In the fourth episode of Season 2, which aired on Sunday, the Dance of the Dragons began in earnest. While Rhaenys and her dragon, Meleys, were defending Rook’s Rest from Ser Criston Cole and his army’s advances, King Aegon II intervened with Sunfyre, and Prince Aemond followed with Vhagar soon after. Rhaenys and Meleys helped severely injure the king and his dragon, assisted by Vhagar after Aemond’s indiscriminate dracarys, but Vhagar got the best of Meleys. After a final, solemn look of understanding between them, Rhaenys and her scaly companion fell from the sky to their demise, as both sides of the royal conflict suffered their greatest blows to date.
With the death of Rhaenys, House of the Dragon loses one of its best, and most tragic, characters. Rhaenys, played by Eve Best, leaves behind a legacy of honor and grace, unlike most people in positions of power in Westeros’s never-ending game of thrones.
The Queen Who Never Was should have been named the heir to the Iron Throne after her father, Aemon, died, and then again when her uncle Baelon died. Yet despite being repeatedly passed over, she continued to perform her duties and remain a faithful servant to the throne, even though others should have been serving her. Although her husband, Corlys Velaryon, never let those slights go, the Lady of Driftmark accepted the injustices against her and moved on. In the seventh episode of Season 1, she told Corlys, “I gave up the idea of wearing a crown a generation ago,” even as he kept grasping for the power that was stolen from them.
After losing both of her children—including Laenor, who’s probably just hanging out on a beach in Essos right now—Rhaenys held herself and her family together, never letting her grief cloud her judgment. (Though her judgment in her final battle arguably could’ve been better; more on that to come.)
In one of her saddest and most defining scenes, Rhaenys watched yet another deceased family member be prepared for their funeral after her brother-in-law Vaemond’s ambition cost him his life in Season 1, Episode 8—all while Corlys was off at sea again. The Grand Maester warned her it might be bad luck to look upon the face of death, and she replied: “The Stranger has visited me more times than I can count, Grand Maester. I assure you, he cares little whether my eyes are open or closed.”
Although she resigned herself to not ruling, Rhaenys was no pushover. Perhaps her greatest strength was to see people—and their insatiable desire for power—for what they really were, and call them out with no hesitation. Whether it was Alicent high-key committing treason to put her son on the Iron Throne, Daemon forgetting his place, Rhaenyra desperately offering an arrangement that would serve her political agenda, or her husband’s blinding ambitions, Rhaenys always told it like it was—sometimes with extreme, entertaining bluntness.
Rhaenys was rarely wrong, to the point that she almost seemed to possess the clairvoyance of a greenseer. She foresaw the danger that Corlys was putting their children in by marrying them to the likes of Rhaenyra and Daemon. When Vaemond told her that he would attempt to challenge Lucerys’s claim to Driftmark, Rhaenys told him, “my cousin, the king will have your tongue for this.” King Viserys later used those exact words to Vaemond just before Daemon lopped off the Velaryon’s head.
Despite believing that Rhaenyra was complicit in the murder of her son, Rhaenys set her differences with the queen aside and eventually became Rhaenyra’s most trusted and valuable adviser. Even when Rhaenyra was little more than a child, recently named as the heir to the throne that should have belonged to Rhaenys, the Lady of Driftmark dropped knowledge on the would-be ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. In the second episode of the series, she reminded Rhaenyra that, her father’s intentions notwithstanding, the road to the crown would not be easy: “Men would sooner put the realm to the torch than see a woman ascend the Iron Throne.”
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