The gentlest characters in the world of Westeros often endure the most suffering.
The Seven Kingdoms has proven itself a harsh place even for royalty, further shown by the fate of House of the Dragon‘s Princess Helaena (Phia Saban), who dies by suicide in the Season 3 finale after leaping from a high window of the Red Keep.
Helaena isn’t the first innocent to die in George R.R. Martin’s fantasy world, and she sadly won’t be the last. However, as some fans online have pointed out, there’s another key Game of Thrones character who dies in pretty much exactly the same way as the former queen: Tommen Baratheon (Dean-Charles Chapman).
“Is that the same window tommen jumped from?” asked one Reddit user, and judging by the following image — in which the view from the Red Keep looks exactly the same, out toward the Grand Sept on Visenya’s Hill — it seems they may be right.
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Remember Tommen? The Baratheon king took over after the death of his horrible older brother Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) in Game of Thrones, which takes place around 200 years after the events of House of the Dragon. He too dies by suicide, leaping from a window in the Red Keep after learning of the death of his wife Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer) — which happened because of the destruction of the Great Sept of Baelor, another sept later built on the same site.
It’s a strange coincidence that can’t have been accidental — the window design even resembles those of the room Helaena and her mother Alicent (Olivia Cooke) have been kept captive in. It’s also fitting for Helaena’s character, given that she’s able to see into the future through dreams. But what exactly does that tapestry mean?
House of the Dragon Season 3 is streaming now on HBO Max.
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