But rather than march straight for King's Landing, Dany decides to conquer the major cities of Slaver's Bay first, proving herself a worthy and fair ruler. Daenerys believes she can upturn the tyrannical, unjust regimes of the land and replace them with her own brand of dragon-fueled democracy.
Some conquests are more successful than others, it's fair to say, but the Daenerys Targaryen Slaver's Bay Tour was certainly eventful. On her path to dominance, Daenerys employs a wide variety of strategies to conquer the cities she set her sights upon, ranging from unflinching violence to inspiring the population to take a stand themselves. Here are all the locations Queen Dany occupies in Game of Thrones , and how she captures them. As the wife of Kahl Drogo, Daenerys experiences a swift rise and fall among the Dothraki, who largely abandon her at the end of Game of Thrones ' first season.
With a handful of supporters, Team Dany reach Quarth, where they hope to find the means to invade Westeros, but she is betrayed and barely escapes the city alive. The plan is for Daenerys to use the gold she stole from Quarth to purchase Unsullied slave soldiers, but the heroine has other ideas. The sacking of Astapor is arguably Daenerys' most impressive Game of Thrones victory, as she utilizes a blend of brute strength and astute cunning to achieve her ambitious goals.
Dany also takes advantage of her unassuming appearance and the element of surprise to gain the upper hand. During her first meetings with the slave master Kraznys, Dany feigns a certain level of innocence, pretending she can't speak Valyrian and keeping her cards close to her chest. Against the advice of her aides, Jorah Mormont and Barristan Selmy, Daenerys agrees to sell her biggest and strongest dragon for the entire Unsullied army - a deal Kraznys readily agrees to, unable to resist the lure of owning a dragon.
Here, Daenerys takes advantage of Kraznys' possessive mentality. The slave owner doesn't realize that dragons pay no heed to their "rightful" owner, and will only follow the humans they deem worthy. As such, Dany is able to incinerate the villain alive, keeping her dragon and the strong Unsullied army.
In a tactical masterstroke of kindness, Daenerys sets the Unsullied free, allowing them to choose to follow her, thereby ensuring their eternal loyalty. To seize the city of Astapor fully, Daenerys orders the Unsullied to kill all slave owners and set the people free - the first liberation on her path to King's Landing.
A ruling council is left in charge, and while slavery soon creeps back into Astapor, Daenerys' dragons ultimately put an end to their rebellion in Game of Thrones season 6, restoring order. The latter half of Game of Thrones season 3 takes Daenerys and her new army from Astapor to Yunkai, the next major province in Slaver's Bay, and the second entry on Dany's invasion wish list.
The city of Yunkai offers a very different challenge to the one posed by Astapor and its warrior slaves. Not only was the Khaleesi swiftly becoming infamous, stealing away her element of surprise, but Yunkai had nothing of value to the aspiring Queen of Westeros, meaning the same tactics that toppled Astapor wouldn't work here.
Rather than strength and cunning, Daenerys' conquering of Yunkai is achieved partly through good fortune, with a healthy dose of opportunism and treachery thrown in. Lady Olenna's granddaughter is no slouch in the manipulation department, as Margaery Tyrell cemented her relationship with King Joffrey and the people of King's Landing in a well-written scene in the Great Sept of Baelor again: looked stunning.
Joffrey and Margaery have yet to be POV characters in the books, so this was entirely for the show, and I found it quite effective.
She's already got Joffrey eating out of her hand, and they're not even married. We never really got that sense in the books. Her follow-up scene with Sansa was also lovely, and showcased Natalie Dormer's sweeter side. They could not have cast a better actress for that role. Tywin summed up Cersei's personal failings thusly: his problem with her is not that she's a woman, it's that she's not nearly as smart as she thinks she is. That is precisely how I think we're supposed to view Cersei. After she becomes a narrator in Book 4 we get to better understand her, and her overconfidence in her intelligence is absolutely her fatal flaw as a character.
And boy, does it ever get her in trouble from here on out Speaking of the Lannisters, Jaime wasn't faring too well after getting his hand chopped off at the end of last episode. I think the show has done a poor job explaining to viewers how big a deal this is for Jaime from an identity perspective. He does mention this episode that it was his sword hand, but frankly he didn't fare too poorly in his brief escape attempt.
He was simply way outnumbered, and also, you know, dying. The quiet scenes between Jaime and Brienne nicely fortified their growing mutual respect, and I find myself wishing there were more scenes for this particular storyline.
The episode also featured brief snippets of Bran dreaming about climbing a tree to talk to the Three-Eyed Crow, but failing due to an imaginary fight with his mother; Theon Greyjoy once again showing us what a total idiot he is by nattering along mindlessly as his "savior" this has to be the Bastard of Bolton, right?
Next episode he'll fight the Hound in a trial by combat, and we'll all probably learn a little bit more about Thoros of Myr and his fire god. We'll also check in with Jon Snow and the wildlings north of the Wall, and continue to watch Robb Stark's war campaign crumble like the charred remains of his homestead. Good times! Yezzan is allowed to leave so that he can spread word of Daenerys' power.
When Daenerys sails to Westeros with her fleet, together with the combined Greyjoy, Tyrell, and Martell armadas, some of the Unsullied are seen standing together on the deck of a ship, led by their commander Grey Worm. As their initial attempts are rebuffed, Grey Worm leads a team through the secret tunnel beneath the castle, which had been created by Tyrion to smuggle prostitutes.
The Unsullied overcome the paltry Lannister garrison only to discover that the bulk on the Lannister forces have evacuated Casterly Rock in order to march to Highgarden and sack it, in order to both take House Tyrell out of the war and to bolster the crown's depleted treasury. The Unsullied march through the Winter town on their way to Winterfell.
Daenerys, Jon, Missandei and Grey Worm travel amongst them on horseback. After arriving at the castle, they make camp outside Winterfell's walls. When the army of the dead attacks, the Unsullied bear the brunt of the Wights attack. The dead crash into their phalanx formations and roll over them. The Unsullied cover the living's retreat slowly moving back towards the trench.
Grey Worm collapses the bridge, leaving a large number of his soldiers trapped on the other side to make a last stand against the dead. Grey Worm leads a small group of Unsullied to protect Melisandre , while she attempts to light the trench.
Grey Worm and the remaining Unsullied fight for their survival after the dead breach the wall. Most of the dead Unsullied are briefly reanimated by the Night King , but are destroyed when Arya kills him.
The tally in the aftermath of the Battle of Winterfell reveals that the Unsullied have been reduced to roughly half their number. They take part in the Battle of King's Landing , besieging the city and later slaughtering both its defenders and civilians.
Bran , who is elected as the new king, appoints Tyrion as his new Hand and sentences Jon to the Night's Watch. Grey Worm along with the Unsullied then decide to leave Westeros and sail for Naath.
Given that High Valyrian is an inflected language, the endings change depending how it is used in a sentence - i. There is a range of promotional images and screen captures featuring the episode of the Unsullied army in these galleries.
They begin their training at five years old, when their genitals are fully removed. They are also given a puppy to look after, and at the end of the first year they must strangle the puppy to death.
If they refuse, they are killed. Only one in three survives the training regime not one in four, as said in the TV series. They are given a beverage called the "wine of courage", which over years numbs their body's ability to feel pain.
Upon being given the spiked cap which is the symbol of their rank, they must go to the slave market, kill an infant slave before its mother and pay the slave owner for his loss. It is often less difficult for them to kill the infant than the puppy - they don't know the infant, but were made to take care of the puppy.
Their training is utterly brutal, designed not only to train them for combat but to strip them of any empathy, individuality, or sense of self-worth, in order to create soldiers who are willing to sacrifice their own lives if so ordered.
Unsullied do not have permanent names, instead choosing new names at random every day, which are written on pieces of paper and then drawn by lot from a jar. Even these temporary names tend to be demeaning descriptors such as "Grey Worm", etc.
The extremely harsh training regime results in warriors who are unemotional, numbed against pain, and ferociously disciplined. They never loot or rape, they will hold against superior numbers, and will take their own lives if ordered to. According to linguist David J. Peterson , the Dothraki respect the Unsullied so much that the Dothraki language does not derisively refer to them with terms that mean "slave" or "eunuch", etc. Due to pronunciation differences, this loanword became "Dovoeddi" in the Dothraki language.
Unsullied serve under their own officers and function as small private armies which can be bought and sold. However, they are not mercenaries but slave-soldiers; they don't choose whom they serve, whom they fight, or if they are ordered to their deaths. Though they are ferocious warriors, the Unsullied can become lazy if their mettle is not tested in battle. In the Free Cities, where they are usually employed as household guards who see little action, they can go soft. Besides the forced custom of drawing new names every day, the Unsullied hold some customs of their own.
They worship a goddess whom they refer to as the Lady of Spears, the Bride of Battle or the Mother of Hosts, but whose true name is only known to them who have burned their manhoods on her altar and may not be spoken of to outsiders. Unsullied purify themselves according to the laws of their great goddess; one way is to bathe in the salt sea. Even if there is no water around, they will maintain strict cleanliness, "bathing" themselves by rubbing their bodies with sand in Dothraki fashion.
Daenerys's Unsullied troops and their commander Grey Worm are totally loyal to her, even in her absence. Following Daenerys's departure from Meereen, Hizdahr takes over Meereen. He attempts to make the Unsullied serve him, but Grey Worm tells him firmly that they take commands only from their mother.
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, different regions are known to make eunuchs in different ways. Some only remove the testicles but leave the shaft of the penis intact, while others remove all external genitalia, both the penis and testicles.
The slaver-city of Yunkai , for example, is known to make eunuchs by removing only a slave's testicles, but the slave-masters of Astapor make eunuchs by removing everything, penis and testes, such as when they make the Unsullied. A eunuch with only the testicles removed but not the penis will still lose the will to partake of sexual activity, but other slave-masters like to be sure by removing the penis as well. In real life, if an adult man has his testicles removed, he can still achieve an erection.
If a boy has his testicles removed before puberty, however, it is difficult to impossible for them to achieve an erection with the remaining shaft of the penis - due to the lack of hormones during the puberty years that would normally be supplied by the testicles.
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