Recaps

At a banquet of King's Landing's leading figures, Viserys openly favored Redd, while the guests tried to learn what the approaching marriage between Redd and Rhaenyra meant. Otto Hightower sent Alicent to probe Redd, but Redd charmed her and avoided discussing the marriage or his own intentions.

• Viserys held Redd's hand and introduced him to the important guests, whose questions about the marriage alliance received only vague answers.
• Otto Hightower failed to uncover Redd's intentions and signaled Alicent to try instead.
• Alicent approached Redd and drew him into an easy conversation about court life, literature, art, and politics.
• Alicent steered the conversation toward Rhaenyra, but Redd praised Alicent's appearance and changed the subject.
• Alicent continued talking with Redd about lighter subjects while he avoided revealing anything important about himself.

Redd explained dragon-taming to Alicent before Rhaenyra pulled him aside and offered him a share of the Iron Throne’s power in exchange for his support. Redd offered to help if she satisfied him, and Rhaenyra resolved to pursue the throne at any cost.

• Redd told Alicent how hatchlings bonded with their hatchers and how dragons became harder to tame as they grew older.
• Rhaenyra saw Redd and Alicent talking, then took Redd by the hand and led him away to speak privately.
• Rhaenyra said she would become heir after marrying Redd and asked him to support her so they could share power over the Iron Throne.
• Redd questioned whether Rhaenyra’s father might have another son, and she declared that she would never have a younger brother.
• Redd offered to help Rhaenyra if she performed well and satisfied him, and she resolved to claim the Iron Throne regardless of the cost.

After Viserys declared war on Dorne, Redd refused to join the campaign and returned to Dragonstone, where he received a desperate plea for help from Pentos. He decided to intervene personally and began planning to take over a city-state, relying on two dragons to protect Dragonstone.

• Viserys was crowned King of the Seven Kingdoms and declared war on Dorne, prompting the Dornish to invade the Stormlands.
• Viserys sent Daemon and Corlys to attack Dorne from the Stormlands and the Stepstones, but Dornish forces resisted with guerrilla and tunnel warfare.
• Redd declined Viserys's attempts to draw him into the war and returned to Dragonstone after marrying Rhaenyra.
• Redd received a letter from the Prince of Pentos pleading for aid after Pentos quickly lost its war against Braavos.
• Redd summoned Douglas and asked whether their troops could take over a city-state; Douglas warned that deploying them all would leave Dragonstone undefended.
• Redd ordered Douglas not to worry and said he would leave two dragons behind to defend Dragonstone.

Redd sent Douglas ahead with the fleet to Pentos, then secured the Dragon Eggs at Dragonstone before flying after the fleet with King Ghidorah. In Pentos, Nerys prepared for Redd’s arrival and the fleet reached the harbor, where Ryan waited to receive him.

• Redd ordered Douglas to lead the fleet and soldiers to Pentos while he followed by dragonback.
• Redd placed Dragon Eggs in the Dragonpit near the volcano and ordered Cannibal to guard them before flying after the fleet on King Ghidorah; Ehm and Aegon followed.
• Nerys received Redd’s promise of military aid and ordered Ryan to watch the hostile magisters and prepare to welcome the Dragon King.
• Redd’s fleet arrived at Pentos with three Dragons overhead, stunning the harbor workers and revealing House Targaryen’s arrival.
• Ryan and a formation of soldiers waited on the docks as Redd’s fleet sailed into the harbor.

Redd secured Nerys’s allegiance and ordered a purge of the families opposing him before the Braavosi army arrived. With King Ghidorah aiding his forces, Redd’s soldiers stormed Pentos, and the fighting ended by midnight.

• Redd met Nerys in Pentos, where Nerys pledged allegiance in exchange for protection for himself and his family.
• Nerys told Redd that the Braavosi army would arrive within five days and that twenty-nine of Pentos’s forty families opposed him.
• Redd took the list of opposing families and ordered Douglas to eliminate them that night, with help from Nerys’s men and King Ghidorah.
• Nerys’s cooperation allowed Redd’s twenty thousand soldiers to pass through the Black Wall and launch a surprise attack on the noble slave owners.
• King Ghidorah’s lightning broke through castle walls as Douglas rallied the soldiers by calling Redd the “Dragon God,” and the fighting ended at midnight.

Redd took control of Pentos after the purge and restored its army, city, and trade. When a Braavosi envoy arrived unaware that Pentos had changed hands and demanded territory and compensation, Redd ordered Nerys to execute him.

• Redd declared that he would take over Pentos, and the remaining family representatives submitted to him.
• Redd ordered Nerys to restore order and trade, with Douglas assisting him.
• Redd appointed Marcus commander and Ryan his deputy, expanding his forces from twenty thousand to fifty thousand soldiers.
• Three days later, a Braavosi envoy arrived and demanded compensation, fertile land, and control of the waters.
• Redd asked whether the envoy should be hanged or beheaded, and Nerys chose beheading before executing him.

After Pentos submitted, Redd marched toward Braavos and rejected the Sealord’s offer of money, demanding surrender instead. When the battle began, three Demon Dragons devastated Braavos’s army, leaving the Sealord stunned as his forces routed.

• Nerys executed the envoy and sent his head to the Sealord, then pledged himself to Redd, who left Pentos for Braavos.
• After learning that Pentos had submitted to the Dragon King, the Sealord met with his advisers and accepted Storos’s proposal to seek peace with money.
• Redd rejected the Braavosi envoy’s offer and demanded the Sealord’s submission within one day.
• The next day, Redd’s three Demon Dragons unleashed Dragonfire on the battlefield, destroying formations and sending the army of more than a hundred thousand soldiers into a rout.
• The Sealord stood stunned as his forces fled and the scale of the Demon Dragons’ power became clear.

Redd’s army routed the Sealord’s forces and reached Braavos, where Redd offered terms that included taking all the Iron Bank’s wealth. With the city surrounded and its leaders unwilling to risk their lives, the Sealord surrendered and accepted the Dragon King’s terms.

• King Ghidorah helped Redd’s forces defeat the Sealord’s troops, and the army advanced to Braavos.
• Redd chose not to destroy Braavos and sent an envoy to demand the city’s surrender.
• Braavos’s rulers gathered in a temple after the Sealord’s Palace was destroyed and protested Redd’s harsh terms, especially his demand for the Iron Bank’s entire wealth.
• The Sealord called on the rulers to choose between fighting to the death and surrendering, but most stayed silent rather than risk their lives.
• The Sealord surrendered and accepted all the Dragon King’s terms, prompting relief among the gathered rulers.

Redd entered Braavos unopposed and forced its Sealord and the Iron Bank’s representatives to submit to his rule. After the Sealord swore loyalty, Redd demanded most of the bank’s wealth and ordered the deaths of those who defied him, leaving the city under his control through fear.

• Redd led his army into Braavos as Aegon and Ehm killed people trying to flee.
• Redd confronted the Sealord beneath King Ghidorah and promised to spare Braavos if it paid tribute and obeyed him.
• The Sealord swore loyalty to Redd, who accepted his sword and snapped it as a warning against betrayal.
• Redd ordered the Iron Bank’s representatives to send seventy percent of its wealth to Dragonstone.
• When one representative refused, Redd killed him and ordered Marcus to kill the man’s entire family.
• Marcus’s soldiers killed the family, and the remaining witnesses sat in terrified silence.

Redd ordered King Ghidorah to kill a Faceless Man who was spying on him, then launched a brutal citywide purge of the Many-Faced God's followers in Braavos. A week later, Ryan brought an elderly man claiming descent from House Targaryen to meet Redd.

• Redd spotted a Faceless Man on a rooftop and ordered King Ghidorah to kill him, and the dragon blasted him away along with buildings in its path.
• Redd ordered Marcus and Ryan to hunt down every Faceless Man and threatened anyone who sheltered them.
• Marcus and Ryan led tens of thousands of soldiers through Braavos, killing those who resisted and rooting out many followers of the Many-Faced God.
• King Ghidorah's dragonfire burned entire blocks as resistance against Redd's forces faltered.
• A week later, Ryan told Redd that an elderly descendant of House Targaryen had requested an audience, and Redd ordered him brought in.

Thorne Belaerys offered Redd a Valyrian steel disc containing a method for constructing a God's Domain in exchange for rescuing his family from Volantis. After sending Theora to retrieve them, Redd deciphered the disc and learned that a God's Domain was an independent space sustained by faith power.

• Redd sensed true Dragon blood in Thorne Belaerys and heard him ask for help rescuing his people in the name of their shared ancestry.
• Thorne offered Redd a method for becoming a god and showed him a Valyrian steel disc inscribed with runes and diagrams about constructing a God's Domain.
• Thorne asked Redd to rescue his imprisoned family from the Black Wall in Volantis, and Redd wrote him a letter of assistance.
• Redd ordered Theora to accompany Thorne to Volantis and bring every member of his family back.
• Redd spent two days and nights deciphering the disc and discovered that a God's Domain was an independent space sustained by faith power.

Redd learned about the power of faith and received a letter from King Viserys asking him to send troops against the Kingdom of the Three Daughters, but he refused. He ordered Douglas to deal decisively with the Sealord’s fleet, insisting that he cared only about results.

• Redd tried to convert the power of faith into magic before Douglas brought him a letter from King's Landing.
• Redd read that the Kingdom of the Three Daughters had allied with Dorne and that Meleys had been badly wounded by a Dragon-shooting Crossbow.
• King Viserys asked Redd to send troops into the Disputed Lands, but Redd rejected the request and discarded the letter.
• Redd asked Douglas how he had handled the Sealord's fleet, and Douglas said many crew members would obey only the Sealord.
• Redd rebuked Douglas and told him to remove anyone who would not obey, adding that he cared only about results.

Redd punished the Iron Bank’s dissenters, then set out for Volantis with Ehm while King Ghidorah unleashed a super-hurricane ahead of them. In Volantis, Beato watched a sacrificial ritual create a fiery cocoon around a priest and three Dragon Eggs, and threatened the Red Priestess if the ritual failed.

• Redd dismissed the Sealord and reflected on how his purge had left only seven of the Iron Bank’s twenty-two founding families alive and obedient.
• After learning his envoys in Volantis had been detained and possibly harmed, Redd arranged for Aegon to guard the temple and intimidate the Sealord.
• Redd rode Ehm toward Volantis as King Ghidorah followed and generated a super-hurricane that raced toward the city.
• In Volantis’s Temple of R'hllor, a priest cut his wrist to begin a sacrifice, and the flames consumed the offerings before forming a huge dark-red cocoon.
• The priest entered the cocoon with three Dragon Eggs as Beato watched and warned the Red Priestess that he would punish her and her companions if the ritual failed.

The Red Priestesses’ ritual unleashed a deadly creature and dark-red flames across Volantis. King Ghidorah arrived amid the storm as the city burned, while Beato was consumed by regret.

• Beato left the Red Priestess, deciding he would offer her head to the Dragon King if the priests failed to stop the Demon Dragon.
• Melisandre left Volantis with Kinvara, who comforted her about the sacrifices made in the Lord’s name.
• The cocoon in the Temple of R'hllor cracked open, and a dark-red streak killed everyone inside.
• People across Volantis spontaneously burst into dark-red flames, which spread through the city.
• King Ghidorah arrived in a storm that drove the flames into a destructive fire tornado, while Beato regretted trusting the Red Priestess as the fire climbed his body.

Beato was burned to ashes as a dark red Demon Dragon formed from the flames in Volantis and confronted King Ghidorah. After surviving the Gravity Beams and transforming to resemble King Ghidorah, it clashed with him in a brutal battle that remained underway.

• Beato struggled in the flames but was burned to ashes.
• Redd sensed a dangerous magical aura in Volantis and watched from a distance as the dark red flames contracted into a Demon Dragon.
• King Ghidorah attacked the Demon Dragon with three Gravity Beams, blasting its flame body apart, but it re-formed with weakened magical energy.
• The re-formed Demon Dragon transformed to resemble King Ghidorah, growing three heads and three tails before charging at him.
• King Ghidorah and the Demon Dragon collided and fought at close quarters, with King Ghidorah gaining the upper hand.

Redd watched King Ghidorah defeat the Dark Red Demon Dragon, while Ehm revealed how much stronger it had grown. After the Dark Red Demon Dragon was pinned and drained of energy in the Rhoyne, it tried to escape by breaking into scattered flames, but King Ghidorah gathered them in a tornado.

• Redd praised Ehm after it demonstrated its ability to radiate intense heat.
• King Ghidorah overwhelmed the Dark Red Demon Dragon with Gravity Beams and knocked it into the Rhoyne, boiling the river.
• Redd and Ehm watched the boiling water cook fish, and Redd ate some of them.
• King Ghidorah pinned the weakened Dark Red Demon Dragon and drained its energy while it tried to absorb energy in return.
• The Dark Red Demon Dragon attempted to escape by scattering into flames, but King Ghidorah's tornado gathered and trapped them.

After the Red God’s dragon egg shattered, a small illusory dragon entered Redd and left a fading Red God mark on his chest, which the system’s healing ability suppressed. Redd began arranging Douglas’s takeover of Volantis and settled in the ruined city for the night, where the dead rose as ghosts.

• King Ghidorah shattered the Dragon Egg, and the small illusory dragon turned from the Smoking Sea and plunged into Redd.
• Redd’s body overheated, but the system spent 5,000 Energy Points to heal him; he found a fading Red God mark on his chest.
• Redd decided to seize the surrounding towns and sent a raven to Douglas in Braavos, ordering him to bring the fleet and men to take over Volantis’s territory.
• Redd searched the ruined city for survivors, found none, and chose a damaged but tidy castle to spend the night.
• As night fell, the souls of those killed during the day awakened as ghosts in Volantis.

After the battle in Volantis, cursed ghosts attacked Redd in his sleep, but his barrier, Ehm’s Dragonfire, and King Ghidorah’s lightning destroyed them. Redd suspected the ghosts were connected to the Valyria Ruins and stayed awake to lure out more of them.

• Cursed ghosts formed from the dead in Volantis and charged toward Redd while he slept.
• An invisible barrier stopped the ghosts from reaching Redd, and the screams woke him, King Ghidorah, and Ehm.
• Redd used magic to see the ghosts, then rushed outside and ordered Ehm to keep attacking them with Dragonfire.
• Redd ordered King Ghidorah to summon a thunderstorm, and lightning wiped out the ghosts across the area.
• Redd wondered whether the ghosts and the Valyria Ruins shared a hidden cause behind the supposed natural disaster.
• Redd stayed awake and wandered through Volantis as bait to draw out more cursed ghosts.

After clearing Volantis of cursed ghosts, Redd flew to Velonserys Town to seize control of the settlements. King Ghidorah destroyed the town’s defenses, and its soldiers surrendered to Redd.

• Redd finished searching Volantis for cursed ghosts and confirmed none remained.
• Redd rode Ehm with King Ghidorah to Velonserys Town, where Tiger Party members ordered the soldiers to fire Dragon-shooting Crossbows at him.
• King Ghidorah destroyed the incoming bolts and smashed the town’s walls with his golden beams.
• Redd asked for the town’s highest-ranking officer, and a commander serving the Belis Family identified himself.
• Redd declared the soldiers under his rule, and the soldiers and Tiger Party members knelt in submission.

Redd secured control of Velonserys, Valissa, and Seahoru Towns, then returned to Volantis to oversee its reconstruction as a base for his return to the Valyrian Peninsula. His conquests spread fear across the Free Cities, whose remaining six city-states began searching for ways to defend themselves against his dragon.

• Redd took control of Velonserys Town and Valissa Town, where the Elephant Party members submitted without resistance.
• Redd reached Seahoru Town, accepted the Tiger Party member’s submission, and waited there for Douglas and his army to arrive.
• Douglas’s forces took control of Volantis’s territory, and Redd returned with Douglas to the city.
• Redd began rebuilding Volantis, intending to make it a bridgehead for returning to the Valyrian Peninsula.
• News of Volantis’s destruction and Redd’s conquests terrified the remaining six Free Cities, which began researching ways to counter the demon dragon.

Redd expanded the Black Stone Dragonpit and refined the power of faith while considering his dream of creating a God's Domain. Rhaenyra and Rhaenys arrived in Volantis on Syrax, apparently seeking his help in their failing war in Dorne.

• Redd judged the Black Stone Dragonpit too small and added the former Temple of R'hllor site to its grounds, killing the Red God's followers there.
• Redd absorbed and refined the power of faith each day, removing others' thoughts from it as he pursued the creation of his own God's Domain.
• Redd spotted a dragon approaching and recognized it as Syrax, carrying Rhaenyra and Rhaenys.
• Redd went to the Black Stone Dragonpit to welcome the two women, where Ehm greeted him and King Ghidorah rested nearby.
• Syrax landed in the Dragonpit, and Rhaenyra and Rhaenys dismounted.

Redd welcomed Rhaenyra and Rhaenys to his castle, but left their meal after learning of a crisis at Volantis harbor. There, he boarded a battered merchant ship carrying more than a hundred people afflicted with greyscale and faced the desperate crowd.

• Redd welcomed Rhaenyra and Rhaenys, who joined him for a lavish meal in the Reception Hall.
• A guard informed Redd of an urgent problem, and he left the two women to hurry to the harbor.
• Redd found a storm-damaged merchant ship whose more than one hundred crewmen and sailors showed symptoms of greyscale.
• Douglas warned Redd that the disease was contagious, but Redd claimed his dragon blood protected him and boarded the ship.
• The afflicted passengers crowded toward Redd, begging for help, food, and a chance to leave, so he drew his sword to hold them back.

Redd ordered the infected crew aboard a ship to be killed and the vessel burned, while everyone exposed to them was quarantined to prevent Greyscale from spreading through Volantis. He returned to Rhaenyra, and after spending the night with her, he encountered Rhaenys waiting outside his room the next day.

• Redd questioned the Greyscale-infected captain, who explained that Stone Men and a storm had driven the ship down the Rhoyne to Volantis.
• Redd ordered Douglas to kill the infected crew and quarantine everyone who had come into contact with them.
• Douglas had the soldiers shoot the crew with flaming arrows and burn the ship, then ensured the exposed people remained in quarantine.
• Redd returned to the castle and reunited with Rhaenyra.
• The next day, Redd left their room and found Rhaenys waiting for him.

Rhaenys asked Redd to help with the war against the Dornish and warned him that an improved giant ballista had wounded Meleys and threatened Demon Dragons. Redd dismissed the weapon and claimed that his High House Targaryen bloodline made him unafraid of dragon-slaying weapons, angering Rhaenys.

• Redd realized it was already afternoon, then agreed to talk with Rhaenys over a meal.
• Rhaenys asked Redd to help in the war against the Dornish and urged him to keep Rhaenyra from fighting.
• Rhaenys told Redd that an improved giant ballista had wounded her dragon, Meleys, and could pierce a Demon Dragon’s head from long range.
• Redd dismissed the ballista as a threat that required too many soldiers, while Rhaenys warned that the kingdoms’ continued research could produce a weapon capable of killing a Demon Dragon in one strike.
• Redd recounted the history of dragon-slaying weapons and said his House Targaryen’s bloodline made him unafraid of them, prompting Rhaenys to call him arrogant and conceited.

Redd refused Rhaenys's request to borrow his dragons, and she left to seek Rhaenyra's help in changing his mind. News then reached Redd that Stone Men had spread greyscale along the upper Rhoyne; he ordered Marcus to lead an army north to eliminate them and studied a map of the Lands of Sorrow.

• Redd told Rhaenys that his dragon would one day surpass the gods, then refused to lend her the three adult dragons because of his agreement with the Princess of Dorne.
• Rhaenys stormed out and decided to tell Rhaenyra what had happened and discuss a plan to persuade Redd.
• Douglas reported that greyscale had appeared in towns along the upper Rhoyne, and Marcus said Stone Men from the Lands of Sorrow were moving south.
• Redd ordered Marcus to take fifty thousand slave soldiers north, kill all Stone Men and greyscale-infected people, and burn every corpse; he directed Marcus to work with Douglas on protective measures.
• After Douglas and Marcus left, Redd examined a map of the Lands of Sorrow and recalled its history as Chroyane, once a great Rhoynar city cursed by Prince Garin.