Chapter Summaries

Gary used Daenerys and fire to hatch her three Dragon Eggs, and the newborn dragons attached themselves to him. Daenerys became a Novice Sister under Tysha’s care, while Gary considered seeking the valuable relics in Valyria.

• Gary had Daenerys drink fresh blood and hold the Dragon Eggs as he burned piles of dead wood around her.
• Gary agreed to let Daenerys become a Novice Sister while he observed her devotion and intentions.
• Daenerys emerged from the flames with three lively hatchling dragons: one green, one black, and one white.
• The hatchlings flew onto Gary and clung to him, while Krysalis said the blood had made them think he was their father.
• A Red Comet appeared in the daytime sky, unnoticed by everyone.

More than a month after Gary left Pentos, he returned with Tysha and Daenerys and prepared to sail for the Valyria ruins. Daenerys chose to stay with them rather than return to Viserys, though Gary made her promise to abandon her claim to the Iron Throne and warned her not to approach his dragons.

• Gary named the three hatchlings Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion as Daenerys grew closer to Tysha and the Supreme God Faith.
• Daenerys asked to become a nun, but Gary told her she was not ready while House Targaryen still mattered most to her.
• Gary returned to Pentos with Tysha and Daenerys, and Gabo and Sergei prepared supplies for his voyage to the Valyria ruins.
• Gabo told Gary that Viserys had taken control of Pentos with the help of men loyal to the Supreme God Faith, and Gary ordered him to wait six months for word from King's Landing before acting.
• Daenerys refused to return to Viserys and asked to continue traveling with Gary and Tysha, saying she was willing to give up her royal ambitions and try to serve the Supreme God.
• Gary agreed to let Daenerys come along, but warned that he would kill her if she set her sights on the dragons.

After waking from four months of enchanted sleep, Gary entered the Valyrian ruins with Krysalis to search for dragon eggs and Valyrian steel swords. The Mother of Dragons directed them toward the ruined Topless Tower, while Tysha and Daenerys waited on an island outside the fog.

• Tysha woke Gary after the ship reached the edge of the Smoking Sea, and he ordered the crew to remain aboard while he went into the ruins.
• Gary landed with Tysha and Daenerys, left them and the three young dragons on the island with Dark Sister, then flew into the fog with Krysalis.
• Gary found that the poisonous fog was volcanic ash and steam containing mana particles, then released the Mother of Dragons to guide him.
• The Mother of Dragons identified the Topless Tower as the place where dragon eggs had been laid and pointed out a route beneath it to the Valyrian steel swords.
• In spring 298 AC, Jon Arryn died, and King Robert traveled to King's Landing intending to ask Eddard Stark to become the new Hand of the King.

Gary found Gerion Lannister and recovered Bright-Roar in the ruins of Valyria, then descended beneath the palace in search of hidden Valyrian steel swords. There, a gigantic, wingless monster erupted from the sludge and confronted him.

• Gary and Krysalis fought the Stone Men at the Broken Tower and followed them into the palace.
• Gary discovered Gerion Lannister, who gave him Bright-Roar and asked him to return the sword to Westeros.
• Gary promised Bright-Roar to Tyrion, had Krysalis burn away its scabbard, and learned that Gerion had never explored the passage below the palace.
• Gary left Krysalis to watch Gerion and descended into the passage, where he found bones in foul-smelling sludge.
• A huge, wingless, Dragon-like monster burst from the sludge and roared at Gary.

Gary confronted a monstrous creature in the Valyrian forge ruins and learned from the Mother of Dragons that it was her cursed descendant. The forge held no surviving swords, but it contained dozens of dragon eggs that might be salvaged if Gary could take them away.

• A monster extinguished Gary's torch and smashed through his ice barriers, but it stopped attacking when the Mother of Dragons freed herself and lit the passage.
• The Mother of Dragons explained that the creature was her descendant, deformed by the gods' curse, and that the cataclysm had destroyed the forge's Valyrian steel swords.
• The Mother of Dragons told Gary that the mutated dragon had laid several hundred eggs, though only a few dozen were fresh enough to salvage, and offered to bless them.
• Gary learned the eggs' hatchlings would likely be unable to fly or breathe fire, and the Mother of Dragons admitted she could not improve their chances without mana from the Primal Stone.
• Gary said he could not transfer mana because he had not yet mastered the Primal Stone.

Gary collected dozens of dragon eggs from the mire and found a ruined crown that the Mother of Dragons identified as a Valyrian magical artifact. When he touched it, he was transported into the past and found himself in an old man’s body, being addressed as the king of Valyria.

• The Mother of Dragons sent the strange dragon back into the mire to fetch dragon eggs and told it about their agreement.
• Krysalis checked on Gary, and he told her to wait while the Mother of Dragons objected to her remaining in the dragon’s body.
• The strange dragon returned with dozens of dragon eggs, and the Mother of Dragons spotted a half-crown in the sludge.
• The Mother of Dragons explained that the crown had once held the Primal Stone, and Gary touched it while wondering whether it was connected to dragons.
• The crown bound itself to Gary’s hand and changed his surroundings; he found himself in an old man’s body, and a white-robed elder addressed him as Your Majesty.

Gary inspected Valyria’s underground mine and learned the steps for forging Valyrian steel before the crown’s memories tried to take over his body. He broke the crown, escaped the memory vision, and realized the Mother of Dragons had deceived him and fled.

• Gary descended with the white-robed old man into a vast underground mine where enslaved workers dug beneath Valyria’s Palace.
• Gary watched the smiths forge Valyrian steel, recorded the runes on their hammers, and learned that the quenching liquid included plants and fresh dragon blood.
• The white-robed old man urged Gary to attend a succession ceremony, and Gary’s body began acting under the influence of the first king’s memories.
• Gary used green energy to break the crown and returned to the sludge-filled passage, realizing the crown had let the first king possess his descendants.
• Gary called for the Mother of Dragons, but she and the monstrous dragon had vanished.

Gary recovered thirty-seven dragon eggs from the Valyria ruins and learned that Krysalis could use precise fire magic, giving him hope of forging Valyrian steel. He planned to stay near the ruins with the eggs, while sailors attempting to steal them were killed by Tysha's ice magic.

• Gary carried thirty-seven dragon eggs out of the ruins, and Krysalis demonstrated fire magic that could potentially be used to forge Valyrian steel.
• Gary told Gerion Lannister that Bright-Roar would return to House Lannister only if his family behaved well.
• Tysha and four sailors brought a ship to the ruins, loaded the eggs, and prepared to return to Pentos without Gary.
• Gary stayed with Krysalis near the ruins and warned the captain to keep everyone away from his room that night.
• Several sailors tried to steal the eggs, but Tysha killed them with ice spikes, and the captain ordered the others away.

Gary and the others settled on the island with the thirty-seven Dragon Eggs while he considered using returning sailors to obtain gold and manpower. He declared his intention to claim the Iron Throne, leaving Daenerys frightened and confused about what he wanted from her.

• Gary let the captain and sailors leave, expecting them to return from Volantis with reinforcements he could exploit for gold and manpower.
• Gary, Tysha, and Daenerys built a wooden cabin by the freshwater river and ate grilled fish beside a campfire with the Dragons.
• Daenerys asked Gary to lend her three Dragons so she could reclaim Westeros, but Gary warned that the eggs would hatch defective Dragons and rejected her restoration plans.
• Gary urged Daenerys to marry Khal Drogo for the Dothraki army, then admitted he intended to take the Iron Throne to spread the Supreme God Faith.
• Tysha defended Gary as the Supreme God's incarnation, and Daenerys grew alarmed by his claims and withdrew to sit beside Tysha.

Gary ambushed ships lured by rumors of Dragon Eggs, captured their Unsullied and largest vessel, and killed the nobleman who had tried to bargain with him. In King's Landing, Eddard Stark faced the crown’s debts while Arya continued to believe Luke Stark was alive and would return.

• Gary and Krysalis attacked the six ships approaching the island, sinking five and sending their crews swimming to shore.
• Gary fought the Unsullied aboard the remaining ship, seized the nobleman’s whip, and persuaded the Unsullied to accept him as their only master.
• The nobleman escaped in a boat, but Gary shot him with an ice arrow and ordered the captured ship to sail to the other side of the island.
• Eddard Stark discovered that the realm owed six million Gold Dragons, while Robert borrowed more money to hold a tourney for Eddard’s appointment.
• Arya carried a wooden spear and asked about Luke Stark, insisting that he was alive because the Ice Spear beneath her bed had not melted.

Gary and Krysalis forged their first Valyrian steel after months of raiding, trading, and experimentation, then prepared to sail west with their companions and thirty-seven dragon eggs. Meanwhile, Eddard uncovered the truth behind Jon Arryn’s death, but Cersei seized power, had him executed, and set the realm on the verge of war.

• Gary killed the former captain and sailors who had betrayed him, then put the remaining captives to work building his camp.
• Gary and the Unsullied raided merchant ships before changing tactics to escort merchants and drive off pirates, while Gary and Krysalis practiced forging Valyrian steel.
• Cersei’s children were revealed to be Jaime’s, and after Robert was mortally wounded on a hunt, Cersei placed Joffrey on the Iron Throne and had Eddard beheaded.
• Gary and Krysalis forged their first Valyrian steel, and Gary later made weapons for Tysha and the Unsullied.
• Gary freed the captives, accepted several young dragon admirers into his fleet, and sailed west with Tysha, Daenerys, Krysalis, the Unsullied, and thirty-seven dragon eggs.

While the ship sailed from Volantis toward Pentos, Daenerys struggled with her feelings about joining the Supreme God Faith and her Targaryen heritage. She swore herself to the faith and declared her wish to become Gary’s queen, receiving fire magic as Gary sensed her rise as a Fanatic.

• In Volantis, Gary asked Daenerys whether she wanted to leave the faith, and she said she needed more time to decide.
• Aboard the ship, Tysha urged Daenerys to pursue becoming queen of Westeros, and Daenerys admitted she feared Gary would sell her into slavery.
• Tysha warned Daenerys that love was a lie and told her becoming queen was her only way home.
• Daenerys pledged to become a Nun and Gary’s queen, joining House Targaryen and the faith in her heart.
• Gary sensed a new Fanatic while the Dragon Eggs rocked, and Daenerys manifested fire magic that she believed the Supreme God had bestowed on her.

As the War of the Five Kings began in Westeros, Gary formally made Daenerys a nun before freezing himself and thirty-seven Dragon Eggs for the voyage to Pentos. When the eggs hatched unexpectedly at sea, he ordered the ship to stop at Free Cities for supplies and froze himself again.

• Joffrey, Stannis, Renly, Robb, and Balon proclaimed themselves kings, plunging Westeros into the War of the Five Kings.
• Gary named Daenerys an official nun of the Supreme God Faith, unaware that she still intended to restore her kingdom through the Supreme God.
• After the ship had sailed for more than a month, Tysha and Daenerys discovered that all thirty-seven Dragon Eggs had hatched and woke Gary.
• Gary freed the hungry little dragons and ordered Tysha to take the ship to Lys and resupply at every Free City along the way.
• Gary told Tysha to sell spare Valyrian steel spearheads if necessary to feed the dragons, then froze himself again.

Gary returned to Pentos with Daenerys while leaving Tysha, the Unsullied, and the thirty-seven young dragons behind for safety. Finding the city unchanged and Gabo’s guards hostile, he grew suspicious of what had happened in his absence and forced his way into the Magister’s Palace.

• Gary left Krysalis and the Unsullied with the young dragons in the mountains, then sailed toward Pentos with Daenerys and Tysha.
• Gary told Red Beetle to choose thirty-six Unsullied to raise the dragons and urged the soldiers to convert to the Supreme God.
• Gary told Daenerys that Viserys was dead and worried that Gabo and Sergei had failed him or betrayed him.
• At Pentos, harbor guards directed Gary and Daenerys to Gabo’s residence, and they saw that the people still fawned over merchants and nobles.
• The palace guards called Gary an impostor and threatened to kill him, so he knocked them down and entered the Magister’s Palace with Daenerys.

Gary confronted the Pentos magisters Gabo and Sergei, who had betrayed him and trapped him with soldiers. After Barristan saved him and offered his service, Gary learned that Joffrey had ordered Eddard Stark's death and vowed to return and kill him.

• Gary accused Gabo of failing to establish the Supreme God's faith in Pentos, and Gabo fled before soldiers surrounded Gary and Daenerys.
• Gabo and Sergei revealed that they served Joffrey, who wanted the Starks dead, and claimed that Eddard had been killed.
• Gary fought through the armored soldiers, while a newly arrived Barristan killed Gabo and Sergei and sent the remaining soldiers fleeing.
• Barristan offered his allegiance to Gary as Prince Luke Targaryen and confirmed that Joffrey had ordered Eddard's execution.
• Gary vowed to return and kill Joffrey himself.

Gary left Pentos under Tysha and Barristan’s control, taking Daenerys and Drogon toward Westeros to save Robb Stark. After more than a month at sea, they reached the Green Fork near Riverrun, where Daenerys confessed that Drogon had flown away.

• Gary left Krysalis, Drogon’s siblings, and the hatchlings in Pentos’s Dragon Cave, while Drogon accompanied him and Daenerys.
• Barristan advised Gary to seek Robb Stark’s help rather than go directly to King’s Landing, and Gary changed course for Riverrun to save Robb.
• Gary and Daenerys sailed for over a month, with Gary encased in ice to avoid seasickness.
• Near Riverrun, Daenerys told Gary that Drogon had flown away two days earlier, and Gary reassured her before asking about her magic practice.

Gary and Daenerys headed toward Riverrun as Margaery escaped house arrest after hearing a dragon had appeared on the Trident. At Riverrun, Gary discovered the slaughtered Stark soldiers and realized Robb had died in the Red Wedding, then attacked the Frey guards.

• Daenerys demonstrated her growing fire magic, and Gary encouraged her ambition to become his queen.
• Olenna told Margaery that a black dragon had appeared on the Trident and demanded she go to King's Landing unless Luke Stark returned; Margaery escaped on her Shadowcat to search for him.
• Gary and Daenerys traveled toward Riverrun, passing villages and roads littered with war dead.
• Gary and Daenerys reached Riverrun and found Frey soldiers burning thousands of corpses, including Stark troops.
• Gary recognized the Stark dead as proof that Robb had been killed at the Red Wedding and attacked the Frey soldiers.

Gary led an army of wights into Riverrun to avenge Robb Stark and questioned Walder Frey about Robb’s body. After learning the body had been mutilated and sent to the kennels, Gary spared Walder’s young children but kept Walder alive to suffer through the night.

• Walder Frey dismissed reports that dead northern soldiers had returned until Gary and Daenerys entered the great hall with wights.
• Gary demanded to know where Robb Stark’s body was, and Walder blamed Roose Bolton before admitting he had taken the body away.
• Walder Frey’s daughter told Gary that Robb’s body and the direwolf had been chopped into pieces and sent to the kennels beside the stables.
• Gary spared Walder Frey’s children and ordered them to leave Riverrun and abandon the Frey name.
• Gary healed Walder Frey’s wounds to keep him alive, then commanded the wights to devour him.

Gary avenged Robb by destroying House Frey’s power in Riverrun and announced that he would pursue the houses that had betrayed the Starks. He secured the fealty of Edmure Tully and other former vassals, then prepared to destroy Riverrun.

• Gary declared himself Luke Stark and the rightful heir to the King in the North, ordering the Frey servants to spread word of his vengeance as Drogon roared overhead.
• Gary allowed the servants to leave Riverrun, but confronted Edmure Tully, Jon Umber, Marq, Patrek, and the remaining Frey children when they stayed behind.
• Edmure revealed that he and the other men had been held prisoner after the Red Wedding, and Jon Umber admitted they had left Robb’s side before the attack.
• Gary asked the men to swear fealty to House Stark, and Edmure, Jon Umber, Marq, and Patrek pledged their loyalty to him.
• Edmure asked Gary to let his wife, Roslin Frey, return with him; Gary allowed it after she claimed the Frey children had no surname or House Frey ties.
• Gary ordered everyone to wait outside Riverrun before he destroyed the castle, and agreed to let them take food with them.

Gary burned Riverrun after dismissing the wights and set out north with Daenerys and Jon Umber to retake Winterfell. On the Kingsroad, he healed a wounded farmer and converted the man and his daughter to the Supreme God, then learned that a disfigured man and a young girl had robbed them.

• Gary dispelled the wights, mourned the dead soldiers of Winterfell, and had Drogon burn Riverrun.
• Gary ordered Edmure and the other Riverlands men to muster their armies and hold off the Lannisters, while Jon Umber joined Gary's journey north.
• Gary, Daenerys, and Jon Umber stopped at a farmer's cottage, where the injured farmer feared they were bandits and his daughter Sally accepted bread from Daenerys.
• Gary healed the farmer's infected head wound with magic, and the farmer, Sally, and Jon Umber praised the Supreme God.
• The farmer explained that a disfigured man and a young girl had robbed them, leading Gary to ask whether the man was the Hound and the girl was Arya.