In Season 3 Episode 6 of House of the Dragon Ser Criston Cole, played by Fabien Frankel, is killed early after leading his remaining Green soldiers into what he believes is a Team Black camp. Rivermen who appeared slaughtered rise up in a trap; Roddy the Ruin and Oscar Tully taunt Cole, and Alysanne Blackwood shoots him with arrows to the chest and a blow to the zygomatic bone that kills him. Cole offers to settle the fight privately to spare his men but falls in the ambush, leaving his command decimated. The episode frames the death amid Rhaenyra's Small Council fallout: Daemon wants to burn Ormund and his men out of Tumbleton, councilors warn that would destroy thousands of royal subjects, and the queen decides to send assassins because her army is still more than two weeks' march away. Fabien Frankel's two-and-a-half season run on the series ends with this unexpected elimination, creating a major cliffhanger and immediate tactical weakening for Team Black.
