“Game of Thrones” launched audiences to the a variety of properties, good and compact, that populate the lands in and close to Westeros — setting up with the Targaryens, Starks, Baratheons and Lannisters. Set nearly 200 several years right before the activities of the flagship series, “House of the Dragon,” which premiered Sunday on HBO, depicts the distant ancestors of nicely-acknowledged properties and familiarizes viewers with lesser-recognised clans.

Here’s a guideline to people we count on to participate in key roles in the sequence likely forward.

Home Targaryen

A noble relatives of Valyrian descent who remaining their homeland ahead of its collapse. The clan of dragon-riders grew to become the initially ruling household of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros many thanks to a profitable conquest led by King Aegon Targaryen the family dominated in excess of Westeros for nearly 300 a long time. In purchase to retain their bloodlines pure, Targaryens usually married their siblings or cousins.

• (Paddy Considine): The latest ruler of the Seven Kingdoms and the fifth Targaryen king to sit on the Iron Throne. Viserys was picked out by the Excellent Council to succeed his grandfather, King Jaehaerys Targaryen, in excess of his elder cousin, Princess Rhaenys Targaryen, because he was the king’s oldest male descendant.

• (Matt Smith): King Viserys Targaryen’s young brother and presumptive heir — or so he thinks. A formidable warrior, Prince Daemon serves as the commander of the Metropolis Observe of King’s Landing. The prince has his eye on the Iron Throne, but essential figures do not consider he’s suit to rule.

• (young: Milly Alcock, grownup: Emma D’Arcy): King Viserys Targaryen’s initial-born baby, who rides a dragon named Syrax. She has grown up looking at her father wish for a son to protected his succession.

• (Eve Very best): King Jaehaerys Targaryen’s grandchild who, as his oldest dwelling descendant, had a assert to the Iron Throne. Given that the Great Council handed her about, she has been acknowledged as “the Queen Who Never Was.”…