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Targaryen Family Tree: Who are Rhaenyra and Alicent Hightower?

The Family Tree of House Targaryen can be quite complex, but here it is simplified in an image that includes all of the children of Rhaenyra and Alicent, as well as relatives and relationships.

With so many time jumps and so many children running around here and there, the last episodes of ‘House of the Dragon’ have become more complicated to follow than a class about geopolitical history. It’s like at weddings, it makes you want to approach those present to ask them if they are coming for the groom or the bride. Furthermore, since everyone seems to grow and age according to the demands of the script and not of life, the chaos is increasing. But don’t worry, we bring a solution.

Here we have a family tree of House Targaryen, courtesy of Culture Crave. An image that encompasses the mix with the Velaryons, the ancestors of Viserys himself, and the palpable differences between the heirs of Alicent and the bastards of Rhaenyra. To take out at every future Thanksgiving dinner where we don’t know who is who, like the one in episode 8 of the first season, where a gesture of peace actually starts a war.

George RR Martin confirms 4 seasons

If things are like this with only the first season finished and the beginning of the second, imagine how much that image can extend within several seasons... because yes, ‘House of the Dragon’ will have more than two seasons. Pay attention to the words of George R.R. Martin about the duration of the series: “It will take four seasons of 10 episodes to do justice to A Dance of Dragons from beginning to end.”

It should be remembered that the series is based on the book Fire and Blood, of over 800 pages. It chronicles the rise to power of the Targaryens, from when they survived the Curse of Valyria to when their dynasty settled on the island of Dragonstone, through the conquest of Westeros and the founding of the iconic Iron Throne. The Dance of Dragons alludes to the descendants of Viserys and how they fought each other for power, and waged a civil war that nearly wiped out the House of the Dragon.

Taking into account the dimensions of the book (and that there is a second part on the way), it is not surprising that we are going to have three more years of House of the Dragon. Its showrunners do not rule out narrating the conflicts of other Targaryen generations also described in the book. After all, “every time a Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world waits to see which side it will fall on: greatness or madness.”

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