Chapter Summaries

Eren prepared his forces to leave Qohor and marched west toward Pentos, ordering his troops to control prisoners and anyone who might reveal their movements. In Qohor, Yuri’s scouts found evidence of an enormous army and giant footprints, leaving him worried despite his doubts about their report.

• Eren assigned John to distribute provisions to the soldiers, authorized Flock to suppress prisoner revolts, left Torvin in Modun’s care, and ordered Link to guard the rear.
• Eren led the Empire west toward Pentos, avoiding Norvos and sending scouts to seize nearby caravans and villages and take their people prisoner.
• Yuri’s scouts found two huge camps northeast of Qohor and reported signs that at least a million people and enormous giants had been there.
• Yuri doubted the reports of giants but concluded Eren’s force could include around forty thousand Dothraki cavalry and paid the scout for the information.

In Pentos, Viserys told Daenerys he planned to marry her to Khal Drogo in exchange for Dothraki support, and she submitted out of fear. Unbeknownst to them, Drogo was already dead, while Eren's army camped near Pentos and prepared to attack at dawn.

• Viserys visited Daenerys and told her Illyrio had arranged a marriage alliance with Khal Drogo to secure his cavalry.
• Daenerys resisted marrying a Dothraki stranger, but Viserys threatened her until she fell silent and accepted his plan.
• Viserys told Daenerys that Illyrio had sent messengers to the Dothraki Sea and that Drogo might not respond until the next year.
• Drogo had already died on the Dothraki Sea, though Viserys, Daenerys, and Illyrio did not know it.
• Eren led his army to a hill outside Pentos, ordered scouts to investigate, and prepared to attack the city the next morning.

Eren led his Dothraki army to surround Pentos, sealing its harbor with Colossal Titans as Daenerys and Viserys tried to flee. He ordered his soldiers to find people with silver hair and purple eyes and allowed them to plunder and slaughter the rest.

• Eren ordered Modun and the Royal Guard to stay behind and guard the camp and prisoners while the other three legions marched toward Pentos with the Colossal Titans.
• Daenerys learned that roughly a hundred thousand Dothraki, accompanied by giants, were approaching Pentos.
• Viserys took Daenerys to the harbor to escape by ship, but they saw the Colossal Titans block the harbor and build a hardened wall across the water.
• Eren surrounded Pentos and ordered his Dothraki to bring him anyone with silver hair and purple eyes, while permitting them to plunder and slaughter others.

The Dothraki stormed Pentos after the Gundam Giant smashed through its gate, slaughtering residents and taking captives as they advanced toward the harbor. Viserys and Daenerys were cornered there by soldiers from John's army, leaving Viserys facing them with his sword drawn.

• Eren led the Dothraki charge and used the Gundam Giant to destroy Pentos's gate and part of its wall.
• The Dothraki entered Pentos, killed resisting residents, captured silver-haired people, and took others as slaves.
• Mercenaries ambushed the Dothraki in the streets, but most were killed or forced to surrender.
• The Dothraki pushed toward the harbor, where Viserys and Daenerys realized the blocked exit left them trapped.
• A squad from John's army spotted the silver-haired siblings, surrounded them, and prompted Viserys to draw his sword.

Viserys and Daenerys were captured by the Dothraki and taken to Eren’s forces, where their Targaryen identities were recorded for special attention. As Eren’s army overran Pentos, Rolo told Illyrio that Drogo was dead and the city’s inhabitants must die or become slaves.

• A Dothraki squad leader whipped Viserys, bound him and Daenerys, and took them to the gathering place for captured silver-haired people.
• An interpreter helped the man in charge question Viserys, who revealed that he and Daenerys were Targaryens; their names were recorded for special attention.
• Eren watched from atop a Gundam Giant as his army swept through Pentos and attacked the Governor’s Mansion.
• Rolo confronted Illyrio and told him that Drogo was dead and that Pentos would become the Dothraki’s new territory.
• Rolo told Illyrio that the original inhabitants could either die or become slaves who built a new realm for the Empire.

After the Dothraki defeated Pentos, Rolo rejected Illyrio’s surrender and the Magister died amid the fighting. Eren watched the city burn and planned to rebuild it as the Empire’s new capital before conquering the Free Cities and eventually facing the Night’s King.

• The Colossal Titan sealed off Pentos as the Dothraki attacked Illyrio’s stunned guards.
• Rolo told Illyrio that surrendered Dothraki enemies became slaves, then revealed he had only offered surrender to torment him.
• The Dothraki routed Illyrio’s guards; when they surrendered, Illyrio attacked them in desperation and they killed him.
• Rolo ordered the Dothraki to search Illyrio’s estate and carry every treasure back to camp.
• The Dothraki looted the Magisters’ estates, drove Pentos’s survivors out, and set the city ablaze.
• Eren planned to rebuild Pentos as the Empire’s capital, conquer the Free Cities, and later confront the Night’s King.

Eren planned to rebuild Pentos into the center of a new nation and organized prisoners and interpreters for the work. After receiving a list of people with Valyrian features, he found Viserys Targaryen and Daenerys Targaryen and ordered them brought to him.

• Eren told Lydia and the four commanders that he would dismantle Pentos, preserve its materials and supplies, and build a new city east of the harbor.
• Eren assigned prisoners to clear and reclaim land, ordered their occupations recorded, and told John to make Dothraki language instruction a long-term task.
• Flock presented a list of roughly one or two hundred people with silver hair and purple eyes whom the armies had identified in Pentos.
• Eren found Viserys Targaryen and Daenerys Targaryen on the list and ordered Flock to bring them before him.
• Eren ordered the women with Valyrian features sent to his harem and the men kept well supplied, while considering how their bloodlines might serve his plans.

Eren received Viserys and Daenerys, intimidated Viserys, and offered to help him fight Robert in exchange for submission. Viserys refused at first, relying on Khal Drogo, but Eren revealed that Drogo was dead and his Khalasar had surrendered.

• Eren welcomed Viserys and Daenerys and had Lydia announce his titles after Viserys demanded to be released.
• Eren intimidated Viserys, then reminded the siblings of their years fleeing Robert and offered to help Viserys attack him if Viserys submitted as king.
• Viserys rejected Eren's offer and said he planned to use Khal Drogo's gifts to reclaim Westeros.
• Eren revealed that he had killed Drogo and taken command of his Khalasar, leaving Viserys stunned and Daenerys relieved.

After defeating Drogo, Eren forced Viserys to accept Daenerys’s marriage to him in exchange for Dragonstone and the deaths of his enemies. Daenerys was left with Eren’s people, frightened and separated from her brother.

• Viserys struggled to accept Drogo’s death and Eren’s offer to grant him wealth and privilege instead of the Iron Throne.
• Eren proposed marrying Daenerys and promised to conquer Dragonstone for Viserys, but Viserys demanded Eren’s army and titans as well.
• Eren ordered Modun to break Viserys’s arm, then warned him to accept the marriage proposal or face worse consequences.
• Viserys agreed to marry Daenerys to Eren, and Eren promised to offer the heads of Eddard Stark, Jon Arryn, and Robert Baratheon as the bride price.
• Viserys told Daenerys to stay with Eren, and Eren had Lydia comfort her and take her to settle in.

Eren ordered Viserys taken to his quarters and examined dragon eggs looted from Pentos, identifying the three from Illyrio’s mansion that had hatched Drogon, Viserion, and Rhaegal. He promoted Rolo and told him to recruit from the Dothraki children finishing their training in two months, while he considered what else he needed to hatch the dragons.

• Eren sent Modun to settle Viserys and arrange Dothraki women to attend him, intending for Viserys to father children.
• Eren asked Flock about unusual spoils from Pentos and learned that more than twenty dragon eggs had been collected from magisters’ mansions.
• Eren had Rolo identify the three eggs taken from Illyrio’s mansion, and Rolo found the deep black, dark green, and pale cream eggs.
• Eren examined the eggs and concluded that he still needed Blood Magic and the Red Comet to recreate the conditions that had hatched Daenerys’s dragons.
• Eren promoted Rolo to division commander and told him to recruit from the new blood after their training finished in two months.

Eren sorted the prisoners from Slaver's Bay and Pentos into labor groups to rebuild the ruins of Pentos and produce weapons. He then tested whether Daenerys could handle fire by asking her to retrieve the Dragon Eggs, but when she hesitated, he called for boiling water to demonstrate her ability.

• Dothraki Warriors drove the prisoners from their beds, and Eren divided them by trade and assigned the boys aged twelve to fifteen to Unsullied instructors.
• After half a month, Eren sorted roughly seven hundred thousand adult men, placing smiths under Torvin, farmers on agricultural work, and other laborers on clearing the ruins of Pentos.
• Prisoners cleared bodies and rubble from Pentos under guard, while smiths at Torvin's camp forged weapons for the Dothraki.
• Eren kept three Dragon Eggs in a brazier for half a month and brought Daenerys over with Lydia to see whether she was connected to them.
• Daenerys refused to take the Dragon Eggs from the flames, so Eren asked Lydia to bring a basin of boiling water.