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House Of The Dragon Season 2: Why Daemon Saw Daenerys In The Finale? Explained
In the Season 2 finale of House of the Dragon, Alys Rivers shows Daemon Targaryen one last vision to affirm his purpose in the war. Daenerys Targaryen is seen in the vision with her baby dragons.
Despite her seemingly mad turn throughout the series, Daenerys Targaryen is one of those characters in Game of Thrones to whom people have extremely strong attachments. In many ways, the show positions her as a tragic hero, destined for doom-as has now been seen in the Season 2 finale of House of the Dragon. All the way from the blood magic that Daenerys had done to being the last Targaryen, it would seem that her fate was always going to be tragic since she was the one who had been chosen to bring dragons back into the world.
It was this fate that had her embark on a path to free Essos, to conquer Westeros and reclaim her family's throne-only for it to end in her death. Many consider this character assassination, given that she was the prophesied Prince That Was Promised.
Daemon dreams about three dragon eggs and a woman in a desert
Most exciting in Season 2 of House of The Dragon is Daemon's storyline because of how it can go in any direction. Daemon walks around Harrenhal, his head filled with ghosts and hallucinations from the past. Witch Alys Rivers makes Daemon confront some of his most profound insecurities, including an incestuous fascination with his mother, Alyssa Targaryen.
She takes Daemon to the weirwood tree at Harrenhal in the Season 2 finale where he has that dream that convinced Aegon to conquer Westeros. It includes: Brynden Rivers, the Three-Eyed Raven, the White Walkers, dead dragons, Daemon drowning in a lake, Rhaenyra on the Iron Throne, and Helaena telling him he's only one part of a story.
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Daemon sees a vision of three dragon eggs with a woman clutching them in a desert-like setting, just as Daenerys' scene went down in the Game of Thrones Season 1 finale. The face of the woman is never shown, but from the Targaryen score playing by Ramin Djawadi, she's definitely confirmed to be Daenerys, who had hatched all three of her dragon eggs in the funeral pyre.
The Prince who was promised - was it Daenyres?
He ultimately mistakenly thinks that Rhaenyra is the hero, thus relinquishing his claim to the Iron Throne. In contrast, House of the Dragon is making an argument that says Daenerys Targaryen was the Prince That Was Promised, and Rhaenyra was in the dream because Daenerys would be born from her line in the future. The existence of both White Walkers and Daenerys in the same vision assumes she would be the hero to stop the Long Night.
Precisely, on his dagger, Aegon had engraved what was said in the dream: "From my blood comes the prince that was promised, and his will be the song of ice and fire."
In Game of Thrones Season 8, the darkness arrives, and Azor Ahai is reincarnated as the Prince That Was Promised. The hero is born amidst salt and smoke, beneath a bleeding star, possibly because of sweat from a funeral pyre, smoke from fire, and a red comet. The prophecy also says that the hero wields a flaming sword called Lightbringer, which in her case could be her dragon.
It is too vague to truly know whether magic was brought back by Daenerys or a resurgence in magic allowed her to be "reborn" as the Prince that was foretold by the prophecy. The White Walkers re-awakened around the same age as Daenerys, and the return of dragons proved to be a substantial factor in the Night King's army's movement south. Daenerys had been the only one who could bring the fire magic back, balancing out the two sides of magic in the world.
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And, of course, the world of television and the world of books are two very different things, with neither mentioning the Prince That Was Promised. House of the Dragon has only revealed an identity that is significant to Game of Thrones, not A Song of Ice and Fire. It does not do any such thing in the show through plot events such as Arya killing the Night King and Daenerys torching King's Landing.
It doesn't necessarily mean he has to kill the Night King. They could unite the realm and defeat the darkness-which, technically, was already occurring with Daenerys bringing her dragons across the sea to Westeros. But that would make even Jon Snow the Prince, too, since like Daenerys, he had come from the line of Aegon the Conquerer and Rhaenyra.
He was of both ice and fire: a Stark and a Targaryen. The Lord of Light brought him back to fulfill a greater purpose: to unite the Southern and Northern armies to stop the Long Night. If the prophecy is to take literally about Daenerys becoming evil, then Jon Snow fits more as Prince That Was Promised. He also had nothing to do with either the red comet or the resurrection of dragons in the world.
It's possible that Jon and Daenerys were both the Prince That Was Promised, but Aegon never had a dream of him. In the television universe, Aegon only had a dream of Daenerys. The Prince could save mankind from darkness but at the same time succumb to the very darkness himself, which possibly made Daenerys turn into evil. Not having Game of Thrones explain who led humanity to victory, Aegon's vision was a grave misstep, and House of the Dragon should have kept its nose out of its place.
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