While in King's Landing and on Dragonstone, the respective green and black councils are planning their strategies for the great war, Daemon Targaryen continues in his own Overlook Hotel for another week in House of the Dragon.

Continue reading with caution, as there are spoilers up to episode 2x05.

Alicent and Rhaenyra deal with the consequences (and the sexism of their councils). The first as a witness to Aemond's rise knowing he is responsible for the terminal condition of her brother Aegon, and the second with the grieving over the death of Rhaenys (and Meleys), but strengthened by the composure and intelligence of her heir, Prince Jahaerys.

Meanwhile, in Harrenhal, Daemon continues with the castle under construction, turning potential armies against him with his tyranny and experiencing the particular visions that represent his guilt feelings and his most hidden repressed desires.

After beheading young Rhaenyra in episode 2x04, this time he shared with the viewers one of the most disturbing images in all of Westeros history.

Incest among the Targaryens is not a problematic issue in the Seven Kingdoms, as evidenced by the marriage between Rhaenyra and her uncle and between siblings Helaena and Aegon, but nonetheless, the moment when the identity of the beautiful woman Daemon fantasizes about is revealed was still shocking.

"You were always the strong one. The best swordsman. The fearless dragon rider," the mysterious platinum blonde woman tells Daemon. "Your brother had great love in his heart, but lacked your constitution. Viserys was unfit for the crown, but you, Daemon, were meant to bear it.

The king consort proceeds to perform oral sex on the mysterious woman and looks at her intently just before kissing her on the lips. It is then when she says: "If you had been born first, my favorite son".

Whether due to the supposed curse of Harrenhal Castle, because of the powers of Alys Rivers, or a combination of both factors, what is clear is that all the important women in Daemon's life are taking turns in his visions to torment him.

Who was Alyssa Targaryen

Daemon's mother was Alyssa Targaryen, the fifth daughter of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen and his sister-wife, Queen Alysanne Targaryen.

The charismatic tomboy princess is described in Fire and Blood as a girl "lean-faced, with large ears, dirty blonde hair, and mismatched eyes, one violet and the other green. After receiving a blow from a wooden sword on the face at six years old, her nose broke and healed crookedly".

At fifteen, the princess became a dragon rider and took flight on Meleys, a scarlet female never ridden before. Not as large as other Targaryen dragons, Meleys was the fastest of them all, easily outpacing the beasts of Alyssa's siblings.

That same year she married her brother, Prince Baelon Targaryen, and had three children with him. When Viserys was six and Daemon two, after a long and difficult labor, Alyssa gave birth to a third child. However, both she and the baby died a year later from complications related to childbirth.

Although Alyssa Targaryen is not mentioned by name in the episode, she is referred to in two subsequent scenes. First, in the scene where Rhaenyra asks Baela, Daemon's daughter, to help convince her grandfather Corlys Velaryon to be her Hand, and then when Alys Rivers reminds Daemon that he did not know his mother.

*This article has been automatically translated using artificial intelligence