House of the Dragon season 3 promotional materials are in circulation, and they confirm a significant change from Rhaenyra Targaryen's book character. Though this fantasy series has been an overall success, it hasn't avoided the obligatory criticisms that have traditionally plagued book-to-screen adaptations. HBO has taken significant creative liberties with George R.R. Martin's Westeros history , some of which the author himself has criticized.

Rhaenyra's character, played by Emma D'Arcy, is at the center of many of House of the Dragon 's biggest changes. In Martin's Fire & Blood , this queen was referred to as Rhaenyra the Cruel. She certainly wasn't the worst Targaryen ruler, but this highly moral and relatively blameless figure we see in House of the Dragon isn't how she wa

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