Editing Viserys Targaryen (section)

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===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Aprilis420 targaryen.jpg|thumb|350px|You don't want to wake the dragon, do you? - by aprilis420 ©]]
In [[Pentos]], Magister [[Illyrio Mopatis]] takes an interest in returning Viserys to the [[Iron Throne]] in return for rewards upon his ascension. Illyrio and Viserys arrange a marriage between [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] and Khal [[Drogo]], a powerful [[Dothraki]] horselord who promises Viserys an army which he can use to conquer the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. Viserys believes he could conquer Westeros with only ten thousand Dothraki screamers, and that among the houses that would rise for him upon his landing would be the [[House Tyrell|Tyrells]], [[House Redwyne|Redwynes]], [[House Darry|Darrys]], [[House Greyjoy|Greyjoys]], and [[House Martell|Martells]], and that the [[smallfolk]] cry out for the return of [[House Targaryen]]. Viserys says when he takes Westeros, he will kill the [[Usurper]], King [[Robert I Baratheon]], and also the [[Kingslayer]], Ser [[Jaime Lannister]].{{Ref|AGOT|3}}

Viserys, while willing to wed Daenerys to Drogo, is resentful of having to give her up, and the night before the wedding tries to enter her room and claim her [[maidenhead]]. Illyrio, however, has the foresight to post guards on her room and ensure the impetuous Viserys does not undo "years of planning".{{Ref|ADWD|5}} At the wedding feast, Viserys meets the exile knight Ser [[Jorah Mormont]],{{Ref|AGOT|3}} who swears himself to his service. Viserys gifts his sister with three handmaids, [[Irri]], [[Jhiqui]], and [[Doreah]]. Viserys is angered at having to sit in a place below Daenerys and at being offered the food that only the ''khal'' and his bride have already refused. Before Daenerys and Drogo leave to consummate the marriage, Viserys warns his sister that she must please Drogo, or else she "will see the dragon wake as it has never woken before."{{Ref|AGOT|11}}

After the wedding, Khal Drogo's ''[[khalasar]]'' leaves for [[Vaes Dothrak]] to present the new ''[[khaleesi]]'' Daenerys to the ''[[dosh khaleen]]''. Viserys insists on traveling along to ensure the ''khal'' honors the agreement of support. Viserys believes that Drogo is delaying fulfillment of his promise, and grows increasingly insistent on making a start to the invasion. He believes he sold Daenerys to Drogo, and that the ''khal'' has not paid him for her, although Illyrio and Jorah try to explain that the Dothraki do not buy or sell, but rather receive gifts and give gifts back eventually in return.{{Ref|AGOT|23}}

Viserys tries to browbeat Daenerys into persuading Drogo, but with her new position of authority as ''khaleesi'' she begins standing up for herself. When Daenerys wishes to experience the [[Dothraki sea]] in solitude, she requests that Jorah tell Viserys and the rest of her ''[[khas]]'' to stay behind. Viserys becomes infuriated at Daenerys giving him a command, and verbally and physically assaults her. She defends herself, and one of the young warriors of her ''[[khas]]'', [[Jhogo]] defends his ''khaleesi'', snapping a whip around Viserys's neck. Daenerys commands that he not be harmed, only that his horse be taken away, forcing Viserys to walk. Viserys demands that Jorah hurt Daenerys and kill the Dothraki for this insult, but the knight ignores Viserys and enforces Daenerys's orders. Jorah regrets swearing himself to Viserys's service, and intimates to Daenerys that Viserys would be a terrible king. Daenerys realizes that Viserys will never win the Iron Throne and take her back to Westeros, as he is not respected and could not lead an army even if Khal Drogo gives him one.{{Ref|AGOT|23}}

[[File:Viserys targaryen by kim sokol.jpg|thumb|Viserys Targaryen, the "Cart King", by Kim Sokol © Fantasy Flight Games]]

When Viserys walks back to the ''khalasar'', he is greatly shamed in the eyes of the Dothraki, as they feel a man who does not ride is no man at all, and this earns him the mocking nickname ''Khal Rhae Mhar'', the Sorefoot King. Khal Drogo later offers him a place in a [[cart]] and Viserys accepts, in his ignorance believing it the ''khal's'' way of apologizing to him for the wrong Daenerys did to him. Unknown to Viserys, this is a greater insult than walking on foot — as carts are for cripples, [[eunuch]]s, the very old or very young — which earns Viserys the new nickname ''Khal Rhaggat'', the Cart King.{{Ref|AGOT|36}}

At Vaes Dothrak, Daenerys wishes to reconcile with Viserys, and prepares gifts for him, including new Dothraki-style clothing "fit for a ''khal''" to replace his filthy garments. However, when Daenerys sends Doreah to request that Viserys join her at dinner, he takes offense that she would send a whore to give him commands and strikes the woman, before angrily approaching Daenerys. He mocks the clothes and the idea that he should dress like a "savage", and begins to assault Daenerys until she defends herself, hitting him with the belt of bronze medallions she had hoped to give him. Viserys storms off angrily, saying she will rue this day when he regains his kingdom.{{Ref|AGOT|36}}

[[File:HBOGolden Crown.png|thumb|250px|Khal [[Drogo]] crowns Viserys with molten gold (''[[Game of Thrones]]'')]]

The day of the ritual ceremony for Daenerys's unborn child, [[Rhaego]], Jorah stops Viserys from stealing Daenerys's [[dragon egg]]s, intending to sell to the traders of Vaes Dothrak for gold to buy himself a [[sellsword]] army. The feasting Dothraki are then greatly offended by a drunken Viserys wielding a sword in Drogo's hall, as blades are banned in the sacred city of Vaes Dothrak and it is forbidden to shed a free man's blood there. Khal Drogo does not let Viserys sit at the high bench but rather tells him to sit with the cripples and boys, and all the Dothraki laugh and mock Viserys. Viserys draws his sword, angering the Dothraki, and threatens Daenerys's unborn child while again insisting that Drogo give him his crown. In response, Drogo has Viserys seized by his [[bloodrider]]s, melts down his belt of golden medallions, and upends the pot over Viserys's head, fatally but bloodlessly "crowning" him with molten gold.{{Ref|AGOT|46}}

After Daenerys is nearly assassinated in the Vaes Dothrak marketplace, she learns that King Robert has offered lands and [[lord]]ships for her death or Viserys's;{{Ref|AGOT|33}} she half-hysterically sobs and tells Jorah that the Usurper owes Drogo a lordship.{{Ref|AGOT|54}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Word of Viserys's death reaches Westeros not long after King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]]'s execution of Lord [[Eddard Stark]].{{Ref|aCoK|2}}

In the [[red waste]], Daenerys remembers that Viserys told her when they were children that only [[dragon]]s and men eat cooked meat, which enables her to finally find a way to feed her newborn [[dragon]]s. Daenerys names her white dragon [[Viserion]] in his memory.{{Ref|ACOK|12}}

While wondering how she can succeed in taking back her father's throne, Daenerys recalls that Viserys had believed that the realm would rise for its rightful king. Although she considers the notion to have been a foolish one,{{ref|acok|27}} there appears to have been some truth to his beliefs.{{Refn|group="N"|At [[Castle Darry]], [[House Darry]] still displays Targaryen [[tapestries]] fifteen years after [[Robert's Rebellion]].{{Ref|AFFC|30}} The [[House Martell|Martells]] of [[Dorne]] signed a [[secret marriage pact]] promising to aid Viserys's cause.{{Ref|ADWD|43}} In the [[riverlands]], a peasant speaks of better days in the past under King [[Aerys II Targaryen]].{{Ref|ACOK|26}}}}

In [[Qarth]], after being refused help by the [[Pureborn]], Daenerys remembers how Viserys was forced to survive in order to take care of them, and the negative effect it had on him, and that she has now found herself in the same position.{{Ref|aCoK|40}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
While traveling to [[Astapor]] by ship, Daenerys recalls a young Viserys telling her tales of the [[Seven Kingdoms]] and of how much better their lives would be once he claimed his crown.{{Ref|aSoS|8}}

In [[Meereen]] Ser [[Barristan Selmy]] tells Daenerys that Viserys was [[Aerys II Targaryen|his father]]'s son, in  ways [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]] never was.{{Ref|aSoS|71}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
At [[Sunspear]], [[Arianne Martell]] learns from her father, [[Doran Martell|Doran]], of a [[secret marriage pact]] between Houses Targaryen and [[House Martell|Martell]]. While her younger brother [[Quentyn Martell|Quentyn]] was to rule [[Dorne]], Arianne was intended to marry the exiled Viserys. Doran, the [[Prince of Dorne]], had suggested older consorts for her to marry, knowing she would reject them. Doran planned to send Arianne to [[Tyrosh]] to serve as the [[Archon]]'s cupbearer and meet Viserys in secret, but Doran's wife, [[Mellario]], had been so upset by Quentyn's fostering at [[Yronwood]] that Doran could not bear to take another of her children from her, and Arianne was never told of her betrothal to Viserys. With Viserys now dead, Doran intends for Arianne to rule Dorne and sends Quentyn to court Daenerys in Meereen.{{Ref|AFFC|40}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
[[File:Daenerys and Viserys by Fkaluis.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Daenerys and Viserys, by [https://fkaluis.tumblr.com/ Fkaluis]]]
In Meereen, Ser [[Barristan Selmy]] tells Daenerys that after he was dismissed from the [[Kingsguard]] by [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]], he realised that he had to redeem himself by finding the true king, meaning Viserys, and serve him loyally with all the strength that still remained to him.{{Ref|ADWD|11}} Daenerys remembers that Viserys had told her stories of the [[tourney]]s he had witnessed in the [[Seven Kingdoms]].{{Ref|ADWD|30}}

Ser [[Tristan Rivers]] reveals that one of [[Magister]] [[Illyrio Mopatis]]'s plans was for Viserys to join the [[Golden Company]] with fifty thousand [[Dothraki]] screamers at his back, but then the Beggar King died, putting an end to that plan.{{Ref|aDwD|24}}  

Upon [[Quentyn Martell]]'s arrival at Daenerys's court in Meereen, he informs her of the [[secret marriage pact]] concluded by Ser [[Willem Darry]] and [[Oberyn Martell]] with the [[Sealord of Braavos]] as witness, while Viserys and Daenerys were living in [[Braavos]]. It promised that if Viserys wed [[Arianne Martell]] he would receive [[Dorne]]'s aid in placing him upon the [[Iron Throne]]. Daenerys realizes that if her brother had known that he had a Dornish princess waiting for him, he would have crossed to [[Sunspear]] as soon as he was old enough to wed. Quentyn agrees that this would have brought [[Robert I Baratheon]]'s wrath down on Dorne and that Doran was content to wait until Viserys found an army. Quentyn had been sent to Meereen by his father to fulfill the pact; instead of Viserys marrying Arianne, Quentyn would marry Daenerys and give her the support of Dorne.{{Ref|aDwD|43}} Barristan tells Quentyn that the pact, written by two dead men and referring to a dead man, cannot be enforced for him and Daenerys.{{Ref|aDwD|59}}

Near "[[Dragonstone (hill)|Dragonstone]]" in the [[Dothraki sea]] after fleeing [[Daznak's Pit]] atop [[Drogon]],{{Ref|ADWD|52}} Daenerys dreams of Viserys. Her burnt and gilded brother accuses her of not having mourned him. The siblings argue about Daenerys marriage to [[Drogo]], the delay in Viserys receiving a Dothraki ''[[khalasar]]'', and Daenerys receiving [[dragon egg]]s from Illyrio. Viserys's jaw falls away as he laughs in the dream.{{Ref|ADWD|71}}

===''The Winds of Winter''===
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[[Stannis Baratheon]] tells Ser [[Justin Massey]] that he will not leave [[Westeros]] to raise an army, as exiles rarely return, using the beggar king Viserys as an example.{{Ref|TWOW||[[Theon I (The Winds of Winter)|Theon I]]}}

While sailing the [[Sea of Dorne]] to [[Cape Wrath]], Arianne discusses Viserys and his death with Ser [[Daemon Sand]].{{Ref|TWOW||[[Arianne I (The Winds of Winter)|Arianne I]]}} Near [[Griffin's Roost]], Arianne encounters [[Lysono Maar]] of the [[Golden Company]]. She says the [[Lys]]eni's appearance (long silver-gold hair and pale [[purple eyes|lilac eyes]]) reminds her of a Targaryen, which he finds flattering. She is somewhat unnerved by Lysono, however, and thinks it is perhaps a good thing that Viserys is dead if that is what her betrothed looked like.{{Ref|TWOW||[[Arianne II (The Winds of Winter)|Arianne II]]}}