The opening credits to HouseOfTheDragon reflect the changing of the Houses and new bloodlines. We break down each episode's credit sequences.
Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for Episodes 1-9 of House of the Dragon.From Ramin Djawadi's unforgettable theme to that beautiful Weirwood tree in bloom, the opening sequence to Game of Thrones sure was a thing to behold. Even in Season 8, when the show was far from its prime, the intro remained a sight for soon to be sore eyes. However, it took some fans a while to realize that the series opening wasn't just pretty, it also told its own story. Well, kind of.
Located in Essos, Old Valyria is a now ruined city that is the ancestral home of House Targaryen, as well as of House Velaryon. Thus, after giving us a good look at the imposing buildings of Old Valyria, the camera zooms in on the Targaryen crest, with the fire-breathing three-headed dragon. The blood that comes out of Aegon’s cog runs through the sigil of his two wives, his sisters Visenya and Rhaenys. Both of them are also flooded, and we follow Rhaenys' bloodline to a sigil that stands for her son with Aegon, King Aenys.
Initially, we follow two of Jaehaerys and Alysanne’s children’s bloodlines: Aemon’s and Baelon’s. Both died before their father. Jaehahery’s firstborn son, Aemon, was the father of Princess Rhaenys , who went up against Viserys in the Great Council of Harrenhal for a seat at the Iron Throne. Since Rhaenys lost the vote, and Viserys is Baelon’s son, it’s Baelon’s bloodline that we end up following to the end.
The camera pans away from the main bloodline to show us two other cogs that, much like the Velaryons, have a huge impact in House of the Dragon’s fight for the throne: Otto and Alicent Hightower’s . Lord Otto sits at the top of a high tower and his blood flows in the shape of an L to his daughter, a bit lower on the model.