Though this teaser is only just over a minute long, it packs quite a bit of exciting imagery within it. As the voiceover in the teaser indicates “Gods, kings, fire, and blood. And those dragons are pretty important, you see.
This is when a crisis of succession leads to an enormous civil war that devastates the continent and kills off a large percentage of House Targaryen’s dragons. House of the Dragon is set to cover a major event in Westerosi history known as the Dance of the Dragons. Surely, no petty family squabble over succession could possibly ruin such a great thing! Unfortunately for the Targaryen family, George R.R. They’ve got all the dragons they could want and things are going great in Westeros.
The Targaryen dynasty is on its fifth king of the Seven Kingdoms. This story is a prequel that picks up roughly 200 years before the events of the epic HBO series.