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Ana Adame

This may have already been mentioned/brought up but it wouldn't make sense for Daeron to be a bastard as then he wouldn't be a dragon rider as he would be lacking the Targaryen blood.

Ari

Syrax (rhaenyras dragon) is the mother dragon to Arrax (lucerys’ dragon), vermax (jaces), and Tyraxes (joffreys) so she’s also lost two sons along with rhaenyra

Sam

I think the implication is that Alicent only started sleeping with Cole after Viserys died, so I don't think they're trying to get us to believe that any of her children are Cole's. If she'd had a dark-haired bastard around the time she started raging about Rhaenyra having dark-haired bastards, that would be putting herself and her son in serious danger. When we first see her and Cole together at the beginning of season 2, they're a bit awkward with each other afterward and she tells him they can't do this again, but they end up in bed together by the end of the episode. That seems much more like two people that have just started a forbidden relationship than people who have been sleeping together for decades. And while it's hard to take anyone's words as 100% fact, at the end of season 2 she told Rhaenyra that she'd taken a lover and when Rhaenyra scoffed she said it was after Viserys had died. If that wasn't true and she'd been lying about this for years, I don't think she'd have brought it up to Rhaenyra at all.

Sam

A few fun facts: there are a couple of references in this episode that people believe are sort of meta references to the show itself. One of them is Helaena's "it isn't the season" line which people think is a reference to the fact that this episode and the previous episode were supposed to be episodes 9 and 10 of season 2, so these events are literally taking place in the wrong season of television. Also in that scene, the book Helaena is reading is an informational book about a species of butterflies that often kill those that interact with them. People believe that's a reference to George RR Martin's infamous "Beware the Butterflies" blog post where he talked about the issues he had with some of the characters and plots House of the Dragon had cut, and how, like a butterfly's wings flapping and changing the future, those "toxic butterflies" of cut content will have ripple-effects and hurt the story. So Helaena in this scene is literally reading about toxic butterflies. And lastly, Ser Rickard laughing and saying a woman wielding a sword is something he's never seen before is a bit rich given that the sword Daemon is wielding at that exact moment (Dark Sister) was originally owned and used by the warrior-queen Visenya, one of Aegon the Conqueror's sister-wives. He certainly didn't personally see Visenya, but acting like a queen wielding a blade is hilarious while standing feet from Dark Sister is ridiculous of him