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In Pentos, Jorah enters the service of House Targaryen during Daenerys Targaryen's wedding to Khal Drogo. However, he is actually spying on behalf of Robert's Master of Whisperers, Varys, in hopes of earning a royal pardon. Although Jorah holds Daenerys' brother Viserys in contempt, he comes to admire Daenerys for her bravery and strength of ...
Daenerys Targaryen (/ d ə ˈ n ɛər ɪ s t ɑːr ˈ ɡ ɛər i ə n / də-NAIR-iss tar-GAIR-ee-ən) [2] is a fictional character in the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire by American author George R. R. Martin. She is a prominent point-of-view character, and is one of the series' most popular characters.
The Starks' and Lannisters' conflict is a central component of the novel, and the reader receives points of view from both sides. Likewise, Daenerys' storyline develops around the Targaryen's upheaval in Westeros, in which the Starks played a significant role. Martin argues: Having multiple viewpoints is crucial to the grayness of the characters.
Sam sneaks into the library at night and steals several books. He learns of a very large dragonglass deposit under Dragonstone, and informs Jon. Later, Sam encounters Jorah Mormont, who is a patient in isolation due to his greyscale. Jorah asks if Daenerys has arrived in Westeros, but Sam doesn't know.
His descendants bred them in captivity; but most were killed in a civil war between rival Targaryen heirs 150 years before the story begins. At the beginning of the story, they are considered extinct until late in A Game of Thrones when Daenerys hatches her three dragon eggs in the funeral pyre of Khal Drogo.
In his final moments, “House of the Dragon’s” King Viserys was, well, not quite himself. Enfeebled and riddled with disease, his final words were spoken in an empty, darkened room.
Daenerys Targaryen learns that large slave armies can be bought in Astapor, one of the cities of Slaver's Bay, and buys the entire host of the warrior-eunuch Unsullied by offering one of her infant dragons in exchange. Upon payment, Daenerys orders the Unsullied and the dragon to turn on the slave traders and sack the city.
"Book of the Stranger" received widespread acclaim from critics, who noted the opening scene showing the reunion of Jon Snow and Sansa Stark, and the final scene of Daenerys Targaryen taking charge of all the khalasars, as high points of the episode, with one critic calling them "huge, forward moving story elements that harkened back to season 1."