The opening credits for the first season ofHouse of the Dragontook viewers by surprise two years ago.
So it perhaps is less unexpected to find season 2 has opted for an entirely different opening credits sequence.
This time were examining the tapestries.
Aye,tapestries, and there is something immediately clever and foreboding about this approach.
They tell a story we are currently watching unfold… and it seems to be weaving together a tragedy.
We also see what feels like a Targaryen bending the knee.
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Daenys the Dreamer?
The Doom
Speaking of the Doom, here it is represented in all its cataclysmic horror.
While the event is obviously modeled after the eruption of Mt.
Martins greatest empire to fall.
This tapestry seems to recreate his famed sail from Dragonstone to the site that would become Kings Landing.
Its the beginning of the conquest for Aegon and his two sisterly brides Visenya and Rhaenys.
His steward, someone named Harlan Tyrell, was made the new Lord of Highgarden.
Hence in the background is definitely the burning ruins of Harrenhal.
As a story that was told often inGame of Thrones, Harrenhal was briefly the biggest castle in Westeros.
Its great hall had 35 hearths alone.
The Stark Who Knelt
Old King Torrhen Stark loved his people and his family.
He could not bear to feed them to the same dragonfire that consumed Harrenhal and Merns field.
The North mockingly remembered him forever after as the King Who Knelt.
A City Rises
It is not entirely true that Kings Landing was created out of nothing.
Bu atop those humble foundations, Aegon built a great city and a greater seat of power.
Whatever the case, Maegor ruled as a cruel despot through violence, murder, and even rape.
He then was discovered dead by one of his many brides, skewered on the Iron Throne.
Or maybe his unhappy wives got a Westerosi divorce.
Jaehaerys outlived all his sons but had so many grandchildren that a crisis became inevitable.
Instead the council votes for the scholarly and feckless Viserys, played by Paddy Considine.
Its the pretender and the rightful heir, but who is who?
It is to be war, then.
