The climactic battle of Home of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 4 revolves round Targaryen members of the family combating one another on the backs of their dragons. Whereas Aemond and Aegon II belong to the identical facet on this civil conflict, the previous seemingly tries to kill the latter, and the viewers wish to know the explanations behind it.
Right here is why Aemon tries to kill Aegon in Home of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 4.
Why did Aemond attempt to kill Aegon in Home of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 4?
Aegon’s look in the course of the Battle of Rook’s Relaxation appears to shock nearly everybody. The plan that Criston Cole made with Aemond evidently concerned the latter displaying up on Vhagar after the entice they set by attacking Rook’s Relaxation drew in one of many dragon riders from the Blacks’ facet. Neither thought-about the prospect of Aegon arriving on his comparatively younger dragon Sunfyre and taking over Rhaenys and her battle-hardened dragon, Meleys. Aemond even calls Aegon an “fool” whereas watching his older brother fly over him. Nevertheless, he neither tries to intercept Aegon nor be part of him within the battle.
It is just after Meleys has grabbed Sunfyre by the wing that Aemond assaults with Vhagar. Meleys and Rhaenys handle to maneuver away from the infernal fireplace of the oldest of all Targaryen dragons, however Aegon and Sunfyre catch the complete blast. Burned and damaged, Sunfyre falls to the bottom, and Aegon with him. Towards the top of the episode, Aemond finds the world the place his brother has fallen and raises his sword purportedly to kill him. Nevertheless, Criston Cole arrives and calls Aemond, prompting the youthful Targaryen sibling to sheath his sword.
Aemond undoubtedly has causes to harbor deep animosity towards his brother. Aegon was his greatest bully whereas they have been rising up. Even within the earlier episode, the King of the Greens publicly mocks arguably their best asset on this conflict after discovering him in a brothel. Additional, Home of the Dragon has hinted a number of occasions that Aemond is romantically concerned with Halaena and hates the truth that Aegon married her. Aemond additionally thinks that he would make a greater king for the Greens than Aegon ever can.
In George R. R. Martin’s Hearth & Blood, no sources point out that Aemond actively tried to kill Aegon in the course of the Battle of Rook’s Relaxation, although the previous makes his disdain and dislike for the latter clear a number of occasions in the course of the Dance of the Dragons. After the Battle of Rook’s Relaxation and with Aegon severely burned and incapacitated, Aemond began performing the duties of the king. He wore the crown of Aegon the Conqueror and purportedly claimed that “it regarded higher on me than it ever did on him [Aegon].” Nevertheless, he by no means proclaimed himself as king and used the titles the Protector of the Realm and Prince Regent as an alternative.
By bringing within the above-mentioned modifications, the sequence as soon as extra underscores how chaotic and damaging this conflict is for everybody concerned, Home Targaryen, and Westeros.
