Recaps

Redd forced Viserys to confirm Rhaenyra and Jaehaerys as heirs and secured passage for his fleet, then left Westeros to lead an expedition toward the Valyrian Peninsula. As the fleet departed Volantis, he learned Rhaenyra had tried to take the children and ordered Dragonstone to keep them there.

• Redd confronted Rhaenyra about her weakness and demanded that Viserys name Jaehaerys Prince of Dragonstone, then used King Ghidorah’s threat to secure Viserys’s recognition of Rhaenyra and Jaehaerys as heirs and permission for his fleet to enter Blackwater Bay.
• Redd returned to Dragonstone, entrusted its affairs to Mysaria, and prepared to leave with King Ghidorah and the Demon Dragons for the Valyrian Peninsula.
• Redd departed Dragonstone on Ehm and flew to Volantis, where he reviewed the expedition’s supplies and chose a northeastern bay as the fleet’s first landing site.
• Redd read Mysaria’s report that Rhaenyra had tried to take command of the Dragonstone fleet and bring the children to King’s Landing, then ordered the garrison to stop anyone attempting to remove them.
• Douglas made up the food shortfall by slaughtering warhorses, and the first twenty warships sailed from Volantis as King Ghidorah, Ehm, and three hundred Demon Dragons joined them overhead.

Redd and his forces crossed the Smoking Sea and established a camp on the Valyrian Peninsula, where cursed creatures and organized armies attacked through the night. After King Ghidorah devastated the battlefield, Redd followed the surviving half-orcs’ tracks to a deep mine.

• Redd’s fleet crossed the Smoking Sea and landed at a sheltered bay, where King Ghidorah and the Demon Dragon Legion cleared the land around the camp.
• As black mist transformed creatures across the peninsula, Redd’s army defended the camp against a monster attack until King Ghidorah and the Demon Dragons burned the creatures away.
• Sandworms erupted beneath the camp, seized several Demon Dragons, and forced King Ghidorah to destroy them as the camp’s defenses collapsed.
• An organized force of half-orcs advanced on the camp, and Redd’s soldiers fought them until a huge subterranean worm emerged and attacked King Ghidorah.
• King Ghidorah killed the worm and swept the battlefield with Gravity Beams, while Redd ordered his soldiers to retreat from the advancing trolls and half-orcs.
• King Ghidorah unleashed a vast lightning storm that destroyed the enemy forces and devastated the battlefield.
• Redd ordered Douglas to count losses and restore the camp, then learned that surviving half-orcs had retreated underground toward a fracture zone.
• Redd, Douglas, and King Ghidorah followed the tracks to a circular fissure and found a staircase descending into a deep mine.

Redd cleared the surface around Valyria, began rebuilding the ruined city, and then faced Sauron’s underground forces after they attacked his camp. He drove the Half-orcs from their stronghold but let the wounded Sauron escape, leaving the altars and deeper passages as the next target.

• Redd refused to enter the mine and killed a black-armored rider who warned him to leave the peninsula.
• Redd ordered the Demon Dragon Legion to clear the surface and arranged food shipments as the camp expanded and the harbor was built.
• Redd began planning Valyria’s reconstruction, while Douglas concealed reports of unrest and shortages in the Free Cities.
• As the curse faded, the underground altars collapsed and opened a fissure from which Sauron, the Balrog, and a fire dragon emerged.
• Sauron sent Earth Serpents and Half-orcs to attack Redd’s camp, but Redd returned with King Ghidorah and routed the invaders at the cost of fourteen Demon Dragons.
• Redd repaired the camp, mapped the underground passages, and led an expedition into the mines, where he found an altar and a fortified Half-orc stronghold.
• Redd met Sauron in the underground plaza and rejected his offer of peaceful coexistence and Rings of Power.
• Redd ordered King Ghidorah to attack, wounding Sauron and routing the Half-orcs, while the Balrog carried Sauron away through a deeper passage.

Redd rebuilt Valyria City, strengthened his Demon Dragon forces, and crushed the Red God Church’s power across the Free Cities. Laena died from greyscale, and Redd left Douglas in charge of Valyria City before flying to Dragonstone for her funeral.

• Redd abandoned plans to reopen the dangerous passage underground, ordered construction of an Underground Dragonpit, and directed the rebuilding of Valyria City.
• Redd used Demon Dragons to raid the Dothraki and seized their people, horses, and pastures, while King Ghidorah redirected the Fourteen Flames to make the city’s surroundings safer and more fertile.
• Laena visited Valyria City, saw the Demon Dragons working, and questioned Redd about rebuilding the Freehold and supporting Rhaenyra, and Redd said he would build his own kingdom and act as he saw fit.
• After Laena contracted greyscale, Redd sent Douglas with fifty Demon Dragons to confront the Red God Church, whose allies ambushed Douglas in Pentos.
• Douglas, Theora, and Marcus carried out Redd’s order to purge armed religious groups across the Free Cities, then restored order and tightened control over the armies and administrations.
• Redd completed Valyria City’s reconstruction and expanded Demon Dragon breeding and training, while Mysaria warned that Douglas, Theora, and Marcus had accumulated power.
• Mysaria and Rhaenyra informed Redd that Laena had chosen to die by Vhagar’s fire, and Rhaenys and Rhaenyra invited him to her funeral.
• Redd flew to Volantis, questioned Douglas about whether he would betray him, and left him responsible for Valyria City before departing for Dragonstone.