House of the Dragon (TV Series)
The Heirs of the Dragon (2022)
Paddy Considine: King Viserys I Targaryen
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Quotes
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Otto Hightower : No one here can know what Daemon would do were he king, but no one can doubt his ambition. Look at what he did with the gold cloaks. The City Watch is fiercely loyal to him. An army two thousand strong.
King Viserys Targaryen : An army you gave him, Otto. I named Daemon Master of Laws, but you said he was a tyrant. As Master of Coin, you said he was a spendthrift that would beggar the realm. Putting Daemon in command of the City Watch was your solution!
Otto Hightower : A half-measure, Your Grace. The truth is, Daemon should be far away from this court.
King Viserys Targaryen : Daemon is my brother. My blood. And he will have his place at my court.
Grand Maester Mellos : Let him keep his place at court, Your Grace, but if the gods should visit some further tragedy on you, either by design or accident...
King Viserys Targaryen : Design? What are you saying? My brother would murder me, take my crown? Are you? Please. Daemon has ambition, yes, but not for the throne. He lacks the patience for it.
Otto Hightower : The gods have yet to make a man who lacks the patience for absolute power, Your Grace.
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King Viserys Targaryen : My wife and son are dead! I will not sit here and suffer crows that come to feast on their corpses!
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King Viserys Targaryen : There's something else that I need to tell you. It might be difficult for you to understand but you must hear it. Our histories... They tell us that Aegon looked across the Blackwater from Dragonstone and saw a rich land ripe for the capture. But ambition alone is not what drove him to conquest. It was a dream. And just as Daenys foresaw the end of Valyria, Aegon foresaw the end of the world of men. 'Tis to begin with a terrible winter gusting out of the distant north. Aegon saw absolute darkness riding on those winds. And whatever dwells within will destroy the world of the living. When this Great Winter comes, Rhaenyra, all of Westeros must stand against it. And if the world of men is to survive, a Targaryen must be seated on the Iron Throne. A king or queen strong enough to unite the realm against the cold and the dark. Aegon called his dream the Song of Ice and Fire. This secret, it's been passed from king to heir since Aegon's time. Now you must promise to carry it and protect it. Promise me this, Rhaenyra. Promise me.
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Young Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen : Everyone says Targaryens are closer to gods than to men but they say that because of our dragons. Without them, we're just like everyone else.
King Viserys Targaryen : The idea that we control the dragons is an illusion. They're a power man should never have trifled with. One that brought Valyria its doom. If we don't mind our own histories, it will do the same to us. Targaryen must understand this to be King... or Queen.
King Viserys Targaryen : I am sorry, Rhaenyra. I have wasted the years since you were born wanting for a son. You are the very best of your mother, and I now believe, as I know she did, that you could be a great ruling Queen.
