Is Rhaenys dead in House of the Dragon? How she dies in the book

THERE IS NO DOUBT—“A Dance of Dragons,” the fourth episode of House of the DragonThe second season was the show’s most epic yet. The first half of the episode, full of strategy, intimate conversations (quite a mother-son conversation between Alicent and Aegon!) and political intrigue, gave way to a second half full of nail-biting suspense and visual spectacles. Among those spectacles? The true beginning of the war between the Greens and the Blacks, a battle between fire-breathing dragons and (possible) character deaths that will have significant consequences.

The most heartbreaking of these deaths occurred at the Battle of Rook’s Rest, where Princess Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Best) and her dragon Meleys were meant to be a sort of trump card against the invading Green Army led by Ser Criston Cole, but things didn’t go to plan. Rhaenys and Meleys did some damage, but by the time Aemond (Ewen Mitchell) arrived aboard Vhagar and Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) aboard Sunfyre, the outcome of events was essentially sealed.

Instead of running from fate, Rhaenys decided to look straight into the eye – and became the second victim of Aemond and Vhagar (after taking out Aegon and Sunfyre in a moment of tactful friendly fire). Just like her grandson Lucerys Velaryon, Rhaenys falls to an airstrike from Vhagar. The big difference this time is that Aemond did not lose control; his actions were very deliberate.

Is Princess Rhaenys Targaryen really dead in House of the Dragon?

Let’s not make any mistakes and let’s not beat around the bush: House of the Dragon, According to the HBO television series, Rhaenys Targaryen is dead at the end of “A Dance of Dragons.”

She has a very dramatic death scene, including a heartbreaking moment – ​​which Eve Best absolutely crushes – where we see a resigned acceptance on her face after she realises she was about to die and couldn’t do anything. Then we see a huge crash and a fiery explosion. Outside of something very funky, she’s dead.

The show gives us a much more certain answer to Rhaenys’ death than George RR Martin’s book Fire and blood, which results in strong an implication as possible without saying it literally. But still…

How does Rhaenys die in George RR Martins Fire & Blood Book?

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Things are a little different in Fire and blood, George RR Martin’s textbook-like source material for House of the Dragon. This book only confirms that Meleys died. However, another body was found next to Meleys’s, badly burned and blackened – and many believed it to be Rhaenys’s.

Not quite the same ending as in the series (and the series has had this kind of Fire & Blood uncertainty beforehand), but it is as much evidence as possible just before one has complete certainty.

We will see how House of the Dragon takes place from here. But in Fire & BloodRhaenys’ death in Rook’s Rest causes a rift between Rhaenyra and Lord Corlys, who is angry and heartbroken over his wife’s death and believes that Rhaenyra should have either gone herself or sent one of her sons.