The culprit of those HouseoftheDragon finale deaths is Vhagar, but can we really blame her?
Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for the Season 1 finale of House of the Dragon."Who can know the heart of a dragon?" asks Archmaester Gyldayn, the narrator in George R.R. Martin's book Fire & Blood. That's a very good question, and one that's begging for an answer after the first season finale of House of the Dragon.
So Vhagar is old. When she eventually dies, she will be 181 years old, and almost as big as Balerion, the Black Dread. We haven't seen her before the events of House of the Dragon, but we know she is the survivor of more than a hundred battles, has seen a lot of stuff and, at this point in her life, is most likely tired.
But with Aemond and Vhagar, it's a little different. Aemond certainly has his merits as a dragonrider, and bonding with Vhagar is no easy feat, but, when they bonded in "Driftmark," they were both in very dark places, as the dragon had just lost Laena in a pretty overwhelming situation and the young rider was desperate to claim a dragon of his own, going all-in on Vhagar.