Daenerys Targaryen is the love of my life

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Conflict

Targaryen campaign in Slaver’s Bay

Date

299 AC

Place

Yunkai

Result

Liberation of Yunkai slave population

Combatants

I. House Targaryen

Unsullied

Daenerys’ khalasar

II. Yunkai

Second Sons

Stormcrows

Commanders

I. House Targaryen

Queen Daenerys Targaryen

Ser Jorah Mormont

Grey Worm

Daario Naharis

II. Yunkai

Wise Masters

Mero

Prendahl na Ghezn

Sallor

Strength

I. House Targaryen

~10,600 Unsullied

A few thousand untrained freedmen

Unknown Dothraki

II. Yunkai

4,000 Yunkai slave soldiers

500 Stormcrows (switch sides when battle commences)

500 Second Sons

A battle near Yunkai occurs between the forces of Daenerys Targaryen and Yunkai in Slaver’s Bay.

Prelude

Following the fall of Astapor, Daenerys Targaryen marches north along the coast of Slaver’s Bay, towards the coastal city of Yunkai, the second great slaver city.

The Yunkish host holds the middle with a 4,000 strong infantry slave army, supported by two mounted sellsword companies in the flanks: the Stormcrows on the left and the Second Sons on the right. Both companies have about 500 men each.

Daenerys’ host numbers 10,000 Unsullied and several thousand ill-trained armed freedmen. Her forces are stronger both numerically and qualitatively and could easily defeat the Yunkai army. Nevertheless Daenerys, worrying about the cost, extends an invitation to the slavers and the leaders of the sellsword companies to meet with her separately, trying to turn the sellswords over to her side and lure the Wise Masters of Yunkai to release the city’s slaves without a fight.

Speaking for the Stormcrows’ captains, Prendahl na Ghezn angrily rejects Daenerys’s offer to change allegiance. Mero of the Second Sons is willing to take the offer back to his own captains, so Daenerys gifts him a wagon full of wine. Grazdan mo Eraz of Yunkai offers a bribe to Daenerys to leave but is refused.

The battle plan is outlined by Daenerys to her advisors: a surprise attack on both enemy flanks by the Unsullied, led by their captain, Grey Worm, and Ser Jorah Mormont, the commander of her army. Her kos—Aggo, Jhogo, and Rakharo—are to lead her mounted warriors of about 30 men in wedge formation against the enemy center. Arstan Whitebeard and Strong Belwas are held back to guard her pavilion during the battle.

Near midnight the Unsullied catch Daario Naharis of the Stormcrows approaching the camp. He reveals he has killed the other captains, Prendahl and Sallor the Bald, and he surrenders the Stormcrows over to her. He pledges his sword and Daenerys accepts, aware that she risks being betrayed. Before he returns to his men, he is told to attack the Yunkish in the rear when the attack begins.

Battle

The attack is launched a few hours after midnight, and the Stormcrows attack the enemy in the rear, as promised. The Second Sons are too drunk from wine to fight and are unable to support the slave army. Surrounded from all directions, the Yunkish troops break and throw down their weapons, while the sellswords yield.

Almost 200 Yunkish infantry are killed and the rest are taken captive. The Second Sons suffer light casualties, but their captain Mero flees when he realizes that the Stormcrows have betrayed them. Daenerys Targaryen’s losses are minimal, with only a dozen men.

Aftermath

Yunkai surrenders and gives in to Daenerys Targaryen’s demands, freeing all the slaves and allowing each of them whatever wealthy they can carry from the Wise Masters. In return they are allowed to remain in control of the city, which also remains unsacked. The freed slaves swell the ranks of Daenerys’s freedmen and cement her reputation as the “Mother” among her followers. She proceeds to Meereen, the last great slaver city. Now under the command of Brown Ben Plumm, the Second Sons join the Stormcrows as sellswords in the Targaryen host.

do not fear for me. the fire is mine.

- why is Daenerys not a prince?

- I made this choice a long time ago, but I think I wanted to play a little with gender roles and reverse things a little... And, of course, "Mother of Dragons", to my mind, is much better than "Father of Dragons". There is the connection between the woman who brings forth life carrying a huge power of death, fire and destruction. There are very powerful metaphors in there.

and Arya was literally born from feminism.

Asked whether any specific people in his life had helped him create Arya’s character traits, Martin replied: “I can’t say there’s any one specific model, but a lot of the women I’ve known over the years have had aspects of Arya with them.”

He added: “Especially some of the women I knew when I was a young man back in the sixties and seventies, you know — the decade of the sexual revolution and the feminist movement. I knew a lot of young women who weren’t buying into the, ‘Oh, I have to find a husband and be a housewife.’”

So, I think I found a solution to this problem. The post isn’t actually deleted and lost forever. It’s still in your queue/drafts, but invisible to you. But you can find the post if you go to your Mass Post Editor:

There, you have the option of editing your published posts, your drafted posts, or your queued posts. If Tumblr ate one of your posts, it could still be there (not always though, I’ve had times in which my queue simply deleted a post and I couldn’t find it anymore). After going to the Mass Post Editor, you just have to find the post. Now, maybe you don’t know which post your queue ate. But it’s easy to find out, because if your queue ate a post some time ago, it will probably be amongst the older posts.

— ALIASES OF ICE AND FIRE | Daenerys Targaryen -> Dragonmother 🐉🤱

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Happy pride month from the bi-Queen, the demi-werewolf and the hetero-ally 🏳️‍🌈

"Important conversations take place by the fire," Visenya used to say.

𝐒ince the beginning of this AU, several weeks (perhaps even months) have passed. The clearest sign of time passing has been Daenerys' hair, which has finally begun to grow back.

She now wears fine fabrics and a delicate necklace Aegon chose for her with Rhaenys' help. They dote on her far more than Daenerys knows how to accept.

Visenya speaks to her about power, about protecting herself by putting her own well-being first. Because, to Visenya, the most valuable gifts are born from experience, the lessons one learns, and the strength she can offer another.