Recaps

Redd worked to secure Rhaenyra’s succession through alliances, intelligence, and a failed attempt to eliminate Corlys and Rhaenys. When that plot collapsed, he helped spread suspicions linking Corlys to Tormund, while Otto independently pushed Viserys to weaken House Velaryon; Redd ended the stretch by waiting to see how Otto’s plan unfolded.

• Rhea asked Redd to remove Daemon in exchange for Vale support for Rhaenyra, and Redd later slept with Rhea before returning to Rhaenyra and encountering Alicent.
• After Aemma died in childbirth, Viserys chose Alicent as his new Queen, and Redd recruited Mysaria to investigate Otto and Alicent while Alicent revealed her pregnancy and Otto ordered more poison added to Viserys’s tonic.
• Redd helped Rhaenyra challenge Viserys’s treatment of her succession at a banquet, while building ties with Jeyne Arryn and investigating Laena’s estrangement from Daemon.
• Redd proposed eliminating Corlys and Rhaenys to secure Velaryon support for Rhaenyra, then secretly ordered Mysaria to arrange an accident, and Tormund learned Corlys was the target, intercepted the pirates, and foiled the attack.
• Redd shifted to spreading suspicion about Corlys’s alleged ties to Tormund, and Rhaenyra repeated the rumor to Viserys, who ordered Otto to investigate and monitor Driftmark’s fleet.
• Otto gathered reports suggesting links between Tormund’s pirates and Velaryon ships, spread further suspicion, and prompted Viserys to doubt Corlys despite Corlys’s efforts to defend his house.
• Otto urged Viserys to draw Laena and Laenor away from Corlys, build a royal fleet, and gradually reduce Driftmark’s power, and Viserys ordered cautious preparations, and Redd chose not to interfere yet.

Redd, Daemon, and Corlys pursued Tormund through the Stepstones, where Tormund’s hidden sea dragon and a colossal deep-sea beast transformed the campaign into a battle for survival. King Ghidorah killed the beast, while Daemon revealed that he had restored Caraxes in a new form and privately reconsidered his options.

• Viserys ordered Daemon to establish a Blackwater Bay fleet and sent Redd to lead an eastern campaign against Tormund, forcing Corlys to support the effort with Driftmark ships.
• Corlys secretly aided Tormund and concealed Raging Tide, the sea dragon that had rescued him, while Daemon and Redd searched Grey Gallows Island.
• Tormund and Raging Tide attacked Redd’s flagship, then escaped into a cave as Daemon and Redd’s forces prepared to smoke them out.
• Tormund smashed a mysterious black statue, summoning a colossal wave and a serpentine sea beast that devastated the island and fleet.
• The sea beast injured Caraxes and nearly swallowed Daemon, but King Ghidorah intervened and fought it across the waters.
• Daemon admitted that Caraxes had died and that he had preserved its soul in a new form with someone’s help.
• King Ghidorah killed the wounded sea beast with Gravity Beams, while Daemon reassessed its power and considered his options.

After Corlys’s death and Daemon’s seizure of the Stepstones, Redd maneuvered against the Three Daughters Alliance and forced Viserys to confirm Rhaenyra as heir. The arc left Redd preparing to confront Daemon while warning Alicent that her child must not challenge Rhaenyra’s claim.

• Redd and Daemon concealed the circumstances of Corlys’s death, while Daemon took charge of the surviving Driftmark fleet and tried to gain influence over Rhaenys.
• Redd returned to Dragonstone and told Rhaenyra about Tormund, Raging Tide, Caraxes, and the sea beast, as Otto used the disaster to take control of the royal navy.
• After Corlys and Laenor died, Rhaenys declared herself ruler of Driftmark, while Daemon pursued an alliance with the Three Daughters Alliance over the Stepstones and Tormund.
• Alicent told Redd that Daemon and the Alliance sought the Stepstones and Tormund’s secrets, and Redd agreed to share information with her while demanding that Viserys formally confirm Rhaenyra as heir.
• Daemon proclaimed himself King of the Narrow Sea and the Stepstones with the Alliance’s support, prompting Rhaenyra to sail to King’s Landing and Redd to summon fifty thousand naval troops to Dragonstone.
• Viserys confirmed Rhaenyra as his sole heir, dismissed Otto, and appointed Lyonel Strong Hand of the King after Redd agreed to address Daemon, Dorne, and the Alliance within a year.
• Redd told Alicent that she and her child could retain royal status only if they did not challenge Rhaenyra, and warned that anyone contesting Rhaenyra’s claim would die.

Redd secured Alicent's submission, welcomed twins with Rhaenyra, and punished Criston Cole as Aegon's birth stirred succession plots. He then set out against Daemon and the Triarchy, seized the deserted Stepstones, and saved Douglas's fleet from an ambush before continuing toward Lys.

• Redd promised to protect Alicent and her child if she did not threaten Rhaenyra, then slept with her and later secured Rhaenyra's forgiveness for his affairs.
• Rhaenyra gave birth to Jaehaerys and Visenya, and Alicent's subsequent delivery of Aegon prompted the realm's powers to make secret succession plans.
• Mysaria reported Criston Cole's confession and threats to Redd, who castrated Cole before Rhaenyra dismissed him and ordered him out of King's Landing.
• Redd departed on King Ghidorah and destroyed the Lysene fleet attacking Douglas's ships, prompting Douglas to swear renewed loyalty.
• Redd claimed the Stepstones and learned that Daemon had sailed to Lys with his defenders after meeting black-robed strangers whom Redd suspected came from the Citadel.
• Douglas led the fleet toward Lys, where unnatural fog concealed an attack by fishmen and enormous sea creatures.
• Redd ordered King Ghidorah to disperse the fog and destroy the attackers, then vowed to settle the score in Lys as Nissa sensed her kin dying.