Thus, with his blessing and input, showrunners Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik can provide more definitive answers to the questions raised throughout Fire & Blood, so the series can be considered canon. However, HotD has the participation of a most reliable narrator: George RR Martin himself, who has been heavily involved in the series. Adding to the book’s subjectivity is the fact that Gyladyan inserts his own hot takes about the Targaryens: Any time a lord dies, the Archmaester lays out a list of suspects, but no definitive culprit. In a decidedly meta turn, Fire & Blood is “written” by Archmaester Gyladyan, who quotes primary sources, many of whom have their own agenda and serve to be unreliable narrators in their own right. House of the Dragon draws from Martin’s 2018 novel, Fire & Blood, which serves as a pseudo-textbook of Targaryen family history. This will lead to Robert’s Rebellion, in which Jamie Lannister kills Aerys II, ending the reign of the Targaryens, and Daenerys and her brother Viserys are smuggled away to be kept safe, but powerless.) He eventually becomes paranoid and erratic, executing Ned Stark’s father and brother. (The Targaryens continue on long enough for King Aerys II, aka “The Mad King,” to rule-but we know how that ends. These bloody battles will drive dragons to near-extinction, as we learned in GoT-as well as greatly weaken the family itself: When the battles finally end, the Targaryens’ influence and power will be badly diminished. The self-annihilating conflict will be known as the “Dance of the Dragons” for the massive beasts that the family’s armies ride to attack each other. The series centers on the civil war that erupts as members of the Targaryen family jockey to inherit the throne from the aging King Viserys (Dany’s seventh-great grandfather). HotD, set 172 years before GoT, is the story of those ancestors. House of the Dragon In Game of Thrones, Daenerys was driven to reclaim the supremacy over Westeros that was once wielded by her Targaryen ancestors-aka the House of the Dragon. But considering how many series take a few episodes-even a whole season-to find their rhythms, we’re also taking the long view, factoring in potential for growth based on categories like casts, source material, and stories. Yes, we have seen six episodes of HotD and two of RoP, so we do have some concrete qualitative evidence to go by. With both high-profile, mystical shows unfolding at the same time, we wanted to compare the two in a tale of the tape of sorts to see which has the most potential. Both shows arrive with tremendous expectations, charting similar-yet decidedly different-territory. We’re about to witness a clash of the titans, as fantasy obsessives now have two franchise prequels to juggle: House of the Dragon, the Game of Thrones prequel that is now two episodes in on HBO Max, and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which debuts today on Amazon Prime.
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