Chapter Summaries

Danyla arrived off Braavos with the Holy Flame Fleet after a day and night of sailing. The chapter recounted Braavos’s founding by escaped slaves and described the city’s laws, government, and prosperity.

• Myracis took Hognara and the others hunting in nearby waters, while Jormungava and Jormungar caught large fish for breakfast.
• Dreamfyre returned from the Shivering Sea with a killer whale for the great dragons.
• Danyla arrived off the coast of Braavos with the Holy Flame Fleet.
• Braavos’s escaped-slave founders settled the mist-shrouded islands after following the Moon Singers’ prophecy.
• Braavos became a wealthy trading city, established the First Law against slavery, and came under the rule of a Sealord chosen for life.

Sealord Utherys Reyaan prepared to welcome Princess Danyla to Braavos while keeping House Velaryon away from her. Danyla arrived with her dragons, displayed her power at the Sealord’s Palace, and left Utherys and Uthenia to understand that Braavos could avoid trouble by meeting her demands.

• Utherys ordered Uthenia and Utheryan to welcome Danyla and told Larel to send House Velaryon’s people away.
• Uthenia and the reluctantly summoned, drunken Utheryan joined their father to greet the princess.
• Danyla’s fleet passed the Titan of Braavos as Dreamfyre flew over it, and the Sealord’s envoys guided the fleet directly to Purple Harbor without customs inspection.
• Utherys and his family welcomed Danyla at the quay while Dreamfyre landed on the dome of the Sealord’s Palace.
• Danyla warned Utherys with pointed remarks about her dragons’ power and offered one gold dragon to pay for their food.
• Uthenia graciously arranged to feed the dragons, and Danyla made clear that she had come for material gain rather than violence.

Danyla toured the Sealord's Menagerie with Uthenia and Utheryan, discovering its rare animals and birds from across the world. She sensed faint magical energy in the talking macaws, and the tour ended after the group waited in vain to see the resting thylacines.

• Uthenia welcomed Danyla to the Sealord's Palace and offered to show her the Menagerie after lunch.
• Uthenia and Utheryan led Danyla's party through the Menagerie, where Utheryan proudly described its animals.
• Walda dismissed the creatures as food for dragons, and Utheryan quickly agreed with her.
• Danyla sensed faint magical energy in the macaws that greeted the visitors in Valyrian.
• Utheryan showed the group exotic birds, grazing animals, striped deer, and predators, then they left the thylacine enclosure after waiting nearly an hour without seeing one emerge.

Danyla and her companions watched a little Valyrian give birth to twins, but the mother rejected the platinum-furred second baby. Danyla calmed and fed the newborn, who clung to her afterward.

• Utheryan recommended the little Valyrians, and Danyla and her companions visited their enclosure.
• The keeper confirmed that the female lemur was about to give birth and prepared food for her.
• The female lemur safely delivered a silvery-white baby, then gave birth to a second baby after a difficult labor.
• The mother rejected the platinum-furred, deep-purple-eyed newborn, so the keeper took him out and tried to feed him goat's milk.
• Danyla held the crying baby, calmed him with her magical energy, and fed him; afterward, he refused to leave her.

Danyla adopted a little Valyrian lemur and named him Lukao before a Spotted Long-Winged Dragon attacked the Menagerie. After the beast killed several guards, Danyla struck it with fire magic and tried to deter it by setting nearby trees ablaze.

• Danyla took the little Valyrian lemur with her, named him Lukao, and began the journey back from the Menagerie.
• A Spotted Long-Winged Dragon swooped down, and Danyla led Bethany and the female soldiers into the bushes while Uthenia, Utheryan, and their guards fled toward the monkey enclosure.
• The Spotted Long-Winged Dragon seized and killed several of the Sealord's Palace guards before Uthenia and the others reached shelter.
• The dragon searched for more prey and dove toward Danyla's group, but Danyla hit its head with a fire seed and drove it back into the sky.
• Danyla set nearby trees alight in an attempt to frighten the enraged dragon away.

Danyla let Dreamfyre hunt the Sealord's Palace Menagerie after the Spotted Long-Winged Dragon attacked, and the dragons began devouring its magical creatures. Hognara survived a basilisk's ambush, and Danyla had the carcass saved for potion ingredients.

• Dreamfyre caught and ate the Spotted Long-Winged Dragon, then Danyla allowed her to hunt through the Menagerie.
• Dreamfyre burned the creatures in the river valley while Myracis, Hogras, Hogdera, and Hognara searched for prey and displayed their abilities.
• Hogdera swallowed dragonfire, while Hognara froze attacking crocodiles and roasted them with dragonfire.
• An adult basilisk ambushed Hognara, but she evaded it and set it ablaze with dragonfire.
• Myracis crushed the wounded basilisk's head, and Danyla had Walda remove its venom sac and internal organs for potions.

Danyla's dragons hunted through Braavos's Menagerie, devouring its magical and enormous beasts after another apparent accident. She warned Uthenia that Braavos must explain what happened and suggested Lord Utherys might have lost control of the city, leaving Uthenia furious and shaken.

• After the dragons finished eating the River Valley's creatures, Danyla led Dreamfyre, Myracis, Hognara, and the other young dragons into the Beast Zone to hunt its beasts.
• Myracis chased down rat-pigs while Dreamfyre hunted larger prey, and the dragons consumed or carried off most of the beasts in the zone.
• The dragons' feeding left almost nothing in the Beast Zone except cattle and sheep, and Uthenia and Utheryan arrived with guards to find them.
• Uthenia approached Danyla and expressed relief that she was unharmed, but Danyla refused to hear an explanation until the dragons had eaten.
• Danyla accused Braavos of allowing another accident to happen, warned that Lord Utherys might have lost control of the city, and left on Dreamfyre to pursue an elephant.
• After Danyla departed, guards caught the trembling Uthenia as she angrily questioned how anyone could risk enraging the Targaryen royal house.

Sealord Utherys summoned Braavos’s magisters, Keyholders, and powerful families to address the Menagerie fire and the Faceless Men’s assassination attempt in King’s Landing. The meeting ended without agreement, as hardliners pushed to defy Danyla and House Targaryen while Utherys urged them to consider an explanation and compensation.

• Utherys ordered the Bell of Truth rung to summon Braavos’s leaders to the Palace of Truth.
• At the assembly, Utherys asked the gathered magisters and Keyholders about the Menagerie fire and the release of the Spotted Long-Winged Dragon.
• Ferdinand Antaryon helped Utherys warn that the latest incident could worsen tensions with Danyla and House Targaryen.
• Otherys and another magister argued that Braavos should rely on its weapons and resist Targaryen influence.
• A merchant magister warned that House Targaryen had more than twenty Great Dragons, while a Keyholder suggested eliminating the threat.
• Utherys urged the assembly to plan an explanation and compensation for the Faceless Men’s assassination attempt and the latest accident, but the leaders failed to reach a consensus.

Danyla used her Great Dragons to destroy the House of Black and White with an explosion of flour, sulfur, and wildfire. The blast illuminated Braavos and left the temple and its occupants in ruins.

• Back aboard her ship, Danyla told Walda that the pterosaur attack was likely carried out by the Faceless Men and planned to give them a real accident in return.
• After the debate ended without a decision, Utherys considered using Braavos to serve his own interests as the Sealord’s power faded.
• Danyla surveyed the House of Black and White through Dreamfyre and waited until the concealed Faceless Men had gathered inside.
• Dreamfyre dropped sacks of flour and sulfur onto the temple while Little Balerion and the other dragons smashed its roof with boulders.
• Myracis dropped wildfire into the dust-filled temple, triggering a massive explosion that shattered windows across Braavos.
• Danyla watched the blast and called it beautiful fireworks.

Danyla and her dragons destroyed the House of Black and White in a catastrophic blast that devastated much of Braavos. Hogdera secretly devoured the strange flames in the ruins, grew rapidly, and fell asleep while absorbing the resulting surge of magical energy.

• A dark power awakened beneath the House of Black and White, and Danyla chanted a sacrificial incantation as Dreamfyre and the other dragons unleashed a second, more powerful blast.
• The explosions destroyed the House of Black and White, collapsed the Sanctuary of the Blessed, and caused widespread deaths and damage across Braavos.
• Sealord Utherys welcomed the destruction as retribution, while Hogdera slipped away during Danyla and the others' distraction.
• Hogdera reached the ruins and devoured the black flames and other fires, causing him to grow larger and develop thick scales, barbs, and bone spurs.
• After returning at sunrise, Hogdera fell asleep to digest the magical energy, and Danyla realized he might grow larger than his sisters once he absorbed it.

Danyla toured Braavos after breakfast while the Holy Flame Fleet’s merchants prepared to trade, then visited the ruins of the House of Black and White. The chapter left her meeting Sealord Utherys and Braavos’s prominent figures amid the wreckage.

• Danyla and her companions ate seafood caught by Jormungava and Jormungar, then she left Hogdera with Hognara and Hogras while Cameron of Tarth stayed behind to meet merchants.
• Danyla’s party sailed from Purple Harbor past Ragpicker’s Quay and the statues along Braavos’s main canal toward the Isles of the Gods.
• Danyla saw the smoke and devastation left after the House of Black and White had been destroyed the previous night.
• Danyla went ashore with Hognara, Hogras, Walda, and her Personal Guards, and the crowd made way for her and the young dragons.
• Sealord Utherys introduced Danyla to Braavos’s prominent figures gathered at the ruins, including members of old founding families and wealthy newcomers.

Danyla used the destruction of the House of Black and White to secure an alliance with Sealord Utherys and land in Braavos for rebuilding temples. She toured the city and promoted Holy Flame Island’s goods, while the Faceless Men’s resentment remained a threat beneath the surface.

• Danyla feigned surprise at the destruction of the House of Black and White and offered to help rebuild the collapsed Sanctuary of the Blessed.
• Danyla proposed rebuilding the Sanctuary on land in Braavos, and Sealord Utherys agreed to give her the property and arrange for craftsmen.
• Danyla recognized that Utherys had committed to an alliance with her, while Otherys and other governors privately objected to the land grant.
• Danyla toured the Long Canal with Utherys, governors, and leading house members, observing Braavos’s wealth and its poor, neglected outskirts.
• Danyla promoted Holy Flame Island’s products, and Governor Antaryon signed numerous orders with her.
• The Braavosi leaders outwardly set aside the destruction of the House of Black and White, though they knew the Faceless Men would resent Danyla.

Danyla confronted Braavos’s leaders over the Faceless Men’s assassination attempt and warned them against threatening House Targaryen, while steering the visit toward trade. The Sealord promised an explanation as Danyla prepared to discuss business and restore peace.

• Governor Patyrius mocked Danyla over the dragon’s rampage and the destruction of the House of Black and White, but Sealord Utherys pushed him away and explained his family’s standing.
• Danyla warned Utherys that she would retaliate against anyone who falsely accused or cheated her, and compared Braavos’s deterrents with House Targaryen’s dragons.
• Utherys promised that Braavos would investigate the Faceless Men’s assassination attempt in King’s Landing and give Danyla a satisfactory answer.
• Danyla said she wanted the mastermind found so Braavos and the Seven Kingdoms could return to peace, then proposed discussing trade and sharing Holy Flame Island’s goods.

Danyla took the Sealord and Braavosi governors on a flight aboard Dreamfyre, using the occasion to secure their political support. In the sky, Governor Antaryon wondered whether a falling star had destroyed the House of Black and White, and Utherys suggested that divine punishment was possible.

• Danyla invited Utherys to ride Dreamfyre for free and offered Governor Antaryon a ride for two hundred thousand Gold Dragons.
• Utherys encouraged governors from allied houses to join the flight, and Governors Planellis and Prestan arrived, bringing nine of the thirteen great houses to his side.
• Danyla flew Dreamfyre nearly a thousand meters above Braavos with the governors aboard.
• Governor Antaryon speculated that a falling star might have destroyed the House of Black and White, citing deaths caused by falling stars in Oldtown.
• Utherys said the gods might punish those who offended them and noted that House Targaryen was regarded as closest to the gods because it commanded Great Dragons.

Danyla toured Braavos on Dreamfyre with Sealord Utherys and other leaders, whose jokes about House Pattirios hinted at a future feud. She then kept a low profile while building the Sanctuary of the Blessed, and the Holy Flame Fleet’s trade flourished as the great houses sent gifts and dragon-riding fees.

• Antalion argued that any overseas trade or feud could be settled with enough money, and Utherys praised his newfound wisdom as the others understood their implication.
• Danyla flew over the Pattirios estate, where Utherys and the others mocked the family and spread rumors about its lineage and descendants.
• Danyla returned to her ship without joining Utherys for dinner, wary of retaliation from surviving Faceless Men after the House of Black and White was destroyed.
• Danyla spent the following week forging Dragonstone, overseeing the Sanctuary of the Blessed, training, and hunting with Dreamfyre and her companions.
• Braavos’s great houses bought the Holy Flame Fleet’s goods and sent dragon-riding fees and gifts, while Utherys sent chests of jewels and Valyrian antiques.
• Bethany admired the gifts, and Danyla recognized a jade necklace from the Golden Empire and wondered whether her appetite would alarm Utherys.

Danyla investigated a secret chamber discovered beneath the ruins of the House of Black and White and found millions of human-skin masks filled with dark magic and traces of souls. After destroying the chamber’s secret passages, she benefited from rumors that portrayed the Faceless Men as wicked and her destruction of their temple as divine justice.

• Workers at the new Sanctuary of the Blessed construction site discovered a secret passage, and Walda reported the underground chamber to Danyla.
• Danyla rode to the site with Dreamfyre and Myracis, then entered the chamber with Walda and the Dragon Guards.
• Danyla found millions of lifelike human-skin masks containing concentrated dark magic and traces of soul power.
• Danyla summoned Hognara and Hogras and searched the chamber for surviving passages; the young dragons destroyed the passages and secretly ate some masks.
• Rumors spread that the Faceless Men flayed people to make evil implements and that divine punishment had destroyed the House of Black and White, casting Danyla in a noble light.

Utheryan persuaded Governor Patirius to trade his assets for three Dragon Eggs, exploiting Patirius's ambition and belief in his family's dragon blood. Patirius agreed to sell his holdings and pay thirty million Gold Dragons, leaving the two men celebrating their deal aboard the pleasure barge.

• Utheryan showed Patirius three Dragon Eggs and rejected his offer of ten million Gold Dragons.
• Utheryan warned Patirius that hatching dragons would force him to leave Braavos and provoke House Targaryen, but Patirius's pride in his family's dragon blood revived his desire for the eggs.
• Patirius touched the Dragon Eggs and saw a vision of two men and a woman burning beside them until the flames revealed three young dragons.
• Patirius agreed to sell his Iron Bank shares, lands, palace, and fishing boats, then pay Utheryan's associates thirty million Gold Dragons for the eggs.
• Utheryan and Patirius called in the courtesans and celebrated their agreement aboard the pleasure barge.

After returning to Oldtown, Danyla mourned Himolos and learned that dragons and residents had survived the attack. She explored the cavern beneath the city and planted a weirwood there to transform its dangerous magical energy, intending to use the space as a dragonpit and arsenal.

• Patirius sold his ancestral property and Iron Bank shares, bought three dragon eggs from Utherys, and sent a fleet of more than a hundred and twenty ships toward the Sunset Sea.
• Danyla flew back to Oldtown, where she found Himolos dead and discovered six young dragons following Amoros, with two more on his back.
• Danyla met the grieving residents, then joined Rouge and Mungo at the cavern where the monster had emerged.
• Danyla explored the rune-covered chambers and found dried remains, broken bronze chains, and dense, cold magical energy beneath Oldtown.
• Danyla planted a weirwood in the cavern and used dragon blood and the Children of the Forest's songs to help it take root and transform the magical energy.

Danyla built up Oldtown’s defenses and institutions, then established a Dragonpit and Underground Arsenal with the Great Dragons’ help. The arsenal began producing magical armor and weapons, while Danyla distributed the captured Valyrian steel swords among her allies and herself.

• Danyla moved Amoros, her hatchlings, and the dragon eggs into the cavern’s most magically rich cave, and preserved the bodies of Himolos and Aposos deeper underground.
• Danyla oversaw the construction of larger Lookout Towers, appointed Rouge and Mungo as governors, and expanded Oldtown’s Garrison to five thousand men.
• Danyla built walls around the docks and Dragonstone Avenue, resettled residents displaced by the work, and converted the cleared ruins into commercial and handicraft districts.
• The Starry Sept transformed into a people-focused New Faith, while the Citadel sent loyal scholars to remain in Oldtown and dispatched others to establish branches elsewhere.
• Danyla and the Great Dragons completed the Dragonpit and Underground Arsenal, which began smelting false Valyrian steel into more than ten thousand sets of armor and weapons.
• Danyla gave Rouge the sword Red Rain, kept Nightfall, and sent Falling Star to Dax in Cisland.

By early 102 of the Conquest Era, Danyla had completed Oldtown’s reconstruction and directed its revenues toward refugees, the Citadel, and the development of Cisland. After establishing new customs and training her rapidly growing dragon hatchlings, she prepared to return to Braavos to settle her affairs amid the Riverlands’ chaos.

• Danyla used Oldtown’s surplus to take in refugees, clear land for manors, and support the Citadel while directing her private profits toward Cisland.
• Oldtown’s rebuilt docks and Dragonstone Avenue revived trade and drew visitors to the giant skull sculptures, while the Cremation Tower began holding funerals with dragonfire.
• Danyla’s seven hatchlings grew rapidly after absorbing energy from the monster, and she trained them as several began hunting and causing trouble.
• Tairax dominated the other hatchlings at feeding time, while he and Radamanthys helped forge valuable golden dragonstone.
• After settling Oldtown’s affairs, Danyla left for Braavos to bring her business there to a close.