The ending of ‘House Of The Dragon’ season three explained: who dies in the finale?

House Of The Dragon delivered death, betrayal and fiery spectacle in the season three finale.

In the eighth episode of season three, titled The Treasons Of Tumbleton, Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) becomes more ruthless when she discovers Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) is still alive. As her enemies start to close in, she wages war against Tumbleton and looks to officially take the throne.

Other cast members in the series include Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, James Norton, Steve Toussaint, Ewan Mitchell, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth and Abubakar Salim.

Every episode of House Of The Dragon is available to stream on HBO Max in the UK.

Several key characters die in the final episode. The first to bite the dust was The High Septon (Simon Chandler), who is killed by Alyn of Hull (Abubakar Salim) under orders from Rhaenyra, after he refused to anoint her as the rightful heir to the throne.

Ser Roderick Dustin (Tommy Flanagan) and Ormund Hightower (James Norton) had the most memorable deaths of the episode. During the battle at Tumbleton, Roderick plunged a sword up Ormund’s posterior, pinning him against the wall.

Ulf White (Tom Bennett) appeared to be on Ormund’s side when he took to the skies on his dragon and rained down fire against Daemon’s (Matt Smith) army. However, after being mistreated by both sides, Ulf showed he has no allegiance to anyone, and burned both Ormund and Roderick to death before he set Tumbleton ablaze as well.

During the battle at Tumbleton, Hugh Hammer’s wife Kat (Ellora Torchia) died off-screen. We see Hugh find her body amid the conflict, although it’s unclear how she died.