The second season of House of the Dragon is coming. Battle lines are drawn. In King’s Landing, King Aegon II Targaryen sits the Iron Throne, with his army of greens to back him. On Dragonstone, his half-sister Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen plots to take the throne from him, aided by her legions of blacks. Who will win? Who will lose? The war will take shape in House of the Dragon season 2.
Since Rhaenyra has made Dragonstone her home base, naturally we’ll be spending a lot of time there. Game of Thrones fans first visited this volcanic island near King’s Landing in season 2 of the original show, when Stannis Baratheon was living there. Later, in season 7, Daenerys Targaryen took up residence at Dragonstone, and now we’re seeing what Dany’s ancestor Rhaenyra does with it. This place gets a lot of traffic.
We’ve mostly seen the inside of Dragonstone Castle, but speaking to Voice of Oldtown, cast member Max Wrottesley (Ser Lorent Marbrand) made it sound like we haven’t seen anything yet. “This year, I think people are going to be excited to see more of Dragonstone,” he said. “The set is bigger, better. There’s more of it. So people get more of a sense of what life at Dragonstone is like.”
In George R.R. Martin’s book Fire & Blood, this is the point in the story when we start meeting some of the peasants who live on Dragonstone, peasants who go on to be crucial in the war. Perhaps that’s what Wrottesley means when he says we’ll see more of Dragonstone. We’ll find out for sure when new episodes of House of the Dragon season 2 start airing on HBO and Max in the summer of 2024.
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