
His mission is urgent since news may soon leak that Myrcella Baratheon has lost an ear and suffered a wound to her face as vengeance for the death of Prince Oberyn Martell in a previous book in A Song of Ice and Fire. There is Quentyn Martell, a prince of Dorne who is carrying an old agreement made between Dorne and the Targaryens to unite the two families in marriage and move against the Baratheons and Lannisters. Other potential suitors to marry Daenerys are converging on Meereen. With Yunkai and armies at her gates, she agrees to a betrothal with Hizdahr, who manages to hold the peace for over a month. People grow fearful of the other two dragons she has chained in her castle, the Great Pyramid. Meanwhile, Daenerys’s dragon Drogon is on the loose and killing livestock and people (including a little girl).

He claims he can end the killings by the Sons of the Harpy. Her soldiers, the Brazen Beasts (her city guard), and freedpeople are dying daily at the hands of the Sons of the Harpy, a secret society of nobles devoted to deposing her.Īside from the burdens of ruling the fractious city, Daenerys faces pressure to marry Hizdahr zo Loraq, a noble who traces his lineage back to Ghis, the old imperial power of Essos. The slave trade is also important in the Free Cities, so Daenerys has growing opposition there as well. Daenerys refuses to send her soldiers, emancipated eunuch-soldiers called the Unsullied, to defend Astapor when Yunkai attacks. The Wise Masters (rulers in Yunkai) and the Great Masters (former rulers of Meereen) want to overthrow her because she refuses to allow trading of enslaved people to resume Astapor, once ruled by the Good Masters, is in the midst of a civil war between enslavers and the enslaved. Daenerys Targaryen is stuck in Meereen, a city she freed from slavery but over which she is losing control. Content Warning: The source material features depictions of sexual assault, gender-based violence, misogynistic slurs, and ableist language related to limb differences and appearance.Ī Dance with Dragons continues the stories of people vying for control over Westeros and Daenerys Targaryen’s efforts to be the queen of Meereen, a city on Slaver’s Bay, which is located in Essos, the eastern continent located across the Narrow Sea from Westeros.
