Emma D'Arcy credited as playing...
Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen
- Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen: For twenty years, the lords of this realm levied insults at my sons, behind my back.
- [pause]
- Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen: Well, then. Let us raise an army of bastards.
- Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen: [shouting] You stand before the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms... with a dragon of House Targaryen!
- Addam of Hull: [shouting] I had no design upon it!
- Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen: What do you want?
- Addam of Hull: To learn the ways of dragonriders. And to serve my Queen!
- [Addam kneels]
- Addam of Hull: Your Grace.
- [Rhaenyra walks a little closer, and stops when Seasmoke roars]
- Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen: You kneel quickly... for a man so suddenly elevated.
- Addam of Hull: This dragon came to me, not I to him. I have sweated blood in service of House Velaryon. I may appear lowborn... but I know much and more of service. And if the Gods call me to greater things, who am I to refuse them?
- [Rhaenyra approaches Addam]
- Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen: Stand.
- [Addam stands]
- Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen: What is your parentage?
- Addam of Hull: My mother was a shipwright. My father is... no one of consequence.
- Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen: Your ancestors, any of House Targaryen?
- Addam of Hull: We're not the sort of family to keep annals, Your Grace.
- Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen: What is your name?
- Addam of Hull: Addam... of Hull.
- Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen: You have done something... I feared impossible, Addam of Hull. I am glad of it. You think you can get him to Dragonstone?
- Addam of Hull: I can try.
- Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen: Targaryen blood was perhaps too thin in Ser Steffon Darklyn. If I can find others with a more direct line of breeding...
- Mysaria 'The White Worm': Forgive me, Your Grace, but you are better served looking under the sheets and in the woodpiles. I once worked in a pleasure house where generations of Targaryen princelings had their revels. There are four score of their bastard progeny at least, that are known to me. There are sure to be more. Perhaps some here, on Dragonstone, the misbegotten offspring of your house.
- Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen: You speak of the lowborn.
- Mysaria 'The White Worm': They are as like to serve you as highborn lords or ladies, perhaps more.
- Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen: But in the highborn houses there is an ancient fealty. There is honor.
- Mysaria 'The White Worm': Your royal half-brothers Aegon and Aemond, whose blood is pure, who wage war against you for your throne, are they bound by honor? A common shipwright vows to serve you while your brothers seek to destroy you. The order of things has changed, Your Grace. Why not embrace it?