Spoilers for House of the Dragon season-two finale “The Queen Who Ever Was” and the book Fire & Blood follow.
It was catharsis in a finale full of cliff-hangers. The second season of House of the Dragon introduced Alyn and Addam of Hull, common-born brothers who are secretly the bastard sons of one of the show’s most powerful players, Lord Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint). “He chose to ignore us for the whole of season one, man!” jokes Abubakar Salim, who plays Alyn, a sailor and shipwright who’s the older of the two brothers. By the time of the finale, he’s had enough of the so-called Sea Snake’s too little, too late attempts to play the concerned father. Alyn delivers a searing rebuke of his father’s failings to the man’s face, letting out years of pain and resentment over being…
