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Warning: This article contains SPOILERS. House of the Dragon Season 3, Episode 3 adds to the show’s already expansive cast with another notable addition, Dan Fogler. The third installment is largely contained to King’s Landing, focusing on Rhaenyra Targaryen’s attempts at ruling now that she has finally taken the Iron Throne. That means dealing with many different requests and trying to please various different people, including meeting with the nobles of the city.
However, rather than bow down to them, Rhaenyra is opposed to their actions during the blockade, during which they stored food in their houses, leaving little but things like rats for the poor while also driving up prices. The new queen serves the nobles a feast of these rats, which is where Fogler’s character comes into it. He plays Torrhen Manderly, who is one of the guests in attendance, and has an interesting exchange with Rhaenyra about how he admires her bold move, and that it might even be enough to make the smallfolk forget it was her blockade that caused the problems.
Manderly comes from the pages of George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood, though arrives in different circumstances. In the book, when Jacaerys Velaryon visits Cregan Stark of Winterfell, he also flies to White Harbour to treat with Lord Desmond Manderly. Desmond sent his two sons, Torrhen and Medrick, south to aid Rhaenyra in the Dance of the Dragons. It’s unclear if that actually happened in the show and we simply didn’t see it, but what is clear is that Torrhen – named after Torrhen Stark, the last King in the North who knelt to Aegon the Conqueror – is here to advise the queen, and likely become a bigger part of her story.
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