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House of The Dragon: What Are Helaena's Powers? Explained
Helaena Targaryen is secretly a dreamer in House of the Dragon, but no one ever believes her prophecies.
House of the Dragon is a show about warring dragonriders, a struggle over the Iron Throne, and people obsessed with Aegon the Conqueror's dream. At the dawn of season 2, Rhaenyra, Jacaerys, and Daemon are clutched in the grip of an ancient prophecy, and these plot battles as they organize dragonseeds to see its fulfillment. But Helaena Targaryen, the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, is one of the true and most powerful seers this show has to offer. By centering their attention on an ancient dream, the characters clearly oppose the presence of a seer.
Helaena's power explored
Contrasting with the classic Queen Alyssane, seeking to be a ruler, Helaena protects her crickets, children, and family with the help of mystic prophecies dissemination. Very often, the serial reveals that Helaena has the ability to foresee the future when many times she describes some particular event that has not yet happened or has not occurred in front of her eyes. Eventually, he got one, but Lucerys Velaryon cut his eye out.
Meanwhile, Helaena forewarned her family about the future: the Dance of the Dragons, the split into Blacks and Greens. She warned of the "beast beneath the boards," speaking of Rhaenys' attack during Aegon's coronation and what will come when Blood and Cheese burst into the castle. These were all the prophecies of Helaena's life, and her family's future was the outcome.
In Season 2 of House of the Dragon, Aegon dismisses Helaena's fear of the rats, leaves her unprotected, and she meets a gory demise. Her final prophecy promised that King Aegon II would reign again and Aemond died in God's Eye. She has also appeared in Daemon's vision, cautioning him about the White Walkers and what the long-term result of his decisions would be. All her prophecies proved true, hinting at power greater than any other Green on record can attest to.
Helaena revealed her powers to Aemond
In House of the Dragon season 2, episode 8, Helaena admitted to Aemond that she had this ability. Aemond, however, first thought she had lost her mind. She said she had witnessed Aemond betray King Aegon at Rook's Rest. Aemond was utterly shocked, but further found she witnessed the death of Aemond and describes the aftermath with Aegon eventually taking the throne and Aemond dying at God's Eye. Aemond seemed to adopt Helaena's ability to dream but opined that she was engaging in treasonous behavior.
That was a sweet moment for Aemond, but it isn't all bad news for the Greens: at last, Aemond sees something in Helaena. While she maintains that even her prophecies cannot alter the course of events, he might try to use Helaena's abilities to his advantage in House of the Dragon season 3. Helaena is not interested in collaborating with her brother, who wishes nothing but to watch his enemies burn; however, she probably gave him an exceptionally dangerous gift. Nobody believed Helaena's prophecies earlier, but Aemond finally does now that Helaena was a potent dreamer.
The Greens didn't noticed Helaena's powers
Helaena soon becomes one of the greatest assets to the Greens. Her seer capabilities are highly belittled most of the time, and nobody pays much heed to her prophecies. Most of her strange utterances are let go, and she has little agency. More often than not, she is just a piece to be played.
Seers have a long history with the Targaryens; thus, the Doom of Valyria had been foretold by Daenys the Dreamer, through whom they were saved from ruin. Aegon the Conqueror passed his prophetic dream down the line, but Viserys, fascinated by magic, overlooked his daughter Helaena's skills. Her ignored gift as a child by Viserys, Alicent, and her brothers brought them to their ruin. Helaena's prophecies are the ones passed down generation after generation until Viserys was the first to take notice of her.
The Greens are so blinded by ambition and playing games that they seem not to have much time to sit down, communicate, and bond with each other. None of them know what good parenting is; even Alicent was brought up as a tool by Otto Hightower, passing on bad intergenerational fight. Aegon and Aemond are bloodthirsty, Daeron is away in the far distances from the Red Keep, and Helaena keeps to herself. As a result, none of them have learned how to communicate, bond with, or love each other; hence, there is a lack of communication and bonding.
The Greens also benefit politically in such a scenario because Helaena is powerless and inconsequential. While Alicent failed to realize it, her persistence in the cause of the Greens has served to weaken her daughter. She is fighting for a patriarchy that insists women be ignored and perceived as little more than domestic homemakers.
She is viewed only as a queen, with no agency or power in her own right. Thus, no one looks further to find special talents she might possess. To Westeros' martial and patriarchal medieval civilization, she is nothing but a laughingstock and a tool. It was that realization which made Helaena betray the Greens, but it came too late for her to support Helaena in developing her gifts as a dreamer.
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