How Game Of Thrones: House Of The Dragon Created All New Targaryens

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Game of Thrones may have brought all kinds of fictional families and dynasties into the spotlight--the Starks and their giant fur cloaks and winter-based slogans, the Lanniesters and their money, the Greyjoys and their ships and squids; but you'd be hard pressed to find a name among them with more impact and immediate recognition than the Targaryens. Despite being represented by exactly one person, Daenerys, for the vast majority of Game of Thrones' eight-season run, House Targaryen rapidly became one of the most loved (or loathed, depending on who you were talking to) families in the whole of Westeros.

Now, HBO and George R.R. Martin are giving fans a chance to get to know them better through the brand new series, House of the Dragon, set two hundred years before the events of Game of Thrones proper. If the name weren't enough to give it away, House of the Dragon focuses almost exclusively on the Targaryens at the height of their power--gone are the days of just Dany running around, making questionable decisions on her own. Now, a Targaryen king rules from the Iron Throne with his entire platinum-blonde, dubiously moral family at his side.

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But how do you go about recreating the image of the Targaryens for fans who have already gotten to know them so well the first time around? Sure, Dany may have been solo as Game of Thrones wound down and eventually ended, but she was also one of the most prominent characters in