Recaps

Viserys used his foreknowledge and newfound powers to gather dragon eggs, escape the fall of House Targaryen, and establish himself in Braavos. After years of preparing his family and supporters, he set out for Valyria to seek the secret of hatching dragons.

• Viserys awakened in his young body before the War of the Usurper and began planning to survive the coming exile, gather treasure, and prevent Daenerys from marrying Khal Drogo.
• Viserys trained with Barristan Selmy and Arthur Dayne, explored greensight and skinchanging, and uncovered three dragon eggs in the Dragonpit and four more at Summerhall.
• At the Harrenhal tourney, Rhaegar crowned Lyanna Stark Queen of Love and Beauty, then secretly married her after arranging to divorce Elia Martell.
• Viserys took Rhaenys, Ashara, and Elia to Dragonstone, where he recovered Blackfyre and two dragon eggs from a lava spring and accepted a coronation as Viserys III.
• After Rhaegar, Aerys, Elia, and Aegon died, Viserys led his followers across the Narrow Sea, while Rhaella died giving birth to Daenerys.
• Viserys secured permission to settle in Braavos, rebuilt a base with his followers, and formed a secret betrothal alliance with Arianne Martell through Oberyn and Doran Martell.
• During seven years in Braavos, Viserys trained with Arthur Dayne and Syrio Forel, raised Rhaenys and Daenerys, survived assassination attempts, and surpassed Arthur in swordsmanship.
• After dreaming of Valyria and a three-headed beast, Viserys declared an expedition to find the secret of hatching dragons and departed preparations with Arthur Dayne and 180 warriors.

Viserys discovered the truth behind Valyria’s Doom, hatched King Ghidorah, and began rebuilding Valyria as a new home for his followers. Three years later, with the Smoking Sea gone, he moved to acquire Astapor’s Unsullied and faced the Good Masters after stealing the Harpy Scepter.

• Viserys defeated Salladhor Saan’s pirates, then ordered Salladhor to raid Lannister and Baratheon ships and secretly build ships for him.
• In Volantis, Viserys met Kinvara and learned of a brief yearly passage through the Smoking Sea, then secured Marisius as a guide to Valyria.
• Viserys sailed into Valyria aboard the reinforced Shadow Hunter, where monsters, Stone Men, and shadow creatures killed many of his followers before he claimed Bloodshadow and found a living dragon.
• King Ghidorah revealed Valyria’s Doom and the hidden history of the Long Night, then asked Viserys to hatch her Primordial Egg before the gods discovered her plan.
• Viserys hatched King Ghidorah, returned to Satheryen’s Obsidian Castle on Blackflame, and persuaded the Naharis family and his surviving followers to join his plan to rebuild Valyria.
• Viserys returned to Braavos, reunited with Daenerys, Rhaenys, Ashara, and Ser Willem Darry, and arranged for five ships and five hundred loyal people to relocate to Valyria.
• Viserys escorted the settlers to Satheryen Castle, where they built a town and outposts over three years as the Smoking Sea receded and Blackflame drove away foreign expeditions.
• Viserys went to Astapor to buy every Unsullied, stole the Harpy Scepter from Grazdan’s son, and revealed it to the Good Masters as Grazdan ordered his men to kill him.

Viserys freed Slaver’s Bay, defeated the Dothraki, and began drawing allies to his rising empire. After the deaths of Young Griff and the hatching of nine dragons, he faced the challenge of sustaining them.

• Viserys led the Unsullied and freed slaves in taking Astapor, Yunkai, and Meereen, abolishing slavery and establishing the Free Bay Province under Ser Arthur Dayne.
• King Ghidorah destroyed Maroq’s fleet, and Viserys later arrived at Meereen to defeat Ogo Khal’s Dothraki before accepting the survivors into his service.
• Kinvara and the Red Priests watched Viserys, while reports of his conquests reached Robert Baratheon and Doran Martell.
• Jon Connington brought Young Griff to Viserys and claimed he was Aegon, but Blackflame killed him in a test of his Targaryen identity.
• Jon Connington pledged himself to Viserys and left to win over the Golden Company, while Viserys sent Ser Ralph Royce back to the Vale to report on New Valyria.
• Viserys and King Ghidorah awakened dragon eggs in a volcano, where Meleys hatched and bonded with Rhaenys, followed by Balerion, Vhagar, and Meraxes.
• Five more eggs hatched, and Viserys named the dragons Syrax, Caraxes, Vermithor, Tessarion, and Meleagor, bringing his total to nine.
• Tessarion appeared to choose Ashara, while Viserys realized that feeding the nine dragons would require a sustainable source of meat.

Viserys defeated the coalition of Free Cities, conquered Qarth, Myr, Tyrosh, Volantis, and New Ghis, and expanded his empire. He then established its governing framework and began stirring unrest in Westeros.

• Viserys welcomed Kinvara’s alliance, subdued the Dothraki khalasars, and survived an assassination attempt that led Daenerys’s three dragon eggs to hatch.
• Viserys destroyed Qarth’s defenses and House of the Undying, then took control of the city as the war coalition advanced against his empire.
• The Golden Company and Dothraki captured Myr and besieged Tyrosh while Viserys crushed the allied fleet and defeated Volantis’s army and navy.
• Viserys and his forces captured Volantis, executed its leaders, freed its slaves, and turned toward the campaign against New Ghis.
• Viserys’s dragons helped rout New Ghis’s army, and he destroyed the Harpy after it emerged from a blood ritual in the city’s temple.
• Tyrosh surrendered to Clinton, whom Viserys appointed governor, while Viserys learned that the Harpy’s god was somewhere in Sothoryos.
• Viserys assigned governors, established rules for provinces and armies, planned Dragon Coins and Imperial Academies, and ordered Gray Rat to spread rumors about Robert Baratheon’s children and investigate Petyr Baelish’s correspondence.