Forget Ulf the White — House of the Dragon ’s season-two finale introduced a character who might be having the most fun in all of the known world. Sharako Lohar isn’t quite what book readers might remember from George R.R.
Martin’s Fire & Blood ; the Triarchy admiral is now a woman, with all the flamboyance and many wives of a different Martin character, pirate “queen” Racallio Ryndoon. Those changes render Abigail Thorn’s flirty, mud-wrestling commander a delight onscreen, a wild card who puts Tyland Lannister (Jefferson Hall) through the wringer in order to win her naval support against the House Velaryon–led blockade of King’s Landing. “Tyland’s a bit of a meek and mousy character, and in this episode he finds his quality.
Sharako is there to assist him in this journey,” Thorn says of the unexpected friendship that builds between the Master of Coin and the Triarchy’s most feared warrior after the former wins their mud-wrestling bout. “The backhand across the face that ends the fight was my suggestion, actually, and I was really happy they worked with me for that. Tyland’s arc in this episode is about him finding his fire.
” “The Queen Who Ever Was” ends with Sharako and Tyland (whom she finally calls by his correct first name after misidentifying him the entire episode) sailing to Westeros for the Battle of the Gullet, a major moment in Fire & Blood that House of the Dragon creator and showrunner Ryan Condal confirmed will take place in s.