What About Laenor?

House of the Dragon has never been shy about bending the written histories of its source material, Fire & Blood. God knows the history books don’t get everything right. But dragonrider lore is a bit more fickle in the world of Westeros, and one of HotD’s major deviations from George R.R. Martin’s book, the “death” of Laenor Velayron, now challenges an important dragon-riding tradition: the idea that dragons cannot claim more than one rider at a time.

See, in season one, Rhaenyra Targaryen’s first husband...