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In the book, the Battle of Honeywine consists of finally joining Daeron and Tessarion with the Hightower host, to save it from certain defeat at the banks of the river after Ormund's incessant letters to king's landing requesting for a dragon to help the host to advance. I'm curious how (and if) this will be adapted now that they sacrificed that element of surprise and reunion for a blink-and-you-miss-it tease in the final minutes of season 2.

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Fighting continued elsewhere in the realm as well, though those clashes were smaller than the great battle by the Gods Eye. In the Reach, Lord Hightower and his ward, Prince Daeron the Daring, continued to win victories, enforcing the submission of the Rowans of Goldengrove, the Oakhearts of Old Oak, and the Lords of the Shield Islands, for none dared face Tessarion, the Blue Queen.

Fire and Blood, The Dying of The Dragons - Rhaenyra Triumphant, p. 477.

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criston's death and daeron's revenge.

Whatever the reason, Ser Criston and Prince Aemond decided to part ways. Cole would take command of their host and lead them south to join Ormund Hightower and Prince Daeron, but the Prince Regent would not accompany them.

Fire and Blood, The Dying of The Dragons - Rhaenyra Triumphant, p. 474.

“Who are they?” a squire asked when the foe appeared, for they showed no arms but the queen’s.

“Our death,” answered Ser Criston Cole, for these foes were fresh, better fed, better horsed, better armed, and they held the high ground, whilst his own men were stumbling, sick, and dispirited.

Calling for a peace banner, King Aegon’s Hand rode out to treat with them. Three came down from the ridge to meet him. Chief amongst them was Ser Garibald Grey in his dented plate and mail. Pate of Longleaf was with him, the Lionslayer who had cut down Jason Lannister, together with Roddy the Ruin, bearing the scars he had taken at the Fishfeed. “If I strike my banners, do you promise us our lives?” Ser Criston asked the three of them.

“I made my promise to the dead,” Ser Garibald replied. “I told them I would build a sept for them out of traitors’ bones. I don’t have near enough bones yet, so…”

Ser Criston answered, “If there is to be battle here, many of your own will die as well.” The northman Roderick Dustin laughed at these words, saying, “That’s why we come. Winter’s here. Time for us to go. No better way to die than sword in hand.”

Ser Criston drew his longsword from its scabbard. “As you will it. We can begin here, the four of us. One of me against the three of you. Will that be enough to make a fight of it?”

But Longleaf the Lionslayer said, “I’ll want three more,” and up on the ridge Red Robb Rivers and two of his archers raised their longbows. Three arrows flew across the field, striking Cole in belly, neck, and breast. “I’ll have no songs about how brave you died, Kingmaker,” declared Longleaf. “There’s tens o’ thousands dead on your account.” He was speaking to a corpse.

p. 486, 487.

"Fresh from their victory at the Butcher’s Ball came Ser Garibald Grey and Longleaf the Lionslayer, with the head of Ser Criston Cole upon a spear, Red Robb Rivers and his archers, the last of the Winter Wolves (...)"

p. 492.

Tumbleton went up in flame: shops, homes, septs, people, all. Men fell burning from gatehouse and battlements, or stumbled shrieking through the streets like so many living torches. Outside the walls, Prince Daeron swooped down upon Tessarion. Pate of Longleaf was unhorsed and trampled, Ser Garibald Grey pierced by a crossbow bolt, then engulfed by dragonflame.

p. 495.

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Daeron joins the Hightower host

Obedient to his uncle’s entreaties, Lord Ormund Hightower had issued forth from Oldtown with a thousand knights, a thousand archers, three thousand men-at-arms, and uncounted thousands of camp followers, sellswords, freeriders, and rabble, only to find himself set upon by Ser Alan Beesbury and Lord Alan Tarly. Though commanding far fewer men, the two Alans harassed him day and night, raiding his camps, murdering his scouts, setting fires in his line of march. Farther south, Lord Costayne had issued forth from Three Towers to fall upon Hightower’s baggage train. Worse, reports had reached his lordship that a host equal in size to his own was descending on the Mander, led by Thaddeus Rowan, Lord of Goldengrove. Lord Ormund had therefore decided he could not proceed without support from King’s Landing. “We have need of your dragons,” he wrote.

Fire and Blood, The Dying of The Dragons - The Red Dragon and the Gold, p. 446

A fortnight later, in the Reach, Ormund Hightower found himself caught between two armies. Thaddeus Rowan, Lord of Goldengrove, and Tom Flowers, Bastard of Bitterbridge, were bearing down on him from the northeast with a great host of mounted knights, whilst Ser Alan Beesbury, Lord Alan Tarly, and Lord Owen Costayne had joined their power to cut off his retreat to Oldtown. When their hosts closed around him on the banks of the river Honeywine, attacking front and rear at once, Lord Hightower saw his lines crumble. Defeat seemed imminent…until a shadow swept across the battlefield, and a terrible roar resounded overhead, slicing through the sound of steel on steel. A dragon had come.

The dragon was Tessarion, the Blue Queen, cobalt and copper. On her back rode the youngest of Queen Alicent’s three sons, Daeron Targaryen, fifteen, Lord Ormund’s squire, that same gentle and soft-spoken lad who had once been milk brother to Prince Jacaerys.

Fire and Blood, The Dying of The Dragons - The Red Dragon and the Gold, p. 458

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Returning from the dead with this blog. My deepest apologies but finding out we'd get no Daeron for s2 really killed my mood for it. Fortunately, he got mentioned at least, so we move.

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addam velaryon, daeron targaryen and not sparing even septs in their attacks.

When Lady Caswell appeared on the ramparts of her castle to ask for the same terms Lady Merryweather had received, Hightower let Prince Daeron give the answer: “You shall receive the same terms you gave my nephew Maelor.” Her ladyship could only watch as Bitterbridge was sacked. The Hogs Head was the first building put to the torch. Inns, guild halls, storehouses, the homes of the mean and the mighty, dragonflame consumed them all. Even the sept was burned, with hundreds of wounded still within.

Fire & Blood, The Dying of The Dragons - Rhaenyra Triumphant p. 484

Most devastating of all was the dragon. Seasmoke came swooping down again and yet again, breathing flame. A hundred tents were soon afire, even the splendid silken pavilions of Ser Hobart Hightower, Lord Unwin Peake, and Prince Daeron himself. Nor was the town of Tumbleton reprieved. Those shops and homes and septs that had been spared the first time were engulfed in dragonflame.

Fire & Blood, The Dying of The Dragons - Rhaenyra Overthrown p. 541

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the gods will curse us all for this x you shall receive the same terms you gave my nephew maelor

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I think Condal said "mentioned" simply because the interviewer said "mentioned". There's no need to overthink it, this is the most direct confirmation we have about Daeron from him, he literally says "He does exist. No worries, everybody." With some added info even: Daeron was Hobert's ward before Ormund became Lord of Oldtown. Who apparently is Hobert's nephew and not his son. A bit confusing honestly but seems they've been giving it all some thought. I always thought Daeron had been only Ormund's squire, I wonder if the added connection to Hobert is due to Daeron probably being sent to Oldtown even younger or the fact the book does take a while to mention Ormund by name (his father remained nameless).

I have my own opinions about the part on his connection to his family and how this has already changed in the show but that's a conversation for another day. We do have characters related to each other who doesn't appear or saw each other or even got mentioned for seasons before on GoT.

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Who would be your ideal actor to play Daeron?

Hmm I don't really have one? I want to keep my expectations under control and be pleasantly surprised when his casting is announced so I try not to think about it much... Out of the rumoured actors I'm only familiar with Tom Taylor's acting so I'd favor him but I don't know enough about the others to make a fair comparison.

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