In one of the most intense sequences of the House of the Dragon Season 3 premiere, Admiral Sharako Lohar (played by Abigail Thorn) meets a shocking and visceral end during the Battle of the Gullet. Thorn has shared deep insight into how she helped craft the character’s final moments.

Quick read:

  • Abigail Thorn enhanced the character’s emotionality by improv during her final moments
  • She describes Lohar as “only a women/human” at the end when she’s afraid of dying
  • The battle costs her her life and Abigail made sure of expressing it on screen

Abigail Thorn’s take on Lohar’s arc

In an interview with Radio Times, Thorn explained:

“One of the lovely things about this was that I got to choose her emotional arc throughout the episode. The script just says that, you know, if they fight, she dies. And I decided that in her very final moments, she is just a woman who is afraid.”

Thorn continued,

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“There’s that beautiful moment where Abu [Abubakar Salim] lifts her up out of the water… and all the blood and grime is washed off her face and she’s just a woman who’s scared. And in that final moment, you see everything that the battle and this quest has cost her. It makes Alyn look like a real monster which is the theme like ‘fight ye not monsters or you will become one’ right? And so it’s a moment for me that really sums up the cost of the mission she’s driven herself to.”

What actually happens in the scene

During the chaotic naval Battle of the Gullet, Admiral Lohar driven by personal hatred for Corlys Velaryon (the Sea Snake) ignores strategic advice and aggressively pursues him. She successfully rams his ship and engages him in brutal close-quarters combat aboard the Queen Who Never Was. Lohar gains the upper hand against the heavily armored Corlys, eventually pushing him overboard into the sea.

Believing his father has been killed, Corlys’ bastard son Alyn of Hull (Abubakar Salim) dives in to avenge him. A fierce underwater and surface struggle ensues. Alyn overpowers Lohar, stabs her in the neck with a knife, and leaves her to drown.

In George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood, Sharako Lohar is a male admiral who does not die in the Battle of the Gullet. The show’s gender-swapped, more aggressive version of the character allows for this dramatic, personal confrontation and ties into broader themes of revenge and monstrosity.

Thorn’s emotional contribution adds layers to what could have been a straightforward villain death. Instead, it becomes a tragic, empathetic beat that reflects the horrors of war and forces the audience (and Alyn) to confront the human cost behind the battlefield bravado.

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