The square brick towers of Pentos were black silhouettes outlined against the setting sun. When he was gone, Dany went to her window and looked out wistfully on the waters of the bay. And until then you dream, a captive in your shell. All that matters is the moment you are born, where you are born, when you are born. Perhaps your dragon soul came into being when your mother laid you as an egg.Ī princess, Dany thought. Perhaps you are an old reincarnated soul. Imagine that you are a dragon in an egg, waiting for that moment until you can hatch. The Dreamtime (aGoT, Daenerys I) Daenerys and Viserys Targaryen, by Aprilis420 A Captive Dragon

The Hatching of Dany the Dragon (aGoT, Daenerys II).

It is plain impossible to discuss every scene, but with the examples from this essay, you will discover many more scenes with the dragon jumping from the page yourself. Whether you are a fan or a critic of Dany, I hope you will love this essay for all what I will point out to be evidence of Dany as dragon throughout her arc, for making you look at certain scenes and attributes through a dragon lens. And yes, I will discuss Dany’s dragon dreams, and point out the two crucial aspects on how Dany managed to hatch them. Along the way, I will discuss the prophecies to argue that in High Valyrian there is no word for prince or princess, but that is the common tongue translation of the Valyrian word for dragon. I will show you that Dany being a dragon is the reason why she thrives and grows in the Dothraki Sea. That Dany is a full grown adult dragon-queen who can make Drogon bow to her and the two become one.

She is a draken from Astapor until Meereen who’s grown a belly, with now larger teeth and claws and of course deadly firepower. From the Dothraki Sea until Qarth she is a hatchling, learning to use her tail, teeth and claws to defend herself.

That she hatches during her wedding amidst salt and smoke when gifted with dragonbone, whipping tail, flashing teeth and silver-smoke wings. This essay will show you that Dany’s arc does not start out with a princess, but a dragon egg dreaming to be born and grow up in the wilderness. When I say Dany is the true dragon, I mean that Dany is like a dragon soul trapped in a human body. But I do not just mean this in the same way like a fan of a sport’s team would shout “Go dragons!”. The issue is that George deceived us: Dany is the true (last) dragon!īy itself that is a statement that makes readers (both fans as well as sceptics) fist pump. GRRM is too experienced a writer to do this merely for window dressing. And yet the allusions and evolution of the story fits the Saint George legend, step by step. And it becomes more and more a struggle to attain, when we simultaneously pick apart details and double layers of every other character, events or items used, but ignore the many layers of Dany and insist as seeing her only as a “princess in distress”. Most of the time, the re-enactment only “works” because some characters refer to her as princess, despite the fact she is neither behaving or dressed like a princess. Meanwhile, we could sense in that essay already that Dany did not truly match this “helpless princess” image of the legend. Certainly the knight in the chapters is no true knight. Except that dragon turned out not to be a dragon after all, just a cruel small-minded and abusive man claiming wrongly to be a dragon. On the surface, GRRM manages to reenact the legend across three chapters with the killing of the dragon. In Dany Part I – The Slaying of Saint George’s Dragon, I started out with analysing Dany’s first five chapters of aGoT through the conventional lens to establish how much George alludes to the legend of Saint George and the Dragon. (Top illustration:A dragon herself, by Rossdraws)

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