caterpillar inches around. I'm telling caterpillar and how it cocoons and how
bringing about some prophecy that only Helena understands. Kristen's host finds Vagar's giant scorched footprint. And then their host gets bogged down in this his knee. Remember Oscar Tully saying that they needed to bury their men in
the mud? Now it has a deeper meaning. He understands the mud of the Riverlands, where the muddiest routes are, and how to force his enemies to get trapped in wouldbe assassins scale the rocky cliff
the God's Eye Lake. At the top of this cliff is where the Weirwood tree in the courtyard is, the exact tree where Damon had his vision at the end of season 2. that scene, we definitely saw a green man walk past that tree. So, did this
antler dude just start hopping down that cliff like a mountain goat? Either way, because now this tree has a clear view across the lake toward the aisle of faces where all the other weirwood trees would be. But these men are probably
assaults Alice Rivers, he says he's going to make her his salt wife. That's a very particular term that refers to a very dark tradition within Ironborn culture, referring to women kidnapped during raids and forced to serve their
households. And it's interesting to note that Heron the Black or Haron the Cruel as Alice called him was actually an Ironborn originally. So maybe these history. Like the phrase, it's just another example of people feeling like
Harrenhal belongs to them. Aean comes in with a sword, which would be Blackfire. Yes, the sword of Aegon the Conqueror. That should be Aegon's sword. And he it's that Valyrian steel that makes all of these hits so loud.
Actually, the final kill is this guy on a sharp root of the weirwood tree itself. Whoa. It's kind of like X24 killing Wolverine reminder that these white wooden trees are powerful in all kinds of ways.
Thailand and Laris debate whether Aegon can survive the Bravosi heat. And not to 2 episode 8 which opened with one of those monkeys in Braavos and one time his sweaty forehead and swatting away the flies. Honestly, I think he is the
that the triarchy >> for you shared everything with them, >> Yes. >> He was about to say share their wives. season 2 told them that she wanted
sex with her wives. >> How many words do you have? >> Now Thailand wants to bring Agon to Lannisport, which Laris accuses to be a ploy by the Lannisters to declare Casterly Rock the new seat of the
it would be smart for Vaggar to hide. And it's where Tailwind did hide a still missing. And now that Titan Lannister is revealed to be alive on the show, the person with all the receipts of where the crown's gold is hidden, is
back in play. And he could be a very important asset to the Greens. Janos bag, like he's snooping for immunity idols, and Aegon pounces on him, that's the scale he plugged off of Sunfire. And Demon, like he promised
Luther large he would earlier. This rogue prince now makes a rousing speech, what they were making and expand Rineer's empire to dawn and make the seven kingdoms the nine kingdoms. This recalls the humorous exchange at the end
seven kingdoms. The seven kingdoms are the north, the riverlands, the veil, the crownlands, and the reach. The other two would be Dorne in the iron islands. The because they kind of just refer to the general areas around King's Landing that
and the Stormlands. You got to think of King's Land in the Crownlands as kind of like the Washington DC. But then Damon says, "Make those nine kingdoms the 12 kingdoms." So I guess the math there would be the three free cities of Mir,
Lee, and Tiro that form the triarchy. Or maybe he's including Yei in that. Either way, he promises for this new empire to become the new Valyria. He's really making the same pitch to these boys that he made to Rene back in episode 3 to
conquer Giti and go to the city of the winged men. Rea shut him down in that conversation, but these guys are all like, "I want me a winged man." He all of these places and to share the spoils with all of them. Renewed in
this man who claims to have worked on behalf of Orbin's operative to kill some one of Darren's coins. I honestly think the plan of the operative was to let down so that the real operatives could go in and kill all of them. After
finding the river bridge cut off from the path to the Stony Sept, Guain Tully's group has failed. Now, since that water would be flowing downstream Blackwater Rush, I don't know why they wouldn't just wait for that barge to
that barge and then kill that small host and then sink that barge. But I get it, leeches. And hey, maybe they think that that barge already floated downstream. But also realizes that Kristen is in a far more nihilistic place than he
has just been waiting to die ever since Allison stopped him from ending things in the Godswood. He's just kind of tired of being used by these high lords and he impress Allison. >> I am the realm's greatest warrior and I
>> As he talks here, he uses the term unbent, which I think could be a reference to his Dornish roots as a son of the steward of the housearion in the impact of the battle of the Gullet on Drift Mark. Actually, the close-up of
the galleys of different families of Drift Mark in Spicetown that were all shattered when Shuraka Lohar ordered part of her fleet to go sack the island. Allison's room earlier when Misaria came in finds another hidden passageway that
orgy paintings. The episode ends with three characters all trying to fight There's Sir Kristen Cole trying to invoke the light of the seven with a watch over them as they ride to ruin. Really trying to lay the opening tracks
him and reach Allison's ears. Then Allison and Helena finding this passageway that's been sealed off with bricks. And that seemingly helpful cat scares Helena into dropping the lantern. And since they sealed the opening behind
darkness with no one to hear or find them. And lastly, Damon, the rogue Goldcloak's headquarters to find Lutherant and all these other boys he inspired arranged in this grizzly last supper with candles left lit like some
kind of psychopathic display. Their intrails on the table for this feast and in blood on the wall written a feast for traitors. Phrasing that parallels the ice and fire series, a beast for crows. And on this, Sir Christristen's prayer
>> the stranger offers us rest. >> The stranger, one of the seven gods that Damon sneered at in the Sept earlier, is the one of the seven who brings death. So old heterocchromia seems to be having a bit too much fun arranging these
things. But yes, Damon's focus on these goldcakes who looked up to him has been kind of a waste of his time. And the city Raineer hopes to keep the peace in has no peacekeepers to patrol it. Now, let's end this in the spoiler dungeon.
events that we know are happening from the book. So, you're free to stop anything about future events. Okay. Hopefully, this battle of Tumbleton is think it's going to be a big one because they are screening the episode a day
think that's going to be a big episode. My theory is that the writers are Tumbleton with the Butcher Ball and they're going to have everything go down the death of Kristen Cole, the death of Orund, Hugh on Vermathor, and Ul on
another battle of the Gullets where there's really no Victor coming away from that battle. Based off of promo shots, it looks like Damon might fly Coraxis there. So, it's going to get even fier messier. It also looks like
into Tumbleton. And based on what Reineer learned about Orand having his that's just going to be poop that they fling at them. Poop. Okay, let's talk about Aean's dreams of his brother Aegon and the vision dream of Vagar's eye
these are setting up the battle over the god's eye lake. And if Tumbleton happens in episode 6, that would leave two more episodes after that in season 3. So, could we see the battle over the God's Eye Lake being teed up in the final shot
I don't think they're going to finish that battle in season 3. They're going something to look forward to for Matt Smith in season 4. I just think that'd be a really cool way to begin season 4. Okay, Helena and Allison, they ain't
don't know why this episode ended with them getting trapped in there like it was a cliffhanger. Olivia Cook is one of the top three faces of the series. But whole thing of Reineer neglecting Joffrey, mommy won't talk to me, will
pity on her. Remember how Helena said that she always liked Ra's three sons? Well, the last living of those sons is Joffrey. So maybe Joffrey will help might do something with Dreamfire there. But speaking of Jiara, Jiara possibly
were those rumors that I talked about in the spoiler dungeon last week that we're point on this. I still don't really know what puzzle Allison was referring to, all week. I'm a little worried about the reference to Nightshade, a poison,
Bitterbridge this episode. Remember Bitterbridge? That's where things go down with Mor in Fire and Blood. I'm wondering if that's where Jiara could more kids die on this show. So, let's hope not. Comment down below with your
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