House of the Dragon director addresses fan theory about major Game of Thrones Easter egg

House of the Dragon fans are flooding to social media in a frenzy after the director addressed a theory about a very literal Game of Thrones Easter egg.

The director of season two, episode three of House of The Dragon Geeta Vasant Patel has spoken out after fans made an exciting connection to GOT.

**Warning: Spoilers ahead if you've not watched season two, episode three of House of The Dragon**

The third episode of the second season - written by David Hancock and directed by Patel - sees Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D'Arcy) send her sons Aegon and Viserys to the Vale.

She asks Rhaena Targaryen (Phoebe Campbell) to accompany them and ensure not only their safety, but the protection of the young dragons Tyraxes and Stormcloud, alongside four dragon eggs.

As soon as House of the Dragon viewers spotted the eggs, many immediately flocked to social media to question whether the eggs are very literal Easter eggs to Game of Thrones and are, in fact, the eggs which later come into the possession of Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) - who's given them by Illyrio Mopatis (Roger Allam).

And Patel has since addressed the fans' speculation.

Fans shared their theory online about the eggs being - very literal - Easter eggs for Game of Thrones (HBO)

Patel told Mashable: "Those are Daenerys' eggs. All of us who work on this show are big Game of Thrones fans, so it was very exciting to shoot that scene."

So, it's been confirmed the eggs are those which later hatch into Daenerys' dragons Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion.

And it's not taken long for fans of the show to flood to social media in delight.

The director confirmed they are Daenerys' eggs (HBO)

One Twitter user said: "I gotta say the more I think about this the more I like it. Rhaenyra said if everything went wrong, those eggs would carry on the legacy of their house. And that's exactly what Daenerys and her dragons are, the future and legacy of house Targaryen."

"Soon as I seen them I already knew," another added.

A third commented: "Her shadow is all over HOTD and I love it."

"That's actually amazing," a fourth said.

A fifth wrote: "The fact Rhaena really did end up protecting the Targaryen legacy she had the most important job."

And a final simply wrote: "I pray for a sequel to happen to GOT & Daenerys comes back to life either human, demigod or white walker and kills all of the Starks & Tyrion Lannister and reign supreme. Please! She Deserves Her Revenge!"

House of the Dragon episodes air every Sunday at 9pm ET on HBO and Max.