ĭaenerys summons both Jorah and Tyrion to her throne room. During the opening ceremony of the fighting games, Daenerys is accosted by Jorah Mormont, who has brought Tyrion Lannister to her. However, when a particular attack ends with the murder of Ser Barristan Selmy and the near-death of Grey Worm, Daenerys consents and decides to marry Hizdahr and re-open the fighting pits for free men, concluding that it may be better to forge an alliance with the Great Masters rather than continue to deny their way of life. Though the Wise Masters of Yunkai have surrendered to Daenerys, they are now requesting the re-opening of the fighting pits, but Daenerys refuses. Game of Thrones: Season 5Ī resistance movement against Daenerys's rule called the Sons of the Harpy rises and starts harassing the Unsullied, eventually resorting to murder and even hiring local prostitutes to aid them. Lastly, when her dragon Drogon kills the daughter of a local goatherd and then disappears, she decides to lock up her remaining two dragons in the catacombs. Secondly, having been shown that her abolition of slavery has left many former servants in an even more precarious position, she begrudgingly accepts the creation of one-year contracts, effectively reintroducing slavery in all but name and giving some power back to the Great Masters. Firstly, after Tywin Lannister uncovers her adviser Jorah Mormont as a former spy for King's Landing, she is forced to exile him. ĭaenerys's hold over Meereen is weakened after three great subsequent losses for her cause. In order to accomplish this, she sends Hizdahr zo Loraq, a Great Master at her service, to Yunkai to negotiate with the Wise Masters: if they do not comply with her demands of abandoning slavery once and for all, Daario will send in his Second Sons and execute them all. Therefore, instead of sailing to King's Landing in her newly acquired fleet and take the Iron Throne with her army, Daenerys decides to remain in Meereen to rule over Slaver's Bay and enforce her abolition of slavery. Īlthough the Second Sons have taken hold of the Meereenese fleet, Daenerys learns that the council she had left behind to rule Astapor has been overthrown by a self-proclaimed king called Cleon and that the Wise Masters of Yunkai have returned to power and enslaved all the freedmen in the city. Her first act is retribution for the dead slave-children: 163 Great Masters are crucified along the streets of Meereen, while Daenerys takes residence in the Great Pyramid. In the following revolt many Masters are mobbed in the streets and the victorious slaves open the gates for Daenerys. During the night, the Unsullied commander Grey Worm sneaks into Meereen through the sewers, disguised as a slave, to arm the slaves and incite them to revolt against their Masters. Daario Naharis swiftly dispatches the champion and Daenerys flings the broken slave-collars from the slaves she has freed at Astapor and Yunkai over the city-walls as a message to the slaves therein. However, she marches on and arrives at the gates, so the Great Masters send forth a champion to challenge her best fighter in single combat. As a warning, the Great Masters crucify 163 slave children along the road towards the city. Game of Thrones: Season 4įollowing the liberation of the slave population of Yunkai, Daenerys Targaryen and her army march towards Meereen. While Ser Davos Seaworth tries to convince the pirate-lord Salladhor Saan to take a contract for his fleet of thirty ships to supplement the faction of Stannis Baratheon, Davos mentions that he could instead spend the rest of his career making easy but small raids on the ships of "Pentoshi cheese-mongers" and "Meereenese silk merchants."Ī noblewoman attending Xaro Xhoan Daxos's party tells Daenerys that Qarth's night market is superior to that of Meereen. At the time that Daenerys Targaryen arrives at the city, there are about three slaves in the city for each free man. Meereen is by far the largest of the now-independent city states, bigger than Astapor or Yunkai. Just like the Free Cities to the west, after the Doom of Valyria (four hundred years before the War of the Five Kings) the local slaver-cities reasserted their independence. Like the other major cities of Slaver's Bay, Meereen was founded as a colony of the old Ghiscari Empire, which was later conquered by the Valyrian Freehold when it destroyed the Ghiscari Empire 5,000 years ago.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |