Targaryen Tuesday w/ my good pal Wells (SHOW SPOILERS BOOK SPOILERS)
@acakewalkofcrocodiles Actually we can keep this quite short-ish, thing is I'd have to rewatch season 2 to see if Tyland Lannister mentions this at all? Because Rhaenyra seems to think that the missing gold dragons went to Casterly Rock, but in the books Tyland takes it to the Iron Bank. And I think in the show a good portion of the treasury went into the pockets of Sharako Lohar and her pirate fleet. Which has worked out great for everybody!
An interesting thing to consider is what would the pirates have done if they captured Larys and Aegon, as the Blacks have no money, but I think anyone who knows about the location of the treasury on the green side is either dead or missing in action (Holding out hope for you Tyland!).
I think this will be beyond the scope of House of the Dragon, but in Fire and Blood there is another, rival bank. The Rogare Bank operating out of the Free City of Lys. They eclipse the Iron Bank for a bit during the "Lysene Spring" and then a bunch of things happen that might probably involve the Faceless Men in many capacities. I wouldn't go looking too deep into that story because everything about it will spoil the events of HotD the dragon show, but I personally think that storyline was WAY more interesting than the Dance of the Dragons part of Fire and Blood.
Okay goddamn I actually gotta really read these books, another bank????? I’m about to go on a road trip and I’m gonna get get caught up on all the lore and backstories
