No one expected “House of the Dragon” creator/showrunner Ryan Condal and his writing team to stop the series and announce every time they decided to draw parallels to the original “Game of Thrones” — but, honestly, that’s exactly what they could have done in Episode 3. To help soothe Rhaena’s understandable reluctance to babysit her young relatives on a thankless mission away from the excitement of war, Rhaenyra sends a quartet of dragon eggs as both a show of faith and a matter of pragmatism. It should Black team be forced to abandon their island stronghold or even lose the war Green Teamat least some hope for the future will be preserved by Rhaena through these dragon eggs. While their initial destination is the mountain fortress of the Eyrie, Rhaenyra orders her young kinsman to take her children across the Narrow Sea to the city of Pentos, where Rhaena lived with her parents Daemon (Matt Smith) and Laena (Nanna Blondell). ) in season one.
As it turns out, this lines up perfectly with how Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) first receives her fateful dragon eggs in the first season of “Game of Thrones.” While living as refugees with her feckless brother Viserys (Harry Lloyd), they end up as guests of a wealthy magistrate in Pentos. When they are forced to marry the warrior Khal Drago (Jason Momoa), Dany is presented with three fossilized dragon eggs, all very similar in color to the eggs seen in “House of the Dragon.” These, of course, eventually hatch and provide Dany with the means to conquer Westeros. Those seeds may have only just been planted, centuries ago.
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