The world of "House of the Dragons" has a pretty major difference from the one viewers got to know in "Game of Thrones": There are a lot more dragons. In the new prequel series, the Targaryens and their dragons have been ruling Westeros for generations. Princess Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock) flies on Syrax, Prince Daemon (Matt Smith) is bonded with Caraxes, and the skull of Balerion the Dread has a place of honor in the Red Keep. Meanwhile, in the first season of "Game of Thrones," dragons are extinct. When Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) is gifted dragon eggs at her wedding to Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa), she's told they're fossilized. But when she places them on his funeral pyre and walks into the flames, in the morning she wakes with her three dragons: Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion.
In episode two of "House of the Dragon," Daemon briefly steals an egg of the dragon Dreamfyre, which Rhaenyra ultimately retrieves from him and returns to the Dragonpit. This momentary theft actually mirrors a very popular theory about where Daenerys's dragon eggs came from. Let's break it down.
When Daenerys receives the dragon eggs from Magister Illyrio in the first book of George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, he tells her they're "from the Shadow Lands beyond Asshai." He adds, "The eons have turned them to stone, yet still they burn bright with beauty." Legend has it that the first dragons came the Shadow Lands, which makes it possible that the dragon eggs are completely unrelated to the dragons the Targaryens brought to Westeros from Valyria.
However, many book readers believe there's another place the eggs could have come from, and it all goes back to Dreamfyre, who was born during the reign of Aegon the Conqueror.
As documented in the book "Fire and Blood," Dreamfyre laid multiple clutches of dragon eggs. Dreamfyre's main rider was Princess Rhaena, Aegon's granddaughter.
During a time of restlessness, Rhaena fled with Dreamfyre to Fair Isle. By that point, Dreamfyre had already laid two clutches of eggs, and she added a third clutch shortly after their arrival. Rhaena and her dragon fled and ended up at Casterly Rock, where Lord Lyman Lannister wanted one of the eggs. Rhaena refused, but everywhere she went, someone wanted one of the eggs. Eventually she and Dreamfyre both took up residence at the Targaryen seat, Dragonstone, and the eggs hatched.
At some point during their time there, Rhaena's friend Elissa Farman, wanting a way to escape Westeros, stole three eggs from the hatcheries in Dragonstone and successfully fled to Braavos. It's likely those eggs were also Dreamfyre's. She sold the eggs and used the money to finally build her own boat and sail away. Neither Elissa nor the dragon eggs are ever returned, and there are never reports of the eggs hatching abroad.
Many book readers believe that those three eggs are the ones that eventually ended up being presented to Daenerys at her wedding feast. It would, of course, be apt for the Targaryen heir to receive the last eggs of the Targaryen dragons.
So while the egg we saw in episode two is certainly not Drogon, Rhaegal, or Viserion, it's very possible that egg is one of their siblings.
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