‘House of the Dragon’ Star Phia Saban Explains Helaena and Daemon’s Vision: ‘Maybe It’s Not That Literal’

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Michaela Zee SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for HBO’s “House of the Dragon” Season 2 finale, titled “The Queen Who Ever Was,” now streaming on Max.

For much of “House of the Dragon,” Helaena Targaryen has spoken in riddles about what will unfold for the two factions within House Targaryen, the Greens and the Blacks.

That is, until the Season 2 finale, when she tells her brother Aemond (Ewan Mitchell): “Aegon will be king again.” As for the one-eyed Prince Regent, he’ll be dead. “You were swallowed up in the God’s Eye, and you were never seen again,” Helaena says to him.

All the trauma Helaena’s endured this season, from her son Jaehaerys’ murder to the smallfolk attacking her and her mother Alicent (Olivia Cooke) outside the Sept, has led to this moment of clarity, Phia Saban explains. “The present is a little bit too painful to live in for now, so she’s managed to step more forthrightly into this otherness — and that’s why this moment felt so clear to her,” Saban tells Variety. “She’s not fighting it as much anymore.” Helaena is not involved in only one major prophecy in the finale; she also appears in Daemon’s weirwood tree-induced vision at Harrenhal. “It’s all a story.