He turns his rage towards Rhaenyra and her children, calling the boys bastards and their mother a whore. The man literally loses his head, and I mean literally. Still, to say he is pissed after hearing the king’s verdict would be an understatement.
Rhaenys had already told him, early on in the episode, that she wouldn’t back his claim to the Driftwood Throne. Now, Lord Vaemond must have seen that one coming. Proclaiming himself Lord Corlys’ closest kin and his only male heir, he wants to take the seat of House Velaryon for himself and intends to make his case before the king - or, rather, the queen. Vaemond never made an effort to disguise his suspicions about the true parentage of Rhaenyra and Laenor’s ( John Macmillan) children, not even during his own niece’s funeral. However, his brother, Vaemond, has some different thoughts about the future of Driftmark. Having lost both of his children - at least as far as he knows - Lord Corlys wished his seat to be passed on to his second-oldest grandson, Lucaerys ( Elliot Grihault). While he still breathes, his wife, Rhaenys ( Eve Best), rules in his absence, but the maesters have already made it clear that he is running out of breaths.
Due to a deadly wound suffered at the Stepstones, where war is raging once again, Lord Corlys has little hope of regaining full consciousness and reclaiming his place as head of House Velaryon. The problems begin at Driftmark, six years after Lady Laena’s ( Nanna Blondell) funeral.