Daemon Targaryen of House of the Dragon has had much to say about his wife from the Vale but now we’ll finally get to see her ourselves.

Ahead of House of the Dragon‘s fifth episode, we have just received our first look at Rhea Royce. Up until this moment in the series, Rhea has only been spoken of, and not very fondly at that.

Daemon often made her out to be boring and miserable, even referring to her as, “my bronze bitch,” on occasion. Now, we finally get our first look at Rhea, and hopefully, in Episode 5, we will see even more of her.

Up until now, it has only been Daemon’s viewpoint of the Royce matriarch but I can only hope that the series works to develop her character in a way that differs from Daemon’s account.

“Rhea Royce will appear in #HouseOfTheDragon E5 She is the wife of Daemon Targaryen”

Speaking of Daemon, a recent theory that fans have had still remains unresolved.

In House of the Dragon Episode 4, a certain loose end from the previous episode cropped up again in a scene in which Prince Daemon’s neck is exposed to the audience. When Viserys leap on top of Daemon, brandishing the Catspaw dagger to his neck, a patch of his skin appears to be in a damaged state.

Whether it’s a scar, a birth defect, a burn, or greyscale is still yet to be known. However, given the information we received last episode, many viewers are thinking the damaged skin could be Greyscale that the King of the Stepstones contracted (possibly) while slaying Prince Drahar.

In the previous episode of House of the Dragon, Episode 3, Prince Daemon Targaryen finally manages to kill Prince Drahar, or the Crabfeeder, in single combat. This was the culmination of a multi-year war for the Stepstones between the Triarchy of Free Cities and the alliance between Daemon Targaryen and Corlys Velaryon.

When Daemon emerged from the cave in which he slew Drahar, he was holding the remains of the Crabfeeder’s body by his wrist. This prompted many to begin speculating, as the showrunners recently confirmed that Drahar was afflicted by Greyscale. When the two made contact, it wasn’t clear if Drahar’s wrist was affected by the disease, which is infamous for spreading by contact.

Fans now think it is a possibility that Daemon contracted the deadly disease, at that moment, but we have yet to see the outcome. Greyscale is seemingly random with how fast it spreads, which serves nicely as a plot point that the storytellers can bend however they like to fit their needs.

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