In House of the Dragon, It's Bad to Be the King
Rhaenyra also proves to be pragmatic by knowing the king will remarry and produce more heirs, although she believes she’ll remain heir to the throne. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t bother her to watch Viserys take his walk with the upsettingly young Laena.
e certainly wouldn’t have snuck into the Dragonpit and stolen a dragon egg—not just any egg, but the one Rhaenyra has chosen for her short-lived brother Baelon—leaving a note inviting Viserys to come to his wedding in two days’ time, and celebrate the incipient birth of his child. It’s a slap in the face even Viserys can’t ignore, but Otto wisely stops him from going to Dragonstone himself. Instead, Otto goes himself with 20 armed guards and confronts Daemon on the long, skinny stone bridge to the keep.
Honestly, it seems like a dumb plan given how much Daemon hates Otto already, to say nothing of his army or his dragon Caraxes, which perches ominously nearby. Daemon, his bride-to-be, and his guards meet Otto’s group halfway. Daemon carries the egg, which he carelessly tosses from hand to hand in the perfect display of contempt, revealing he didn’t truly steal the egg for his unborn Targaryen child, but to provoke his brother.
Rhaenyra instinctively knows that a better way to prevent war, at least in the world of Westeros, is to show power but not use it instead of doing nothing and looking vulnerable. In that scene, she seems more of a queen than Daenerys did, although I admit my memory is likely curdled by the. Rhaenyra calls Daemon’s bluff and brings him to heel, and it seems like he might even respect her for it, a little—not that it’s going to stop him from his quest to take the Iron Throne for himself.
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