Daemon Targaryen is the three-eyed raven

Warning: Contains spoilers for Fire and Blood, the book on which House of the Dragon is based.There are various theories about Daemon Targaryen’s fate House of the DragonIncluding connections to width Game of Thrones Study. Is he the night king? Is he the three-eyed raven? Does he go off to live happily-ever-after with Nettles, the Dragonsaid character the show cut? Is he reincarnated as Hot Pie? Only one of these is not a legitimate theory, which are fueled by House of the Dragon Season 2’s finale.

The finale, “The Queen Who Ever Was,” pays off a strange season for the rogue Prince (sorry, King… Consort), with Daemon having visions of Daenerys Targaryen, a White Walker, and, intriguingly, the Three-Eyed Raven. Much of this was to get him back on Rhaenyra Targaryen’s side, and to set up his looming battle with Aemond Targaryen, likely for House of the Dragon season 3. But could the visions—and the raven in particular—actually mean even more to his story beyond what’s written in George RR Martin’s Fire & Blood?

What happens to Daemon Targaryen is not 100% confirmed

Some believe he survives (although I’m not convinced)

in Fire & BloodDaemon eventually comes face to face with his nephew, Aemond, in one of the most epic fights of the Dance of the Dragons. After a while searching the Riverlands, Daemon and his dragon, Caraxes, clashes with Aemond and his own dragon, Vhagar, in what is known as the Battle Above the God’s Eye. Taking place over the God’s Eye lake, which is near Harrenhal, It’s a fiery, furious battle that ends when Daemon leaps onto Vagar and drives his sword into Aemond’s empty eye socket..

All four combatants go crashing into the lake and die, but the rub is that, unlike the others, Daemon’s body was never found. This does not mean that it is likely that he survived, because the battle and collision in the water killed two huge dragons, but it means that it is possible. There are not only fan theories that he is still alive after the dance, but also in-universe claims and songs about him.

The most common of these is that he went to live with Nettles, a dragonrider allied with Sheepstealer in the bookwith whom Daemon develops an extremely close bond. Nettles and Sheepstealer survive the dance and their last known whereabouts were deep in the mountains in the valley, and so the thought goes that Daemon was with them. Again, this is not the most likely option, but further points to the fact that Daemon may have survived. And if this is an idea House of the Dragon Decided to play with – since it enjoys taking its own view of history – then it can go further.

House of the Dragon revealed connections between Daemon and the Three-Eyed Raven

Daemon saw Brynden Rivers in a vision, but there’s more to it than that

If House of the Dragon Determined to keep Daemon alive, could it make him the Three-Eyed Raven? This would be a huge twist and improve a lot of what is known about Game of Thrones Study, but the show was laying the groundwork for him. Daemon’s visions in Harrenhal typically came through a connection to weirwood trees—his bed, apparently the pulp that Alys Rivers made, or the tree itself—which is also how the Three-Eyed Raven operates.

Indeed, Demon with strange dreams and visions and having this connection to the weirwood trees is no different to Bran StarkWhat does the three-legged raven become? Game of Thrones. House of the Dragon The connection with the raven more openly, however, by showing Brynden Rivers in Daemon’s vision in the season 2 finale: he is the young Targaryen man with a raven-shaped, blood-colored birthmark on his cheek (and from which a raven flies in the vision).

Daemon is directly related to Brynden: He and Renira are his grandparents. Their second son becomes King Viserys II Targaryen; His son becomes King Aegon IV Targaryen, and Brynden is one of his bastard children. As a further link, Brynden also wielded Dark Sister, the Valyrian steel sword that belonged to Daemon in House of the Dragon. Both characters have their connections to magic – Daemon with his visions, while Brynden was alleged to be a sorcerer, but this may well have been greensight – and each lusts for power and manipulates political events.

It is unknown how Brinden became the Three-Eyed Raven, although there is a clear beginning of an explanation: he was later sent to the Wall, where he rose to become Lord Commander. He went missing during an expedition, and was never seen again, but at some point afterwards, became the Three-Eyed Raven (although his identity was more of a theory until House of the Dragon Season 2’s finale revealed Brynden in the vision).

Demon being the three-eyed raven is more believable than him being the Night King

The Night King theory was debunked by Game of Thrones

Daemon being the Night King was a very popular theoryAnd it’s a fun one in a silly, tinfoil sense. There isn’t a huge amount of evidence for it, and a lot of what it is can easily be explained in different ways or hand-waved away, including:

The problem, of course, besides the evidence is a little thin, is that Game of Thrones Shown the origin story of ​​The Night King. He was a man turned by the Children of the Forest, and that would have pre-dated the Targaryens, never a demon, by thousands of years. Even allowing for a time loop, which itself stretches credulity massively, The man in Game of Thrones Didn’t look anything like a demon, which would need explaining.

In contrast, there Is A window of opportunity that would allow Daemon to become the Three-Eyed Raven. Brynden could keep the title Game of Thrones aAnd then he hands it over to Bran, but there were others. When talking about the night king in Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 2, Bran says:

– He will come for me. He tried before, many times, with many three-eyed ravens.

the story is We know absolutely nothing about the other three-eyed ravenWhich means that the idea that Demon becomes one cannot be ruled out. House of the Dragon Also introduced in the season 2 finale are the Green Men, an order that guards the Weirwood trees on the Isle of Faces in the Riverlands and are loyal to the Children of the Forest and thus, presumably, the Three-Eyed Raven. With one of the Green Men in Harrenal, this could be setting up Daemon’s rescue from the God’s Eye, and a bigger role with the Weirwood trees.

It’s certainly not a perfect theory by any means – for one, Daemon doesn’t have the blood of the first humans we know of, even though Brynden was half-Blacked (whose sigil literally has a weirwood tree on it). Second, the visions are seemingly shown to him by Alice, rather than him possessing a power such as greensight. However, unlike Demon Veil the Night King, there is enough wiggle room in canon, and certainly enough we don’t know about the Three-Eyed Raven, for it to be true.

Why House of the Dragon Season 3 Should Close the Demon Theories?

Demon’s Story is better with a permanent death

The theories about Daemon are fun, but I don’t think there is a way House of the Dragon Should go down for a couple of reasons. first of all, If Daemon becomes the Three-Eyed Raven, it starts to make the world feel smaller. This has already done a bit with his visions of Dany and the White Walkers, as it makes the franchise feel more intertwined and thus serves Game of Thrones More than his own story, and Daemon being the Three-Eyed Raven would just double down on that.

Second, Daemon’s ending is more fitting if he dies. Despite some connections, there isn’t really enough in his arc to strongly suggest him becoming the Three-Eyed Raven and spending decades in a tree beyond the Wall is a worthy payoff to his arc. In contrast, him leaving with an epic warrior’s death, going down with his dragon and taking his biggest rival with him, is a much more satisfying conclusion to his House of the Dragon History, and one I really hope they make definitive when the time comes.