George R.R. Martin Information: Daenerys Targaryen
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Daenerys Targaryen (aka "Daenerys Stormborn" aka "Dany" aka "the Mother of Dragons"), younger sister of the abusive Viserys Targaryen, the Targaryen king-in-exile, and hence heir to the Targaryen crown at the onset of A Game of Thrones. She has silver hair and violet eyes.
After the sack of King's Landing, Daenerys and her older brother Viserys were smuggled out of Westeros by Ser Willum Darry. Years later Viserys, the "beggar king," with the help of Magister Illyrio, arranges a marriage between Daenerys and Khal Drogo, a powerful Dothraki chieftain. The price of the marriage is to be Khal Drogo's aid in retaking Westeros for the Targaryens. Illyrio gives Dany three (seemingly) petrified dragon eggs as a wedding gift.
Viserys, impatient that the Khal's armies are marching east, away from Westeros, draws a sword in a place sacred to the Dothraki; Drogo quickly "crowns" him with molten gold. Drogo is later wounded, and Dany's attempts to have a Lhazareen witch, Mirri Maz Duur, cure him backfire when the witch betrays, destroying Drogo's mind and forcing Dany to give birth to a stillborn and monstrous baby, Rhaego, dashing her and the Dothraki's hopes that the child would become "the stallion who mounts the world."
Dany euthanizes Drogo and has Mirri Maz Duur burned alive at his funeral pyre, joining them with her three dragon eggs. Dany is unharmed, the dragons hatch and her khalasar marches on, with her as their khaleesi.
Her three dragons, Drogon, Viserion, and Rhaegal quickly become famous, and Dany is welcomed in Quarth. However, the warlocks there plot against; in a scene in which the cycle's title, A Song of Ice and Fire, is articulated within the text for the first time, she is given several visions before destroying the warlocks' elders.
Illyrio (ostensibly) sends a former pitfighter and eunuch named Strong Belwas and his elderly Westerosi squire (later revealed by Ser Jorah Mormont to be Ser Barristan Selmy, recently dismissed from the King's Guard by Cersei Lannister) to guard her on her return to Pentos. Daenerys, however, claims his ships as her own, and goes on to conquer the slaver cities of Astapor, Yunkai, and Meereen, freeing their slaves, with the help of the Unsullied, a professional eunuch slave army, and the Stormcrows, a sellsword company. At the end of A Storm of Swords she announces an intent to rule Meereen after learning that a butcher in Astapor has named himself King Cleon and has reinstituted slavery.
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Viserys, impatient that the Khal's armies are marching east, away from Westeros, draws a sword in a place sacred to the Dothraki; Drogo quickly "crowns" him with molten gold. Drogo is later wounded, and Dany's attempts to have a Lhazareen witch, Mirri Maz Duur, cure him backfire when the witch betrays, destroying Drogo's mind and forcing Dany to give birth to a stillborn and monstrous baby, Rhaego, dashing her and the Dothraki's hopes that the child would become "the stallion who mounts the world."
Dany euthanizes Drogo and has Mirri Maz Duur burned alive at his funeral pyre, joining them with her three dragon eggs. Dany is unharmed, the dragons hatch and her khalasar marches on, with her as their khaleesi.
Her three dragons, Drogon, Viserion, and Rhaegal quickly become famous, and Dany is welcomed in Quarth. However, the warlocks there plot against; in a scene in which the cycle's title, A Song of Ice and Fire, is articulated within the text for the first time, she is given several visions before destroying the warlocks' elders.
Illyrio (ostensibly) sends a former pitfighter and eunuch named Strong Belwas and his elderly Westerosi squire (later revealed by Ser Jorah Mormont to be Ser Barristan Selmy, recently dismissed from the King's Guard by Cersei Lannister) to guard her on her return to Pentos. Daenerys, however, claims his ships as her own, and goes on to conquer the slaver cities of Astapor, Yunkai, and Meereen, freeing their slaves, with the help of the Unsullied, a professional eunuch slave army, and the Stormcrows, a sellsword company. At the end of A Storm of Swords she announces an intent to rule Meereen after learning that a butcher in Astapor has named himself King Cleon and has reinstituted slavery.
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