Rhaenys had no time to celebrate a big date.
House of the Dragon is finally back to its roots with more action and ruthless fights in the second season’s latest episode, but its disheartening ending is still a pretty much undesired turn of events for many fans.
Having already shown that there’s no peaceful way to resolve major issues between the Blacks and the Greens, the series’s episode 4 titled The Red Dragon and the Gold catches both sides in action, with Rhaenys and Aegon fiercely fighting against each other during a dragon battle until Aemond intervenes and eventually brings down both of them.
Rhaenys’ death has always been a pretty much predictable plot twist, yet it still came as an utter shock for those who admired the Queen Who Never Was.
However hard it may be for the show’s fans to cope with all that, the whole tragedy is in fact even bigger than it was thought to be, and George R.R. Martin’s book lovers might know why.
Though House of the Dragon doesn’t always consider Fire & Blood the source that it should strictly follow, there’s still a reason to believe that more general things set by George R.R. Martin in the novel must make sense in the series as well.
In Fire & Blood, the author explains that Westeros’ calendar and timeline is exactly the same as the one we have in the real world, stating that “Twelve moon tuns to a year, as on earth … […] The same is true for the world of Westeros. Seasons do not come into it”.
This may not come as something extraordinary until some more details about Rhaenys are mentioned. In the same novel, Martin says that “Princess Rhaenys was born on the seventh day of the seventh moon of the year, which the septons judged to be highly auspicious”, suggesting that, in simple terms, Rhaenys was born on July 7.
Considering that House of the Dragon’s latest episode aired on July 7, it appears that Rhaenys actually died on her birthday.
The observation makes the character’s death even more tragic, though not many may have considered it to be even worse than what they saw on the screen.
However, Rhaenys’s deliberate choice to sacrifice herself in case it’s needed even on her birthday proves that she was always the one meant to be a wise ruler, and Rhaenyra still has nothing compared to her most supportive ally.
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