Alicent Hightower’s job has been becoming more significant with each passing episode of HBO’s House of the Dragon. The person started as the girl of the King’s Hand and the best companion of Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, however she immediately won the king’s fondness and turned into his new sovereign. A contention has now been brought into the world among her and Rhaenyra, generally because of the introduction of her son, Aegon II, who many accept should be the legitimate successor to the Iron Lofty position. During Sunday night’s new episode, Alicent wore a green dress, which foreshadows a much greater issue among her and Rhaenyra and sets the stage for what’s to come.

Alicent is known for wearing green dresses, however we haven’t seen her donning one on the show (save for some recording in the trailers). The feast celebrating the wedding of Rhaenyra and Laenor sees Alicent make a terrific entry, much later than she’s normal. She really interrupts her husband’s speech by arriving in the stupendous corridor. The group is silent, many noticing her timing, however the shade of her dress.

Two men at the festival discuss the significance of Alicent’s dress, with one explaining to the other that the colors of the fire atop High Tower (claimed by Alicent’s House) change depending on the situations the Hightowers find themselves in. Green signifies the calling of their banners, which usually means going to war.

The colors of House Targaryen are dark and red, and the occasion highlighted an in the episode is the festival of a future Targaryen sovereign’s wedding. Dressing in those colors would have been suitable, so taking on another variety is a demonstration of disobedience on Alicent’s part, presently believing that Rhaenyra misled her about Daemon and knowing that there will ultimately be a contention between her kids and stepdaughter.

The biggest significance in the ramifications of war, a specific conflict called “Dance of the Dragons” that we realize will occur among Rhaenyra and Aegon II. In the Fire and Blood, in the years before the conflict, Alicent wears green in protest to Rhaenyra’s standard. She and her supporters in King’s Landing, who in the end maintain that Aegon II should administer, come to be known as the Greens, while Rhaenyra and her supporters are known as the Blacks. The competition just grows more unpleasant until the start of the conflict.

For the show, this single dress represents a major turning point in the story. The relationship among Rhaenyra and Alicent could get much worse from now into the foreseeable future.