Editing Viserys Targaryen (section)

===''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}}