Daemon Is Losing Faith in Rhaenyra
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THEORY ASSESSMENT
The council scene and Daemon's subsequent unilateral actions map cleanly onto the theory, but the episode frames the friction as recurring rather than escalating, which limits how far the narrative actively supports an imminent alliance fracture.
WHY THIS MATTERS
If Daemon's exclusion is structural, the show is quietly building toward an alliance fracture at the center of Rhaenyra's war effort, which would be more dangerous to her reign than any external enemy. It also raises the question of whether Rhaenyra's command style, however tactically sound, is generating the very instability she is trying to suppress.
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