It warms your heart as a “Game Of Thrones” fan: with “House Of The Dragon” not only the game for the Iron Throne has started again, but also the game with the prophecies. In addition to the vision of his ancestor Aegon, mentioned by King Viserys Targaryen (Paddy Considine), who foresaw the threat of the White Walkers, the casual statements of his daughter Helaena (Evie Allen) prove of great importance.
For example, in episode 6, Helaena predicted that her brother Aemond (Leo Ashton) would get a dragon, but in return would “close” one eye – just like in episode 7. And in the current episode “House Of The Dragon” it’s the worth listening again when Helaena speaks:
At the memorial service in honor of Laena Velaryon, Helaena plays with a spider while casting a seemingly meaningless joke: “Hand on the loom, black as charcoal, green as fern. Dragons of flesh weave dragons of yarn.” In doing so, she foretells the coming civil war between the two warring factions of House Targaryenthat forms the core of House Of The Dragon.
The so-called “Dance of the Dragons” is played between two sides: The Greens around Alicent (Olivia Cooke) and the Blacks around Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy). Green lights the beacon atop the High Tower, home of Alicent’s family, we learned that in episode 5 when Alicent’s green dress became a kind of declaration of war. And black is House Targaryen’s traditional crest color.
But how exactly are Helaena’s words to be understood? What has the loom got to do with it, and the flesh-flyer and the yarn-flyer? This probably means: that the warring Targaryen factions (“dragons of flesh”) are already weaving their Targaryen flags (“dragons of yarn”) for the coming war and each time with green (Alicent & Co.) or black (Rhaenyra & Co.) fabric.
Or to translate this into a more common metaphor: The two Targaryen factions are already sharpening knives, except one sharpens green knives and the other black knives.
Helaena’s new prophecy should then lose all its meaning by “House Of The Dragon” Episode 9 and Episode 10 at the latest. Those episodes are titled “The Green Council” and “The Black Queen.” But the first episode 8 will come on October 10, 2022.