House of the Dragon Episode 6 was released, and it was a time jump where all the characters grew and moved forward in their lives. An arc in this episode was about Daemon and his wife, Laena Velaryon. Laena was the rider of the greatest dragon in the world, Vhagar. She was pregnant and has two daughters with Daemon.
As the episode unfolds, we see Laena in labor and struggling to give birth. The maester who was treating Laena at the moment approached Daemon and confessed that he lacked the skills to deliver normally. He proposed that the uterus be opened to try to deliver. But it was not certain that the baby would survive.
Daemon asks the maester if the mother would survive it, and the answer was NO! It was then that Laena got up from her treatment bed and decided something dark for herself.
Laena didn’t want to share the same fate as Aemma Arryn
Adult Laena Velaryon
The whole childbirth scenario here reflects the situation of King Viserys I, when he had to choose between having an heir or saving his wife Aemma. He made a bet that cost him both his wife and his son, Baelon. It was a savage decision, news of which spread like wildfire across the Seven Kingdoms. All living and speaking creatures of the realm and the seven realms were unhappy with the decision made by Viserys.
And, Laena knew it too! She knows a Targaryen could just give up his wife to have a son. And as Laena accepted her fate that Daemon no longer loved her, she believed he would trade her for the baby and accept Maester’s decision. She did not want to suffer the fate of Aemma Arryn and wanted to die by the fire of her own dragon, Vhagar.
Vhagar hesitated to burn his master, but eventually the order must be followed. Laena gave her life to die peacefully without going through this tremendous pain.
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