Recaps

Tyrarion uncovered Shrouded Lord spies hiding in a ruined temple in Ny Sar, where Danyla confronted them as their own greyscale weapon turned against them. The spies revealed their families were controlled by the Shrouded Lord, but their fate remained unresolved as the chapter ended.

• Myracis, Caraxesos, Drogosarn, and Tyrarion flew over Ny Sar, where Myracis and Caraxesos thrilled the crowd with aerial displays.
• Tyrarion attacked an abandoned temple, exposed a group of hooded men, and trapped them with Dragonfire.
• The men told Danyla that they served the Shrouded Lord and had come to gather information.
• Danyla shattered clay jars with a Fire Seed, releasing gray gas that recoiled from the Dragonfire and engulfed the spies.
• The spies began developing greyscale and begged Danyla for help, explaining that the Shrouded Lord controlled their families and threatened to turn them into Stone Men.

Danyla destroyed the Shrouded Lord’s greyscale-spreading agents, established a treatment and quarantine system, and later her children traveled to Ny Sar to invite her to Reclea City’s completion ceremony. The chapter ends as Vermithor senses dragons ahead and gives a warning roar.

• Danyla ordered her dragons to burn the hooded infiltrators, and the Dragon Egg Fossil absorbed magical energy from their deaths.
• Danyla searched the Rhoyne basin, discovered more than a dozen disease-spreading groups, and spread a weirwood-based treatment for greyscale.
• Danyla sent patients to a dragonstone quarantine zone near Velonserys, where healers and students helped develop a seaside medical town.
• The Shrouded Lord warned his followers not to provoke Danyla again and said he would await her in the Sorrowful Domain.
• In the spring of year 111, Aurelion, Isilia, and Otheryon traveled from Reclea City toward Ny Sar to ask Danyla to preside over the city’s completion ceremony.
• Vermithor sensed dragons ahead and roared a warning as the siblings traveled along Dragonstone Avenue.

Danyla reunited with her children and their dragons, and Isilia joyfully rode Caraxesos through the skies. The family accepted Mrs. Hadak’s invitation to stay at Hadak Manor, where they learned how much her estate had grown.

• Cannibal circled the carriage, but Isilia recognized her dragons, and Danyla arrived with them on Myracis.
• Danyla embraced Isilia, Aurelion, and Otheryon, and told them their dragons had grown enough to ride again.
• Isilia flew Caraxesos for more than two hours, while Drogosarn and Tyrarion followed her into the sky.
• Mrs. Hadak arrived with her unmarried children and invited Danyla and her family to stay at Hadak Manor.
• Mrs. Hadak described her family’s work and the manor’s extensive farmland, pasture, and lotus lake as they approached the estate.

Danyla visited the Hadak family’s thriving manor with her children and shared a rare peaceful moment with them by a lotus lake. When roars revealed river monsters in the Lalulu River, she and the children rode their great dragons into a mist-filled valley, where strange miasma surrounded them.

• Mrs. Hadak thanked Danyla for the support that had helped the family prosper and establish Hadak Manor in the Golden Fields.
• Hana and Danyla’s children gathered lotus flowers for Danyla, and the triplets enjoyed a carefree moment with their mother.
• Haya identified a distant roar as the sound of Lalulu River monsters, and Danyla and the triplets summoned their great dragons to investigate.
• Danyla led the dragons into a river valley, where magical energy and thick mist concealed the monsters.
• The nine great dragons spread out through the valley as mist and miasma clung to them, and Hogdera smashed a jagged peak with his tail.

Danyla and the triplets were ambushed by wyverns in the mist-filled river valley, and their dragons fought back. The battle continued as Regosern and Sunfyre faced four long-winged wyverns.

• Danyla warned Isilia, Aurelion, and Otheryon to climb as dozens of wyverns emerged from the mist.
• Tyrarion attacked a sharp-beaked wyvern, and Isilia wounded it with Moonlight Radiance before Tyrarion tore into its neck and chest.
• Aurelion rode Vermithor as the Great Dragon killed two long-winged wyverns and began eating them.
• Regosern shielded Sunfyre from four long-winged wyverns and burned two with its golden dragonfire.
• Regosern pierced one wyvern through the chest and seized another by the neck.

Sunfyre struggled against two Longwing Dragons until Regosern intervened, while Regosern was injured by venom and developed resistance after eating his foe. Elsewhere, Cannibal, Otheryon, Termit, and Nefemoon slaughtered the Longwing Dragons that ambushed them.

• Sunfyre fought two Longwing Dragons, biting one badly and ramming the other, but a tail wound left him increasingly numb and unsteady.
• Regosern killed Sunfyre’s wounded opponent, was sprayed with corrosive venom, then killed and devoured the Longwing Dragon, gaining resistance to its venom.
• Sunfyre killed his remaining opponent and brought its carcass beside Regosern to eat, despite severe injuries.
• Cannibal killed two Longwing Dragons while Otheryon blinded three others with Starlight Radiance.
• Termit pinned down and killed one burning Longwing Dragon, then ate it.
• Nefemoon broke another Longwing Dragon’s spine and neck before breathing pale dragonfire onto it.

Isilia’s three Great Dragons killed a Beaked Pterosaur, while Danyla and her dragons fought a coordinated flock led by two giant pterosaurs. Urrax injured the female leader, and the battle continued as Hogdera and Hogras held back the flock.

• At Isilia’s direction, Drogosarn and Caraxesos attacked the Beaked Pterosaur’s wings while Tyrarion held onto its neck.
• The three Great Dragons ruined the Beaked Pterosaur’s wings, and it crashed into the mountaintop; Isilia then directed her dragons to feast on its carcass.
• Danyla’s group was surrounded by more than twenty striped pterosaurs, whose giant male and female leaders coordinated the attack.
• The male pterosaur sprayed venom at Myracis, but she vaporized it with purple-black dragonfire.
• The giant female pterosaur attacked Urrax, who dodged, struck her with dragonfire, and climbed onto her back to claw and burn her.
• The female pterosaur called the flock to assist, but Hogdera and Hogras blocked the others with dragonfire.

Myracis, Danyla, and Hognara fought the wyverns as their leader drove them into a frenzied assault. Hognara discovered that absorbing frozen venom strengthened her fire-attribute origin and began harvesting it in battle.

• Hognara froze three wyverns, giving Myracis more room to attack, while giant crocodiles and anacondas fought over the fallen prey.
• Danyla illuminated the battlefield with Proud Sun, and Myracis used the opening to burn and kill several wyverns.
• Myracis shielded Danyla from a rain of venom and fought a great dragon while Hognara kept the giant male wyvern at bay.
• The male wyvern's roar sent the surrounding wyverns charging recklessly, and one injured Hognara before he struck her with poisonous ice.
• Danyla fired another burst of golden flame and readied an enchanted bolt as Myracis killed a great dragon and attacked the male wyvern again.
• Hognara's iceflame transformed the venom she absorbed into fire-attribute energy, strengthening her origin, so she began freezing and swallowing more venom.

Danyla and Isilia’s dragons broke the wyverns’ encirclement and killed the Female Giant Wyvern, but the flock’s enormous Ancestor arrived and turned the fight against them. The Ancestor’s corrosive venom struck Vermithor as Aurelion and Otheryon attacked her head with their swords.

• Danyla reorganized her dragons as Urrax and Hogdera took wounds fighting off the wyverns surrounding them.
• Hognara froze the Male Giant Wyvern’s venom, while Isilia sent Tyrarion, Drogosarn, and Caraxesos to help attack the Female Giant Wyvern.
• Vermithor and Cannibal broke through the encirclement, and Termit, Nevsane, and Regosern joined the others in bringing down the Female Giant Wyvern.
• As the dragons began slaughtering the remaining wyverns, their deaths strengthened the pulses of life in the dragon egg fossil beside Danyla.
• The Ancestor swooped down, repelled Vermithor and Cannibal’s dragonfire, and corroded Vermithor’s left wing with venom.
• Aurelion and Otheryon swung their fallen star iron swords, sending streaks of scorching red flame into the Ancestor’s head.

Danyla and the Great Dragons defeated the Wyvern Flock’s remaining members and badly wounded the Colossal Wyvern. When the Dragon Egg Fossil pulsed with energy, the Colossal Wyvern became fixated on Danyla, who used the distraction to send her children after the other Wyverns.

• Cannibal and Vermithor attacked the Colossal Wyvern while Myracis and Hognara brought down the Male Giant Wyvern, and Hognara tore out his poison sac and heart.
• Danyla ordered her sons to help pin down the Colossal Wyvern and Isilia to lead the other Great Dragons in finishing off the remaining Wyverns.
• Isilia and the Great Dragons killed the remaining Wyverns as Vermithor, Cannibal, Myracis, and Hognara wounded and restrained the Colossal Wyvern.
• The Dragon Egg Fossil pulsed with energy, and the Colossal Wyvern broke free and charged at Danyla, who evaded her with Myracis while Hognara froze her.
• Danyla told her children to finish off the other Wyverns and left the Colossal Wyvern to herself.

Azathos joined Danyla and the Triplets in defeating the Colossal Wyvern, and the group later discovered Wyvern Eggs and three hatchlings. The Triplets used blood magic on the young wyverns, leaving Danyla stunned by the runes that looked like Oracle Bone Script.

• Azathos emerged from the fog and savagely attacked the Colossal Wyvern, holding her in place until the other Great Dragons joined the fight.
• Danyla, the Triplets, and their Great Dragons overwhelmed the Colossal Wyvern, who crashed to the ground, and Azathos thanked Danyla with a Dragon Roar before leaving.
• Danyla fed Hognara the wyverns’ venom sacs and hearts, and sensed a blazing flame source forming alongside Hognara’s iceflame source.
• Sunfyre found a wyvern nest containing Wyvern Eggs after purging the poison from his body, and Danyla stored the eggs in a Special Shockproof Container.
• Three young Spotted Wyverns rushed from the nest, but Aurelion and Regosern’s strange roar stopped them, allowing the Triplets to bind the hatchlings with blood magic.
• Danyla recognized the blood-magic runes on the hatchlings as resembling Oracle Bone Script and was profoundly shocked.

Danyla watched Aurelion, Isilia, and Otheryon awaken a bloodline power and form contracts with three young wyverns. The group followed the wyverns into their cave, where they discovered a vast valley overrun by ghost grass that the wyverns could eat.

• Danyla recognized oracle bone symbols appearing on the young wyverns as the triplets chanted, and the symbols formed crimson bonds between them and the dragons.
• The wyverns changed color, the triplets gained dragon-scale scars on their palms, and Danyla explained that they had established bloodline contracts.
• Aurelion's wyvern tugged him deeper into the cave, so Danyla led the group through a tunnel into a broad valley filled with glowing ghost grass.
• Danyla tested the ghost grass with Proud Sun and saw it burn into a dragonglass-like substance, then had Myracis use dragonfire to illuminate the valley.
• Aurelion spotted the three young wyverns eating ghost grass, whose sap strengthened their scales but caused nearby plants to wither, and Danyla ordered Myracis to stop burning it.

Danyla and her children discovered more wyvern eggs and learned that ghost grass could help incubate dragon eggs, then arranged a new wyvern lair and returned to their duties. Danyla set out for King's Landing to support her pregnant sister Rhaenyra, while Daemon's barely concealed delight annoyed Rhaenyra.

• Danyla and the triplets found more than a dozen wyvern eggs, bringing their total to twenty-two, and discovered that burning ghost grass released magical energy and helped incubate eggs.
• The triplets stayed at Hadak Manor to care for the young wyverns, while Danyla returned to Ny Sar and sent workers to build a wyvern lair in the valley.
• The triplets learned that sleeping wyverns produced magical mist that enriched nearby plants and animals, creating abundant food for the flock.
• Danyla transported the wyvern remains to Oldtown, found that ghost grass worked best when burned beneath dragon eggs, and ordered the fleet to gather more from Asshai.
• Danyla left Hognara and the others to guard Ny Sar and traveled to King's Landing with Myracis and Urak to be with Rhaenyra before her third child was born.
• Rhaenyra told Daemon that Danyla was coming, recognized his happiness, and stormed off after mocking his lack of self-control.

Danyla returned to King's Landing and reunited with her family as Rhaenyra gave birth to her third son, Lucerys. The chapter ended with Rhaenyra celebrating that the baby had purple eyes.

• Danyla arrived in King's Landing, where the people praised her and the Faith of the Seven remained burdened by its debts to the crown.
• Danyla found Ishys, Jacaerys, and Viserys playing with their young dragons in the Red Keep's Godswood.
• Rhaenyra went into labor after hearing Myracis's roar, and Danyla reunited with Ishys and Jacaerys.
• Daemon rushed from bed when he heard Myracis, while Margaery warned a portrait to keep quiet about what she had seen.
• Rhaenyra safely gave birth to her third son, Lucerys, whose purple-black eyes delighted her.

Danyla returned to King's Landing and attended a lavish banquet before drinking privately with Margaery and Audrey. After Daemon secretly entered their room, Audrey woke the next day and Danyla beat him viciously.

• Daemon presented Little Road with a dragon egg and offered to host a banquet for Danyla, who called him the Former King Consort.
• At the banquet, Danyla received Harold and his family but treated him as an ordinary noble, leaving him bitter.
• Danyla drank with Margaery and Audrey, warned Margaery to remain loyal, and kissed her before drawing Audrey into their drunken revelry.
• Danyla, Margaery, and Audrey became intoxicated by drugged wine and incense, and Daemon emerged from a secret passage into their room.
• Audrey woke around noon and screamed, and Danyla broke Daemon's nose, disabled his arm, forced him to his knees, and slapped him repeatedly.

Quicksilver and Myracis fought after the dragons’ intimacy was interrupted, but later settled into an awkward courtship in the Godswood. Quicksilver remained submissive to Myracis and frequently got bullied, though he finally gained a dragon companion.

• Quicksilver and Myracis became intimate in the Godswood while Urrax and Syrax nuzzled nearby, and Vermithor tried to approach Iceflame but was driven away.
• When Danyla struck Daemon, Myracis broke from Quicksilver’s embrace and attacked him, while Urrax and Syrax joined in and pinned him down until he submitted.
• After the fight, Myracis, Urrax, and Syrax stayed beside the wounded Quicksilver, and the dragons’ bond continued despite their rough encounter.
• Quicksilver tried to win Myracis over with a goat and a roasted squid, but she rejected both gifts as Urrax and Syrax teased him.
• Quicksilver challenged Myracis again, but Urrax and Syrax helped her overpower him, and he learned to keep a low profile around the others.
• Myracis began leaving leftover prey for Quicksilver and eventually let him snuggle beside her, forming an awkward pair of dragon lovers.

Danyla presided over the Small Council and reshaped the kingdom’s finances, fleet, infrastructure plans, and ministerial appointments. She left the council with new construction projects approved and several senior posts reassigned.

• Earl Beesbury reported that the Royal Treasury held only eighteen million gold dragons in its vaults, despite having over fifty-four million on its books, and Danyla argued that the money should be invested.
• Danyla ordered the Royal Fleet merged with the Arbor Island fleet into a Royal Oceanic Trade Fleet, and assigned Earl Redwyne to drill the Holy Flame Fleet in Dorne and recruit ten thousand marine reservists.
• Danyla proposed canals linking the Mander River and the Honeywine, along with an avenue through the Prince’s Pass and the Boneway, and defended spending twenty million gold dragons on the projects.
• Danyla appointed Tyland Lannister Master of Trade, Mungo and Walda commanders of the new marines, and Lord Lyonel senior Hand while Earl Beesbury became the king’s left hand.
• Danyla appointed Lady Florence Master of Coin and named Lady Rhaella of Runestone as the new Master of Laws.

The Small Council expanded and began major infrastructure projects in the Reach, but their spending drove prices sharply upward. Danyla curbed inflation by switching project payments to goods and promoting Holy Flame Bank bonds as the canal and Dragonstone Avenues continued taking shape.

• Oggian and Lady Florence supported Rhaella Royce's appointment as Master of Laws, and the Small Council added Tyland Lannister as Master of Trade and Earl Beesbury as King's Right Hand.
• Lady Florence revealed that the Royal Treasury had run out of cash, and Earl Beesbury advised her to make the great houses along the projects' routes contribute.
• Lady Florence failed to gain the Small Council's support, and House Tyrell and other Reach houses supplied money and goods for the canal and Dragonstone Avenues.
• Danyla and the Great Dragons began cutting through the northern Red Mountains, digging the canal, and carrying dragonstone to Nightsong and Blackstake.
• As project spending drove prices in King's Landing up four- or fivefold, Danyla ordered payments to be made in goods and had the Small Council promote Holy Flame Bank bonds with a higher return.
• The Small Council deposited Gold Dragons and promoted the bonds, and prices fell a month later as the canal and Dragonstone Avenues continued to advance.

Danyla rejected Daemon’s plea to reconcile after condemning his infidelity, and Daemon later took three queens while Danyla announced seven prince consorts. Her chosen men reacted with disbelief, excitement, or calm acceptance, and Sevan hurried to King’s Landing believing she was in trouble.

• Danyla rejected Daemon’s crown and refused to forgive him, leaving after he accused her of never understanding true love.
• Three days later, Daemon gained the Faith of the Seven’s support and married Margaery of House Tyrell, Alysanne of House Blackwood, and Audrey as queens.
• A week afterward, Danyla named Tyland Lannister, Bennard, Patirius, Lysandro, Medrick, Sevan, and Dax as her seven prince consorts.
• Tyland accepted Danyla’s proposal, Bennard celebrated, Patirius was thrilled, and Medrick calmly affirmed his devotion to her.
• Sevan hurried to King’s Landing on Seasmoke, convinced that Danyla must be in trouble.

As Daemon demanded an unprecedentedly lavish wedding, the Royal Treasury’s lack of funds set off a struggle over who would pay and whose forces would enter the Red Keep. The chapter ended with several queens receiving armed contingents, while Danyla bolstered Audrey with female soldiers from Oldstones.

• On Driftmark, Rhaenys praised Danyla and Daemon’s marriages, while Corlys warned that their actions could sow discontent and urged her to consider why Danyla’s gifted dragon eggs had not hatched.
• At the Small Council, Daemon demanded money for a lavish wedding, but Rhaella told him the treasuries were depleted and advised him to wait for the next tax collection.
• Daemon sought millions from Lady Florence and Tyland Lannister, then ordered a fifty-percent tax increase in the Westerlands and insisted that his wedding take place that month.
• House Tyrell sent two million gold dragons to King's Landing and brought thirty warriors and three hundred elite Reach troops into the Red Keep.
• House Blackwood sent gold and supplies along with thirty-five warriors and two hundred guards, so Danyla transferred three hundred female soldiers from Oldstones to serve Audrey.

Danyla and Rhaenyra took the children to High Heart after learning the Purple Prince was dying, where Danyla comforted him as he laid five dragon eggs and died. Afterward, Danyla began sensing memories held by the weirwoods, while Ishys asked how a dragon called a prince could lay eggs.

• Jacaerys bonded with Vermithor and practiced having him roast lamb, while Iceflame and Vhagar tried to steal the food.
• Oggian told Danyla and Rhaenyra that the Purple Prince had stopped eating and moving at High Heart.
• Danyla and Rhaenyra flew to High Heart with the children and found the Purple Prince gravely weakened in the revived weirwood grove.
• The Purple Prince pushed five dragon eggs from beneath himself, and Danyla comforted him before he died at sunset.
• The weirwoods spread roots through the Purple Prince's body as his energy flowed into them, and Danyla's consciousness entered their memories.
• Ishys asked why the Purple Prince could lay eggs, and Danyla explained that a dragon's sex was difficult to determine.

Danyla discovered that Ishys had been dreaming of the Great Dragon inside the Rhoyne egg and guided her toward bonding with him. Ishys accepted the dragon’s fire in her dream, while Danyla’s consciousness was expelled and her family watched over them.

• Danyla brought Ishys to check the dragon eggs beneath the weirwoods, where Ishys described recurring dreams of a blue-purple Great Dragon and distant volcanoes and rivers.
• Danyla told Ishys the dragon was trying to bond with her, and Ishys began stroking the warm egg on its brazier.
• Ishys entered a dragon dream, chanted an Old Valyrian spell, and bled onto the egg as it began glowing purple-red.
• Danyla joined Ishys’s chant and entered the dream, where a purple Great Dragon formed and spoke before gathering dragonfire.
• Ishys overcame her fear, called the Great Dragon Inolorn, and welcomed his fire as Danyla’s consciousness was forced out of the dream.
• Danyla awoke after nightfall to find Rhaenyra, Jacaerys, and the others watching over her and Ishys.

Danyla and Ishys welcomed Isalorn, a mist-shrouded hatchling with unusual steam-breath, while High Heart became a lively refuge for their family and companions. Their peaceful stay ended when Rhaenys died after childbirth, leaving Corlys and young Rhaena grieving.

• Ishys awoke from her dragon dream as Isalorn hatched, and the blue-violet dragon breathed scalding steam that drove Iceflame away.
• Danyla explained that Rhoynar water magic might have changed Isalorn and observed that the hatchling's mist nourished High Heart's godswood.
• Walda, Maggie, Shirei, Bennard, Little Valyrian Luke, and five direwolf pups joined Danyla and her family at High Heart.
• Meleys brought Rhaenys, Corlys, and their daughter Rhaena to High Heart as Rhaenys went into labor.
• Rhaenys delivered a frail daughter and died before she could see the baby clearly, while Corlys and Rhaena mourned her.

After Princess Rhaenys’s cremation, Danyla took in Rhaena and Lara, gave birth to Oserion and Ishina, and steered Daemon’s spending toward her children’s holdings until the royal treasury ran dry. When House Blackwood tried to seize more land across the Red Fork, Danyla and Rhaenyra confronted its earl and ordered him to withdraw and pay compensation.

• Danyla and the others cremated Princess Rhaenys at High Heart, but Rhaena’s dragon egg showed no change, and Corlys left with Rhaenys’s ashes.
• Corlys asked Danyla to care for Rhaena and Lara, and Danyla agreed while Meleys mourned her lost rider.
• Danyla gave birth to Oserion and Ishina, named them Prince of Crackclaw Point and Princess of High Heart, and ordered a keep built for Oserion.
• Daemon diverted funds from his postponed wedding to his children’s projects and gifts, while the Royal Treasury and Rhaenyra’s inner treasury were emptied.
• House Tyrell and House Blackwood stopped providing money, and Earl Blackwood began seizing territory across the Red Fork.
• Danyla and Rhaenyra flew to Raventree Hall, where Danyla ordered Earl Blackwood to withdraw his forces within three days, pay five million gold dragons, and surrender House Brune’s former lands to High Heart.

Danyla strengthened her control over Westeros’s weirwoods, expanded reforms for the common people, and oversaw several royal dragon hatchings and births. The chapter ended with her twin daughters, Iseryn and Islyn, established as duchesses and bonded to powerful young dragons.

• Danyla burned away the Three-Eyed Crow’s imprint at Raventree Hall, marked its weirwood, and found a damaged magical egg that she placed on the Purple Prince’s remains to nourish.
• Danyla and Rhaenyra traveled across Westeros for five years, marking surviving weirwoods and allowing Danyla to monitor distant lands through them.
• Danyla spent royal and Faith of the Seven funds on infrastructure, medical care, and education, resettled more than a hundred thousand people, and helped trade and cultural integration grow.
• Daemon’s delayed wedding to Margaery Tyrell produced a son, Golden-Haired Vaemond, whose dragon Vaemontan hatched six months after his birth; Weywood and Vinya also hatched dragons.
• Danyla and Bennard Stark became a couple, and Danyla gave birth to twin daughters, Iseryn and Islyn, in the spring of year 115 of the Conqueror’s Calendar.
• Danyla named Iseryn Duchess of Lonely Mountain and Islyn Duchess of Moat Cailin, and their dragons, Veldrak and Skeld, hatched from Vhagar’s eggs.