- Larys Strong: The beacon on the Hightower, do you know what color it glows when Oldtown calls its banners to war?
- Ser Harwin 'Breakbones' Strong: Green.
- Ser Otto Hightower: [to Alicent] Listen to me, daughter: The King will die. It may be months or years, but he'll not live to be an old man. And if Rhaenyra succeeds him, war will follow, do you understand? The realm will not accept her. And to secure her claim, she'll have to put your children to the sword. She'll have no choice. You know it. You're no fool and yet you choose not to see it. The time is coming, Alicent. Either you prepare Aegon to rule, or you cleave to Rhaenyra and pray for her mercy.
- Princess Rhaenys Targaryen: We are placing our son in danger.
- Lord Corlys Velaryon: The lords of the realm bent the knee to Rhaenyra and swore obeisance to her.
- Princess Rhaenys Targaryen: That was before there was a true-born prince named Aegon Targaryan. Rhaenyra's succession will be challenged. Knives will come out, for her, her husband, and their heirs.
- Lord Corlys Velaryon: Our house controls the realm's navy and half its dragons. Anyone fool enough to challenge Rhaenyra's claim will be crushed.
- Princess Rhaenys Targaryen: To what end, Corlys? Wealth, power, pride?
- Lord Corlys Velaryon: Justice. By all rights, you should be Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. You were robbed of the crown by...
- Princess Rhaenys Targaryen: I never wore the crown because the realm would not have it so.
- Lord Corlys Velaryon: But I would remedy that small-minded error by any means necessary.
- King Viserys Targaryen: Will I be remembered as a good king?
- Lord Lyonel Strong: Your Grace?
- King Viserys Targaryen: What will they say of me when the histories are written? I have neither fought nor conquered, nor suffered any great defeat.
- Lord Lyonel Strong: Some might call that good fortune.
- King Viserys Targaryen: It hardly makes a good song, does it? To be sung at feasts in a hundred years, five hundred.
- Lord Lyonel Strong: You have carried King Jaehaerys's legacy, and kept the realm strong. Is it not better to live in peace than to have songs sung after you are dead?
- King Viserys Targaryen: Perhaps. But there is a part of me wishes I'd been tested. I often think that in the crucible, I may have been forged a different man.
- Lord Lyonel Strong: Many that are tested only wish to have been spared it.