8 Fire & Blood plotlines House of the Dragon must adapt before it ends

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Spoiler Alert: This list contains spoilers for Fire & Blood by George R. R. Martin. If the House of the Dragon Season 3 premiere taught us anything, it's that nobody in the Targaryen family should be allowed near open water. The Battle of the Gullet delivered the epic naval carnage fans have been waiting two years for, but it also killed Jace Velaryon ( Harry Collett ). That death came partly thanks to Rhaena Targaryen's ( Phoebe Campbell ) feral, barely-claimed Sheepstealer, a wild dragon she mounted approximately five minutes before losing control of him in combat. In George R. R. Martin 's Fire & Blood , that dragon belongs to a lowborn girl named Nettles, not a Targaryen princess who cannot, to put it diplomatically, drive . It's exactly the kind of adaptation choice Martin has been stress-blogging about since Season 2 , and with House of the Dragon confirmed for four total seasons, showrunner Ryan Condal has roughly 15 episodes to deliver a blood-soaked civil war worthy of the author's respect.