Has Alicent Hightower Become Powerless In House Of The Dragon Season 2? Explored (2024)

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Has Alicent Hightower Become Powerless In House Of The Dragon Season 2? Explored? ›

With both the late king and her father, Otto, now out of the picture, Alicent has practically lost all of her power. This loss of power comes not only from her son, who now sits on the Iron Throne, but also from Ser Criston Cole (Fabian Frankel), who has become a close confidant of the king.

Tragically, House of the Dragon's Alicent Hightower dies alone of winter fever in the Red Keep two years after the war, having grown to hate the color green.

Alicent Hightower's Death, Explained

Alicent dies alone in a cell below the Red Keep after contracting Winter Fever, it is revealed in Fire & Blood. She spends the final years of her life in this cell with little contact with the outside world, and ironically she slowly begins to hate the color green.

Otto Is Executed By Rhaenyra

In the book, it's his decision to utilize the Triarchy against the Velaryon fleet, not Aemond's, but he sets this act in motion before he's removed as hand. Eventually, when Rhaenyra takes King's Landing, Otto is in the city, and she executes him upon capturing the Red Keep.

Ser Gerold Hightower, the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, was killed at the tower of joy. The Hightowers knelt to the new king, Robert I Baratheon, after the defeat of the Targaryens.

Alicent has betrayed the Greens, offering King's Landing on a silver platter to Rhaenyra. The question remains whether Rhaenyra will honor her word and let Alicent go free or capture her.

Alicent and Rhaenyra's Secret Love Is the Heart of 'House of the Dragon'

Aemond and Daemon kill each other during a duel above the Gods Eye lake near Harrenhal.

Thus died Aegon the second of his name in 131 AC, dead by poison. Who exactly poisoned the king remains unknown to history, though twenty-two men would later be arrested for the crime.

She acknowledges that she shamed Rhaenyra for having a lover and acted hypocritically when she later took one herself. And she was wrong to back her dolt of a son to be king over her capable friend. In short, Alicent sided with the patriarchy (her father, her husband, her sons, the world's worst toxic boyfriend, a.k.a.

Is Otto Hightower imprisoned? ›

At the end of the House of the Dragon season 2 finale, we saw Otto Hightower held in captivity in a small dungeon where he was locked behind iron bars. For the longest time, there hadn't been any mention of Otto Hightower after he lost his title of the Hand of the King.

While Otto is well aware of the fact that Alicent herself is not fit to be the best queen, he hopes that Aegon ends up on the throne at the end of the Dance of the Dragons.

Although his whereabouts were never confirmed, we presumed that the Hightower Lord simply went back to his home in Oldtown to be with his grandson Daeron Targaryen. After his firing, Otto tells his daughter Alicent "I'll return to Oldtown,” adding, "Daeron may yet help us in the weeks to come."

Despite Alicent Surviving, House Hightower Struggled In Subsequent Years. Following the Dance of the Dragons, House Hightower comes into opposition with the Faith of the Seven. Lyonel Hightower intended to marry his father's widow, Lady Samantha Tarly, but the High Septon forbade the union due to incest.

Poor Alicent doesn't exactly meet an epic end. Instead of dying via dragon or even at the pointy end of a blade, Alicent passes away thanks to a bout of Winter Fever.

The episode confirms that King Viserys did not want Aegon II to be his successor.

In a stunning turn, Alicent also agrees to sacrifice her firstborn son, Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney), whom Rhaenyra needs to kill in order to solidify her claim. In exchange, Alicent will be allowed to take her daughter Helaena (Phia Saban) and granddaughter Jaehaera away from King's Landing to live in peace.

Season 3 will have the return of Otto Hightower in the story, but not without revealing what actually happened to him, and who caught him this badly. As per the Book of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin, Rhaenyra does become the Queen, and sits on the Iron Throne, but not without going through tons of battle.

The Dowager Queen opposed the marriage of Jaehaera to the new king and was absent from the ceremony. She once terrified her granddaughter by suggesting she slit Aegon's throat. Since Alicent refused to be reconciled, Ser Tyland Lannister, the Hand of the King, ordered her confined to Maegor's Holdfast.