House of the Dragon S2 Minor Detail May Have Just Changed Everything For Aemond

House of the Dragon ’s brand new season 2 has tormented its viewers for long enough to eventually give them too much action to process, and it doesn’t only have to do with Rhaenys’ death.

The whole tension between the Blacks and the Greens wasn’t much bigger than some inner circle issues within the Green team. One of them got transferred to the battlefield in Rook’s Rest.

The show’s latest episode titled The Red Dragon and the Gold captured a shocking plot twist, basically proving that Aemond has been scheming against his dull-witted brother and eventually brought the latter down alongside his dragon Sunfyre.

Additionally, the episode’s closing scene featured a detail that not many may have considered a foreshadowing moment for Aemond’s bigger role in the future.

The episode’s ending sees Ser Criston Cole rushing into the woods to check on Aegon after the latter’s fall, yet what he doesn’t expect to see there is Aemond being audacious enough to grab his brother’s Valyrian steel dagger and then walking away as if nothing had happened.

Aemond’s decision to steal the dagger from his brother might be a major spoiler for what’s coming in House of the Dragon’s following episodes since the Valyrian steel weapon is a pure symbol of the Targaryens’ legitimacy and power inherited from the past rulers.

While Aegon’s fate is still in question and he’s very likely to get bedridden after being severely burnt in the fight with Rhaenys, Aemond may have just found a perfect moment to claim his candidacy as a new ruler since Aegon isn’t able to reign properly, and he actually has solid reasons for thinking of himself as the right king.

Unlike Aegon, who has been long proving his incapability to resolve problems like another wise king would do, Aemond is in fact a much better challenger for the Iron Throne, though he has never even been considered so.

Apart from being generally shrewd and quick-witted, Aemond has always taken the King’s role much more seriously as he’s fluent in High Valyrian (Aegon, in his turn, isn’t even able to come up with simplest phrases), rides the biggest dragon that Westeros has ever seen, knows the history of his family and has a much better reputation at the council than his ruling brother.

All that combined thus makes Aemond a much better fit for the throne, and Aegon’s possible severe wounds give him yet another incentive to believe that not so much time will pass until he’s proclaimed a new King.