Game of Thrones A-Z by Martin Howden Read Free Book Online

Drogo, the brutal leader of the Dothraki clan, in the hope that he will lead his army against the King. In the books, the character is far younger than the one portrayed in the series – something that shocked Clarke.
    ‘Whilst it’s not set in a specific time period because it’s fantastical, it’s kind of loosely based around what you may believe to be social situations in medieval times,’ she said to heyyouguys.co.uk . ‘In that sense, everything was younger, people died younger, so it’s less shocking in terms of that.
    But at the same time, it just proves that she’s more of a complex, incredible character that she came to those realisations so young.’ During the wedding, she receives three dragon eggs from Illyrio – merely decorative symbolic stones, as dragons were believed to be extinct. Westeros knight Jorah Mormont offers both books and his service.
    Because Daenerys is something of a nomad herself, she feels beholden to her new family – and stands up to her bullying brother, before eventually watching him die at the hands of her husband, Drogo.
    After the death of her beloved Drogo, she constructs a funeral pyre for his body, placing her dragon eggs near his body and stepping on to the blazing fire. Jorah is convinced it’s suicide, but she knows differently, strongly believing she has a connection with the dragons. And her instincts are right – the following morning she is alive with three hatched dragons clinging to her charred body.
    As her dragons grow, so do the tales around the Seven Kingdoms, leading to a whole host of danger that comes with owning such prized creatures. After seeking shelter and barely escaping with their lives in the Qarth, she looks to find more support for her attempt to win back her believed birthright.
    ‘I just think of her getting stronger and stronger,’ said Clarke. ‘She gets her trust boundaries tested to the max in season two, so in that sense it’s intriguing. She’s coming up with having to deal with [being] not only a woman, but a young girl in a man’s world, in a male-orientated society that she has to come up against, and even having dragons doesn’t seem to make a huge amount of difference.’
    SPOILER: Without Drogo, and with only Jorah’s words to comfort her, Daenerys begins to grow tired of Jorah’s advances and of him thinking of her as only a child, so she sets out her claim as a kind but strong leader – using her dragons against those cities who use slaves, and asserting her leadership over Jorah. Unsurprisingly, there are people that would like her killed, and she is only saved from an assassination attempt by a man named Arstan Whitebeard – who ends up being famed knight Barristan Selmy. Exiled from his Kingsguard duties by Cersei Lannister, he seeks Daenerys out as the true queen of the Seven Kingdoms. He also tells her that Jorah was once a spy for Varys at the Red Keep, keeping him informed of Daenerys’ movements. She sends them both on an apparent suicide mission during the Siege of Meeren, and when they both survive Selmy apologises for his duplicity. Jorah is less pleading, however, and, while she wants to pardon him, she has no choice but to banish her former right-hand man. Word quickly starts to spread around Westeros of a young queen with dragons. However, after a six-year-old girl is believed to have been killed by one of her dragons, she orders them to be locked below ground to prevent any more similar deaths. But one of them, Drogon, named after her beloved husband, escapes. She marries again in a bid to quell the wars that rage around her as she attempts to get the boats to lead her army to King’s Landing. Ending the slave trade has destroyed the economies of several Free Cities, and as such there is much diplomacy needed for her to survive. When Drogon appears in a gladiatorial pit marked for her honour, he is wounded by an animal handler. However, she rushes to his defence, mounting him and then flying