Born on Dragonstone amid a storm so violent it sank the remnants of the fleet that carried the Targaryen dynasty's last flicker into exile, Daenerys grew up a beggar princess traded across the Free Cities by a brother who valued her only as coin for an army. A wedding meant to buy that army instead gave her a khalasar, a khal's love, and — from an act equal parts miracle and horror — three dragons hatched from stone when the world had forgotten dragons could live at all. What followed was less a claimant's campaign than an education: a girl who began by trading herself for swords learned, city by conquered city, to ask what conquest was actually for. The maesters of the Citadel, who thought the dragons extinct, have had cause to revise a great many careful theories on her account.
Daenerys Targaryen
Daenerys Stormborn
- Life
- the books give no fixed AC year; the last child of the line, born in exile on Dragonstone in the year after the Sack of King's Landing
- House
- Targaryen
Ruling — precariously — over Meereen and the Bay of Dragons as of the most recent chronicles, with three dragons growing beneath the city, not all of them easy to control.
The arc of Daenerys Targaryen
This carries the character’s road through the published novels. Read on only if you do not fear to know.
These partings name deaths, endings, and roads not yet ridden in the books. Unveil them only if both roads are known to you — or if you do not fear to know.
In the timeline
Theories about Daenerys Targaryen
Is Daenerys Targaryen alive?
Yes — as of A Dance with Dragons she is alive, though the chronicle keeps the particulars of where the books leave her behind the veil.
Who is Daenerys Targaryen?
The exiled last daughter of the fallen Targaryen dynasty, who rebuilt herself from a bartered bride into the mother of the first living dragons in over a century.