"It is you. You are the one. You must do this. You must do this."
As he lies on his deathbed, Alicent comes into his chambers to give him his medicine. As she does, Viseys, in a confused daze, starts to tell Alicent Aegon's prophecy about the Long Night and the Prince that was Promised. He breathlessly tells Alicent that Aegon was right and, “The Song of Ice and Fire.
She just witnessed her husband muster the last of his strength to defend his daughter and then set up an entire dinner intended to get peace between the two sides of the family. Any interpretation of Viserys' last words is willful ignorance, not confusion.
Since Alicent doesn't know anything about the Song of Ice and Fire, she only catches snippets of what Viserys says; among them, mutterings about “Aegon.” He's speaking about Aegon the Conqueror and his prophetic dream, but Alicent thinks he's referring to Prince Aegon, their son.
Viserys' final words in the text are, “Then the storm broke, and the dragons danced.” This was represented in the episode very artfully. A storm was present, and it picked up as Viserys was dying. The Catspaw dagger begins to hum, a weapon that symbolizes Aegon's prophecy and the rightful heir to the Iron Throne.
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.
Succumbing to His Leprosy
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, actor Paddy Considine revealed that his character was suffering from a form of leprosy, which would be incurable at the time.
Viserys tells his daughter, Princess Rhaenyra, that Aegon “foresaw the end of the world of men. It is to begin with a terrible winter, gusting out of the distant North.
It is you. You are the one. You must do this. You must do this." In many ways, for Rhaenyra who has always felt the pressure of the realm preferring her younger half-brother over her, this would have been a solid confirmation that even in his last moments, Viserys does not regret naming her as his heir.
“My own face is no longer a handsome one, if indeed it ever was,” the skeletal, one-eyed Viserys tells his loved ones.
Viserys' Last Words
In a romantic final bow, Viserys reaches out and whispers, “My love.” He's referring to his late wife, Queen Aemma Targaryen, who died in childbirth years ago, implying that he sees her and is reuniting with her in death.
King Viserys Targaryen bonded with the dragon Balerion and rode him until he died of old age a year after he'd been claimed. He is never seen bonded with another dragon because after a Targaryen's Dragon dies they don't claim another one.
Daemon Targaryen reveals that Viserys never told him about Aegon's dream in House of the Dragon, confirming Daemon was never going to be his heir. WARNING! This article contains SPOILERS for House of the Dragon's season 1 finale!
It's not caused by greed or pride or somebody getting their head surprise-sliced in half; it's a genuine and regrettable mistake. On his deathbed, King Viserys mistakes the person he's talking to, and – due to the multiple Aegons situation – they mistake the person he's talking about.
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."
The ring that Viserys kissed was the one Queen Aemma was wearing when she died.
“He's actually suffering from a form of leprosy. His body is deteriorating, his bones are deteriorating. He's not actually old. He's still a young man in there, he's just unfortunately got this thing that's kind of taken over his body.
Daenerys believes that Viserys has been driven mad by his exile and the status of beggar it eventually gave him. However, according to Barristan Selmy, Viserys already often seemed to show signs of madness as a young child, like his father had.
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.
Viewers see the illness slowly take over Viserys's health as he loses strength and is unable to heal from minor cuts induced from the razor-sharp edges of the Iron Throne. Over time, various extremities are removed from Viserys, including fingers, an entire arm, and one of his eyeballs.
Viserys' illness has been confirmed by Paddy Considine to be a fictionalized form of leprosy, slowly eating away at his body while he still lives.
By the end of his life, Viserys had lost fingers and an arm. His mobility was severely limited, and if Alicent was to be believed, he was in extreme pain whenever not heavily dosed with painkillers.
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.
Turns out, Rhaenyra and Daemon are endgame, meaning they have a sexually tense relationship, eventually hook up, and get married—which is pretty significant from a power play perspective considering (1) they both want the throne and (2) their Targaryen union is almost sure to guarantee that happens—even though Alicent ...
Viserys is covered in scars on his back and even losing to fingers from sitting in his royal chair. It's not all that surprising, given that he barely travels outside the halls of the Red Keep. However, Viserys isn't the first Westerosi ruler who's been literally scarred by the position of power.