Westeros is a self-perpetuating system of brutality and immorality that warps even everyone and everything in it.

House of the Dragonwades even deeper into this moral quagmire thanGame of Thronesdid.

But just when one feels themselves starting to like him there is some reminder of that horrific initial sin.

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Rhaenyras claim is built only on her being the kings Targaryen daughter and a dragon rider.

Alicents is just that she is the kings wife and the mother of his children.

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Milly Alcock and Matt Smith in House of the Dragon

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Emily Carey as young Alicent and Milly Alcock as young Rhaenyra in The House of the Dragon

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