Recaps

Aemon expanded his power across Myr and the Stepstones, recovered dragon eggs from Meereen, and learned that Rhaenyra was pregnant. After Daemon returned to challenge the family’s peace, Aemon fought him in a dragon duel that ended with Vermithor safe above Long Lake and Caraxes plunging into it.

• Viserys named Aemon Prince of Myr and the Stepstones and heir to the Iron Throne, while arranging his betrothal to Laena and granting Corlys new offices and lands.
• Aemon backed Johanna’s bank, recovered Gulltown’s money from the Iron Bank, and quashed the Myrish mercenaries before founding Long Lake Town and planning Emerald Capital.
• Aemon negotiated trade and a marriage alliance in the Stepstones, then flew with Laena and Rhaenyra to retrieve dragon eggs taken to Meereen.
• Aemon and the Dothraki attacked Meereen, killed its Great Masters, and recovered three petrified eggs and a living green egg, while Rhaenyra discovered she was pregnant.
• Daemon returned to King's Landing with Marana, their son, and the stolen dragon egg, but Viserys refused to dissolve Daemon’s marriage to Lady Rhea.
• Aemon confronted Daemon at Runestone, challenged him to a dragon duel over their holdings, and waited for him in the River Valley Land.
• Aemon and Daemon fought on Vermithor and Caraxes, and their dragons fell toward Long Lake as Viserys and Rhaenys arrived with Meleys.
• Aemon used a Binding Spell to pull Vermithor clear of the water and saved Daemon, while Caraxes plunged into Long Lake.

Aemon strengthened his family’s position by guiding the royal children, expanding his influence in Essos, and helping Aemond tame Sheep Thief, while a newly hatched Blackfyre joined his dragons. The arc ended with growing political pressures as Viserys’s council weighed the Ironborn threat and Dorne’s unexpected marriage offer.

• Aemon surrendered Daemon after Lady Rhea and the others pleaded for his life, then followed an unseen voice to Lonely Mountain and reshaped it with the Flame Hammer.
• Aemon met Yezi, a Green Seer, and compelled her to make Fireflies in River Valley Land as repayment for the Flame Hammer’s cost.
• Aemon raised the royal children’s dragons and helped Helena bond with Dreamfyre, while he took responsibility for Marana’s infant son, Viserion Targaryen.
• Aemond entered Dragonmont seeking a dragon, survived an encounter with Fire Eater, and later traveled with Aemon and the other children to Myr.
• Aemon sent Aegon, Aemond, and Helena to patrol the Stepstones, where Aegon attacked the Ironborn and Helena drove Vaemond’s forces away from Long Lake Town.
• Aemond pursued Sheep Thief into Dragon Valley and tamed it, while Aemon discovered that a black dragon egg had hatched and named the dragon Blackfyre.
• Aegon and Aemond fought over Sunfyre’s injuries and Aemond’s new dragon, and Viserys later praised Aemond before convening a council over Grand Maester Mellos’s replacement.
• Otto reported that the Ironborn had received supplies abroad and that Dorne and Volantis had allied, while Prince Qoren Martell invited Viserys to discuss a marriage alliance involving Aemond.

Aemon maneuvered the royal family into the Reach conflict, dismantled House Hightower’s power, and secured new positions for Aegon and Aemond. The arc ended with Aemon leading a campaign against Ulwin Peake while considering a new marriage match for Aegon.

• Viserys’s marriage plans sparked conflict as Aemon opposed proposed matches for Helena and confronted Otto over his schemes.
• After Aegon and Aemond fought in the Dragonpit, Aemon intervened, injured both princes, and later urged Alicent to help protect Helena from an unwanted marriage.
• Helena fled to Harrenhal to join Aemon’s family, while Aegon and Aemond toured the Reach and Aemon began using their presence to shape its politics.
• The deaths of Lord Tyrell and Hobert Hightower ignited war between House Tyrell and House Hightower, while Aemon enlisted the giant Chestnut and backed a plan to weaken Hightower influence.
• Aegon aided Mond Hightower with Sunfyre, but House Tyrell’s forces eventually captured Oldtown with Chestnut’s help, and Aemon arrived to execute Mond and strip House Hightower of its seat.
• Aemon granted the Hightower to Aegon, arranged for Garwin to become Earl of Oldtown, and appointed Larys steward, while Helena challenged Aemon’s manipulation of those around him.
• Aemon found Aegon and injured Sunfyre, then reached Duskendale and discovered Aemond had taken the castle from House Peake.
• With Earl Donald Tarly’s troops joining the campaign, Aemon put him in command and marched toward White Garden City with Helena and Aemond, while considering Samantha Tarly as a bride for Aegon.

Aemon faced Dornish plots and Lord Vance’s attack on the Stepstones while consolidating royal power and forming a Dragonrider Legion. He unleashed a Flame Hammer that reshaped the islands into new land, then planted a withered vine at the foot of First Flame Peak.

• Aemon took Star Shuttle City, executed Ulwin Peake, and later returned to King’s Landing as Viserys appointed Thaddeus Master of Laws and arranged betrothals for Aegon and Aemond.
• Aemon traveled to Driftmark, where Laenor was stabbed and Corlys’s bastards were exposed to Rhaenys, who flew away after learning that Laena and Aemon had known.
• Aemon uncovered a Dornish plot to steal dragons and eggs on Dragonstone, executed Ya—, detained Olifer, and sent Geralt to Qoren Martell with Elayne’s letter.
• Lord Vance captured Bloodstone Island and attacked the Stepstones, so Aemon took Aemond and Helena there while Aemond drove Ironborn raiders from Greenstone Keep.
• Myr sailors rescued the hostages as Aemon’s dragons attacked Dornish defenses, and Viserys presented Aemon’s Dragonrider Legion proposal to the Small Council with Rhaenys as honorary commander.
• Aemon let the allied fleets lift their encirclement of Bloodstone Island, then struck it with a Flame Hammer charged with 10,000 points of Magic Essence as the Ironborn fleet approached.
• Bloodstone Island erupted and the Stepstones fused into new land, while Qoren survived near Broken Arm and Viserys felt the resulting earthquake in King’s Landing.
• Three days later, Aemon landed on the restored Dorne’s Arm, named the volcanic mountain First Flame Peak, and planted the withered vine at its foot.