According to The Hollywood Reporter, the co-creator and showrunner of House of the Dragon has stated that the series will most likely end with the fourth season. On Monday, Ryan Condal (Rampage) took some questions from a virtual press conference moderated by Joanna Robinson ( after the finale of the series’s second season. He was asked about the season ending with a cliffhanger. During the conference, Condal confirmed that the series will likely conclude with season four. He also explained the decision to push The Battle of the Gullet to the third season, which seems to have come down to resource management.

*Spoilers ahead* “One of the challenges of making television at any scale is nobody has infinite time and resources,” he said. “When you’re as a showrunner, you’re always in the position of having to balance storytelling and the resources that you have available to tell that story. One of the things that came into play in season two is: What is the final destination of the series and where are we going? It was a combination of factors that led us to rebalance the season knowing now where we’re going. We wanted to rebalance the story in such a way that we had three great seasons of television [after season one] to round out and tell this story. When you’re trying to mount the show, which requires a tremendous amount of resources, construction, armor, costumes, visual effects … we are trying to give The Gullet — which is arguably the second most anticipated action event of Fire & Blood — trying to give it the time and the space that it deserves.”

He continued, “We are building to that event that will happen very shortly in terms of the storytelling, and it should be the biggest thing to date that we’ve we’ve pulled off. We just wanted to have the time and the space to do that at a level that is going to excite and satisfy the fans in the way it’s deserved. We also wanted to build some anticipation toward it. So I apologize for the wait, but … with the team that we have together, we’re going to pull off a hell of a win with The Battle of the Gullet.”

The second season of House of the Dragon is available to stream on Max.