[Noram]

This AAR contains spoilers for both the Game of Thrones television show and Song of Ice and Fire novels. Ye be warned!

Our story begins, as so many do, with a character. Specifically, the Mother of Dragons herself, rightful ruler of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, the Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen


For the time being, we are based in Qarth, the so-called Greatest City that Ever Was or Will Be. Meanwhile the Usurper's brother and son fight for the throne that is rightfully ours. They will have to be dealt with.

In the meantime however, we have been invited into the House of the Undying, the base for the mystical Warlocks of Qarth.

Within the House, we are offered a series of visions and prophecies, before finally breaking free with the aid of our dragons.

It is soon after that we encounter a messenger from our old benefactor, Magister Illyrio of Pentos, who requests we return to the Free City aboard the ships he has provided

Illyrio has seldom steered us wrong, and deserves our trust in this. We will sail to Pentos and hear what he has to say.


(Note: It is from here on, I'll note for readers, that our story diverges from the one presented in the Song of Ice and Fire novels and Game of Thrones television show, where Daenerys chose to sail to Astapor instead of Pentos.
I'll also note from this point on, we begin to see plot points not yet explored in the television show, and only discussed in the latest novels. If you want to avoid spoilers, this is the place to stop.)



We sail past the the squalor of Slaver's Bay and it's cities, Astapor, Yunkai, and Ghis, and then around the ancient ruins of Valyria and the Smoking Sea. To think that this wretched waste was once home to the greatest civilization in the world, and birthplace of House Targaryen...

On arrival in Pentos, we are introduced to our nephew, saved from the Usurper's bloodlust by the quick thinking of his foster father Jon Connigtion, and who the Magister proposes we wed to cement House Targaryen for the coming war. It is with the assistance of our nephew-husband, as well as the mercenary army that we will retake our rightful throne

The war for our rightful place as ruler of the Seven Kingdoms begins, as it should, with the reconquest of the oldest Targaryen stronghold in Westeros, the island of Dragonstone, where our ancestor Aegon the Conqueror planned is own conquest of Westeros three hundred years ago...

With the memory of the easy capture of Dragonstone behind us, we move to strike directly at the heart of the Baratheon Usurper's rule. Capturing King's Landing, the capital of the Seven Kingdoms would quickly put an end to any question as to who rightfully deserves the Iron Throne. The opportunity to capture the pretender king and his family makes the city's conquest all the more enticing...

That arrogance, however, comes back to haunt us quickly, as the Iron Throne's army returns from battling the Northmen in the Riverlands to break our siege and drive our armies back.

We have not lost our only chance at victory, however.

And the only thing better than one dragon...two.

It seems, however, that our plans to retake the Iron Throne by force were unneccesary, however. After retreating to Dragonstone, we receive word that Stannis, brother to the Usurper Robert, has taken the throne and put the Lannisters to the sword, only to die in battle with the Northmen and leave his young daughter on the throne...with our husband Aegon as her rightful heir. We quickly put together a plot to...permanently remove the child Queen, a plot with succeeds without a hitch.

...unfortuantely, though Aegon does ascend to the throne, our war for it doesn't end and we find ourselves fighting against our own husband for a throne that we would share either way. It would be one thing if we actually had the forces to win that war, but we don't, and we've given Aegon a dragon that he would loose on us without hesitation, married or not. So we surrender, and happily, it works out.


Aegon Targaryen, the Sixth of his Name, King of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, and Protector of the Realm now rules, with his wife Daenerys as Queen.