We've just passed a halfway mark in season two of House of the Dragon, and episode five is something of a new beginning, a reset of sorts. It's called Regent.

Thanks to Aeman's new position, a big power shift, while the blacks are having leadership questions of their own.

Sir Simon tells Damon each side has suffered great loss and will be unsure of what's to come.

Blacks and Greens and all of Westeros must react to Rooks Rest, a battle that didn't go the way either side planned.

Foremost is the immediate reaction to the deaths of Princess Rainis and Maileas and the fall of King

Egon and Sunfire whose condition is uncertain, made more so by the green secrecy over his condition and their misdirection regarding what actually took place there.

For the blacks, there is much grief.

Kristen Cole hoped to awe the crowds of Kings Landing with the head of Malice claiming the kill was

made by the king himself, yet many wonder, where is the victorious king?

The dragon's head instead chills the crowd casting a deep fear over them.

The Commons had never seen Large Dragon killed.

This shattered a myth of their invincibility.

One bystander says this is a black omen, and that phrase has multiple meanings, one of which is that the blacks

will want revenge for the death of Mailes and the inhabitants of King's Landing fear being caught in the middle.

And they were already frightened, and beginning to starve.

Even Gwen Hightower says he's not sure they can call Rook's rest of victory,

not unlike the Battle of Burning Mill.

Two battles, two draws.

Otto Hightower would never have made this mistake, neither would Allison.

Yet now the Greens are fully prepared to cast wisdom and those who speak it aside in favor of

maximum carnage.

In death, Raney's his dire predictions about a war between Royal

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