House of the Dragon (TV Series)

We Light the Way (2022)

Paddy Considine: King Viserys I Targaryen

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• King Viserys Targaryen : Will I be remembered as a good king?

  Lord Lyonel Strong : Your Grace?

  King Viserys Targaryen : What will they say of me when the histories are written? I have neither fought nor conquered, nor suffered any great defeat.

  Lord Lyonel Strong : Some might call that good fortune.

  King Viserys Targaryen : It hardly makes a good song, does it? To be sung at feasts in a hundred years, five hundred.

  Lord Lyonel Strong : You have carried King Jaehaerys's legacy, and kept the realm strong. Is it not better to live in peace than to have songs sung after you are dead?

  King Viserys Targaryen : Perhaps. But there is a part of me wishes I'd been tested. I often think that in the crucible, I may have been forged a different man.

  Lord Lyonel Strong : Many that are tested only wish to have been spared it.