Queen Daenerys Targaryen

Queen Daenerys Targaryen

“Remind him that I am Daenerys Stormborn, Mother of Dragons, the Unburnt, trueborn queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. My blood is the blood of Aegon the Conqueror, and of old Valyria before him."

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No one was calling her Daenerys the Conqueror yet, but perhaps they would. Aegon the Conqueror had won Westeros with three dragons, but she had taken Meereen with sewer rats and a wooden cock, in less than a day.

Daenerys Targaryen is no maid, however. She is the widow of a Dothraki khal, a mother of dragons and sacker of cities, Aegon the Conqueror with teats. 

“Aegon finally decided to take over Westeros and unify the Seven Kingdoms that existed at the time, under a single rule. There is a lot of speculation that in some sense he saw what was coming 300 years later and wanted to unify the Seven Kingdoms to be better prepared for the threat that he eventually saw coming from the north – the threat that we’re dealing with in A Song of Ice and Fire.”

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– George R. R. Martin

In case anyone missed it, GRRM is pro-Conquest and pro-unified Westeros. The Targaryens taking over the rule of the Seven Kingdoms is treated as a positive necessity. The intent was to protect the continent from the main villains of the series, the ice zombies called the Others. They are not villains and their loss of the Iron Throne is a threat to the unity Aegon I tried to create. Dany retaking Westeros is what she believes is what will help the county and what she has been told the people of Westeros want. If she learns that her ancestor unified the continent to protect it from zombies, that will make her cause even more righteous.

i swear to god every time smth like this shows up in davos chapters i can't help my morbid laughter. idk how more obvious grrm could make it for readers that stannis is fake from beginning to the end.

i mean red comet “heralding their coming”? lightbringer? *cough*drogon*cough* PAID THE PRICE? damn, guys, dany already did all of this in agot and by herself, without anyone pushing her to hatch dragons and handing all the solutions and receipts to her. the chosen one of r'hllor who again?

but what is more hilarious abt these quotes is not just pointing at stannis being so obviously a red herring of azor ahai reborn that it's painfully embarrassing already again (bc c'mon his very first introduction scene was a mockery of a real creation of lightbringer) but ALSO a failed parallel to aegon the conqueror. in any other story it would be a man to be the one, to be THEE hero, but in asoiaf? nope. stannis or whoever else might have aegon's castle, might stand where he stood by the painted table and plan to achieve what he achieved aka the conquest of westeros, but it doesn't make him the next aegon the conqueror. in fact, we actually have the real aegon the conqueror come again who does share real parallels w him that were put there by the author on purpose. our beloved aegon the conqueror w teats <33

Our histories, they tell us that Aegon looked across the Blackwater from Dragonstone, saw a rich land ripe for the capture. But ambition alone is not what drove him to conquest. It was a dream. And just as Daenys foresaw the end of Valyria, Aegon foresaw the end of the world of men

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They knew, they knew, they knew, they knew.

George confirmed it.

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