‘House of the Dragon’ episode 7 ends with a welcome book departure

Warning: This article contains spoilers for House of the Dragon episode 7.

As fans are well aware by now, House of the Dragon’s primary resource—George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood—is full of contradictions about how certain events play out. But in the latest episode, sometimes even the ironclad events aren’t as set in stone as we thought they were.

“Driftmark” reunited Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) with her uncle Daemon (Matt Smith), and with it came one of the first questionable moves for the blacks...