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[[Daenerys Targaryen|Dany]] learns to embrace her life in the [[khalasar]], and being the wife of [[Drogo]]. She also realizes that her brother would never be able to take the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. Finally, when Drogo arrives to screw her, she takes him outside the tent and rides him instead of him taking her from behind. She becomes pregnant.  
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[[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] learns to embrace her life in [[Drogo]]'s ''[[khalasar]]'', and stands up to [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] for the first time. Afterward, when Drogo arrives to have sex with her, she rides him instead of being taken from behind and becomes pregnant.
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==Synopsis==
 
==Synopsis==
[[Daenerys Targaryen|Dany]] is looking over a vast empty, green, flat plain that reaches to the horizon when[[ Jorah Mormont]] rides up next to her and tells her that she is looking over the [[Dothraki Sea]]. Looking behind, Dany sees she has outdistance the rest of [[Drogo]]'s [[khalasar]], and they were now climbing the ridge. She can see her brother Viserys struggling with his riding, and she knew he was miserable. Before leaving, [[Illyrio Mopatis|Illyrio]] had offered to let [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] stay [[Pentos]], but Viserys had told him that he was going to join the khalasar to ensure that Drogo will support his bid for the crown and if he tries to cheat him, he will see what happens when one wakes the dragon. Valirio had blinked at that and wished him good fortune.
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[[File:Flatlands Dothraki.jpg|thumb|350px|left|The Dothraki Sea {TV Series)]]
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[[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] looks out for the first time onto the vast, empty, flat plain of the [[Dothraki Sea]] with Ser [[Jorah Mormont]] beside her. Daenerys sees she has out-distanced the rest of [[Drogo]]’s ''[[khalasar]]'', who are still climbing the ridge behind her. Among them she can see her brother [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] struggling with his riding. The sight brings back the memory of [[Illyrio Mopatis]] offering to let Viserys stay in [[Pentos]] as his guest. Viserys had refused and insisted on coming with the ''khalasar'' to ensure that Drogo would give him the army that he promised. Daenerys commands Jorah and the others to wait. Mormont comments that Daenerys is starting to sound like a queen but Daenerys corrects him, calling herself a ''[[khaleesi]]''.
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As she rides out alone, Daenerys reflects on how the days of the journey have hardened her body. She no longer has open saddle sores nor does she suffer unbearable pain after a day’s ride. At first, Drogo would ignore Daenerys to spend his days talking, drinking, and racing with his [[bloodrider]]s, leaving her to eat meals alone or with Viserys and Jorah Mormont. Yet every night Drogo would come and ride her from behind. She had been miserable until she had dreamt of a dragon that engulfed her in flame and cleansed her. After that, each day had been easier than the one before it and she had found pleasure in the new sights of the journey, even starting to enjoy sex with Drogo.
  
Dany tells Jorah to wait there, and to tell the others to stay, that she commands it. Jorah tells her that she is starting to sound like a queen and Dany tells him she is talking like a [[khaleesi]]. Over the days of travel her body had hardened so that she no longer had open saddle sores and unbearable pain after a day’s riding. During the day and evening Drogo ignores her, spending time talking with his blood riders, drinking and racing his horses. Dany was left to eat meals alone or with her brother or Jorah. Every night Drogo would come and ride her from behind, which Dany was grateful for since she could cry into her pillow. Dany was miserable until she had a dragon dream again, but in this one the dragon engulfs her in flame, and she reveled in it. The next day the pain seems less and her attitude has changed so much so that her hand maidens noticed the change. After that each day was easier. One of her hand maidens been given the responsibility to teach her ride like the Dothraki, but it was the horse that taught her more. Since the Dothraki do not name their animals, she just calls her horse silver. From then on she found pleasure in the new sights in the journey, and even started to enjoy the sex with Drogo.
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[[File:Jorah Mormont.jpg|thumb|160px|left|Ser Jorah Mormont - © Amok]]
  
Daenerys decides to dismount and take off her boots so she can bury her toes in the earth. [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] is suddenly there, screaming and grabbing her. Viserys states he is furious that she commanded him to stay on the ridge, telling her she will not command the dragon and calling her a slut. She shoves him back, but before Viserys can attack her, [[Jhogo]] uses  his whip to catch him around the neck and pull him to the ground. [[Irri]] tells her that [[Jhogo]] asks if he should kill Viserys, but Dany replies that she does not want him harmed. Jorah tells her that he had told Viserys to stay on the ridge. Dany now sees Viserys as a pitiful thing and tells them to take his horse; among the Dothraki a man that does not ride is not a man. Viserys, now able to shout after catching his breath, shouts for [[Jorah Mormont]] to attack her but Mormont, after making a decision, tells Dany he should walk, and takes his horse away. To his shame Viserys has to walk all the way back to the camp.
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Once she is totally alone, Daenerys decides to dismount and take off her boots so she can feel the earth. Suddenly, Viserys is there, screaming and grabbing her. He is furious that she commanded him to stay on the ridge with the others. For the first time in her life, Daenerys shoves him back. For a moment Viserys is shocked, but then the rage returns and Daenerys sees that he intends to hurt her badly. Before he can, [[Jhogo]]’s whip catches Viserys around the neck and pulls him to the ground.
Daenerys is amazed that she had hit Viserys and state to Mormont that she waked the dragon. Ser Jorah replies that Viserys is not the Dragon; [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]] was the last dragon. Ser Jorah asks her if she would want her brother to have the king, and she realizes that he would not be a good king. Dany asks if the small people are waiting for his return and Ser Jorah tells her that the small people only want to survive. Now Dany states to Ser Jorah that Viserys would never take the [[Seven Kingdoms]], realizing that she had known this for a long time; he could not lead and army even if her husband gave him one, the only knight following him reviles him, and the Dothraki mock of him.
 
  
She races her silver away from Ser Jorah and the others. It is dust by the time she returns to the khalasar. She thinks how there would be laughter in the khalasar about what happened, and by the time her brother was able to return everyone in the camp would know he was a walker. When she enters her tent she can see a finger of light touch her dragon eggs, and can see scarlet flame before her eyes and then they were gone. Touching an egg it feels hot, and she thinks it is probably from the sun during the day. She thinks of all stories about other magical creatures and magic, and thinks why there should not also be dragons too. Her handmaidens tell her that dragons are dead, killed by men, and that they are evil beasts. Two of her handmaidens are from of an age with Dany, taken as slaves after Drogo destroyed their father’s khalasar, but [[Doreah]] was 20 and from a pleasure house in [[Lys]]. Doreah tells her a story about how the moon was an egg, that had been two moons in the sky but one came too close to the sun and cracked, releasing a thousand of dragons. This is why the dragons breath flame. Someday the other moon will crack and the dragons will return. The other handmaidens make fun of the story, stating that the moon is god. As her handmaidens tend to her, she thinks about dragons.
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Her handmaiden [[Irri]] translates for them as Jhogo asks if Daenerys would like to see Viserys dead or disfigured as punishment for his attack. Daenerys declines, but tells them to take Viserys’ horse and make him walk, an emasculating punishment among the horselords. Viserys, now recovered enough to shout, orders Ser Jorah to kill the Dothraki and discipline Daenerys, but the exiled knight makes the decision to turn to Daenerys and agree that Viserys should walk.
  
She orders Doreah to stay with her for dinner, ordering the other two to leave. When Drogo returns she tells him that they should go outside because Dothraki customs say that everything of importance has to be done under to open sky. He is about to take her from behind, but she tells him that she wants to see his face climbs onto him. She rides him as fiercely as she had ridden her silver, and with the moment of his pleasure, Drogo calls out her name.
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Daenerys is amazed that she hit Viserys and asks Jorah if she has woken the dragon in Viserys. Jorah replies her brother Rhaegar was the last Dragon, while Viserys is less than the shadow of a snake. Daenerys insists that Viserys is still the rightful king, but when Jorah asks if she would want her brother as the king, she realizes that Viserys’ would not be a good king. Even so, Daenerys remains convinced that the people of [[Westeros]] are praying for Viserys return until Jorah explains that peasants only pray for rain, health, and a summer that never ends. Daenerys declares that Viserys will never be able to retake the [[Seven Kingdoms]], realizing that she has known this for a long time. Viserys could not lead an army even if her husband gave him one.
  
They are on the far side of the Dothraki Sea on her 14th nameday when her handmaiden [[Jhiqui]] brushes her stomach and tells her that she is pregnant. She tells her that she knows.
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Daenerys races her silver ahead of Jorah and the others. It is dusk by the time she returns to the ''khalasar''. Daenerys imagines the laughter in the ''khalasar'' when news spreads about Viserys; by the time her brother can return, everyone in the camp will know him as a walker.
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As she enters her tent, Daenerys sees a finger of light touch her dragon eggs and, for a moment, she sees scarlet flames before her eyes. When she touches the eggs they feel hot, which she attributes to the sunshine during the day. Daenerys remembers all of the stories about other magical creatures and wonders why there should not also be dragons. Her Dothraki handmaidens, [[Irri]] and [[Jhiqui]], tell her that dragons were all killed by men. However, her [[Lys|Lysene]] handmaiden [[Doreah]], a former sex slave, tells Daenerys a story about a time when there were two moons in the sky, but one came too close to the sun and cracked to release the first dragons. The story ends by claiming that one day the other moon will crack and the dragons will return. The other handmaidens make fun of the story, insisting that the moon is a goddess, not an egg.
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Daenerys sends Irri and Jhiqui away but orders Doreah to stay with her for dinner. When Drogo returns, she takes him outside because Dothraki customs say that everything of importance must be done under the open sky. When Drogo tries to take her from behind, Daenerys tells him that she wants to see his face and climbs on top of him. She rides Drogo as fiercely as she has ever ridden her horse and in the moment of his pleasure Drogo calls out her name.
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On the far side of the Dothraki Sea, on her 14th name day, Daenerys’ handmaiden Jhiqui brushes her stomach and tells her that she is pregnant.
  
 
==Character List==
 
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*[[Aegon III Targaryen]]
 
*[[Aegon III Targaryen]]
 
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==External links==
 
* [http://blogoficeandfire.blogspot.com/2009/05/arya-daenerys.html Humorous review of the chapter]
 
*[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/06/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-game-of-thrones-part-12 Summary and analyses of the chapter] by Leigh Butler.
 
*[http://towerofthehand.com/books/101/024/index.html Summary of the chapter] on Tower of the Hand.
 
  
 
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Game of Thrones: Chapter 23]]
 
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters|A Game of Thrones: Chapter 23]]
 
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Daenerys Targaryen|A Game of Thrones: Chapter 23]]
 
[[Category: A Song of Ice And Fire chapters--POV Daenerys Targaryen|A Game of Thrones: Chapter 23]]
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Revision as of 14:34, 4 August 2019

Daenerys III
A Game of Thrones chapter
AGameOfThrones.jpg
POV Daenerys Targaryen
Place The Dothraki Sea
Page US HC (Other versions)
Chapter chronology (All)
Daenerys II
Arya II  ← Daenerys III →  Bran IV

Daenerys IV

Daenerys learns to embrace her life in Drogo's khalasar, and stands up to Viserys for the first time. Afterward, when Drogo arrives to have sex with her, she rides him instead of being taken from behind and becomes pregnant.

Synopsis

The Dothraki Sea {TV Series)

Daenerys looks out for the first time onto the vast, empty, flat plain of the Dothraki Sea with Ser Jorah Mormont beside her. Daenerys sees she has out-distanced the rest of Drogo’s khalasar, who are still climbing the ridge behind her. Among them she can see her brother Viserys struggling with his riding. The sight brings back the memory of Illyrio Mopatis offering to let Viserys stay in Pentos as his guest. Viserys had refused and insisted on coming with the khalasar to ensure that Drogo would give him the army that he promised. Daenerys commands Jorah and the others to wait. Mormont comments that Daenerys is starting to sound like a queen but Daenerys corrects him, calling herself a khaleesi.

As she rides out alone, Daenerys reflects on how the days of the journey have hardened her body. She no longer has open saddle sores nor does she suffer unbearable pain after a day’s ride. At first, Drogo would ignore Daenerys to spend his days talking, drinking, and racing with his bloodriders, leaving her to eat meals alone or with Viserys and Jorah Mormont. Yet every night Drogo would come and ride her from behind. She had been miserable until she had dreamt of a dragon that engulfed her in flame and cleansed her. After that, each day had been easier than the one before it and she had found pleasure in the new sights of the journey, even starting to enjoy sex with Drogo.

Ser Jorah Mormont - © Amok

Once she is totally alone, Daenerys decides to dismount and take off her boots so she can feel the earth. Suddenly, Viserys is there, screaming and grabbing her. He is furious that she commanded him to stay on the ridge with the others. For the first time in her life, Daenerys shoves him back. For a moment Viserys is shocked, but then the rage returns and Daenerys sees that he intends to hurt her badly. Before he can, Jhogo’s whip catches Viserys around the neck and pulls him to the ground.

Her handmaiden Irri translates for them as Jhogo asks if Daenerys would like to see Viserys dead or disfigured as punishment for his attack. Daenerys declines, but tells them to take Viserys’ horse and make him walk, an emasculating punishment among the horselords. Viserys, now recovered enough to shout, orders Ser Jorah to kill the Dothraki and discipline Daenerys, but the exiled knight makes the decision to turn to Daenerys and agree that Viserys should walk.

Daenerys is amazed that she hit Viserys and asks Jorah if she has woken the dragon in Viserys. Jorah replies her brother Rhaegar was the last Dragon, while Viserys is less than the shadow of a snake. Daenerys insists that Viserys is still the rightful king, but when Jorah asks if she would want her brother as the king, she realizes that Viserys’ would not be a good king. Even so, Daenerys remains convinced that the people of Westeros are praying for Viserys return until Jorah explains that peasants only pray for rain, health, and a summer that never ends. Daenerys declares that Viserys will never be able to retake the Seven Kingdoms, realizing that she has known this for a long time. Viserys could not lead an army even if her husband gave him one.

Daenerys races her silver ahead of Jorah and the others. It is dusk by the time she returns to the khalasar. Daenerys imagines the laughter in the khalasar when news spreads about Viserys; by the time her brother can return, everyone in the camp will know him as a walker.

As she enters her tent, Daenerys sees a finger of light touch her dragon eggs and, for a moment, she sees scarlet flames before her eyes. When she touches the eggs they feel hot, which she attributes to the sunshine during the day. Daenerys remembers all of the stories about other magical creatures and wonders why there should not also be dragons. Her Dothraki handmaidens, Irri and Jhiqui, tell her that dragons were all killed by men. However, her Lysene handmaiden Doreah, a former sex slave, tells Daenerys a story about a time when there were two moons in the sky, but one came too close to the sun and cracked to release the first dragons. The story ends by claiming that one day the other moon will crack and the dragons will return. The other handmaidens make fun of the story, insisting that the moon is a goddess, not an egg.

Daenerys sends Irri and Jhiqui away but orders Doreah to stay with her for dinner. When Drogo returns, she takes him outside because Dothraki customs say that everything of importance must be done under the open sky. When Drogo tries to take her from behind, Daenerys tells him that she wants to see his face and climbs on top of him. She rides Drogo as fiercely as she has ever ridden her horse and in the moment of his pleasure Drogo calls out her name.

On the far side of the Dothraki Sea, on her 14th name day, Daenerys’ handmaiden Jhiqui brushes her stomach and tells her that she is pregnant.

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