Showrunner Ryan Condal and director Geeta Vasant Patel discuss the centuries-long feud between the Blackwoods and the Brackens that comes to a head at the Battle of the Burning Mill. Watch House of the Dragon S2 Sundays at 9PM on #StreamonMax.
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00:00The Brackens and the Blackwoods are really the Hatfields and McCoys of this time period.
00:07They hate each other, they're neighbors.
00:09This is our land. It's Brackenland.
00:16The Blackwoods and the Brackens are two houses that have been feuding for years and years and years.
00:22And the Battle of the Burning Mill is where it all comes to a head.
00:28You wouldn't dare.
00:31The Blackwoods and the Brackens have feuded for centuries.
00:34This is nothing more than an excuse for them to indulge their ancient grudge. It's no true war.
00:39Call it what you will, I call it war.
00:43The Brackens and the Blackwoods have the two largest standing armies in the Riverlands,
00:47because they're always ready to fight each other.
00:49So part of winning over the Riverlands is disentangling this eternal conflict
00:54between the Brackens and the Blackwoods and getting them both on sides,
00:57which of course is the thing that Daemon is charged with and has to do,
01:00and probably doesn't suit his skill set particularly well.
01:03Perhaps the presence of the crown and a dragon will sharpen minds around these parts.
01:11These are not a people that can be forced into submission.
01:14And Daemon approaches life always trying to hammer that square peg into the round hole.
01:19He's just trying to force his will upon this place and wrangle Harrenhal into place
01:24and the Brackens and the Blackwoods to just do as he wills.
01:27If you are successful, what then?
01:30We march on King's Landing and take the throne.
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