Leprosy is a slow moving disease The show has got the speed of the disease correct. King Viserys has lived with leprosy for many decades and the disease has grown very slowly.
Literally — his body and face were crumbling. Viserys' deterioration happened slowly. First, it was a few festering cuts from sitting on the Iron Throne, then it was some missing fingers. After the 10-year time jump in Episode 6, he lost an entire arm.
WHAT DOES VISERYS HAVE? In a recent podcast interview with Entertainment Weekly, Paddy Considine — the actor portraying Viserys — revealed that his character has a kind of leprosy. “He's actually suffering from a form of leprosy. His body is deteriorating, his bones are deteriorating.
Paddy Considine, who plays Viserys, has recently explained that his character is suffering with leprosy. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly's West of Westeros podcast, he revealed: “He's actually suffering from a form of leprosy. His body is deteriorating, his bones are deteriorating.
We may not know for certain how the pathogen spreads, but we do know what the pathogen is. Leprosy is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae which, in actuality, isn't all that threatening. Roughly 95 percent of the population has a natural immunity.
Viserys had a form of leprosy in House of the Dragon.
He's just, unfortunately, got this thing that's taken over his body. It becomes a metaphor for being king, and the stress and strain that it puts on you, and what it does to you physically, what it does to you mentally.”
According to lore, greyscale is spread by direct touch or by coming into contact with objects affected by someone with the disease. Shireen picked up the disease from a contaminated doll, however Viserys has been in direct and indirect contact with many people who have not succumbed to infection.
In the HBO television show House of Dragons, King Viserys Targaryen (played by Harry Lloyd) loses his eye in the eighth episode of the series. During a botched mission to gain intelligence from the House of Yronwood, King Viserys is caught in a tangle of ropes and has to cut his left eye in order to free himself.
In the third episode of House of The Dragon, King Viserys lost his fingers in a suitably grim fashion after cutting them on the Iron Throne. In turn, actor Paddy Considine's fingers were rendered using green screen technology.
After all, it was forged in dragon's fire, and they're magical creatures. It's possible that the Iron Throne is judging those sitting on it in some way, and if it deems them unworthy, it may cut them to remind them of their duty.
But luckily for fans, Visery's actor, Paddy Considine, revealed the main illness that plagued the king until his very last breath. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly in their podcast West of Westeros, Considine revealed that the king is suffering from a form of leprosy.
According to Miguel Sapochinik, King Viserys' decay over time was because of the cut on his finger from the Iron Throne.
Viserys, moaning in pain, reaches up into the air above the bed and says, "No more." Then, after the screen has cut to black, we hear him utter his final words: "My love."
In House of the Dragon, Viserys' mask is used to shield his condition from his family and his subjects, just like he shields himself from believing the truth of Rhaenyra's children's father. His mask is also a way to attempt to reclaim his status as king.
Aegon II's quick but viscerally brutal slaying of Queen Rhaenyra doesn't seem to do her justice.
He's got peripheral artery disorder as a result of untreated adult-onset diabetes. This tracks with the book version of Viserys in that he is described as obese with difficulty breathing and beset with gout. Viserys as portrayed by Paddy C in the show is a chonky boi who gets winded even on walks in the royal garden.
First of all, Fire didn't kill Viserys. Rather, it was the molten gold that Drogo had poured on his skull after demanding a crown. Secondly, on the “immunity to fire”, Targaryens are not immune to fire, but they have a high tolerance of heat.
In an effort to stop the infection, the king places his hand in a bowl of maggots and allows the larva to eat the dead tissue; however, the creepy-crawly treatment ultimately fails, and the maesters inform Visery they'll have to amputate his fingers.
The visual and special effects teams collaborated quite a bit to achieve King Viserys's sickly look. For the king's half-missing face, they covered parts of Considine's face with green makeup, which allowed them to edit the areas out in post production to create the illusion of missing skin.
No, and there was nothing even Qyburn and his mysterious techniques could do to save him. According to actor Paddy Considine, Viserys suffers from a form of Leprosy. "His body is deteriorating.
Viserys is so out of it, drugged up on anaesthetic milk of the poppy, that he can't answer whether he thinks Aegon's prophecy, the Song of Ice and Fire, will come true.
Viserys Wasn't the Oldest of Men
If the HBO prequel series matches the same timeline as the source material, Viserys was only 52 years old when he died.
He breaks off their sexual encounter and sullenly wraps a blanket around himself as Mysaria assures him that no one can replace him. So Daemon Targaryen — dragonrider, warrior, rogue prince — has impotence issues in the bedroom.
Targaryens are no immune to greyscale or at least the ones without Dragons aren't, remember Maegelle died from it.
Director of the episode Clare Kilner suggests that the cause of Daemon's impotence is the feeling of losing the power in the interaction. Daemon realizes Rhaenyra is into it and that was not something he was expecting. This makes him leave off in a rage.