Chapter Summaries

Eren tested the Colossal Titan’s nuclear explosion on Meereen, destroying the city and terrifying its former residents into submission. After claiming the survivors and the city’s vast spoils, he returned to camp and ordered captive women prepared for him to choose as consorts.

• Eren transformed atop Meereen’s tallest pyramid and unleashed a nuclear explosion that annihilated the city.
• Meereen’s captives watched the destruction and feared Eren’s power, while he secured control over them by confiscating weapons, rationing food, and shackling them in groups of ten.
• Eren’s forces gathered gold, grain, Valyrian steel weapons, possible Dragon Eggs, and other valuables from Meereen.
• Eren ordered Modun and the others to find captive women aged fifteen to forty and prepare them for his selection as consorts.
• Eren returned to camp, enjoyed being fed and massaged by his women, and said he no longer thought about his past life.

Eren began selecting consorts from among the captives taken in Slaver's Bay, with Lydia recording his choices and Modun managing the line. After choosing forty-seven women in one day, Eren stopped for the night and planned to continue after the army moved toward Yunkai and Astapor.

• Modun reported that more than ten thousand women met Eren's selection criteria, and Eren ordered them gathered and prepared for examination.
• Eren had the women enter a tent one at a time while Lydia recorded the number he selected and Modun maintained order outside.
• Eren examined women throughout the day and ordered Modun to keep two thousand nearby while the rest waited, with meals provided and no one allowed to touch them.
• Eren selected forty-seven women from the more than two thousand he examined before stopping as darkness made further inspection difficult.
• Eren planned for the army to march toward Yunkai and Astapor the next day and to resume selecting women after the fighting.

Eren returned to Yunkai and left Modun, Flock, and the others to lead the assault while he remained in the rear. Modun broke through the gate but was blinded by the Unsullied guarding its narrow passage, and Flock prompted him to climb the walls instead.

• Eren marched his army toward Yunkai and left exhausted captives who could no longer walk along the road.
• Eren stayed behind with thirty thousand men as Modun, Flock, and the others led the attack with the Pure Titans and cavalry.
• The Pure Titans drew fire while Modun broke open Yunkai's reinforced gate, but the Unsullied inside blinded him with thrown spears.
• The Dothraki cavalry struggled to break through the narrow passage as Modun retreated from the gate and recovered his sight.
• Flock told Modun to climb over the wall with his claws, and Modun realized he had been thinking like an ordinary human.

Modun and the cavalry captured Yunkai, and Eren gathered its people and treasure before ordering the city destroyed. After addressing Colin’s death and the commanders’ performances, Eren obliterated Yunkai with a nuclear blast.

• Modun scaled Yunkai’s wall, attacked the Unsullied, and opened the gate for the cavalry to charge into the city.
• The cavalry captured Yunkai’s people and wealth for Eren, while slave masters were rounded up and interrogated or killed.
• Eren learned Colin had been killed and ordered the commander of Colin’s First Regiment to succeed him.
• Eren reprimanded Modun, praised Flock and offered him the Power of the Giants, and told Link he could earn it in a future battle.
• Eren rode to Yunkai, transformed into a Giant, and destroyed the city with a nuclear blast.

After destroying Yunkai, Eren appointed John to replace the dead Colin as division commander. Flock accepted the Power of the Giants, and Eren gave him the blood needed to inherit the Screaming Giants.

• Eren returned from Yunkai and appointed John as division commander in place of Colin, assigning the First Regiment to its deputy commander.
• Eren spent the evening with Lydia and the women he had gathered, who took turns entertaining him with music and dancing.
• Flock came to Eren and declared that he would accept the Power of the Giants to serve the empire.
• Eren named the power he planned to give Flock the Screaming Giants and explained its ability to summon Titans, control ten Pure Titans, and harden parts of its body.
• Eren poured his blood into Flock's mouth so he could inherit the Screaming Giants.

Flock transformed into a Giant for the first time and lost his reason, so Eren had Modun fight him until Pure Titans could restrain him. Modun’s reckless attempt to provoke Flock triggered his control over Pure Titans, but Eren intervened, and Flock eventually emerged from his Giant body exhausted.

• Flock cut his palm and transformed into a fourteen- or fifteen-meter Giant, losing his reason in the process.
• Eren sent Modun to stop Flock, and Modun transformed into the Jaw Giants to fight him.
• Modun dodged Flock’s attacks and wounded him, but Flock’s rapid healing filled the area with steam and let him land several punches.
• Eren sent Pure Titans to restrain Flock, and Modun severed Flock’s genitals in an attempt to jolt him back to reason.
• Flock’s pain triggered his control over Pure Titans, but Eren interfered through the Coordinate and redirected them to restrain Flock.
• The Pure Titans exhausted Flock until he emerged from his Giant body, and Eren told Modun to take him away to rest and explain what had happened when he woke.

Flock woke after receiving the power of the Giants and learned he had inherited the Screaming Giant. Eren helped him regain his reason during another transformation, then had him spar with Modun to begin training.

• Flock woke in his tent, and Modun explained that he had inherited the Screaming Giant, which could summon and control Pure Titans and harden parts of its body.
• Eren sorted the wealth and captives seized from Yunkai and recognized that the empire needed more people capable of administrative work.
• Eren took Flock and Modun to a clearing with three Pure Titans so Flock could practice regaining his reason after transforming.
• Modun stabbed Flock's nape and shouted at him, but Flock only woke when Modun threatened that he would lose his women and future chances with beautiful women.
• Eren released Flock from the Pure Titans and had him spar with Modun to practice fighting and using Hardening.

Eren marched on Astapor with his army and hundreds of thousands of captives, intending to destroy the last slave city in Slaver’s Bay. Astapor’s Good Masters sent twenty thousand Unsullied to face his forces, confident that they could defeat the Dothraki and Titans.

• Eren reached Astapor after a half-month march with more than a hundred thousand troops and over three hundred thousand surviving captives.
• Eren camped by the Worm River, left fifty thousand soldiers to guard the captives, and advanced on Astapor with a hundred thousand troops and nearly two hundred Pure Titans.
• Astapor’s Good Masters sounded the alarm and saw Eren’s Dothraki cavalry and Titans approaching the city.
• The Good Masters believed the attackers were no match for their Unsullied and sent a force of twenty thousand, including newly trained and still-training soldiers, out to fight.
• The Good Masters were confident that their twenty thousand Unsullied had the advantage against Eren’s hundred thousand troops.

Eren sent more than two hundred Pure Titans against Astapor’s ten thousand Unsullied, whose spears could only briefly hinder the regenerating monsters. The Unsullied commander ordered a retreat to the city, but Titans broke through the remaining defenders and raced toward the open gate.

• Eren controlled the Pure Titans and sent them charging at the Unsullied formation outside Astapor.
• The Unsullied threw spears at the Titans, then their commander ordered them to target the Titans’ ankles to slow them down.
• The Pure Titans recovered, trampled and devoured the Unsullied, and broke through their square formation.
• The Unsullied commander abandoned the front ranks and led the surviving troops toward Astapor’s walls.
• Astapor’s slave masters opened the gate, and the commander hurried his troops inside as Titans approached.
• The commander urged everyone to move faster when Titans broke through the remaining Unsullied and charged toward the gate.

Eren’s forces breached Astapor after Modun and Flock attacked the city’s defenders, and the Dothraki cavalry poured in to plunder. Some slave masters escaped by ship, while the rest lost their treasures to Eren’s forces.

• The Unsullied commander led a little over three thousand survivors into Astapor and ordered a squad to brace the gate against the Pure Titans.
• The slave masters blamed the commander as the titans battered the gate, while Eren ordered Modun and Flock to attack.
• A defender killed a Pure Titan with a stone that struck its nape, revealing the titans’ weakness to the people on the wall.
• Modun used Flock’s body to leap onto the wall and attacked the defenders, while Flock broke through the gate with his hardened fist.
• Eren ordered the Dothraki cavalry to charge into Astapor, where Modun and Flock fought defenders and the riders plundered the slave masters’ mansions.
• Some slave masters fled to the harbor with portable valuables, while the cavalry seized the treasures of those who remained.

After Astapor fell, Eren agreed to use the captured Unsullied instructors to train the empire’s infantry without castration. As the Dothraki withdrew with prisoners and plunder, Eren watched Astapor burn and then destroyed the city in his Titan form.

• Eren arrived in Astapor as survivors and treasure were hauled out, while Modun and Flock continued suppressing resistance.
• Modun brought Eren the captured Unsullied instructors and explained that they could train an infantry legion for the empire.
• Eren ordered the instructors fed and cared for, then told Black Rat to train the army to Unsullied standards without castration.
• Eren climbed Astapor’s tallest pyramid and watched the Dothraki loot the city and set it ablaze as they withdrew with captives.
• After the cavalry left, Eren transformed into a Titan and blew Astapor away.

Eren tallied the spoils from Slaver’s Bay and planned how to absorb its captives into his future empire. He decided to establish his nation in Pentos, where he would investigate magic and prepare for the Red Comet.

• Eren woke up hungover after celebrating Slaver’s Bay’s destruction and took Lydia to hear reports on the spoils.
• Eren found that the conquest had brought abundant gold, silver, jewelry, and nearly six or seven hundred thousand captives, but few useful coins.
• Eren planned to establish a mint, settle foreign trade in his own currency or gold, and have the captives intermarry with the Dothraki.
• Eren recalled how Valyria destroyed Old Ghis and explained that he had razed Slaver’s Bay because its proximity to Valyria made it dangerous.
• Eren chose Pentos for his nation and planned to research magic before the Red Comet arrived, believing it might provide the power that allowed Daenerys’s dragons to hatch.

Jace gathered former nobles of Slaver’s Bay in the captive camp to discuss overthrowing Eren and reclaiming their old lives. With no weapons or strength to rebel directly, they considered finding another way to escape.

• Eren managed the captives’ camp and met with his regiment commanders while Dothraki guards ringed the holding area.
• Former slave-owning families’ relatives secretly gathered at night, having used reports and transfers to place several of their supporters together.
• Jace, the younger brother of a Meereen slave-owning family’s head, urged the former nobles to seek freedom and regain their former status.
• The other captives warned Jace that Giants guarded the camp and that they lacked food, strength, property, and weapons.
• Jace said they could not rebel outright and proposed exploring other ways to escape.

Jace advised the captives to endure the march and organize quietly rather than attempt a dangerous escape. Eren then established a system for assigning captive women to Dothraki warriors, ordered the church to preach among the captives, and prepared his army to march toward Pentos.

• Jace told the captives that escape would likely mean death and urged them to conserve their strength and gather allies.
• Eren discussed the large captive population with Flock and proposed intermarriage while keeping Ghiscari men in hard labor.
• Eren introduced the National Assigned Partner Law, which assigned captive women to Dothraki men according to age, appearance, and military achievements.
• Eren forbade his warriors from coercing or raping women outside their assigned partnerships and threatened harsh punishment for violations.
• Eren ordered the church to preach among the captives and approved troop protection for its missionaries.
• Eren ordered the army to rest and regroup for three days before marching toward Pentos to build an empire.

Eren sent nuns to preach among the captives while he arranged partners for his warriors and selected women for his harem. He later inspected the palace being built in the Coordinate Space, where the shells of fallen Dothraki worked as slaves.

• Eren ordered Flock and other warriors to guard the nuns as they divided the 700,000 captives into seventy areas for preaching.
• The Mother Superior and another nun preached that Eren was the Titan God's chosen Son and warned that unbelievers would be abandoned by the god.
• Flock watched the captives, who glared at the preachers but did not dare to resist.
• Eren continued selecting women for his harem and assigned partners to his warriors under rules meant to prevent unjustified harm.
• Eren appointed Lydia as Chamberlain, then entered the Coordinate Space and saw the palace that the mindless shells of dead Dothraki were building around its pillar of light.

Eren explored new uses of the Coordinate, then relaxed as Lydia brought women to entertain and serve him. Elsewhere, Jace and the other captives complained about their treatment and continued waiting for a chance to rebel.

• Eren learned that the Coordinate could modify genes and that Pure Titan bodies could be shaped from sand, though their movements remained limited by what they had known as humans.
• Eren left the Coordinate Space and reflected that the Power of the Giants could be developed in new ways.
• Lydia brought thirty women to Eren, who watched them dance and perform music while others attended to him.
• Jace urged the captives to hold on until an opportunity arose, as they complained about hunger, hard labor, and their dwindling chances of success.

Eren began his march toward Pentos to capture Viserys Targaryen, Daenerys Targaryen, and their dragon eggs. In Braavos, Viserys was rejected by the Iron Bank, but Illyrio Mopatis approached him with an offer of hospitality.

• Eren set out for Pentos with his army, planning a route through Qohor and Norvos without attacking either city.
• Viserys sought a loan from the Iron Bank to hire sellswords but was turned away at the Sealord's palace.
• Viserys argued with the guards and threatened them after they mocked his hopes of reclaiming the Iron Throne.
• Illyrio Mopatis learned Viserys's identity and considered the potential profit of supporting him.
• Illyrio introduced himself to Viserys and invited him to stay at his residence in Braavos.

Illyrio offered to support Viserys's attempt to reclaim the Iron Throne and invited him and Daenerys to Pentos. Viserys brought Daenerys to Illyrio's mansion in Braavos, where Illyrio welcomed them to a banquet before their planned departure.

• Illyrio told Viserys he would fund his restoration and invited him to stay in Pentos, and Viserys promised him lands and an office if he regained the Iron Throne.
• Viserys returned to the tavern and told Daenerys about Illyrio's offer, but dismissed her concerns and threatened her when she questioned his judgment.
• Viserys told Daenerys to dress for their meeting with Illyrio, and she prepared to go with him.
• Illyrio prepared a banquet and came outside to greet Viserys and Daenerys when they arrived at his mansion.
• Illyrio welcomed Viserys and introduced Daenerys as his younger sister before inviting them inside.

Illyrio brought Viserys and Daenerys to Pentos while Eren’s army pursued Khal Drogo’s Khalasar across the Dothraki grasslands. The chapter ended with Drogo’s people preparing to defend their camp against the approaching force.

• Illyrio reassured Daenerys at a banquet, and she toasted him alongside Viserys.
• Illyrio set out for Pentos with Viserys and Daenerys, hoping to recruit magisters to fund the Targaryens.
• Illyrio arrived in Pentos with Viserys and Daenerys and showed them the city.
• Modun reported that scouts had found a Khalasar southwest of Eren’s army, and Eren ordered an eighty-thousand-man force to pursue it.
• A rider warned Khal Drogo that another Khalasar was following them, so Drogo sent his Bloodrider to capture the pursuers and prepared his camp for battle.

Khal Drogo prepared his Khalasar to face Eren’s much larger Dothraki force, led by Modun. The battle began with mounted archery, and Modun transformed into a giant after an enemy spear pierced him.

• Drogo ordered Kohoro to warn the kos and prepare the Khalasar for an impending attack.
• Drogo led thirty thousand warriors toward the enemy while ten thousand stayed behind to guard the camp.
• Eren ordered Modun to attack with fifty thousand men and kept Link’s thirty-thousand-strong division in reserve.
• Drogo and Modun led their armies into battle, where mounted archers on both sides shot down many riders.
• An enemy speared Modun, but yellow lightning erupted from his body and he transformed into a masked giant with sharp claws.