Recaps

Viserys tamed Vhagar after Danyla and Dreamfyre, aided by Sheepstealer, defeated Cannibal. The family celebrated Dragonstone’s victory with Rhaenys, while Viserys left Daemon bruised after berating him.

• Viserys rode Vhagar through the storm after taming the dragon, and Aemma rejoiced that her family was safer.
• Rhaenyra and Rhaenys arrived on Syrax and Meleys, saw Viserys on Vhagar, and learned that Danyla and Dreamfyre had defeated Cannibal with Sheepstealer’s help before Vhagar wounded him.
• Rhaenys praised Danyla and proposed that one of Viserys’s princesses marry into House Velaryon, but Viserys said they should wait until the girls were older.
• Rhaenyra hugged Danyla and told her how frightened she had been, then celebrated Syrax keeping pace with Meleys.
• Viserys’s family hosted Rhaenys at a feast and fed roasted sheep to Meleys.
• Daemon returned on Quicksilver, and Viserys poured Dragonfire Wine over his head and berated him; Daemon came back from the banquet room bruised and swollen.

Daemon gave Rhaenyra and Danyla Valyrian steel necklaces as gifts after Viserys beat him for his absence during the Cannibal crisis. Danyla offered to forgive Daemon’s million-gold-dragon debt in exchange for five unconditional promises to ride Quicksilver into action for her.

• Daemon returned to the banquet with two Valyrian steel necklaces and gave them to Rhaenyra and Danyla.
• Viserys accepted Daemon’s gifts but warned him not to neglect his duties again.
• Rhaenyra asked Daemon to put on her necklace, while Danyla had Anne bring hers on a tray.
• Danyla reminded Daemon that he had missed the crisis and demanded repayment of the million gold dragons she had provided for him.
• Danyla offered to forgive the debt and cover Daemon’s future Dragonstone expenses if he promised to ride Quicksilver into action for her five times without conditions.

Daemon signed a contract promising to fight on dragonback for Danyla, while Danyla later followed Myracis into a volcanic fissure and discovered a cavern filled with diamonds. The chapter left Danyla delighted by the treasure and the strange power it seemed to hold.

• Daemon signed Danyla’s contract, then mocked his wife and dismissed House Royce’s opinion of him.
• News of Danyla’s victory over Cannibal spread, and nobles prepared to travel to congratulate her.
• After the storm cleared, Danyla flew Dreamfyre to the New Volcano Range to check on Myracis and the other young dragons.
• Myracis brought Danyla a large purple gemstone, whose diamond core seemed to give her a pleasurable sensation.
• Danyla followed Myracis into a volcanic fissure and found a cavern scattered with diamonds of many colors.
• Danyla picked up a large blue diamond, felt a strange power, and celebrated with Myracis.

Danyla discovered that the volcanic cave held vast quantities of magical colored diamonds and mineral-rich soil that dragons could consume. She left with Myracis and a bag of colored soil, while keeping the treasure’s existence secret and recognizing that other dragons might sense it.

• Danyla watched Little Balerion and the other young dragons melt the cave wall with dragonfire, revealing more colored diamonds and soil that the dragons eagerly ate.
• Danyla realized the gems contained magical energy, decided to guard the mountain’s riches from her dragonriding relatives, and explored the cave’s diamond-filled chambers.
• Grey Ghost and the other young dragons warned Danyla away from their chambers, but Myracis defended her and received the diamonds Danyla had collected.
• Danyla kept Myracis’s purple diamond and a deep pink one for Aemma, then filled her bag with colored soil to make seasoning for roast sheep.
• Danyla left the volcano with Myracis, and Dreamfyre’s attention to the bag confirmed her sensitivity to magical materials.

Danyla discovered that Dreamfyre and the young dragons wanted the magical colored soil, so she used it to season their livestock and secretly collected more from their cave. She expanded her livestock operations on New Dragonstone Island while improving animal husbandry and arranging a steady food supply for the dragons.

• Danyla mixed colored soil with fats and seasonings, then taught the Dragon Guards to coat sheep with it before roasting them for Dreamfyre.
• Danyla and twelve Skinning Warriors gathered dozens of sacks of colored soil and collected the colored diamonds, then she ordered the warriors to keep their discovery secret.
• Danyla promised the Skinning Warriors gemstone jewelry for their future brides, and Dreamfyre and the four young dragons ate nearly half again as much livestock as usual.
• Danyla expanded her livestock supplies with Dragon Porcelain income, while Maester Tigris and his apprentices studied her clean, carefully managed pig farm.
• Danyla directed the dragons to relieve themselves at the pig farm, and livestock merchants helped develop New Dragonstone Island’s wasteland into pastures and breeding grounds.

Caravans from across the Seven Kingdoms and the Free Cities brought livestock, grain, wine, and regional goods to Dragonstone, fueling trade and the island’s expansion. King Jaehaerys strengthened the growing port, while Jason Lannister and Tyland Lannister returned to Dragonstone with their house’s caravan.

• House Manderly brought livestock, pelts, sour wine, and barley ale, while houses of the Reach delivered wine, grain, livestock, and valuable merchandise.
• House Arryn and House Royce led Vale merchants in bringing fruit products, fruit wine, farm produce, and livestock to White Sheep Town.
• King Jaehaerys funded an expansion of Fisherman's Village, sent tax officials and more guards, and stationed fifteen royal ships at Dragonstone.
• Riverlands merchants traded grain, livestock, and freshwater fish products with White Sheep Town, while Stormlands merchants brought timber and wild pelts.
• Westerlands nobles brought gold and silver wares, wine, and livestock, and Jason Lannister and Tyland Lannister returned to Dragonstone with their house's caravan.

Danyla fed the recovering Cannibal in a controlled way, then explored Dreamfyre’s cave and the surrounding caves on New Dragonstone Island. She discovered abundant mineral wealth and found a remarkable ruby that she intended to give to her mother, Aemma.

• Danyla had the Dragon Guards send blindfolded old cattle carrying roasted meat to Cannibal and ordered them to feed him one scrawny ox each week.
• Danyla returned to the barbecue square, woke Dreamfyre, and rode with Myracis and the other young dragons back to the volcanic caves.
• Danyla explored Dreamfyre’s cave and found scattered rubies and a rich gold vein.
• Danyla picked up a warm, fist-sized ruby and put it in her whale-skin bag for her mother, Aemma.
• Danyla explored other caves on New Dragonstone Island and found deposits of gold, gems, obsidian, sulfur, and lithium.

After returning from the Volcanic Mine Cave, Danyla commissioned gifts for her family and spent a fortnight training and studying with them on Dragonstone. Meanwhile, rival factions continued gathering support, and thousands of settlers arrived on New Dragonstone Island to help develop it.

• Danyla gave colored diamonds to White Sheep Town's silversmiths and ordered jewelry for Aemma and Rhaenyra, plus a belt and brooch made with Valyrian steel from Daemon's necklace.
• Danyla resumed her studies and swordsmanship practice with Rhaenyra, who improved quickly under Master Bronn's instruction alongside the twelve Skinning Warriors.
• Danyla took Viserys and Rhaenyra dragon-hunting over the Narrow Sea, refused to hand Myracis and the young dragons to the Dragonkeepers, and later persuaded Viserys to stop objecting.
• Corlys worked to influence the succession while Daemon gathered nobles' younger sons and hedge knights with Danyla's financial support.
• Samwell helped Firekiss Garden branches recruit displaced people, and three to five thousand settlers reached New Dragonstone Island, accelerating its development and farming.

Danyla’s dragons grew quickly as White Sheep Town expanded its livestock grazing, and the family’s quiet on Dragonstone ended when Medrick and Torrhen Manderly arrived with gifts and supplies. Danyla welcomed the brothers and took them flying on Dreamfyre, leaving Medrick visibly smitten with her.

• White Sheep Town kept more than a hundred thousand breeding animals and over two hundred thousand animals for dragon food grazing across New Dragonstone Island.
• Myracis grew rapidly and became an adept fisher, while Grey Ghost, Balerion, and Vhagar grew plumper and stronger on Danyla’s roasted meat.
• Medrick and Torrhen Manderly arrived from White Harbor with ships laden with supplies, silverware, northern sea products, and lavish jewelry for Aemma and Danyla.
• Viserys and his family welcomed the Manderly brothers with a banquet, and Danyla took them flying around Dragonstone on Dreamfyre.
• Torrhen shouted excitedly during the flight, while Medrick apologized for his brother and blushed at Danyla’s relaxed response.

Danyla arranged a lucrative clay trade with House Manderly and developed ties with the Manderly brothers while showing them Dragonstone and its dragons. As youths from Skagos arrived, Cameron Tarth announced the arrival of Jason Lannister and Tyland Lannister.

• Danyla examined white clay from the White Knife River and purple clay from the hills near the Wolf's Den, then offered House Manderly 500 gold dragons per shipload for five shiploads of each kind monthly.
• Danyla took Medrick and Torrhen Manderly around Dragonstone and the orchard, where they watched her dragons obey her and discussed developing New Dragonstone Island.
• Rhaenyra avoided close contact with the Manderly brothers because she feared King Jaehaerys might arrange a marriage between them and her.
• Dax Bagna arrived on Dragonstone with youths from Skagos, and Danyla noticed the tall, blue-eyed leader.
• Cameron Tarth announced that Jason Lannister and Tyland Lannister had arrived, and Viserys ordered them brought in.

Danyla welcomed young nobles from across Westeros and treasured the unicorn foals Dax Bagna brought her, while learning that he might be a warg. The gathering turned tense when a Lannister-backed party clashed with Dax’s men at the perimeter of her pasture.

• Young nobles and their followers arrived at Dragonstone, bringing lavish gifts for Viserys and his family.
• Danyla favored Dax Bagna’s gift of two unicorn foals and arranged a pasture for them.
• Danyla fed the listless foals seasoned goat meat mixed with grass, and they ate eagerly while remaining wary.
• Dax asked Danyla about wargs, and she said she believed in them and compared their power to House Targaryen’s command of dragons.
• The Lannister twins and Mund Hightower led a group of nobles toward Danyla, but the Dragon Guards and Dax’s men blocked their way.
• A Westerlands lord called Dax’s men wildlings, and Tyland Lannister signaled a young man to provoke the gathering with three barking hounds.

A clash between the Skagosi boys and the mainland nobles broke out when Skagosi youths killed three dogs, prompting Danyla to demand that her guests follow Dragonstone’s rules. Rhaenyra summoned Danyla to investigate Sheepstealer’s damage at a breeding farm, while Dax urged his companions to answer future provocations with violence.

• Tyland Lannister taunted the Skagosi boys and had his handler release three dogs toward them.
• The Skagosi youth called Bear knocked down all three dogs, and Wolf One and Wolf Two killed them and drank their blood.
• Danyla arrived and rebuked the boys, while Dax explained their island tradition and asked her not to hold it against them.
• Rhaenyra arrived on Syrax and told Danyla that Sheepstealer had damaged a breeding farm in White Sheep Town.
• Danyla warned Dax to obey Dragonstone’s rules and urged the mainland nobles to show true nobility before leaving with her guards.
• After Danyla and Rhaenyra departed, Dax told his companions to tear out the throats of anyone who provoked them.

Danyla discovered that Sheepstealer had attacked her breeding-ewe farm, drawn by the faint magic in the specially raised sheep. She and Rhaenyra rode to Sheepstealer’s cave to confront her, with Syrax and the young dragons entering while Dreamfyre guarded the entrance.

• Danyla arrived at the damaged farm and learned that Sheepstealer had burned nearly half the breeding ewes, though no one had been hurt.
• Danyla realized the specially fed ewes had attracted Sheepstealer and was pleased that her experiment had imbued their flesh with magic.
• Danyla and Rhaenyra fed the dragons the charred sheep, and Myracis blasted Syrax with dragonfire before fleeing with part of a sheep.
• Danyla and Rhaenyra flew to Sheepstealer’s cave, where Rhaenyra led Syrax inside and Little Balerion and the other young dragons followed.

Rhaenyra, Danyla, and their dragons defeated Sheepstealer and brought her to Dragonmont, where Danyla recruited more Dragonkeepers. Danyla then found two surviving dragon eggs in Sheepstealer’s cave and took them to her own dragon lair, while Myracis followed nervously.

• Rhaenyra and Syrax joined Little Balerion and the other young dragons in attacking Sheepstealer, who fled the cave and was badly wounded by Dreamfyre.
• Dreamfyre carried the defeated Sheepstealer to Dragonmont, where she was imprisoned.
• Danyla offered twenty Dragonkeeper positions to the families on Dragonmont and arranged for their wages to be paid by Anne.
• Danyla returned to Sheepstealer’s cave and found Myracis asleep atop two surviving dragon eggs after apparently eating at least three others.
• Danyla gathered the emerald-and-silver egg and the white egg with star-shaped markings, then flew with them to her own dragon lair as Myracis followed.

Danyla secured two Dragon Eggs in Dreamfyre’s cave and warned Dreamfyre and Myracis not to harm any more eggs. Back at Dragonstone Castle, she joined Viserys, Aemma, and Rhaenyra in planning a tourney and offered to fund and staff it in exchange for most of its revenue.

• Danyla buried two Dragon Eggs in rubies near a volcanic fissure and warned Dreamfyre and Myracis to protect any eggs they found.
• Rhaenyra told Viserys and Aemma how she and Danyla had captured Sheepstealer, and Viserys praised them while warning them against fighting dragons.
• Rhaenyra suggested holding a tourney for the visiting young noblemen, and her family agreed to plan one.
• Viserys raised concerns about the manpower and expense, so Danyla offered to provide both in exchange for eighty percent of the tourney’s revenue.
• Danyla proposed charging different prices for spectator seats and secretly organizing bets, and Viserys accepted the betting plan.

Danyla and her family settled plans for a tournament on Dragonstone, including vendors, security, and dragon displays. She assigned the preparations to Samwell and Medrick, then began building the tournament grounds at a site she also intended to develop into a harbor.

• Danyla proposed charging vendors for stalls and a share of their sales, while Rhaenyra suggested using dragons to deter trouble and attract visitors.
• Danyla proposed charging for dragon portraits and rides, but Viserys objected to letting strangers approach or ride the dragons.
• After more than an hour of discussion, Viserys and his family agreed on a rough tournament plan and scheduled the event for a month later.
• Danyla assigned Samwell to carry out the preparations, with Cameron Tarth and Rhaella Royce as deputies, and invited Medrick of House Manderly to organize betting and recruit suppliers.
• Danyla chose a site between old and new Dragonstone for the tournament grounds and began construction, intending to make the area a harbor as well.
• Danyla noticed that black dragonstone forged with Dreamfyre and the young dragons' fire was superior, and concluded that the gemstones in their cave contained magical energy.

As displaced people arrived on New Dragonstone Island for the tournament, Danyla discovered that a captured thief was Janna, a former maid carrying Daemon’s child. Janna explained she had stolen in hopes of escaping her parents’ plans to make her abort the pregnancy, and Danyla began questioning what would become of her and the child.

• Displaced people came to New Dragonstone Island, where Samwell arranged work, shelter, food, and a peacekeeping unit to manage them.
• Clever Jack escorted captured thieves past the tournament grounds, and Danyla recognized the silver-haired Janna among them.
• Danyla ordered the thieves assigned to forced labor before being sent to the Wall or Whore Camp, then took Janna aside to question her.
• Janna told Danyla that Daemon had fathered her child and that she had stolen deliberately to escape her parents’ demand that she take Moon Tea.
• Danyla asked Janna how she planned to support herself and the child, and Janna admitted she had no plan beyond finding work or turning to prostitution.

Danyla arranged for Janna to give birth in secret and have the royal household raise her child, then took her to the Firekiss Garden. After Danyla beat Dax for insulting her, he let her go without revealing her identity and seemed pleased by the encounter.

• Danyla offered to hide Janna and arrange for the royal household to raise her child, and Janna agreed never to reveal the child's parentage.
• Danyla disguised herself and brought Janna to the Firekiss Garden, where she arranged for Janna to work and live after giving birth.
• Danyla overheard Jason Lannister and Mund Hightower trade insults at the crowded pleasure house, then left after settling Janna there.
• Danyla ran into Dax and his companions from Skagos, and Dax's remark about her figure provoked her into cursing at them.
• Danyla knocked Dax down and punched him, while he stopped his companions from intervening and assured her he would not expose her identity.
• Danyla fled, and Dax's companions speculated that he had taken a liking to her.

Danyla raised the tournament vendor fees and arranged a rumor about Medrick before returning to the Dragonpit to choose eggs for her pregnant mother’s children. She found two ancient Dragon Eggs with strong magical fluctuations but wondered why they had never hatched.

• Danyla ordered Medrick to raise tournament vendor fees and charge House Lannister and House Hightower 50,000 Gold Dragons for the best spots.
• Danyla told Medrick to spread a rumor that he had paid her 100,000 Gold Dragons for a dragon ride and that she had held him in her arms.
• Danyla checked the two Dragon Eggs in her cave and found that the life within them had grown stronger.
• Danyla flew to King's Landing and entered the Dragonpit to choose two Dragon Eggs for her mother's unborn children.
• Danyla reached the two oldest eggs, one blood-red and one coal-black, and sensed strong magical energy within them.

Danyla took three Dragon Eggs from the Dragonpit and persuaded King Jaehaerys to let her keep them. After falling asleep beside five eggs in Dreamfyre's cave, she dreamed of an ancient Valyrian city, where two fiery dragons engulfed her and a spell for forging dragonstone entered her mind.

• Danyla took two old Dragon Eggs and a glittering golden one, then flew Dreamfyre to the Red Keep.
• Danyla showed King Jaehaerys the three eggs and convinced him to let her take them for her unborn siblings and an experiment.
• Danyla returned to New Dragonstone Island and fell asleep beside five Dragon Eggs in Dreamfyre's cave.
• Danyla dreamed of a vast city among volcanoes, where two flame-like dragons engulfed her and she learned a spell for forging dragonstone.

After a dragon dream connected her to the eggs from Old Valyria, Danyla learned a chant that enhanced Dreamfyre’s fire and forged beautiful indigo dragonstone. The craftsmen decided to revise the tourney grounds to make use of the new stone.

• Danyla woke from a dream of Old Valyria, found the dragon eggs shining more brightly, and hoped they would hatch soon.
• Danyla rode Dreamfyre to the tourney grounds on New Dragonstone Island to test the chant she had learned in her dream.
• Danyla chanted in High Valyrian and commanded Dreamfyre to breathe fire, which melted the dragonstone ingredients at an unusually high temperature.
• Danyla discovered that she could exchange thoughts clearly with Dreamfyre, who proudly answered that she was the most beautiful dragon.
• Danyla and the masons saw that the finished dragonstone was gemstone-like indigo instead of black, and the craftsmen hurried to ask Samwell to revise the tourney grounds’ design.

Danyla visited the market at New Dragonstone Island Dock and discovered the Hadak family’s grilled fish stall. After buying fish for herself and the people who had yielded their place in line, she learned the stall combined her Special Barbecue Seasoning with a family recipe.

• Danyla left the Fighting Arena construction site and landed at the dockside market after smelling grilled fish.
• Danyla browsed the market and saw the many goods and seafood sold by the refugees and fishermen.
• Danyla joined the queue at Hadak Family Grilled Fish, but the customers gave her the place at the front.
• Danyla bought ten grilled fish and gave Mrs. Hadak a gold coin to thank the people who had made way for her.
• Danyla recognized her Special Barbecue Seasoning on the fish, and Mrs. Hadak explained that her family recipe and the seasoning made them especially delicious.
• Danyla suggested that Mrs. Hadak try the seasoning on chicken, duck, pork, or lamb.

Danyla brought grilled fish home to Dragonstone Castle, where Rhaenyra’s rumor about Danyla and the Manderly brothers exposed her fear of being married to House Manderly. Viserys and Aemma decided to supervise their daughters’ upbringing more closely, and Aemma proposed replacing Rhaenyra’s maids.

• Lady Hadak gave Danyla grilled fish wrapped in flatbread and dried lotus leaf, and Danyla paid her to bring lotus roots and seeds to Dragonstone Castle.
• Danyla shared the fish with Aemma, Viserys, and Rhaenyra, and kept secret where she had put the Dragon Eggs for her unborn brother.
• Rhaenyra asked whether Danyla had charged the Manderly brothers a hundred thousand Gold Dragons to hold them while flying on her dragon.
• Danyla exposed that Rhaenyra had embellished the story on her maids’ advice because she feared being married to House Manderly.
• Rhaenyra admitted what she had done, and Viserys and Aemma agreed to be stricter and replace her personal maids.
• Danyla mocked Rhaenyra’s maids and urged her to accept cleverer, more sensible attendants.

Danyla surprised Aemma, Viserys, and Rhaenyra with custom jewelry, but Rhaenyra rejected her gift in anger and stormed out. The family was left with a fresh rift between the girls.

• Aemma ended the tense breakfast and took Danyla and Rhaenyra to her room for a lecture.
• Jarelle Mooton announced that craftsmen from the Silverwork Guild had brought jewelry, and Aemma mistook the gifts for a present from Viserys.
• The master craftsman revealed that Danyla had commissioned a ruby belt for Aemma, a sapphire belt and brooch for Viserys, and pink diamond jewelry for Rhaenyra.
• Viserys and Aemma learned that Danyla had designed the gifts, including the dragon motif on Viserys's belt.
• Rhaenyra knocked over her jewelry tray, insulted Danyla, and stormed out.

Danyla navigated Rhaenyra’s outburst, rewarded her maids with the pink diamond jewelry, and prepared to recruit knights for her plans. At the dragonstone casting site, she used a High Old Valyrian spell with Myracis and discovered it could strengthen the dragon’s fire as well as forge magical dragonstone.

• Rhaenyra knocked over the jewelry, and Danyla played the gracious victim before leaving with Jarelle.
• Danyla gave the pink diamond jewelry to Jarelle, Anne, and Bethany, while keeping the Valyrian bracelet and sensing magic in its gemstone.
• Danyla asked about Harold’s preparations to recruit three hundred men, and Bethany argued that a larger pool would help them find worthy candidates.
• Danyla rode Dreamfyre to the Fighting Arena and had the dragon carry the set dragonstone while the stonemasons prepared new molds.
• Danyla chanted in High Old Valyrian and called out to Myracis, who breathed purple-pink dragonfire over the materials.
• Danyla realized that the spell could strengthen a dragon’s fire as well as forge magical dragonstone.