GAME OF THRONES

Daenarys the Conqueror

Chapters

History of Daenarys

Ruling Quarth

Astapor

Queen of Astapor and Quarth

Barristan Selmy

Yunkai

Part 1. Daario Naharis

Part 2. Ruling Yunkai

News From Afar

Siege of Mereen

Part 1. Fall of Mereen

Part 2. Sons of the Harpy

Visions

Dragon Rider

Volantis Surrenders

Alliance of the Free Cities

Braavos

Part 1. Arya and Daenarys

Part 2. Assassins and Thieves

Queen Cersei

Stannis Baratheon

Two Thousand Ships

Daenarys Lands in Storm's End

Conquest of Westeros

Fall of Casterly Rock

Crowns, Power, and Marriage

Judgment Day

Queen Daenarys

Chapter 1. History of Daenarys Targaeryen

Daenerys is the only daughter and youngest child of King Aerys Targaryen II and his sister-wife, Queen Rhaella. She was named after the first Daenerys in her family. Daenerys was conceived during the last month of the rebellion that would ultimately end her family's reign over the Seven Kingdoms. Shortly thereafter, her mother was sent with the young prince Viserys to the family ancestral seat of Dragonstone to escape the coming Sack of King's Landing. Daenerys was born while a great storm raged above Dragonstone, sinking what remained of the Targaryen fleet, for this reason she is sometimes known as "Daenerys Stormborn." Her mother died in labor.

By this time, the war was already lost. Robert Baratheon had claimed the throne and Aerys had already been killed along with the rest of the royal family, leaving Daenerys and her older brother Viserys as the only known living Targaryen heirs. The garrison at Dragonstone decided to surrender and turn them over to the rebels in exchange for their lives, but before they could act on this plan, Ser Willem Darry and several other loyal retainers rescued the children and smuggled them into exile, sailing to the Free City of Braavos, where they lived for years in a house with a red door. Ser Willem was old and sickly, but Dany remembers that he always treated her kindly. After his death, the servants drove the young Targaryens from the house. Dany wept as they were forced out of what had been her home.

The Targaryen loyalists who raised the two children considered Viserys the rightful ruler of the Seven Kingdoms despite the family's defeat and exile, as did Viserys himself. He regarded it as his duty to revenge himself on the usurpers who murdered his family and reclaim the birthright that had been stolen from him when he was only a child. In the years that followed Ser Willem's death, Viserys wandered the nine Free Cities with his sister, trying to raise support to retake the Iron Throne, which earned him the mocking title of "The Beggar King."

As a result of this long humiliation, Viserys grew bitter and obsessed with his long-denied birthright. Dany was the only convenient target for his frustration, and over time he even came to blame her for their mother's death. He took pride in his lack of control of his own temper, regarding it as proof that he was a true heir to the Targaryen kings; he regularly warned Dany not to "wake the dragon" by angering him. He often spoke to her of the importance of preserving the purity of their royal bloodline through the ancient Valyrian practice of dynastic incest, so Dany grew up believing she would one day wed her brother. She was bright enough to realize that most of Viserys' plans for retaking the Seven Kingdoms were unrealistic, and as she had no memory of Westeros herself, his dream meant little to her; instead she longed to return to the house with the red door, which in her mind became a symbol for the childhood she had lost. With no family other than the abusive Viserys and no expectation of ever escaping his control, Dany grew into a fearful and docile young woman. Viserys and Daenerys eventually found the help they sought in the Free City of Pentos, in the form of a rich and powerful magister, Illyrio Mopatis, who invited them to stay in his manse and offered his help in reclaiming their throne.

While Daenerys and her brother stay at the manse of Illyrio Mopatis in Pentos, Illyrio arranges a marriage between Dany and the powerful Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo. In return, Drogo is to provide Viserys with ten thousand warriors for his campaign to retake the Iron Throne. Dany's opinion is not consulted, and she realizes this marriage is little different from being sold into slavery. She tells her brother she does not wish to marry Khal Drogo, but Viserys only threatens that she will "wake the dragon" if she fails to please the khal. Despairing, Dany sees no choice but to do her best to avoid her brother's wrath, as she always had.[5]

At the wedding, the exiled Westerosi knight Ser Jorah Mormont pledges his sword to the Targaryen cause. Dany receives three petrified dragon eggs from Illyrio, three handmaidens (Irri, Jhiqui and Doreah) from her brother, and a magnificent silver filly from Drogo. She is frightened by the seemingly barbaric Dothraki culture and particularly terrified of her bridegroom, a powerfully-built man who shares no common language with her. After the ceremony she weeps in terror, waiting for him to rape her, but Drogo proves to be a surprisingly considerate lover. He establishes that he understands the word "no" and begins touching her gently and gradually, only having intercourse with her after she expresses her consent and initiates it.

Life in the khalasar is difficult at first; Dany is lonely and unaccustomed to spending her days on horseback. Nevertheless, she is determined to embrace her new life. Gradually her body strengthens and she begins to enjoy the sense of freedom that came with the nomadic lifestyle. The first real turning point comes when Viserys flies into one of his rages at her and Dany, for the first time in her life, fights back, shoving him away – and finds herself backed up by Jhogo, who whips Viserys and asks the khaleesi how he ought to be punished. Dany begns to realize that Viserys is ultimately a pathetic bully, and that she herself might not be as worthless as her brother has always claimed. From this day forward, she begins to assert herself more and more. She loses her fear of both the Dothraki and her brother, becoming a strong and confident woman who little resembles the timid girl who had left Pentos. Her growing courage pleases Drogo, and they developed a loving relationship.

Drogo takes Daenerys east to Vaes Dothrak and presents her to the dosh khaleen. By the time they arrive, Daenerys, now fourteen, is pregnant with Drogo's child. She takes part in the stallion heart ceremony, and the dosh khaleen foretell that her son will be "the Stallion Who Mounts the World," a long-prophesied leader destined to unite the Dothraki into a single khalasar and conquer the world. Dany announces that the child will be named Rhaego in honor of her deceased brother Rhaegar. Viserys grows increasingly impatient for the aid he had been promised, and the situation comes to a head when he breaks Dothraki law by drawing a blade in the sacred city, threatening both Daenerys and her unborn child. Drogo announces that Viserys will have the golden crown he deserves and dumps a pot of molten gold over his head, killing him and making Daenerys the last Targaryen. Dany watches impassively.

With Viserys' death, Drogo loses interest in the notion of invading Westeros, despite Dany's attempts to persuade him. This changes, however, when Ser Jorah prevents an assassin from poisoning Daenerys and discovers that Robert Baratheon has placed a price on her head. Enraged, Drogo vows before his khalasar to avenge this insult by conquering Westeros to seat his son on the Iron Throne that his mother's ancestors had once held. The khalasar continues east, pillaging foreign lands with the intent of selling slaves for ships to make the crossing to Westeros. During one such raid of a Lhazareen town, Daenerys grows disturbed by the treatment of the defeated and finally gives orders to stop every rape she sees, claiming the victims as her personal slaves and taking them under her protection. The Dothraki are angered by the khaleesi denying them their traditional right to rape captives, but Daenerys holds her ground, prompting Jorah to comment that she reminds him of Rhaegar. Khal Drogo, delighted by his wife's boldness, supports her decision.

Drogo is injured in the raid. A Lhazareen priestess, named Mirri Maz Duur, offers to treat him, and although Drogo's bloodriders reviled the woman as a maegi, Dany feels that she could trust her, as Mirri was one of the women she had rescued. However, Drogo does not follow the priestess' advice, and the wound festers, making him too weak to ride. Jorah explained to Dany that her position as khaleesi is entirely dependent on Drogo, and without him, both she and her unborn son are likely to be killed. Desperate, she begs Mirri Maz Duur to save her husband, ignoring the possible consequences of blood magic. During the rite, Dany enters into labor and Ser Jorah carries her into Drogo's tent, where Mirri Maz Duur is in the process of summoning dark spirits. When Dany awoke days later, she learns that Rhaego was stillborn, while Drogo lives only as a catatonic husk. Mirri Maz Duur reveals that this was the true price of the blood magic, and that she felt no gratitude toward Dany, who had "rescued" her only after she had been raped multiple times and seen her community destroyed.

Dany euthanizes Drogo and is abandoned by most of the khalasar, which breaks into rival war-bands. Jorah urges her to flee with him into the east, while the men of Dany's khas offer to escort her to Vaes Dothrak to take her place as a former khaleesi among the dosh khaleen. Dany, however, decides to finally take control of her destiny. She orders Mirri Maz Duur bound to Drogo's funeral pyre and places the three dragon eggs around his corpse, then announces to Drogo's remaining followers that she is freeing those who were enslaved, and will lead them all to glory if they chose to follow her. She offers to Aggo, Jhogo and Rakharo the traditional gifts of a khal to his bloodriders; each refuse, saying that to serve as bloodrider to a woman would shame them, but Daenerys ignores their objections. Ser Jorah accepts her offer, and she names him the first of her Queensguard.

Daenerys then walks unflinchingly into the flames. The resulting magic restores life to the eggs, from which three dragons hatched, the first known for centuries. Daenerys emerges from the fire unharmed. Drogo's former khalasar, now hers more surely than they had ever been Drogo's, kneels in awe. Aggo, Jhogo and Rakharo willingly swear themselves as her bloodriders, and Daenerys becomes the first female Dothraki war-leader, a khaleesi in her own right.

Daenerys names the three dragons Viserion, Rhaegal and Drogon, after her two deceased brothers and her late husband, respectively. She and the remains of Drogo's khalasar are stranded in a desolate area known as the Red Waste. They dare not turn toward the Dothraki Sea, the cities of Slaver's Bay, or even Lhazar, for the group would have made easy prey for any Dothraki khalasar they encountered. Dany chooses instead to follow a red comet that had appeared in the sky following the hatching of her dragons; although the Dothraki view the comet as a foreboding omen, Dany believes that it heralds her own rise to power. Her Dragons refuse to eat at first and Danny's people are at the point of dying from dehydration and hunger. In deperation Danny sends out three scouts to the North East and west of the Red Waste to find water or civilization. One scout returns with three emissaries, all prominent citizens from the great city of Qarth: the merchant Xaro Xhoan Daxos, the warlock Pyat Pree, and the mysterious masked Asshai'i Quaithe. Dany and her people accompany the Qartheen back to their city, where they stay as honored guests in the palatial home of Xaro. There Dany learns of King Robert Baratheon's death and the civil war in the Seven Kingdoms. She attempts to seek out Qartheen allies who would provide her with aid in conquering Westeros, but it swiftly becomes clear that the merchants of Qarth are only interested in obtaining her dragons.

The mages of the house of the undying kidnap the Dragons and Xaro conspires with them to kill the High Council of Quarth. Pyat tells her to come to the house of the undying if she wishes to see her Dragons again. Upon traveling to the mysterious tower with no doors Danny vanishes into the tower and is confronted by visions of her dead husband and unborn child. She then sees visions of the Red Wedding, where Rob Stark is murdered along with his troops. The next vision she sees is a vision of red headed witch with Stannis Baratheon-Stannis orders the death of his own brother at the hands of the red headed witch. She enters another door and sees Joffrey Baratheon who is now King stabbed in the back by his own mother.

Danny enters the next room and finally she is confronted by Pyat Pree Headmaster of the House of the Undying. He tells her that she and her Dragons are meant to remain in the tower for all eternity fueling their magic which has gotten stronger. Danny finds herself chained up with her Dragons on a stone stand chained by the neck. Danny orders her Dragons Viserion, Rhaegal, and Drogon to burn the warlock. He cries out and then they free her from the chains. Danny emerges from the Tower and smiles at Jorah and Hokaur then they travel to Xaro's home and after stealing all the wealth in his vault they lock him inside. Dany keeps half the gold and uses the other half to buy the loyalty of Quarth's army. Then she orders them to slaughter the nobles of Quarth and confiscates their wealth. Dany then proclaims herself Queen of Quarth and distributes half the gold she took from the nobles.