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Alicent Hightower & Helaena Targaryen House of The Dragon 3.02 - 'Queen's Landing'

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Alicent's "just a piece you moved across the board" line for Otto fits him so perfectly because he truly was a political mastermind. He moved all his kids and grandkids across the board to set up a checkmate before the game even started. This is why he brought Alicent to KL, why he married Aegon to Helaena, why he kept idealist Gwayne at a distance, and why he allowed opportunist Ormund complete control of Daeron.

Especially in Daeron's case, Otto was thinking ten moves ahead. I am convinced that sending Daeron to Oldtown was Otto's idea because in so doing, he effectively handed House Hightower a trueborn Targaryen prince raised under their influence as an insurance policy to rally behind in case Rhaenyra ever successfully ascended the throne and decided to eliminate rival claimants. Daeron was being strategically positioned in Oldtown under Ormund's care rather than Gwayne's (even though Gwayne was the closest relative), because Otto knew that when all else failed, Ormund would use Daeron to fight the war out of his own ambitions and for personal gain while Gwayne would stick to chivalry.

Otto knew the game and his available players so well and manipulated them expertly to engineer contingencies for every possible outcome. It was all a political game since the start and Otto was the political mastermind while Viserys refused to make difficult decisions, willingly blinded himself to threats, and played with legos.