Daenerys Targaryen

Daenerys Targaryen, also known as The Mother of Dragons and Daenerys Stormborn, is one of the main protagonists of the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.
Daenerys is one of the last members of the exiled House Targaryen. She is the only daughter of King Aerys II Targaryen and Queen Rhaella Targaryen, and the younger sister of Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen and Viserys Targaryen. Born during the end of Robert's Rebellion, Daenerys was smuggled across the Narrow Sea with her brother, Viserys, by Ser Willem Darry, to the Free City of Braavos. After Darry died of old age, the two were forced to flee from one city to another, as Viserys believed they were being hunted down by King Robert I Baratheon's assassins. At some point of the story, Viserys made her his heir, and after his death, Daenerys inherits his claim to the Iron Throne and begins plotting to take it back from the people that forced her family out decades before as the "rightful heir" of House Targaryen. She later becomes known as the "Mother of Dragons", after she caused the hatching of three of the creatures. She's also the cousin of King Stannis Baratheon and the aunt (and lover in the TV series) of Jon Snow.
In the TV series, after years of trauma, loss and treachery, Daenerys slowly starts to lose her sanity and embrace the so-called "Targaryen Madness", becoming the final antagonist of the TV show.
During her first appearance in the novels, she is around 13 or 14, and is currently around 15 or 16.
Daenerys was portrayed by Emilia Clarke, who also portrayed Qi'ra in Solo: A Star Wars Story and Sarah Connor in Terminator Genisys.
==Early life==
Daenerys is the only daughter and youngest child of King Aerys II Targaryen and his sister-wife, Queen Rhaella. She was named after the first Daenerys in her family and was most likely named by her mother.
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 incoming 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. As Stannis Baratheon was preparing to sail from Storm's End, 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.
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 mansion and offered his help in reclaiming their throne.
==Personality==
Daenerys is polite and well spoken, but filled with quiet determination. She used to be cowed by her brother's ambitions and his occasional cruel rages, but her time amongst the Dothraki has taught her pride, confidence and skills of command. She is still somewhat naive of the world due to being young and living her life as an exile (with only her petulant brother to rely on for knowledge), but she is intelligent and quick to understand now that she is free to pursue her own path.
Daenerys spent her entire life living on the sufferance of others, bouncing back and forth between one benefactor or the next (like Illyrio Mopatis) with her brother, until whatever dreams they had of supporting the exiles' claim wore off and they'd have to move on to another patron. As a result, Daenerys has never known or had a true home since she was born. Constantly living under her brother's domination has given Daenerys a great empathy with the downtrodden of the world. She is deeply sympathetic to those she perceives as oppressed, while at the same time, her pent up frustration from years of being mentally and physically dominated by her petty would-be-king of a brother make Daenerys capable of being utterly ruthless against those she perceives as oppressing others. This has produced a large amount of black-white thinking in Daenerys's mind, and she can be idealistic to a fault. For example, on seeing the plight of the slaves in Slaver's Bay, Daenerys becomes determined that she must free all of the slaves in the region - with little thought devoted to the practical after-effects which will result from this. A particular example is when the Great Masters of Meereen crucified 163 children as a warning. After she took the city, she had 163 of the slave masters crucified in retribution, unconcerned about any negative political fallout which would result.
Unlike others in her house, Daenerys has almost not exhibited the "Targaryen madness" that plagued her father (and to a lesser extent, Viserys). She can be ruthless to her enemies, but while Viserys was cruel and demanding to his servants and even his benefactors, Daenerys reciprocates the loyalty of those who follow her with gratitude and compassion. On the other hand, insanity was often a late-onset condition in the Targaryens, and some examples can point out that it might affect her: the execution of the 163 Great Masters of Meeren and have the daughter of a likely innocent wineseller "questioned sharply" in front of him. Daenerys was given the nickname "the Mad King's Daughter" by some people during the rule of Meereen.
In the show, she once said, "Who is innocent? Maybe all of you are, maybe none of you are. Maybe, I should let the dragons decide". She states that it doesn't matter if they're all innocent or not, which could be considered similar to how Aerys reacts to a might be rebellion from Brandon and Rickard Stark.
Daenerys has at times a quick temper and a short patience, and has felt remorse over some of her actions taken in anger. Daenerys' personal wish is to see the house with the red door at Braavos which she considers her real home, yet she feels it's her duty to take the Iron Throne for House Targaryen. She also believes she's the one who must save the Westerosi people. While most of the nobility of Meereen hates her, there are also nobles who help her and support her, like the Green Grace Galazza Galare. Daenerys' lust for Daario Naharis is considered poison by most of her followers.
One flaw that causes some to have doubt about Daenerys is her refusal to hear the hard truth about King Aerys II. She often idolizes her father as an hero like Viserys did. She views the Baratheons, the Starks, the Lannisters, the Arryns, and the Tullys as traitors and evil, and was glad to hear about Lord Eddard's death. In the TV series, Daenerys eventually acknowledges her father's madness. Robert Baratheon, Eddard Stark, Jon Arryn, Stannis Baratheon, Tywin Lannister, and Hoster Tully are known as the "Usurper's dogs" in Daenerys' eyes.
However, in the penultimate episode, Daenerys became an anti-villain, believing her increasingly ruthless quest to become Queen of the Seven Kingdoms is just as it will enable her to make the realm a better place.
==Powers and Abilities==
House Targaryen was once a noble Valyrian family with lonely residence to the island of Westeros, Dragonstone. The Valyrians were an empire of sorcerers and had found a way to mix dragon genes with human ones in order to be able to communicate with dragons, thus the lords of Valyria were later born with silver-hair and purple eyes, including the Targaryens. After the Doom of Valyria, the Targaryens of Dragonstone were the only ones in the west of the world with dragon blood in them, so to keep their line pure they engaged with traditional incest between close relatives, otherwise they would simply end up born as ordinary humans, as pure Targaryen and dragon genes on humans are very weak. For example, Baelor Targaryen (son of King Daeron II), Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Prince Rhaegar) and Jon Snow look nothing like Targaryens and posses no heat tolerance.
===Powers===
*Heat tolerance: Like the other Targaryens, Daenerys has a higher heat tolerance than average, as she takes a bath in near-scalding hot water, despite the protests of her maidservant. In addition to the bath scene, in the fifth episode of the first season, Daenerys doesn't notice the heat of a brazier and while her hands are unburnt, Irri's are blistered immediately after picking up the egg.
*Fire immunity: In Game of Thrones Daenerys is shown to have some actual fireproof ability, although this power works only when she feels it. Her immunity to fire exist only in the TV series. In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Daenerys twice managed to emerge from the flames of Khal Drogo's funeral pyre and from Drogon's flames unshattered, although her hair was burned in the process. These are special events that occur rarely, as George R. R. Martin pointed out that there's no such thing as fireproof Targaryens and also this is something that other Targaryens from the past showed, due to their magical origins from Old Valyria. Their magical abilities were pretty common in the Valyrian culture, making it special only because of the Doom of Valyria. Later, in the sixth season of Game of Thrones, Daenerys sets fire to the Temple of the Dosh Khaleen, killing all the khals in the process, and, again, emerges unschated from the flames, thus making the Dothraki kneel to her and accept her as their new ruler.
===Abilities===
* Dragonriding: Much like Daenerys' ancestors, she is a skilled dragonrider, although it seems to appear more in the TV series. In the fifth novel, in Daznak's Pit, Daenerys has to use a whip to dominate Drogon and hardly manages to mount Drogon and ride him out of the arena as they flee back into the Dothraki sea. This also occurs in the series, to the point that Drogon has come to rescue Daenerys from the Sons of the Harpy and willingly takes his "mother" to safety out of Meereen. Later, in the sixth season, Daenerys has shown that can easily mount Drogon, to the point that she orders him to burn the Masters' fleet from atop of him during the Second Siege of Meereen.
* Dragontaming: Daenerys is like a surrogate mother for her three dragons, thus making them obey her commands. Although she lost control of them during their early maturity, in the show, Daenerys is again able to command her dragons, as shown when she used them to burn few ships of the Masters' fleet during the Second Siege of Meereen. In the novels, she manages to tame Drogon with a whip, unlike Quentyn Martell who's burned alive while trying to do the same with Viserion and Rhaegal.
* Multilingual: Daenerys is capable of fluently speaking the Common Tongue, High Valyrian and Dothraki. She learns the latter quite quickly after being married to Khal Drogo.
==Visions and dreams of Daenerys==
Throughout A Song of Ice and Fire, Daenerys experiences prophetic visions and dreams, most notably in the House of the Undying at Qarth.
===Visions in the House of the Undying ===
During the second novel, Daenerys heeds the advice of Pyat Pree, a Qartheen warlock, who suggests for her to seek counsel with the Undying Ones in the House of the Undying, promising they will tell her the meaning of the red comet. Inside the building, Daenerys is given by a dwarf servitor a glass of shade of the evening; a thick, blue liquid consumed by the warlocks of Qarth. As she goes through countless different chambers, she eventually passes many rooms of the long hall, each one containing visions:
1. A beautiful naked woman being ravished by four little men who resemble the dwarf servitor (believed by some readers to be Westeros and four of the then-living and warring five kings; but could mean something else entirely).
2. A feast of slaughtered corpses with cups, spoons, and food, with a dead man on a throne with the head of a wolf, wearing an iron crown and holding a leg of lamb like a king would hold a scepter.
3. Daenerys' childhood home with the red door at Braavos, with Ser Willem Darry speaking to her.
4. A throne room with dragon skulls on the walls where an "old" man sits on a barbed throne, giving the order to burn the whole Red Keep and likely King's Landing too, stating "let him be the king of ashes".
5. A room where a silver-haired man who strongly resembles the late Viserys Targaryen names his son Aegon (possibly still alive) and says to a woman that the baby is the prince that was promised and has the "song of ice and fire", before staring directly at Daenerys' direction and stating "there must be one more", for the "dragon has three heads".
6. A great hall within a garden, where a "splendor of wizards" both male and female, wearing beautiful robes and armors, warmly welcome Daenerys. Speaking in sweet voices, they falsely present themselves as the Undying of Qarth and claim to be the ones who sent the red comet for her. They try to tempt her by offering knowledge, magical weapons, and to teach her the secret speech of dragonkind. Drogon senses it is all an illusion, points Daenerys to a door made of ebony and wood, so the girl ignores the false Undying Ones—who conjured this vision to appear in their prime—and leaves with her dragon.
After entering a dark gloomy chamber, Daenerys and Drogon find the true appearance of the Undying Ones, all of them ancient and no longer human-looking, thanks to the excessive consumption of shade of the evening, living through one pulsating and corrupted blue heart, floating above them. As Daenerys begins hearing their voices inside her head, she is shown multiple more visions:
1. The death of her brother, Viserys Targaryen, in Vaes Dothrak.
2. A tall lord with copper-skin and silver-gold hair beneath a banner of a fiery stallion, with a burning city in the background (likely a glimpse of what the future of Daenerys's deceased son, Rhaego, would have been).
3. A dying prince whispering the name of a woman with his last breath, rubies flying from his chest.
4. A blue-eyed king who casts no shadow raising a red sword.
5. A cloth dragon sways on poles amidst a cheering crowd.
6. A great stone beast starting to fly from a smoking tower, breathing shadows (possibly a stone dragon of Dragonstone, as Melisandre sought to awake the castle's statues to provide Stannis with dragons).
7. Daenerys' horse, the silver, trotting through grass to a darkling stream under a sea of stars.
8. A corpse standing at the prow of a ship, eyes bright in his dead face, smiling sadly with grey lips (possibly a reference to greyscale or a Greyjoy).
9. A blue flower growing from a chink in a wall of ice, filling the air with sweetness (possibly an indication of Jon Snow's true parentage and his possible kinship to Daenerys).
10. Boneless and terrible shadows whirling inside in a tent (Mirri Maz Duur's rite).
11. A little girl running toward a house with a red door (likely the very young Daenerys at her early childhood home in Braavos).
12. Mirri Maz Duur shrieking in the flames as a dragon bursts from her.
13. The corpse of the wineseller who attempted to poison Daenerys being dragged behind her silver mare.
14. A white lion running through grass taller than a man (possibly the big "hrrakar"—a breed of white lion—that was killed by Khal Drogo during a hunt in the Dothraki Sea).
15. A line of naked crones emerging from a great lake called the Womb of the World, kneeling before Daenerys beneath the Mother of Mountains, in the Dothraki Sea (either an old memory, or possibly Daenerys reuniting with the Dothraki's Dosh Khaleen in the future).
16. Ten thousand slaves crying "Mother" in Old Ghiscari ("Mhysa"), as Daenerys rides by on her silver (slaves of Yunkai in the future).
===Quaithe===
Throughout the novels, Daenerys remains unable to determine whether the enigmatic sorceress from Asshai named Quaithe is an enemy or a dangerous friend. At Qarth, she ignored Quaithe's advice to go to Asshai, the mysterious and occultic port city in the further east of Essos, near the Shadow Lands. In the following novels, Daenerys experiences dreams and visions in which she keeps meeting Quaithe again.
1. At Astapor, while sleeping in her cabin in Groleo's ship, Balerion, Daenerys is awakened and finds a feminine figure, although she appears only as a faint shadow. The shadowy figure repeats her advice about passing "beneath the shadow" and seek "truth" in Asshai, causing Daenerys to recognize Quaithe and jumping out of bed. When she does not see Quaithe anymore, she dismisses her appearance as a dream.
2. In the Great Pyramid of Meereen, the then-Queen Daenerys experiences another vision of Quaithe, who informs her that neither this nor the previous experience were dreams. Quaithe explains she is not physically there in the Great Pyramid, and that she came another way through magic. Once again, Quaithe gives Daenerys a cryptic warning against trusting those who would seek her confidence and her dragons. She tells the girl warnings of incoming threats and woes, including the arrival of the pale mare (an epidemic of bloody flux, known in the real world as dysentery, that will be brought from the Siege of Astapor at the hands of the Yunkish army, starting with an infected rider on a pale mare). She warns her that in the near future she will also deal with the Kraken, dark flame, lion, griffin, the sun's son, and the mummer's dragon. She warns Dany not to trust any of them and to remember the Undying. She finally tells her to "beware the perfumed seneschal" (either Reznak mo Reznak, Varys, or somebody else). When Daenerys asks what does Quaithe wants from her, the latter enigmatically answers that she wants to "show her the way".
3. Following Drogon's rampage in Daznak's Pit, which forced Daenerys to fly with him away from Meereen, Daenerys ends up back in the Dothraki Sea, wandering lost, starving, alone, hallucinating, and suffering from dysentery. As she slips into a restless sleep, she is once again met by Quaithe, who tells her her original instructions again. She then finds herself directly facing Quaithe, whose red mask is made of starlight, and the stars whisper in Quaithe's voice, "Remember who you are, Daenerys. The dragons know. Do you?"
==Trivia==
*Daenerys does not realize that Westeros to her is not home, as she spent her whole life living in cultures of the Free Cities in western Essos. When she thinks about "home", she tries to imagine Westeros or Dragonstone, but the thing that appears in her mind is Braavos, the city of her childhood.
** Her obsession with conquering the Seven Kingdoms is mainly caused by a sense of duty toward her family, House Targaryen, especially to her older brother Viserys, who failed to achieve so, lived in humiliation, and lost his mind.
*Dany's cultures are those of the Free Cities. Recently she also took the Dothraki culture, and is currently trying to integrate in the Ghiscari culture.
*Daenerys speaks the bastard Valyrian with a Tyroshi accent.
*When it comes to beliefs and confidence, the TV series' version of Daenerys is portrayed more as a modern 21th century person rather than a medieval one, as in Season 7 she claims to have always only believed in herself and not in any gods. This differs from her book counterpart, where the majority of characters believe their respective gods to be real, and Daenerys in the novels regularly prays to the Seven. Whenever something bad or terrible happens to her, her closed ones, or her people, Daenerys' novel counterpart begs the Seven Gods to help her and believes they are punishing her for her sins and she is being humbled by their wrath.
*In the books, Daenerys already renounced the idea of abolishing slavery from Slaver's Bay, as it is practiced in too many countries in Essos and there's a whole global slave trade in it. Daenerys simply settled on keeping slavery illegal in Meereen and its domain lands, while letting Astapor and Yunkai manage slavery as usual. Because of this, she was angered and incredulous when the nations of the Slaver Alliance still assembled and decided to march against her kingdom, repeating multiple times that she never wanted anything from them anymore. Her husband, Hizdahr zo Loraq, explained that after her campaign, her dragons being out of control, and herself having previously broken her word with Ghiscari Masters, no one trusts her anymore, which forced Daenerys to keep being part of the slave conflict whether she liked it or not.
*Due to her younger teenage age, Daenerys in A Song of Ice and Fire tends to be manipulated by adults, especially the handsome men. Her lover Daario and her second husband Hizdahr, whom Daenerys both considers to be handsome, are able to get their way when what they ask her for something (unlike in the TV show, in which Daenerys is older and in control), to the point that Hizdahr ends up being in control of Meereen as king. Daenerys is particularly obsessed with Daario, lusting over him constantly and going as far as to consider abdicating and abandon everything to be with him (also having an excuse to return to one of her beloved Free Cities, instead of pursuing a continent she is not familiar with). However, she stops from the idea, thinking it is a queen Daario wants, not a mere woman. Barristan is protective of Daenerys and despises Daario for such reasons.
*In the novels, Daenerys is married to Hizdahr and she consummated her marriage with him. In the TV series, the two were engaged, but Hizdahr is murdered before the wedding can take place. In the novels, Hidzdahr is alive and far more charismatic and manipulative, and the title of King of Meereen was given to him. He ended up reaching so much power and influence, that after Daenerys dissappears from Meereen, Barristan has him arrested for suspicion of being a conspirator.
**Also, the relationship between Daenerys and Hizdahr in the novels is very different from that of the TV series. In the latter, Hizdahr is portrayed as weaker but genuinely helpful, yet rather mistreated by his own allies.
*Though Daenerys has a reputation as a heroic character in the series, she is also considered a villain, abeit a rogue anti-villain, among a part of the fandom for her actions during the Liberation of Slaver's Bay, as well as her campaign in Westeros in the TV series.
**By the fifth episode of season 8, Daenerys fully crosses the moral event horizon by burning down King's Landing and killing thousands of innocent people, fully rendering her as a villain in the eyes of many fans. While in the television series, it is constantly argued whether her insanity at the end of season 8 was abrupt or not, her novel counterpart shows a few subtle hints of instability and loss of temper.
**In the novels, Daenerys justifies all the actions of her father and older brother, Aerys II and Rhaegar, cutting off Ser Barristan Selmy every time he tries to talk to her about their immoral deeds, and whenever he tries to talk to her about Robert, Eddard, and any members of the rebel side in a positive manner. Daenerys scolds him by saying that the "Usurper's Dogs" were acted all as one villainous pack waiting to destroy her family, and refuses to acknowledge any redeeming qualities in them. When Barristan tries to tell her that Eddard Stark spoke against her assassination, Daenerys brushes it off and still holds Eddard in contempt. She also blames the "Usurper and his dogs" for causing her brother Viserys to turn insane.
***Unlike in the novels, Daenerys in Game of Thrones acknowledged that her father was an evil man.
*As punishment for the crucifying and disemboweling of 163 slave children by the Masters of Meereen, Daenerys has 163 Great Masters crucified and disemboweled in return. While this can be considered a just deed, Daenerys gave the order of retaliation in an indiscriminate fashion and without a proper trial, despite the fact that some of the crucified Masters might have been innocent and uninvolved. At least one of the crucified Great Masters, the head of the House of Loraq, had denounced the killing of the slave children as a crime. Daenerys's actions and her campaign in Slaver's Bay - which led to Astapor falling into anarchy and two bloody sacks - caused her to be nicknamed by many people in Essos as "the Mad King's daughter". 
**In Game of Thrones, the disemboweling on part of the Great Masters and Daenerys was left out.
*In A Dance with Dragons, Daenerys loses her temper over her enemies rebelling and plotting her downfall, and the continuous murders caused by the Sons of the Harpy, and thus ends up deciding to give the "dragon's mercy". After an Unsullied is murdered in a wine shop, she orders the nobleman and commander Skahaz mo Kandaq to question the shop's wine seller and his young daughters "sharply" (in ASOIAF, the word is always used to refer to torture). Skahaz, known for his lack of mercy, was granted leave to deliver the questioning in his way, and it was reported that the girls were not treated kindly, and it is possible they were raped as well. To stop the torture, the victims had to give false information. Neither the wine seller or his daughters are mentioned again afterwards.
*In the second episode of Season 5, Daenerys has a freedman, Mossador, executed for killing a captured assassin of the Sons of the Harpy. This ultimately causes a riot against her.
* In Season 7, Daenerys decides to attack King's Landing with her dragons after Tyrion Lannister's strategies have failed to give her the upper hand in the war. She ultimately changes her mind after hearing Jon Snow's advice that burning castles and cities endangers thousands of innocents and makes her no different from her enemies (just more of the same), causing her to back down. Instead she flies Drogon to destroy the Lannister-Tarly host at the goldroad.
*After her victory in the Battle of the Goldroad, in the fifth episode of Season 7, Daenerys executes Randyll Tarly and his son, Dickon, for refusing to bend the knee to her. There are viewers who argue that this is a reasonable decision in war, given that Randyll and Dickon refused to serve her or join the Night's Watch and Daenerys does not believe in taking prisoners, as she believes that it would break her promise to end all slavery, and that it would make her no better than the Masters.
*Currently in the novels, Daenerys has caught the bloody flux (known as the pale mare in Slaver's Bay), a real disease, which is dysentery. An epidemic of such disease has spread in Meereen, brought from the countless refugess from Astapor, which has been invaded and destroyed by Yunkai.
* George R. R. Martin explained that Targaryens are not fireproof and that Daenerys' survival from Drogo's funeral pyre was a magical event related to the hatching of her dragon eggs. Some fans were bothered by the television series' decision to make her immune to fire. So far in the books, Daenerys survived from fire twice, and both times she ended up bald.
*Maester Aemon believes Daenerys is Azor Ahai, or the Prince That Was Promised. The Valyrian word for 'prince' is unisex.
*Her horse, the silver mare, is still alive at Meereen in the novels, while in the TV series it dies during early second season.
*Her early Dothraki allies, most notably Irri, Jhiqui, Jhogo, and Rakharo, are still alive and with her at Meereen in the novels. Irri, Jhiqui, and Jhogo are all teenagers like Daenerys, with the two girls being around the same age as her, and Jhogo being older of a few years.
**In the television series, Jhogo and Rakharo are merged into one character (named Rakharo, but his character being prominently Jhogo), who dies in early second season. Irri dies during the second season as well, while Jhiqui is only featured in an early episode of the first season, never appearing again afterwards. All of Daenerys' own small khalasar vanish after the early third season, and are entirely replaced by the Unsullied.
*Two of Daenerys' closest allies, Strong Belwas and Groleo of Pentos, were cut from the television series.
*In the novels, Daenerys is joined by Barristan Selmy (who is disguised as Arstan Whitebeard until later chapters of the third novel), Belwas, Groleo, and other sailors while she stuck at Qarth. All of her new allies were sent to her by Magister Illyrio Mopatis, who wanted them to bring her back to Pentos. Barristan saves Daenerys's life by killing a manticore at the Port of Qarth, sent by a Sorrowful Man (a guild assassin possibly hired by Pyat Pree).
**In the television series, Daenerys is joined by Barristan alone not at Qarth, but at Astapor in Slaver's Bay. There is no mention of Illyrio being the one who sent Barristan, although he might have been the one who directed the old knight to Daenerys. In this version, Barristan also rescues Daenerys from an assassination attempt by the warlocks, killing a manticore sent by a female child warlock of Qarth.
* During the early third novel, Daenerys and her crew were sailing back to Pentos to Illyrio's manse, only to change course for Astapor in Slaver's Bay. Unbeknownst to Daenerys, this saved her, as at the time she was being pursued by a ship with a group of warlocks led by a vengeful Pyat Pree (who instead was killed in the TV series). On their pursuit for Daenerys, the warlocks found the infamous pirate galley Silence, and ended up captured by Euron Greyjoy, who is after Daenerys and her dragons.
*In the TV series, Daenerys and the sorceress Quaithe never interact, unlike in the novels. After the second season, Quaithe is never featured again nor brought up in any mention ever again, reducing her to an enigmatic one-note character.
*While in the fifth novel Xaro Xhoan Daxos comes to Meereen and meets Daenerys again, this does not occur in the television series, in which Xaro is left to die at the end of the second season. Xaro is still alive in the novels and confessed to Daenerys that he should have had her killed when he had the chance, back when she was his powerless guest in his huge manse in Qarth. Currently, Qarth is at war against Daenerys and the Kingdom of Meereen, as one of the nations of the Slaver Alliance, a political coalition led by Yunkai, with the purpose of defending the global slave trade against Daenerys's campaign of emancipation.
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Category:Teenagers
Category:Book Heroes
Category:Arrogant
Category:Antagonists
Category:Paranoid
Category:Aristocrats
Category:Rescuers
Category:Nurturers
Category:Live Action Heroes
Category:Anti-Nihilists
Category:Misguided
Category:Master Orator
Category:Nemesis
Category:Archenemy
Category:Spouses
Category:Charismatic
Category:Related to Villain
Category:Pawn of the Villain
Category:Villain's Lover
Category:Egalitarian
Category:Freedom Fighters
Category:Wrathful
Category:Siblings
Category:Benevolent Rulers
Category:Power Hungry
Category:The Messiah
Category:Hope Bringers
Category:Type Dependent on Version
Category:Fallen
Category:Extremists
Category:Master of a Villain
Category:Feminists
Category:Controversial
Category:Wealthy
Category:Betrayed
Category:Wayward Heroes
Category:Virtually Resourceful
Category:Titular
Category:Parents
Category:Sophisticated
Category:Tricksters
Category:Deceased
Category:Amazons
Category:Wise
Category:Successful
Category:Provokers
Category:Damsels
Category:Defectors
Category:Voice of Reason
Category:Status Dependent on Version
Category:Bond Creators
Category:Bond Protectors
Category:Optimists
Category:Protectors
Category:Global Protection
Category:Deal Makers
Category:Protectors of Innocence
Category:Liars
Category:One-Man Army
Category:Monster Slayers
Category:Scapegoat
Category:Unwanted
Category:Strong-Willed
Category:Strategists
Category:Selfless
Category:Loyal
Category:Philanthropists
Category:Insecure
Category:Dreaded
Category:Determinators
Category:Control Freaks
Category:Sympathetic
Category:The Chosen One
Category:Lawful Neutral
Category:Posthumous
Category:Envious
Category:Anti-Heroes
Category:Role Models
Category:Good Vs. Good
Category:War Heroes
Category:Harmonizers
Category:Genius
Category:Mentally Ill
Category:Failure-Intolerant
Category:Famous
Category:Medieval Heroes