Daenerys Targaryen trivia: 145 facts about the mother of dragons!

Daenerys Targaryen is one of the most beloved characters in the Game of Thrones. Her dragons have a slew of fans.

Will she be the one to sit on the Iron Throne? We will soon find out but until then, let’s remeber her journey this far.

1. Daenerys Targaryen is a fictional character in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels
2. As well as the television adaptation, Game of Thrones
3. There she is portrayed by English actress Emilia Clarke
4. In the novels, she is a prominent point of view character
5. She is one of the most popular characters in the series
6. And The New York Times cites her as one of the author’s finest creations
7. Introduced in 1996’s A Game of Thrones, Daenerys is one of the last two surviving members of the House Targaryen
8. Who, until fourteen years before the events of the first novel, had ruled Westeros from the Iron Throne for nearly three hundred years
9. She subsequently appeared in A Clash of Kings (1998) and A Storm of Swords (2000)
10. Daenerys was one of a few prominent characters not included in 2005’s A Feast for Crows
11. But returned in the next novel A Dance with Dragons (2011)
12. In the story, Daenerys is a young woman in her early teens living in Essos
13. Knowing no other life than one of exile, she remains dependent on her abusive older brother, Viserys
14. She is forced to marry Dothraki horselord Khal Drogo in exchange for an army for Viserys
15. Who is to return to Westeros and recapture the Iron Throne
16. Her brother loses the ability to control her as Daenerys finds herself adapting to life with the khalasar and emerges as strong, confident and courageous
17. She becomes the heir of the Targaryen dynasty after her brother’s death
18. And plans to reclaim the Iron Throne herself, seeing it as her birthright
19. A pregnant Daenerys loses her husband and child
20. But soon helps hatch three dragons from their eggs
21. Which regard her as their mother
22. Providing her with a tactical advantage and prestige
23. Over time, she struggles to maintain control of her dragons
24. She also acquires an army with which she conquers the cities of Yunkai, Astapor and Meereen
25. Determined to end slavery and injustice there
26. Despite her strong moral compass, she is capable of dealing ruthlessly with her enemies
27. Particularly the slave masters
28. After establishing herself as a powerful and relentless ruler, she sails for her homeland of Westeros
29. Bent on reclaiming the Seven Kingdoms
30. Well received by critics and fans alike, Clarke received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her performance as Daenerys in the HBO series in 2013, 2015, and 2016
31. She has also earned many other nominations and accolades for her portrayal
32. Daenerys Targaryen is introduced as the exiled princess of the Targaryen dynasty
33. Also called “Stormborn”, she and her brother Viserys were smuggled to Essos during the end of Robert’s Rebellion
34. For most of her life, she has been under the care of Viserys
35. Whom she fears, as he is abusive to her whenever she displeases him
36. Viserys marries Daenerys to the powerful Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo in exchange for his military support in an invasion of Westeros
37. Making Daenerys a Khaleesi, a queen of the Dothraki
38. During the wedding, exiled knight Ser Jorah Mormont pledges his loyalty to Daenerys
39. And her benefactor Ilyrio Mopatis gifts her three petrified dragon eggs
40. Daenerys is at first afraid of her new husband
41. But after learning the Dothraki language, she begins to understand him and genuinely falls in love with him after learning Drogo is a smart leader and a kind man
42. After embracing the Dothraki culture, she becomes stronger and rebels against her brother
43. She later becomes pregnant with Drogo’s son
44. Who is prophesied by the Dothraki to be the “Stallion Who Mounts the World”
45. Viserys grows jealous of Daenerys’s popularity and becomes infuriated with Drogo’s lack of urgency in launching an invasion
46. Prompting him to threaten to cut Daenerys’s unborn son from her womb
47. Drogo responds by killing Viserys with molten gold
48. To which Daenerys declares that he was no dragon, because fire cannot kill a dragon
49. After an unsuccessful assassination attempt on behalf of Robert Baratheon, Drogo vows to Daenerys that he will conquer the Seven Kingdoms for her and their unborn son
50. However, during their journey Drogo becomes comatose due to an infected wound incurred during a fight with one of his men
51. Daenerys is forced to seek the help of healer Mirri Maz Duur to save his life using blood magic
52. Mirri tricks Daenerys by using her unborn son’s life as a sacrifice to heal Drogo but leave him in a permanent catatonic state
53. Forcing Daenerys to end her husband’s life
54. Daenerys punishes Mirri by having her tied to Drogo’s funeral pyre
55. She also lays the three dragon eggs onto Drogo’s body and steps into the fire herself
56. At daybreak, after the fire is burned down, Daenerys emerges with three baby dragons
57. Whom she names Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion
58. Daenerys and the remnants of Drogo’s khalasar wander the Red Waste before being accepted into the city of Qarth
59. She is hosted by merchant Xaro Xhoan Daxos, a member of Qarth’s ruling council the Thirteen
60. Daenerys tries to appeal to the Thirteen to support her invasion of Westeros, without success
61. She returns to Xaro’s manse to find half of her men and servants killed and her dragons gone
62. Meeting with the Thirteen again to ask for their help in retrieving her dragons
63. The warlock Pyat Pree claims responsibility and declares that her dragons are being kept in his temple, the House of the Undying
64. Daenerys travels to the temple, but Pree’s magic separates her from Jorah and leaves her chained with her dragon
65. Daenerys orders her dragons to immolate Pree
66. Daenerys then confronts Xaro, who had conspired with Pree and Daenerys’s servant Doreah to seize control of Qarth
67. Daenerys has Xaro and Doreah sealed in Xaro’s vault
68. And has her remaining loyalists raid his manse
69. Using the funds to buy a ship
70. Daenerys travels to Astapor, a city in Slaver’s Bay
71. As she arrives, the warlocks of Qarth attempt to assassinate her
72. But are thwarted by Ser Barristan Selmy, who was Kingsguard to Aerys Targaryen
73. Daenerys accepts him into her service
74. Daenerys negotiates with Astapori slaver Kraznys mo Nakloz to purchase an army of Unsullied, elite eunuch soldiers, in exchange for Drogon
75. Also obtaining the services of Kraznys’s translator Missandei
76. Upon the completion of the transaction, she has Drogon burn Kraznys alive and orders the Unsullied to sack the city
77. Kill Astapor’s masters and free its slaves
78. Daenerys and her army then march on the neighbouring slave city of Yunkai
79. Who hire the sellsword company the Second Sons to defend the city
80. The commanders of the Second Sons order their lieutenant, Daario Naharis, to kill Daenerys
81. However, he is smitten by her beauty and instead brings her the heads of his superiors, pledging the Second Sons’ allegiance
82. Daario, Jorah, and the Unsullied commander Grey Worm infiltrate Yunkai
83. Opening the gates for the Targaryen army to conquer the city
84. Daenerys is received by Yunkai’s freed slaves, who hail her as their “mhysa” (mother)
85. Daenerys marches on the last city in Slaver’s Bay, Meereen, and seizes control of the city by instigating a slave revolt
86. She decides to execute 163 Meereenese masters as “justice” for 163 slave children crucified on the road to Meereen
87. After becoming aware that her council in Astapor has been overthrown and that Yunkai has reverted to slavery, Daenerys decides to stay in Meereen to practice ruling
88. She also begins a sexual relationship with Daario
89. After discovering that Jorah was previously spying on her on House Baratheon’s behalf
90. She is enraged and orders him exiled from the city
91. Daenerys is later horrified to discover that Drogon has killed a farmer’s child
92. Although Drogon is unable to be captured, she has Rhaegal and Viserion locked up in Meereen’s catacombs
93. Daenerys faces a new threat to her rule in the form of the Sons of the Harpy
94. A resistance movement made of agitated former masters
95. Her popularity with the freedmen also begins to wane after she publicly executes one of her councillors, Mossador, for killing a captive Son
96. After the Sons kill Ser Barristan, Daenerys decides that she will attempt to restore peace by reopening Meereen’s fighting pits and taking the Meereenese noble Hizdhar zo Loraq as her husband
97. While attending a gladiator demonstration, she is confronted by Jorah
98. Who has brought her the fugitive Tyrion Lannister to appease her
99. Daenerys accepts Tyrion onto her council, but orders Jorah exiled again
100. At the reopening of the fighting pits, Jorah saves Daenerys’s life by killing a Son of the Harpy trying to assassinate her
101. The Sons then launch a massive attack, killing Hizdhar and many other Meereenese noblemen and freedmen
102. As the Sons corner Daenerys and her councillors, Drogon appears and kills or scares off most of the Sons
103. As the Unsullied begin to overwhelm the Sons, some begin throwing spears at Drogon, prompting Daenerys to climb onto his back and order him to fly away
104. Drogon eventually leaves her in the Dothraki Sea, where she is captured by a khalasar
105. Daenerys is taken to Khal Moro, the leader of the Dothraki horde
106. Learning that she is the widow of Khal Drogo, Moro tells her she must live out her days among the widows of the Dosh Khaleen in Vaes Dothrak
107. Once there, Daenerys is told that she is to be judged by the khals for defying tradition and going out into the world following Drogo’s death
108. During the meeting with the khals, Daenerys declares that only she has enough ambition to lead the Dothraki
109. When the outraged khals threaten to gang-rape her, Daenerys sets fire to the temple, killing everyone inside but emerging unscathed
110. Awed, the Dothraki accept her as their Khaleesi
111. After discovering that Jorah, who had followed her to Vaes Dothrak with Daario, is infected with the terminal disease greyscale, Daenerys orders him to find a cure and return to her services
112. Before marching on Meereen with Drogon, Daario and the Dothraki
113. Daenerys returns to Meereen to find it under siege by the joint fleets of Yunkai, Astapor, and Volantis
114. Who have reneged on an agreement with Tyrion to free their slaves and are trying to reclaim the city
115. Daenerys deploys all three of her dragons, burning most of the slaver fleet and seizing the ships that survive
116. The slavers agree to surrender
117. Soon after, Theon and Yara Greyjoy arrive to offer the Iron Fleet in exchange for Daenerys giving the Iron Islands their independence
118. And installing Yara as queen of the Iron Islands over their uncle Euron, who had been planning to marry Daenerys
119. Daenerys agrees to Theon and Yara’s alliance
120. Varys, meanwhile, secures the support of Ellaria Sand and Olenna Tyrell
121. Who have lost family members to the Lannisters and want vengeance
122. Daenerys leaves Daario and the Second Sons in Meereen to keep the peace, names Tyrion Lannister as Hand of the Queen
123. And sets sail for Westeros at last
124. Daenerys arrives at the island fortress of Dragonstone, the ancient Targaryen stronghold once held by the late Stannis Baratheon, and finds it abandoned
125. She sends the Unsullied to take Casterly Rock, and her Greyjoy fleet, along with ships from Dorne, to blockade King’s Landing
126. The Lannister forces, however, have left Casterly Rock and seized Highgarden and its wealth
127. And Euron Greyjoy overcomes Yara Greyjoy’s ships
128. In an effort to gain allies, Daenerys summons the newly named King in the North, Jon Snow, to pledge his fealty to her
129. Jon refuses, insisting that the White Walkers and their wight army present a more immediate threat than the Lannisters
130. Receiving word of Highgarden’s fall, Daenerys leads Drogon and the Dothraki to decimate the Lannister caravan
131. Drogon is injured by a ballista designed specifically to wound dragons, but Daenerys is victorious
132. The remaining forces submit to her after she commands the dragon to roast a resistant Randyll and Dickon Tarly alive
133. Jon and a cured Jorah lead an expedition beyond the Wall to capture a wight
134. Which they will use to convince Cersei Lannister, the self-declared Queen of Westeros, that the threat is real
135. They are saved from the army of the dead by Daenerys and her dragons
136. But the Night King kills Viserion with an ice spear
137. A distraught Daenerys vows to Jon that she will help fight the White Walkers
138. And Jon accepts her as his queen
139. The pair and their retainers bring a wight to King’s Landing to convince Cersei of the threat beyond the Wall
140. Cersei ultimately agrees to a truce, and to aid in the fight against the undead army
141. While secretly plotting to betray them
142. Jon and Daenerys finally succumb to their growing feelings for each other and have sex
143. Unaware that they are related by blood
144. Neither of them are aware that the Night King has revived Viserion as wight
145. And breaches the Wall with dragonfire