So why has HBO introduced us to so many other important characters but not Aegon? And thatвЂ™s weird, because Aegon isnвЂ™t just some small character who will have a walk-on role heвЂ™s a major player. ThatвЂ™s the crux of the conflict: when King Viserys dies, who takes the throne: the older daughter who was promised the honor since childhood, or the younger son? AndвЂ¦вЂ¦fight!Д«ut thereвЂ™s a question: while weвЂ™ve met the actors players a lot of these major figures - and even some playing more minor ones - we havenвЂ™t heard anything about Aegon. Meanwhile, Olivia Cooke plays his second wife Alicent Hightower, who feels it should be her son Aegon who inherits the throne instead. Matt Smith is his hot-blooded brother Daemon and Emma DвЂ™Arcy is his first-born child Rhaenyra, who he brought up from an early age to inherit the throne. Paddy Considine is King Viserys I Targaryen, who rules at the start of the story. We already know whoвЂ™s playing several of them. ItвЂ™s a good story, and like Game of ThronesВ before it, it involves a lot of characters. Brother will fight sister, mother will fight step-daughter, and dragon will fight dragon until Westeros runs red with blood.

It tells the story of the Dance of the Dragons, a brutal civil that pit different factions of the ruling Targaryen family against each other. HBO is currently hard at work on House of the Dragon, a prequel to Game of ThronesВ set nearly two centuries before the original series.

A clash of kings targaryen