{"id":6674,"date":"2026-07-20T13:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/?p=6674"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:06:33","slug":"house-of-the-dragon-season-3-episode-5-feast-for-traitors-luthor-largent-issue-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/07\/20\/house-of-the-dragon-season-3-episode-5-feast-for-traitors-luthor-largent-issue-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"House of the Dragon season 3\u2019s barbaric feast for traitors has one &#8216;annoying&#8217; problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*Warning: Spoilers ahead for House of the Dragon season three episode five*<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House of the Dragon went full horror in season three episode five, culminating in \u201ca feast for traitors\u201d &#8211; a horrifying recreation of the Last Supper. But amid the blood and barbarity, there\u2019s a flaw you may have missed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Up until this point, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/tag\/game-of-thrones\/\">Game of Thrones<\/a> prequel sees Rhaenyra (Emma D\u2019Arcy) still struggling with her new position on the Iron Throne, as evidenced by a council where she\u2019s inundated with problems: Ser Criston Cole\u2019s men, Aemond\u2019s disappearance, the dwindling coin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Daemon\u2019s (Matt Smith) got what he considers to be a more pressing matter: King\u2019s Landing\u2019s police force, the City Watch, have started being mysteriously bumped off in truly gruesome ways.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daemon overrides <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/07\/20\/house-of-the-dragon-season-3-who-prince-joffrey-is-why-rhaenyra-refuses-to-see-book-death\/\">Rhaenyra<\/a> and goes to deal with the Gold Cloaks who were killed in Flea Bottom. City Watch head Ser Luthor Largent (Tom Cullen) gives Daemon a warning, \u201cThey cut their bowels as well as their throat\u2026 Good men dying in agony in their own sh*t.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6683\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6683\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2-7.jpg\" alt=\"Daemon and Luthor in House of the Dragon\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2-7.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2-7-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2-7-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: HBO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This hits the morale of the City Watch even more given the fact that the crown\u2019s dwindling resources means their pay is being withheld for the time being. Daemon later gives them a pep talk, promising they\u2019ll be paid \u201ctwice over for the sacrifices\u201d they make for the queen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next, Daemon tortures a hunter for information. Under questioning, the man insists he acted alone, claiming he was simply following orders from \u201cthe king\u201d and never actually saw the man\u2019s face.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Daemon threatens to take his remaining eye, he reveals he was paid and tells him to check his boot. Hidden inside is a gold coin bearing Daeron Targaryen&#8217;s (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) face, confirming to Daemon that there\u2019s yet another faction vying for the throne: the Hightowers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This all but confirms that the Gold Cloak deaths are yet another move from <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/07\/13\/house-of-the-dragon-season-3-gelded-punishment-meaning-ormund-motive\/\">Ormund (James Norton) in his sociopathic manoeuvrings<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just as it seems Daemon has pieced it all together, he heads to the City Watch barracks at the end of the episode to find them ransacked and silent. Much to his horror, he discovers the Gold Cloak leaders, including Luthor Largent, slaughtered and arranged at the table in a Last Supper-esque scene.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Behind them, written in blood, are the words, \u201cA feast for traitors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>How did the assassin carry out the feast for traitors so easily?<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6682\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6682\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1-3.jpg\" alt=\"A feast for traitors in House of the Dragon\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1-3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1-3-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1-3-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: HBO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While it\u2019s not surprising to see Ormund paying off assassins to do his dirty work, there\u2019s one issue that\u2019s raising eyebrows: how the paid hunter was able to kill so many Gold Cloaks, in their own barracks, in silence, without Daemon noticing until it\u2019s too late.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/HouseOfTheDragon\/comments\/1v18dxt\/no_book_spoilers_house_of_the_dragon_3x05\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reddit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, one viewer asked, \u201cHow tf the enemy were able to kill all those gold cloaks. Or unless the double agent is also a Gold Cloak?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another agreed, \u201cYeah they seem to have unlimited manpower and unlimited stealth. We are meant to believe this location is the main barracks for the entire city watch, 2000 strong.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd yet they overtake it completely, slaughter all the commanders, have time to desecrate their bodies and arrange them in a little diorama, and Daemon hears about it by walking in there expecting to find things normal?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cReally? It&#8217;s one thing to have assassins and infiltrators in King&#8217;s Landing spreading propaganda. That makes perfect sense. This, on the other hand, had better have a really good explanation. Because it beggars belief.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A third added, \u201cThis and Criston\u2019s insurgency are the things that kinda annoyed me about this episode because it\u2019s basically the Ser Twenty Goodmen lazy writing convenient plot device.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6685\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6685\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6685\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4-6.jpg\" alt=\"A gold coin with Daeron's face on it in House of the Dragon\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4-6.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4-6-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4-6-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: HBO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey needed Rhaenyra\u2019s forces to be nerfed a little so they make her enemies unreasonably good at stealth assassinations and sabotage. But they don\u2019t really show us how they do it, they just show us the aftermath.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Others took issue with the setup itself. \u201cAm I the only one who thought that was really stupid? Why are we doing a Last Supper homage in <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/tag\/house-of-the-dragon\/\">House of the Dragon<\/a>?\u201d asked one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere\u2019s no Jesus in Westeros, did the writers forget that there\u2019s probably iconography from the faith of the seven that could be drawn from?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAlso the scale of that violence, the death of a dozen fully armoured men, is going to require quite the explanation. I really really hope that the reveal isn\u2019t that it\u2019s one guy, or a couple of hooded peasants.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another wrote, \u201c\u200b\u200bThat seemed pretty contrived to me. Oh perfect timing and set up just for Daemon to walk in on. Reminds me of when Walking Dead went totally off the rails with Negan having theatrical super powers when it served the plot.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But since we haven\u2019t yet seen who exactly carried out the slaughter, there\u2019s room for the show to correct it, and some fans even think it could be an inside job.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6684\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6684\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3-8.jpg\" alt=\"Gold Cloaks in House of the Dragon\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3-8.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3-8-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3-8-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: HBO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As one commented, \u201cI noticed there was a shot during Daemon&#8217;s speech (a few seconds after he says \u2018becomes the new Valyria\u2019) where we saw some Gold Cloaks up the stairs looking more angry\/pissed off while everyone else was cheering on Daemon&#8217;s speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGiven the repeated emphasis on the Gold Cloaks not having yet been paid, and Ser Luthor even calling out Daemon that giving a rousing speech doesn&#8217;t pay their wages and only goes so far, I&#8217;m wondering if a portion of the City Watch are rebelling and assassinating the others.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not beyond the realms of possibility, especially as we know Ormund has been offering up payment to assassins (in the shape of Daeron gold coins). But for now, House of the Dragon\u2019s got some explaining to do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>For all the latest film and TV updates and hot takes,\u00a0<\/i><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FilmShrine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like our Facebook page<\/a><\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured images credit: HBO<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;It beggars belief&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[168,170,174,15,11],"coauthors":[17],"class_list":["post-6674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-takes","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-hbo","tag-house-of-the-dragon","tag-now-showing","tag-tv"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.4 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>House of the Dragon season 3 barbaric feast for traitors has one big problem<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"House of the Dragon season 3 episode 5 ends with a feast for traitors - but there&#039;s one major issue with the setup you may have missed.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/07\/20\/house-of-the-dragon-season-3-episode-5-feast-for-traitors-luthor-largent-issue-explained\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"House of the Dragon season 3\u2019s barbaric feast for traitors has one &#039;annoying&#039; 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