Otto Hightower Quotes

Otto Hightower: All hail King Aegon! Aegon the Magnanimous, Second of His Name, King of the Andals, and the Rhoynar, and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, and Protector of the Realm.

Martyn Reyne: Hail King Aegon!

Aegon II Targaryen (to Leon): “The Magnanimous”?

(Leon shrugs his shoulders)

Otto Hightower (to Alicent): A sacrifice made for the stability of the realm. No king has ever lived that hasn’t had to forfeit the lives of a few to protect the many.

Otto Hightower: You’ll not leave this room without declaring your intention.

Lord Merryweather: I am no oath breaker. I will not bend the knee.

Otto Hightower (to the council): We grieve for Viserys the Peaceful, our sovereign… our friend.

Otto Hightower (to Alicent): The King will die. It may be months or years, but he’ll not live to be an old man. And if Rhaenyra succeeds him, war will follow, do you understand? The realm will not accept her. And to secure her claim, she’ll have to put your children to the sword. She’ll have no choice. You know it. You’re no fool, and yet you choose not to see it. The time is coming, Alicent. Either you prepare Aegon to rule, or you cleave to Rhaenyra and pray for her mercy.

Daemon Targaryen: Where is the King? I don’t see him.

Otto Hightower: His Grace would never lower himself to entertain such a mummer’s farce.