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00:00I'm Tim Lewis, I'm the armorer on House of Dragons Season 2,
00:03and let's take a tour of the workshop, shall we?
00:12This is our space, and it's been busy all the way through shooting,
00:15and now we're coming to the end, but you can still see a lot of things
00:18that have just come back from set, like Stark shields,
00:2120 of them all lying around.
00:23Over here are the model ballistas.
00:27So this is the original one that we made to concept.
00:30The scorpion ballista, which we've seen on the Red Keep,
00:33this smaller model, allowed us to make it 5 meters.
00:42Out there used to be Bladesmith's forge.
00:45That's where Jaime spent his time smashing the steel together
00:48to make swords like ice.
00:50But let me take you upstairs, and then I'll show you where we keep it all.
00:52Down here, this is the box that came back from Rhaenyra's
00:56apartment, and this is the new sword this season,
01:00the artifact sword.
01:04When I first read about it in the script, it just says Rhaenyra
01:07is holding an artifact sword, so discussing with Ryan,
01:10he said, well, I think it should be Valyrian steel, and then
01:13he said, I also want it to feel like Dark Sister or Blackfyre
01:17before they've been re-hilted.
01:19We imagine that they've been re-hilted over the generations.
01:22So this is a super old sword.
01:24So in my head, that means, well, this gives me an opportunity
01:26to work out what swords look like in the history of Westeros.
01:30Then also, we've got a few other swords in Rhaenyra's apartment.
01:35Her lover, Harwin Strong's sword.
01:38So there's just a few elements there that help to tell the story
01:41from a prop's point of view about Rhaenyra.
01:45This is one of the Baelor crossbows.
01:47This was an exciting piece to design because there's all this
01:50intricate ivory work, including the two sides of her family,
01:54the Targaryen side with the dragons, and there was also the feel
01:57of the Valyrian side.
01:59This works by flicking this latch at the back here.
02:02That releases the whole lever.
02:05The lever moves forwards, and then the string gets put onto
02:09the hook here.
02:10The hook draws back, and then you just push the lever down
02:15until the latch clicks.
02:17Now that's cocked.
02:18You can now put your bolt onto the piece here.
02:22Just lodge in here, and then using this button here,
02:26which is the trigger, you just draw that back, and it releases.
02:30So this is our office, and in here, this is where we do
02:33design breakdowns and drawings.
02:35This is my Bible from this season.
02:37There's some designs there for the Stark shield.
02:39In the end, we flipped it so it was the same way around
02:42as the sigil, which is different from Game of Thrones.
02:44And then, oh, yeah, the team.
02:47I mean, they've got a lot of respect for me, so it's nice
02:50to see that only a few people have put their names down
02:54on the, if you think there's a who section.
02:57So anyway, that's the workshop.