House of the Dragon Just Teased a Velaryon Family Dinner That Could Change Everything in Season 3
‘House of the Dragon’ has spent its first two episodes of season three tearing through Westeros with naval warfare, a brutal coronation, and the kind of bloodshed that has defined Ryan Condal’s adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s ‘Fire & Blood’. Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen finally sits the Iron Throne after a costly campaign that claimed the life of her own son, and the fallout from that victory is still settling across the realm. With episode three on the horizon, fans are now getting their first real glimpse of what comes next for one of the show’s most quietly compelling families.
The Velaryons have endured their own gauntlet this season, with Lord Corlys Velaryon surviving being thrown overboard during the Battle of the Gullet and returning home to find his castle in ruins. His bastard sons Alyn and Addam of Hull, played by Abubakar Salim and Clinton Liberty, fought through that same battle, with Alyn delivering the finishing blow against Triarchy commander Sharako Lohar.
That backdrop is what makes a new set of images shared by fan account westerosies feel significant. The post showed Lord Corlys Velaryon, Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, Alyn of Hull, and Addam of Hull together in fresh stills from ‘House of the Dragon’ season three episode three, racking up over four thousand likes within hours of going live. The pictures show Corlys seated at a candlelit table, along with close shots of Alyn and Addam locked in quiet conversation, a tonal shift from the chaos of the season’s opening episodes.
According to the official first look photos released by HBO, Rhaenyra is shown hosting Corlys and his two sons for what appears to be a more intimate dinner inside the Red Keep, separate from a larger feast scene with assembled nobility shown elsewhere in the batch. It is a striking image given that, until last episode, the fact that Alyn and Addam were Corlys’ sons had been kept secret, and now the Sea Snake appears ready to legitimize them as Velaryons in front of the new queen herself.
Comicbasics noted that the timing of this private dinner tracks closely with where the Velaryon storyline currently stands, pointing out that Corlys was thrown overboard during the brutal Battle of the Gullet, leaving his fate uncertain for much of the premiere, though it has since been confirmed that he survives and remains central to the season going forward. That report also highlighted how Addam’s loyalty during his time guarding Harrenhal has positioned him as someone Rhaenyra can trust, which adds extra weight to his seat at her table in these new stills, a detail laid out in further analysis from Comicbasics’s coverage of the leaked photos.
‘House of the Dragon’ season three episode three is set to premiere on HBO and stream on HBO Max on Sunday, July 5 at 9 p.m. ET, continuing a season that has already reshaped the balance of power between the Blacks and the Greens. With Rhaenyra now wearing the crown and the Velaryon men finally being acknowledged as family rather than secrets, this dinner scene could end up carrying more emotional weight than any battle the show has staged so far this year.
Do you think Corlys is finally ready to embrace Alyn and Addam as his true heirs, or is this dinner setting up a betrayal nobody at that table is expecting?
