Iconic Game of Thrones locations we want to see in House of the Dragon

The Gods Eye and the Isle of Faces

The Gods Eye is the largest lake in the Seven Kingdoms, located just south of the castle of Harrenhal. It’s the place of quite possibly the most epic fight of the Dance, when King Viserys’ brother Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) fights against his nephew Prince Aemond Targaryen. Daemon is fighting for his wife Rhaenyra and Aemond for King Aegon II, and the both of them are on dragonback: Daemon on Caraxes the Blood Wyrm and Aemond on Vhagar, the last of the dragons that conquered Westeros decades before.

The battle is spectacular and could be a high point of the series. At one point, Daemon leaps from his dragon to Aemond’s and shoved his Valyrian steel blade through his nephew’s good eye. Dragons and riders all crash into the lake, and (seemingly) none survive.

In the middle of the Gods Eye is the Isle of Faces, an island covered in weirwood trees, most every one carved with a face by the Children of the Forest in ancient days. A sacred place, the island was said to have been visited by Ser Addam Velaryon, a legitimized bastard who rose to knighthood during the Dance. After Rhaenyra put out a call to find more potential dragon riders to fight for the blacks, he was able to bond with a dragon called Seasmoke and became its rider.

Although accused of treachery after a couple of other “dragon seeds” betrayed Rhaenyra, Ser Addam proved himself in the Second Battle of Tumbleton, which was fought in the Reach. Singers said that Addam flew from King’s Landing to the Isle of Faces. Taking counsel from the Green Men, ancient protectors of the weirwood trees, he put together an army of four thousand loyal men to fight Rhaenyra’s war.

The Gods Eye and the Isle of Faces are both iconic areas in Westeros. Let’s hope House of the Dragon does them justice.