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    House of the Dragon season 2 timeline: the story so far

    by Elizabeth Gregory Jun 05, 2024 7 minutes
    Source: House of the Dragon, Official Black Trailer, Max

    The second chapter of House of the Dragon is landing on Sky Atlantic in just a few weeks, with the Greens and Blacks – factions of a warring noble family – set to continue trying to destroy one another for eight action-packed episodes.

    It’s exciting stuff: the Greens, headed by Queen Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke), and the Blacks, headed by Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) look ready for battle, with the new season’s trailers showing roaring dragons, explosions and malevolent plotting.

    The series is a spin-off season of HBO’s award-winning, extraordinarily popular medieval-fantasy series, Game of Thrones, and is based on the book Fire & Blood by Game of Thrones author George RR Martin.

    The basic premise of the story is easy enough to pick up: one family is split in two, fighting for the Iron Throne, aka the chance to rule Westeros. The story is set about 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, and focuses on the drama that leads to the civil war of the Targaryens, which is known as The Dance of the Dragons.

    As might be expected, . But it’s been a while. So

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