daenerys targaryen

Monarch Reign 298 AD - present Full name Daenerys of House Targaryen, First of Her Name Securities Princess of Dragonstone Khaleesi of the Dothraki Queen of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men Lady of the Seven Kingdoms Protector of the Kingdom Queen of Meereen

Alias Dany Daenerys of the Storm The one that does not burn Mother of Dragons Breaker of Chains Mysha The Dragon Queen Birth 284 AD at Dragonstone Age 16 State Viva Consort Drug Hizdahr from Loraq Children Rhaego Father Aerys II Targaryen Mother Rhaella Targaryen Siblings Rhaegar Targaryen Viserys Targaryen

Daenerys is described as a teenage girl of classic Valyrian appearance, with silver-blond hair, purple eyes, and a slim build.[1] She is said to bear some physical resemblance to Queen Naerys Targaryen, although Daenerys is taller.[2]

In addition to the Common Speech, Daenerys speaks the Valyrian of the Free Cities with a Tyroshi accent,[3] as well as High Valyrian.[4] She quickly learns the Dothraki language[5] and Ghiscari.[6][7]

Daenerys grew up terrified and psychologically abused by her brother Viserys.[8] However, she eventually grows into a confident teenager and is generally liked and treated with great respect and love by her followers. Ser Jorah Mormont and Ser Barristan Selmy have compared her to her deceased brother, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen,[9][10][11] in terms of bravery, honor, and nobility.[12]

Being raised in exile, Daenerys has no place to call home. She describes the fragrance of the western market in Vaes Dothrak as a smell that reminds her of home as she remembers her days spent in various Free Cities as a child.[13] Among the Dothraki, she feels safe, loved, and hopeful for the first time.[14]

She loves the sea, as it makes her feel free, as well as sailors and their songs and stories.[15] She also enjoys reading children's stories and songs from the Seven Kingdoms about heroes and handsome knights.[16]

Like several descendants of the dragonlords of the Valyrian Freehold, Daenerys dreams of dragons.[17] Although she is familiar with the Faith of the Seven and believes in the existence of gods, she does not appear to follow any particular faith.

Born in 284 AC on Dragonstone, Princess Daenerys was the posthumous daughter of King Aerys II Targaryen and his sister, Queen Rhaella Targaryen. Daenerys was born in the midst of a tremendous storm that swept over the island of Dragonstone, where her mother, who died in childbirth, and her brother Viserys had taken refuge. For this reason she is sometimes called "Storm Daenerys."

Shortly afterward, Ser Willem Darry of the Kingsguard led the siblings from Dragonstone to Braavos, fleeing from the then King Robert I Baratheon. Following Ser Willem's death, Daenerys mourned her loss, and the house with the red door, where she lived until she was about five years old, became a symbol of the childhood she never had.[20]

The siblings considered themselves the rightful rulers of the Seven Kingdoms as King Viserys III and his heir presumptive, Princess Daenerys of Dragonstone. In the years that followed, she and Viserys roamed the nine Free Cities seeking support, earning Viserys the nickname the Beggar King.

Following successive humiliations, her brother Viserys grew bitter and obsessed with his claim to the Iron Throne. Danerys was the only convenient target for him to vent his frustration on, and he eventually even came to blame her for their mother's death. He regularly warned Daenerys not to "wake the dragon", so as not to anger him. He often spoke of the importance of preserving the purity of the royal blood, through the ancient practice of dynastic incest, and so Dany grew up believing that she would one day end up marrying her brother. She knew that most of Viserys' plans to retake the Seven Kingdoms were unrealistic, and as she had no clear memories of Westeros, her brother's dream meant little to her. Instead, she longed to return to the house with the red door in Braavos. With only her brother and his hot temper for company, Dany grew into a fearful and docile young woman.

In the Free City of Pentos, through the mediation of Magister Illyrio Mopatis, her brother Viserys arranges for her to marry Khal Drogo, a powerful Dothraki Horselord, in exchange for Drogo providing him with ten thousand warriors to reclaim the Iron Throne. Despite her fear and apprehension, Daenerys has no choice but to accept her brother's will and wed Drogo. At the wedding, an exiled knight, Ser Jorah Mormont, puts his sword at her and Viserys' service. Jorah eventually becomes her closest companion. [22] Magister Illyrio gifts her with three petrified dragon eggs at her wedding. She also receives three handmaidens, Jhiqui, Irri, and Doreah, from her brother and a beautiful gray mare from her new husband. [23]

At first, Daenerys was terrified of her husband and the Dothraki people, but over time she grew fond of her husband and lost her fear of both the Dothraki and her brother. Drogo took Daenerys east to Vaes Dothrak in the heart of the Dothraki Sea to present her to the dosh khaleen. By the time of their arrival, the fourteen-year-old Daenerys was pregnant with Drogo's child. [24] The dosh khaleen foretells that her son will be the Stallion Who Rides the World, a long-prophesied Dothraki conqueror who would lead the Dothraki people to glory, conquering and uniting the world behind him. [25]

Meanwhile, Viserys grows impatient with the promise of help in taking the Iron Throne, demanding that Drogo help him invade Westeros. During a drunken fit, Viserys breaks Dothraki law by brandishing a sword in the holy city, prompting Drogo to "crown" him with a cauldron of molten gold on his head, killing him. [26] Daenerys thus becomes the last known Targaryen. With Viserys' death, Drogo loses interest in invading Westeros. However, following an assassination attempt on Daenerys, Drogo decides to invade the Seven Kingdoms and take the Iron Throne.

demanding that Drogo help him invade Westeros. During a drunken rage, Viserys breaks Dothraki law by brandishing a sword in the holy city, prompting Drogo to "crown" him with a cauldron of molten gold on his head, killing him.[26] Daenerys thus becomes the last known Targaryen. With Viserys' death, Drogo loses interest in invading Westeros. However, following an assassination attempt on Daenerys, Drogo decides to invade the Seven Kingdoms and claim the Iron Throne to ensure the safety of his wife and son. The khalasar continues its march east, destroying cities and towns, and taking slaves to sell in order to obtain ships to take them to Westeros.[27]

During the raid, Daenerys sees a young girl, Eroeh, being raped by horsemen, ordering them to stop and saving the girl. She stops the rapes of other captives and takes them under her protection. She takes Eroeh into her service. When Daenerys orders no more rapes, Ser Jorah looks at her and says:

"There is no doubt: you are of the same blood as your brother. What Viserys? - Dany didn't understand. "No," he replied, "that Rhaegar."[28]

In the sack, Drogo is wounded and Daenerys orders one of the captives, a Lhazareena priestess, the maegi Mirri Maz Duur, to treat the wound. The wound becomes infected and Drogo becomes too weak to ride. Daenerys makes a pact with the maegi to spare Drogo's life, ignoring the consequences of blood magic. In the ritual, the maegi betrays her, turning Drogo into a vegetable and killing Rhaego in his womb.[29] Daenerys ends Drogo's life herself and is abandoned by most of her khalasar.[30]

She orders Mirri Maz Duur to be burned on Drogo's funeral pyre, where she lays dragon eggs. She herself steps into the pyre, emerging with three newborn dragons, the first to be born in centuries. Daenerys emerges unharmed and is called the Unburnt and Mother of Dragons. She names her dragons Viserion, Rhaegal, and Drogon, in memory of her two dead brothers and her husband. Three warriors from her husband's khalasar, Aggo, Jhogo, and Rakharo, are sworn in as her bloodriders, making Daenerys the first female Dothraki leader, a khaleesi in her own right.[31]

Daenerys decides to follow the red comet that appears in the sky. She and her depleted khalasar travel across the Red Waste to find an ancient, abandoned city, which Daenerys names Vaes Tolorro, and settles there for a time. The khalasar recovers from the hardships of the desert, and Daenerys sends out scouts in all directions. One of them returns with three emissaries from the great city of Qarth, where she is headed. There she learns of the death of King Robert Baratheon and the war in the Seven Kingdoms. She tries to secure the support of one of the emissaries, the merchant Xaro Xhoan Daxos, in conquering Westeros, but the merchants of Qarth are only interested in her dragons.[32][33]

Daenerys confers with another of the emissaries, a warlock named Pyat Pree. Against the advice of her friends and advisors, she agrees to visit the warlock leaders, the Undying, at their home, the House of the Undying. After seeing strange visions and hearing vague prophecies, Daenerys realizes that the Undying are plotting against her, managing to escape thanks to Drogon, but destroying the temple in the process. With no one else to turn to for help, Daenerys considers the suggestion of the third emissary, a masked woman named Quaithe of Asshai, that she should go east to conquer the west.[34]

Following the incident at the House of the Undying, the warlocks plot to assassinate her. Daenerys searches for ships in the harbor of Qarth, where she notices two unknown men following her and Ser Jorah. Daenerys is distracted when an assassin tries to poison her with a manticore. She is saved by one of the strangers. The men introduce themselves as afentes sent by Magister Illyrio to take her to Pentos. The strangers introduce themselves as Belwas the Strong, a huge eunuch, and Arstan Whitebeard, an old man from Westeros. Along with the two men, Illyrio sends three merchant ships to transport Dany and her people to Pentos. Instead, Daenerys claims the ships for herself.

After several days of sea travel, Ser Jorah convinces Daenerys to go to Astapor, one of the great slave cities in Slaver's Bay, to purchase Unsullied and return to Illyrio with an army at her back. Ser Jorah also kisses her and confesses his love for her. [36] Once in Astapor, though hesitant to use slaves, she negotiates with the Good Masters to purchase eight thousand Unsullied in exchange for all of her possessions and a dragon, Drogon. A slave girl, Missandei, is given to her as a gift by the Good Masters. Dany accepts her, but later frees her. She tells Missandei that she may leave her service if she wishes, but the child remains by her side and loyal to Daenerys.

Once she has mastered the Unsullied, she orders dragons to attack the Good Masters. She uses the Unsullied to conquer the city. After the battle, she proclaims the liberation of all slaves in Astapor, including the Unsullied, and is thus called Breaker of Chains. The Unsullied and many freedmen choose to stay with her in future battles. After forming a council to rule Astapor, she heads towards the next major slave city, Yunkai.[37]

Yunkai hires two mercenary companies, the Stormcrows and the Second Sons, in addition to the city's military force of four thousand slave soldiers. Daenerys parleys with the captains of the companies, hoping to convince them to switch sides. Her arguments convince the Stormcrows' commander, Daario Naharis, who murders his colleagues and rallies his company's support behind Daenerys. To the Second Sons, Daenerys offers a great quantity of wine as tribute, then attacks them at night while they are drunk and asleep. With the Stormcrows' betrayal and the Second Sons' drunkenness, Yunkai's slave army is unable to stand against Daenerys' Unsullied. The entire Yunkai army is killed, captured, and killed.

put to flight, and Yunkai surrendered a few days later.[38]

She then heads to Meereen, the last of the slaver cities. Near the city, Daenerys is attacked and nearly killed by Mero, the former captain of the Second Sons, but is saved by Arstan. Following the attack, she discovers that Arstan is actually Ser Barristan Selmy, a famous knight of her father's Kingsguard who later served the usurper Robert Baratheon. Ser Barristan explains that, having realized his mistake, he decided to seek out the true heir to the Seven Kingdoms. Selmy also reveals that Ser Jorah Mormont has been reporting on her to Varys in King's Landing ever since they met. Daenerys feels betrayed by both of them, though the two fervently seek his forgiveness.

During the Siege of Meereen, she decides to send the two of them down the sewers to free the slaves, an obviously suicidal mission, half-expecting them to die in the attempt. The mission is successful and the city is won with minimal casualties. Barristan humbly agrees to Daenerys's judgment and is pardoned. Jorah stubbornly continues to insist that he has done nothing wrong, and Daenerys is forced to exile him from her service, despite her desire to forgive him.[39]

Having captured Meereen, Daenerys sets her sights on Westeros. Conversing with Ser Barristan about her homeland and history, she realizes there is much she does not know about ruling. After hearing that Astapor and Yunkai have failed to maintain the peace she had hoped to provide, she resolves to restore order to Slaver's Bay before leaving it behind.[40]

Daenerys continues to rule Meereen, with no small amount of trouble. Her dragons have grown wilder, preying on sheep and cattle. Eventually, a petitioner comes to her, presenting the bones of her daughter, a six-year-old girl named Hazzea, claiming that the "winged shadow" had killed her. [42] Because of this, Dany orders the dragons to be captured using nets and chains, and locked in the catacombs. Viserion and Rhaegal are captured (though several Unsullied lose their lives in the process), but Drogon escapes and disappears. During this time, Dany has a vision of Quaithe, who warns her not to trust the perfumed seneschal. [43]

Yunkai declares war on her, while Astapor is in chaos after Daenerys frees it. Xaro Xhoan Daxos visits her in Meereen and offers her his ships to march to Westeros. [44] When she refuses, Xaro, representing all of Qarth, declares war on Meereen, allying himself with Yunkai, Tolos and New Ghis and blockading the Skahazadhan River with his ships to stop trade routes with Lhazar.

In the city, the Sons of the Harpy continually murder Daenerys' freedmen and Unsullied. The Green Grace provides a solution: Daenerys must marry a Ghiscari nobleman to restore peace to Meereen. Daenerys is visited by Quentyn Martell, who proposes marriage so that he can conquer Westeros with Dorne's support.[45]

To settle her issues with Yunkai, Daenerys agrees to marry Hizdahr zo Loraq, after he stops the Sons of the Harpy from shedding blood.[46]

After the marriage to Hizdahr, Daenerys reopens the fighting pits, which had been sealed when she took the city.[47] During the celebration, right in the middle of a fight, Drogon, who had disappeared in the direction of the Skahazadhan, appears in the middle of the pit, attracted by the smell of blood. After he kills with his fire the soldiers sent by Hizdahr to kill him,

Daenerys descends into the arena to stop him. Using only a whip and her voice, she manages to control Drogon and climbs onto his back.[48] The dragon takes flight with Daenerys on his back and carries her to his home in the Dothraki Sea, leaving Meeren in the hands of Hizdahr.

After a few days in Drogon's cave in the Grass Sea, Daenerys finds a small stream and decides that following it would lead to Skahazadhan, and eventually Slaver's Bay. After several days of walking, Daenerys falls ill from the lack of food and consumption of unclean water, feeling increasingly weaker and finding blood on her thighs. Eventually, the khalasar of Khal Jhaqo, Drogo's former ko, finds Daenerys and Drogon in the Dothraki Sea.[49]

I am of the blood of the dragon." [50] "If I look back, I'm lost." [51] "The blood of Aegon the Dragon flows through his veins." - Illyrio Mopatis [52] "Daenerys Targaryen is no maiden, however. She is the widow of a Dothraki khal, mother of dragons and a sacker of cities, she is Aegon the Conqueror with tits..." - Tyrion Lannister [53] "I know she is proud. How else? What else is there for her but pride? I know she is strong. How else? The Dothraki despise the weak. If Daenerys had been weak, she would have died as Viserys had. I know she is fierce. Astapor, Yunkai, and Meereen are proof enough of that. She has survived assassination attempts, plots, and sorceries, lost a brother, a husband, and a son, with slaver cities burned to the ground beneath her delicately sandaled feet." - Tyrion Lannister to Griff the Younger.[54]

Viserys marries Daenerys to the powerful Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo in exchange for her military support in reclaiming the Iron Throne. Daenerys becomes a khaleesi. During the wedding, the exiled knight Ser Jorah Mormont pledges his loyalty to Daenerys, and her benefactor Illyrio Mopatis gifts her three petrified dragon eggs. [2] Daenerys is initially fearful of her new husband, but after learning the Dothraki language, she begins to bond with Drogo and falls in love with him. Daenerys learns the ways of the Dothraki, strengthening her relationship with her nomadic tribe. [3] She becomes pregnant by Drogo, and their unborn child is prophesied by the Dothraki to be the "Stallion that Mounts the World". [4] Viserys becomes jealous of Daenerys's popularity, and is enraged by Drogo's lack of urgency in launching an invasion, leading him to threaten to murder Daenerys's unborn child from her womb. Drogo responds by killing Viserys with molten gold. Daenerys declares that he was not a dragon, as fire cannot kill a dragon.[5]

Following a failed assassination attempt by Robert Baratheon, Drogo swears to Daenerys that he will conquer the Seven Kingdoms for her and their unborn child. However, during their journey, Drogo falls into a coma from an infected wound sustained during a fight with one of his men. Daenerys desperately seeks the aid of the healer Mirri Maz Duur to save his life, using blood magic. [6] Mirri tricks Daenerys into using her unborn child's life as a sacrifice to heal Drogo, but leaves him in a permanent catatonic state, forcing Daenerys to end her husband's life. Daenerys punishes Mirri by tying her to Drogo's funeral pyre and setting it alight. She also lays the three dragon eggs upon Drogo's body and walks into the fire herself. At dawn, when the fire has died out, Daenerys emerges with three dragon cubs she names Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion.[7]

Daenerys's small khalasar travels across the vast Red Waste. Everyone is exhausted, so Daenerys sends her bloodriders to scout the surrounding area, looking for anything or anywhere that might provide supplies. [8] One of them informs her that the Thirteen of Qarth wish to see her outside the city.

Daenerys meets with the representative of the Thirteen outside the walls of Qarth. He is unwilling to let Daenerys and her khalasar through the city gates, and Daenerys' attempts at persuasion are more than ineffective. [9] However, one of the Thirteen named Xaro Xhoan Daxos offers to shelter them on his own responsibility. Xaro turns out to be a man of lofty ambitions, proposing to Daenerys that they marry so that she can conquer the Seven Kingdoms with her vast fortune. Daenerys is tempted to accept his offer, though Ser Jorah advises her to be cautious, distrusting the sycophantic Qarthian merchant's intentions. After speaking with Ser Jorah, Daenerys realizes the truth: Jorah is in love with her.

Daenerys speaks to the Thirteen for ships and troops, but they all refuse.[10] After returning to Xaro's home, she finds that her dragons have disappeared and the members of her khalasar have been killed. Pyat Pree, one of the Thirteen, informs her that the dragons are in their possession, and that she is free to go and find them at the House of the Undying.[11]

Daenerys goes to the House of the Undying alone. She begins to experience strange visions: the Iron Throne room covered in snow, an image of the Wall, and a vision of her with her late husband and unborn child. Pyat Pree appears and reveals his true plans: he plans to imprison Daenerys and her dragons in the tower for all eternity. But Daenerys claims that this is not their destiny, and the baby dragons breathe fire that burns Pyat Pree.

Back at Xaro's house,

Back at Xaro's house, they find him in bed with Doreah, one of Daenerys' handmaidens. After opening Xaro's chamber, they discover that he has lied to her all along and possesses no wealth. Daenerys locks Xaro and Doreah inside the chamber; Xaro's true wealth will be used to fund a fleet to leave Qarth.[12]

Daenerys and her fleet head toward the city of Astapor in Slaver's Bay. Ser Jorah Mormont persuades her that the city is a trading place for the so-called Unsullied, who are reputed to be the greatest warriors in the Known World, and that he needs them to conquer Westeros; Daenerys stresses that they are slave soldiers, but she knows that Jorah is right.[13]

In Astapor, a slave trader named Kraznys mo Nakloz explains to her the training that the Unsullied receive, which disgusts Daenerys, as the Unsullied are treated as simple machines for war, eliminating any hint of humanity in them.

Walking through the harbors of Astapor, Daenerys meets Ser Barristan Selmy, a legendary swordsman and knight from Westeros who served in the Kingsguard during her father's reign, who swears loyalty to her and to serve her.[14] Ser Jorah and Ser Barristan discuss acquiring the Unsullied; the former is in favor, the latter against.

Daenerys meets with Kraznys again, demanding that all of the city's 8,000 Unsullied be handed over to her, in exchange for Daenerys giving them one of her dragons; Kraznys accepts her offer. Daenerys also demands that her translator, Missandei, be handed over to her. Both Jorah and Barristan oppose Daenerys' plan, believing that she is making a fatal mistake.

In the central square of Astapor, Daenerys and Kraznys make the exchange: Daenerys brings him Drogon (the eldest of her dragons) in exchange for control of the 8,000 Unsullied. Kraznys protests that the dragon will not obey him; Daenerys retorts that a dragon would never be a slave, at which point she orders Drogon to attack. Daenerys then orders the Unsullied to kill all the slavers they find, while looking at the charred corpse of Kraznys. After this event, Daenerys proclaims that all Unsullied who follow her will do so as free men.

Daenerys' army arrives at the gates of Yunkai, another of the slave cities in Slaver's Bay. Daenerys plans to take all of the slave cities and free the slaves within; Yunkai is the first target, but Yunkai is unwilling to surrender. [16] Yunkai's emissary offers gold and ships to get her to Westeros if she leaves the city alone; Daenerys counters, demanding that all slaves in the city be freed. Seeing that a confrontation is inevitable, Daenerys attempts to sway the mercenary company of the Second Sons, who serve under Yunkai, over to her side. The Second Sons refuse, until one of their captains, Daario Naharis, eliminates the commanders and places the Second Sons under Daenerys's service. Taking advantage of the defection of the Second Sons, Daenerys' army defeats the Yunkish.[17]

Yunkai surrenders to Daenerys and agrees to her proposal to free the slaves. Daenerys states to them that she cannot grant them freedom, but that they must take it for themselves. The slaves begin to cheer her and call her "Mhysa."[18]

Daenerys' army sets out for Meereen, the last and most powerful of the slave cities. Meereen refuses to surrender, so Daenerys sends the Unsullied's commander, Grey Worm, to infiltrate Meereen through the sewers and persuade the slaves to revolt. Ultimately, no battle is necessary, as the slaves eventually open the city gates to Daenerys.[19]

Daenerys sits in the Great Pyramid of Meereen, where her advisors discuss what to do next; Ser Barristan Selmy advocates marching on Westeros as soon as possible, especially now that they have learned that King Joffrey Baratheon is dead; Ser Jorah Mormont advises caution, as even if they have 10,000 men, he does not believe that they will be enough to conquer the Seven Kingdoms, stating that Daenerys must stay to ensure peace at Slaver's Bay. Daenerys agrees with Ser Jorah, stating that she will stay in Meereen to do what she has never done: rule.[20]

Ser Barristan reveals to Daenerys that Ser Jorah has been spying on her ever since he appeared before her at her wedding to Khal Drogo. Ser Jorah admits this and tearfully begs for forgiveness, declaring his love for her. Ignoring his pleas, Daenerys exiles Ser Jorah, ordering him never to return.[21]

One day, an emissary arrives before Daenerys with a corpse. The man explains that it is his daughter, who was burned and devoured by one of his dragons. Seeing that they are a threat to her own people, Daenerys decides to confine Viserion and Rhaegal beneath the Great Pyramid.[22]

Daenerys' Unsullied and freedmen begin to be killed in the streets of Meereen. The instigators call themselves the Sons of the Harpy, Meereen rebels who oppose her rule. Daenerys discusses the matter with Hizdahr zo Loraq, representative of the great families of Meereen. Hizdahr states that Daenerys should become more involved in Meereen culture and proposes reopening the fighting pits. Daario Naharis, whom Daenerys has made her lover, thinks this is a good idea, and also proposes that she free her dragons held captive beneath the Great Pyramid; however, the dragons are not very happy about her captivity, and do not respond warmly to the arrival of their "mother."[23]

During one of the Sons of the Harpy's attacks, Ser Barristan Selmy is killed in battle against them. Furious at losing one of her closest and most loyal men, Daenerys decides to apply a severe punishment to the nobles of Meereen. She brings the heads of the great families before Viserion and Rhaegal, where one of them is devoured. Daenerys senses that the nobles of Meereen support the Sons of the Harpy, so she needs to win their favor. She then decides to marry one of them, as a symbol of union between Daenerys Targaryen, Queen of the Seven Kingdoms and Meereen, with the former slave-owning nobility; the chosen one is Hizdahr zo Loraq himself.[24]

The fighting finally begins again. Daenerys watches stoically as she sees a barbaric spectacle. During one of the fights, Daenerys meets Ser Jorah Mormont, who also brings her a gift: Tyrion Lannister, exiled from Westeros. Daenerys accepts Tyrion as her advisor, but not Ser Jorah, whom she again condemns to exile following Tyrion's rhetorical advice.[25]

Fights take place at the Great Pit of Meereen to celebrate the marriage between Daenerys and Hizdahr. After some initial fighting,

After some initial fighting, a new champion emerges before the crowd: Ser Jorah Mormont. At that moment, the Sons of the Harpy begin to emerge from among the spectators, killing civilians and Unsullied alike, one of these victims being Hizdahr himself. Daenerys and her entourage take refuge in the center of the arena protected by the Unsullied, but the disadvantage against the Sons of the Harpy is absolute. The situation seems lost until a roar shakes the sky: Drogon returns. The dragon begins to eliminate the Sons of the Harpy, who end up riddling him with spears. Seeing her offspring suffer, Daenerys goes to Drogon's side and rides for the first time on the back of her "son", to ride triumphantly over the skies of Meereen. [26]

Drogon takes Daenerys many leagues from Meereen, to the Dothraki Sea. Without food or water, Daenerys is near exhaustion, and Drogon seems reluctant to return to Meereen. While walking through the meadows, Daenerys is spotted by a khalasar and taken prisoner.[27]

Daenerys is held captive by Khal Moro's khalasar, who has no hopes for her. After learning that she is the widow and khaleesi of the late Khal Drogo, he decides to take her to Vaes Dothrak to be handed over to the Dosh khaleen.[28]

In Vaes Dothrak, the khals gather to decide what to do with her; some are in favor of handing her over to the Wise Masters of Yunkai, others simply advocate raping her. Daenerys states that none of them are worthy of leading the Dothraki to the ends of the world, as Drogo intended to do. Instead, she decides that all the khals will die on the spot, and begins to throw the firelamps to the ground, causing the tent they were in to burn to the ground, killing everyone inside. From the flames emerges Daenerys, once again unharmed as she had been at Drogo's funeral pyre, but this time it is not dragons that she gains, but the loyalty of all the khalasar. [29]

Daenerys is reunited with Ser Jorah Mormont, who came to her rescue with Daario Naharis. Jorah reveals that he is suffering from greyscale, a contagious and deadly disease that will slowly kill him. Daenerys orders him to find a cure, so that she can return to him when she conquers the Seven Kingdoms.[30]

Daenerys arrives in Meereen as the slaver cities are under attack. Yunkai and Astapor, with the support of Volantis, have decided to lay siege to Meereen to end Daenerys' reign. Their ships continually attack the city, and the Unsullied are unable to confront them, as they do not have enough men. Daenerys meets with the envoys of the slaver cities, who present their conditions for accepting her surrender; without saying a word, Daenerys begins to burn the slaver fleet on the back of Drogon and together with Viserion and Rhaegal. Shortly after, she receives Theon and Yara Greyjoy, who offer their ships to Daenerys.

Shortly after, she is met by Theon and Yara Greyjoy, who offer their ships to Daenerys in exchange for her support of Yara's claim to the crown of the Iron Islands.[31]

Following the alliance with the Greyjoys, she is joined by ships from House Martell and House Tyrell, who want revenge against House Lannister. Daenerys leaves Daario and the Second Sons in Meereen to keep the peace, and sets sail for Westeros with her court and dragons.[32]

Daenerys arrives at the island fortress of Dragonstone, the former Targaryen stronghold once held by the late Stannis Baratheon, to find it abandoned.[33] She sends the Unsullied to take Casterly Rock and dispatches Yara Greyjoy's fleet of ships from Dorne to blockade King's Landing. However, the Lannister forces have abandoned Casterly Rock and seized Highgarden and its riches. Meanwhile, Euron Greyjoy outnumbers his niece Yara's ships.[34] To gain allies, Daenerys summons the newly appointed King in the North, Jon Snow, to pledge fealty to her. Jon refuses, insisting that the Night King and his army of White Walkers pose a threat to all of humanity.[35] Learning of Highgarden's fall, Daenerys leads Drogon and the Dothraki to fight the Lannister camp. Although Drogon is wounded in the battle, Daenerys emerges victorious. The remaining forces submit to her, but a resistant Randyll and Dickon Tarly choose death rather than submission. Daenerys executes them with dragonfire.[36]

Jon and Jorah Mormont lead an expedition beyond the Wall to capture a walker, which they will use to convince the self-proclaimed Queen of Westeros, Cersei Lannister, that the threat is real. They end up surrounded by walkers. Daenerys and her dragons come to their rescue, but the Night King kills Viserion with an ice spear, devastating Daenerys. [37] Daenerys swears to Jon that she will help him fight the Night King, and Jon swears fealty to her as his queen. The pair and their retainers bring a walker to King's Landing to convince Cersei of the threat beyond the Wall. In the end, Cersei agrees to a truce and to help fight the undead army, but secretly plans to betray them. In love, Jon and Daenerys eventually succumb to their growing feelings for each other and have sex.

Neither of them knows they are related by blood, or that the Night King has revived Viserion. The Night King breaches the Wall with dragonfire.

Daenerys and Jon Snow arrive at Winterfell with the Unsullied, the Dothraki, and their dragons. There they learn that the Night King has stormed Westeros. The Northerners and Sansa Stark are angered that Jon has allied himself with Daenerys.[39] Later, Daenerys and Jon's bond grows as they ride their dragons. Jaime Lannister arrives and reveals Cersei's betrayal. Jon learns of his true parentage, and reveals to a stunned Daenerys that he is the son of her brother Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. Daenerys realizes that this makes Jon the heir to House Targaryen.[40]

When the army of the dead arrives, Daenerys and Jon battle the Night King on dragonback, but they fight and become separated. Jorah Mormont is killed defending Daenerys. The dead are defeated when Arya Stark kills the Night King.[41] In the aftermath of the battle, Daenerys fears that the people will prefer Jon as ruler over her when the wildlings praise him. She begs Jon not to reveal her true parentage, but Jon says that he must tell his sisters, whom he swears to secrecy as he has given up his claim for Daenerys's. However, Sansa tells Tyrion Lannister, who in turn tells Varys.[42] Daenerys, Jon, and their combined forces prepare to march against Cersei, but Euron Greyjoy ambushes Daenerys along the way; he kills Rhaegal and captures Missandei. A distraught Daenerys negotiates Missandei's release and Cersei's surrender, but Cersei has Missandei beheaded. Daenerys learns that Varys is attempting to place Jon on the Iron Throne and has him executed for his betrayal. She later attempts to rekindle her relationship with Jon, but he pulls away due to their blood relationship. Daenerys resigns herself to relying on fear to prevail.

Tyrion defies Daenerys by freeing his brother, who is then captured on his way back to Cersei. Tyrion later urges Daenerys to forgive

Tyrion urges Daenerys to spare the people of King's Landing if they surrender. Daenerys destroys the city's defenses and the city surrenders, but burns King's Landing, killing countless civilians. [43] Afterwards, Daenerys declares that she has freed these people and will free the world. Tyrion is arrested for treason. Arya and Tyrion warn Jon that Daenerys will see his Targaryen heritage as a threat to her rule, and House Stark is not safe; Tyrion says that despite Jon's love for Daenerys, it is his duty to kill her to protect the people. Jon attempts to reason with Daenerys, but when she continues to claim that her actions are necessary to establish a good world, a conflicted Jon fatally stabs her, and Daenerys dies in his arms as he cries. Drogon arrives and melts the Iron Throne before leaving Westeros with Daenerys' body. Bran Stark is later elected king; and he exiles Jon back to the Night's Watch to appease Daenerys' supporters. Then Drogon takes Daynerys to the skies but no one knows that she ended up surviving John's stabbing.