Warning: The following story contains FULL SPOILERS for the end of House of the Dragon Season 1. While some things are teased for Season 2, there are no outright spoilers for upcoming episodes. When Season 2 of HBO's House of the Dragon returns on June 16, it will do so in the shadow of a devastasting event : the death of Lucerys Velaryon (Elliot Grihault) and his dragon Arrax at the hands — or jaws, really — of Aemond Targaryen's (Ewan Mitchell) dragon Vhagar.
For those who don't remember, at the end of Season 1 , Queen Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) sent her sons Jacaerys (Harry Collett) and Lucerys across Westeros to lobby for support for their efforts against Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke) and the rest of Team Green. Lucerys was assigned to Storm's End and its Baratheons and, unfortunately for him, Aemond was already there. After some baggage-laden theatrics, Lucerys is sent away, unable to compete with Aemond's proposal, but that's not enough.
Aemond and Vhagar follow Lucerys and Arrax through a storm and, in the chaos, Aemond loses control of his dragon. After Arrax hits Vhagar with a mouthful of fire, Vhagar snaps, chomping right through both Arrax and his young rider. It may have been an accident on Aemond's part, but it'll no doubt be the catalyst for a lot more tragedy and bloodshed in the episodes to come.
The cast of House of the Dragon sat down with IGN recently in two roundtables (one for Team Green, one for Team Black) that will air in full later this week, with one .
