Hey everyone, David Chenier, what you're about to hear is a bonus episode that Kim Renfro and I recorded and we will be recording bonus episodes throughout the season over at decodingtv.com

If you want to get access to those episodes, sign up to be a member at decodingtv.com, support this podcast. The folks at decodingtv.com are making this show possible. So thank you so much if you're already a member.

In the meantime, we're releasing this first one for free and we hope you enjoy it. We talk about some really fun stuff that didn't make it into the rest of the episode.

Like what is the Doom of Valeria and who's that Maygor guy that was mentioned in the episode?

The only other thing I want to mention is that during this conversation we talked about ratings for House of the Dragon and the final ratings actually came out shortly after we recorded this.

Warner Bros Discovery revealed that around 10 million viewers across both linear and HBO Max tuned in to watch the first episode of House of the Dragon, which makes it the biggest HBO series premiere in its history.

It's still a little bit down from the Game of Thrones series finale, which had around 19.3 million viewers, but a very strong start for House of the Dragon.

Anyway, just wanted to offer that context before we get to this conversation. Enjoy.

Hey everyone, it's a cast of kings. This is a bonus segment for a cast of kings. Our follow up to episode one of season one, the eras of the dragon. I'm David Chen, I'm here with Kim Remfro.

Typically, these bonus episodes will only be available at decodingtv.com, but hey, from time to time we might release one on the main feed.

We are this time, just to let people know what these bonus segments are going to be all about.

We don't have a super firm plan, but in the case of this episode, what it's going to be is talking about a bunch of lore that we didn't get to during the main episode of the podcast.

So there's even though I thought our breakdown of episode one was pretty in depth, there was a bunch of things that we didn't get to.

A lot of things that were mentioned during the episode that we didn't get to talk about in depth. Of course, there is, or there are a few greater people in the world who are better equipped to talk about this thing Kim Remfro.

Very happy to have her here with us today to talk about some of the things that were mentioned. Let's talk about them. The doom of Valeria was something that was mentioned multiple times.

In this episode of House of Dragon, right?

Yeah, it's kind of no surprise that Targaryens would still be frequently referencing what's sometimes just called the doom.

The doom of very straight to the point. Yes, it was bad, bad times.

So the doom of Valeria is this event in history on planetose, where Essos and Westeros are located.

That George R. Martin has not given a ton of detail about, but we know that it was some sort of like cataclysmic event is how it's always described that there was some sort of like major disaster.

Think of like the meteor striking earth and killing all the dinosaurs type of thing.

That it was like a big extinction event that collapsed what was a very like thriving and sort of magical hub called Valeria. That's where the Targaryens are from. That's also where House Valerian, who you know, we talked about Lord Coralus Valerian.

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