‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2 Episode 3 Director Confirms Dragon Easter Egg

‘House of the Dragon’ continues to move forward with its second season. One of the great things about watching a prequel is finding some of the easter eggs related to an original series or movie, and in this case, Episode 3, The Burning Mill, contained some almost literal easter eggs.

Warning, spoilers for The Burning Mill, Episode 3 of ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2 below.

During the episode, we see Rhaenyra send her stepdaughter Rhaena to the Vale to Lady Jeyne Arryn and later to the Narrow Sea to Pentos to care for her youngest children. Along with her children and the dragons Tyraxes and Stormcloud, Rhaena carries a very important cargo: four dragon eggs. Three of the eggs -one golden, one green, and one reddish- look very familiar.

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This is where ‘Game of Thrones’ fans had one of the most important doubts: Are these eggs the ones that Daenerys Targaryen would later receive as one of her wedding gifts? Apparently, there is an answer.

Thanks to the media outlet Mashable, Geeta Vasant Patel, the director of this episode, confirmed what many thought when they saw those dragon eggs. “Those are Daenerys’ eggs,” Patel confirmed. “All of us who work on this show are big ‘Game of Thrones’ fans, so it was very exciting to shoot that scene.” Knowing the fate of 3 of these 4 eggs, we know they will be safe for the next 200 years.

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Does this change the canon of the books?

As with other moments in the show, there is a new divergence between the show and the books on which it is based. Of course, it’s not as big a change as the books simply mention that the three eggs Daenerys receives arrived in Essos long before we see them in the show, during the reign of Jaehaerys I, by a noblewoman named Elissa Farman. However, having them as an important element, and as Rhaenyra mentions, these eggs are part of the “hope for the future” of her dynasty, no matter what happens in this war.