Daeron Targaryen is a serious character in George R. R. Martin’s Hearth & Blood e book, on which the Max TV sequence Home of the Dragon is predicated. However because the present’s starting, his absence has puzzled viewers, main them to consider the character had merely been lower from the present. We might lastly have a solution as to why he isn’t within the present.
Associated: Spoilers forward for extra variations between the books and Home of the Dragon.
When you’re unfamiliar with the supply materials, Daeron Targaryen, aka Daeron the Daring, is the fourth and youngest son of King Viserys I (Paddy Considine) and Woman Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke). He performed a big position within the Targaryen civil conflict often known as the Dance of the Dragons, combating for his half-brother Aegon II Targaryen. Daeron was a dragon rider, driving the dragon Tessarion, often known as the Blue Queen.
Daeron didn’t get a point out within the present’s first season—even in the course of the scenes together with his siblings. However, in season 2, his title will get dropped throughout a tense dialog between Alicent and her scheming father Otto Hightower as they plan their subsequent transfer.
“The Hightowers nonetheless have power and you’ve got a son there who will take extra kindly to instruction. Daeron might but assist us in weeks to return,” Otto says. With season 2 effectively and actually underway, we lastly have a solution as to the place Daeron has been.
Daeron Targaryen isn’t in Home of the Dragon just because he hasn’t been solid but—with the present’s renewal for a 3rd season, that’s seemingly after we’ll get our first have a look at him.
“Daeron has not been solid but. I’ve mentioned he’s a personality within the present, however at this level within the story, he’s in Oldtown the place he was warded off as a younger youngster. So we don’t have a point-of-view character in that world but and there’s no dramatic motive to go there. This occurred on a regular basis in medieval instances, significantly within the excessive the Aristocracy,” showrunner Ryan Condal defined to Selection in late June 2024.
“You’d take your youngest youngsters and ward them off to different locations, so that they develop up away from courtroom and study issues and have their very own place and station on this planet. We all know he’s not but a dragon rider, however he’s had a dragon born to him. So he’ll come to the narrative and have a job to play, simply as he does within the e book — we’re simply not there but within the storytelling.”
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Taking to his weblog, the e book sequence creator Martin himself defined why Daeron was absent from the hit MAX present and all of it boiled right down to the time parameters of tv.
“Do I want we’d had extra time to discover the connection between Rhaenyra and Ser Harwin, the wedding of Daemon and Laena and their time in Pentos, the delivery of varied and varied youngsters (and YES, Alicent gave Viserys 4 youngsters, three sons and a daughter, their youngest son Daeron is down in Oldtown, we simply didn’t have the time to work him on this season), and all the things else we needed to skip? Positive. However there are solely so many minutes in an episode (extra on HBO than on the community exhibits I as soon as wrote for), and solely so many episodes in a season,” he wrote.
Home of the Dragon is on the market to stream on MAX, with new episodes dropping every Sunday evening.
