House of the Dragon’s second season debuted on HBO Sunday, as the first episode of the second season’s eight-episode frame, titled A Son for a Son, hit the air.
The storyline of the second season starts at the end of the show’s first season, in which Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) and his dragon Vhaegar slaughtered Lucerys (Elliot Grihault) – the son of Princess Rhaenyra (Eve Best) – and his dragon Arrax.
The deadly series of events ramp up the tension brewing