There's an Important Message in That Page Alicent Sent Rhaenyra in House of the Dragon

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There is a warning in this post about House of the Dragon.

There is a blink-and-you-miss-it moment in the season finale of House of the Dragon.

Rhaenyra terms of peace are offered by the father of Alicent. Aegon will allow Rhaenyra to keep Dragonstone if she bends the knee to him. Rhaenyra gets an envelope. Rhaenyra pulls out a page from a book after opening it.

The first dragon fight is different from the books.

Alicent read it to Rhaenyra at the beginning of the season while the two sat under a tree. In the history book, there is a mention of Princess Nymeria, who is the name of the direwolf in Game of Throne.

Rhaenyra seems to be paying little attention to the lesson, but when Alicent gets fed up and leaves, Rhaenyra begins rattling off facts. Ten thousand ships crossed the Narrow Sea to escape the enemies of the Valyrians. She burned her fleet to show her people that they wouldn't be on the run.

Daemon was singing to the house of the dragon.

Rhaenyra wipes the page out of the book and gives it to Alicent. Alicent sent the page back to Rhaenyra because she remembered a time when the two were friends.

Alicent might have understood the irony of her actions if she'd read up more on the topic. In the scene under the tree, Rhaenyra doesn't say so, but the house of the Princess of Dorne took over after years of conquest. She drove back a couple of invasions and survived over a dozen assassination attempts. The matriarch abolished gender-based succession in the area.

After leading a coup to place her son on the throne, Rhaenyra was sent a history of a ruler who abolished gender-based succession. When Alicent told the Queen Who Never Was, Rhaenys, last week that she was better suited to rule than Viserys, it was eye roll inducing.

The Targaryen family tree is broken down on House of the Dragon.

Alicent seems incapable of imagining herself throwing off the shackles of the patriarchy and would rather create a window in her prison. It would be great if she read more of that book.