Messy Targaryen family tree in ‘House of the Dragon’, untangles

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One of the most powerful houses in the entire Game Of Thrones saga, the Targaryens, is a big, twisted family. Rife with infighting and overflowing with disparate dramas and tangled backstories, they’re the ideal focus for HBO’s new series House of the Dragon, which takes place 200 years before the original show.
 
Though the Targaryens control the Iron Throne in House Of The Dragon, various family members are fighting over which of them will succeed as ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, seemingly one of the most popular pastimes in all of Westeros.
 
To help sort out the key names and faces in the new show, we’ve put together a handy guide to the main players and the most prominent branches of the complex Targaryen family tree. Not surprisingly, this is a bit more complicated than your average genealogical history, in part because the Targaryens traditionally consider incest to be no big deal.
 
That practice is probably why Targaryens tend to go mad once a generation or so. Provided that they even live long enough to reach adulthood. Those who survive and manage to keep it together can be quite formidable, though.