Daenerys Targaryen is a dragon.

The truth has been in plain view the entire time.

Just as Arya’s relationship with Death becomes clear in perspective…

Daenerys Targaryen is a dragon. An actual dragon.

Daenerys Stormborn, first of her name, came into the world during the greatest storm in the living memory of Westeros. A storm that wiped out the Targaryen fleet as Robert’s Rebellion ended her father and their family reign. A great ending seeding a great beginning.

“Only death can pay for life.”

The words of Mirri Maz Duur, the maegi who worked blood magic to ‘save’ Khal Drogo, illuminate. Ser Jorah, over a recovering Dany, tells her,

“The boy did not live… the child was —”

“Monstrous.” Mirri interjected, “Twisted. I pulled him out myself. He was scaled like a lizard. Blind, with leather wings, like the wings of a bat. When I touched him, his skin fell from his bones. Inside, he was full of graveworms.”

The sorceress interpreted this as part of the exchange she made with her magic, slaughtering a horse for the ritual, knowing not of the Khaleesi’s

true nature.

The ‘Stallion’ Who Mounts the World wasn’t going to bear a half-human…

She was always “the blood of the dragon.”

“Fire and Blood,” the Targaryen motto goes. They obsessed over bloodlines and interbreeding. The Targaryens were consumed with visions of dragons, some of them destroyed in attempts to fulfill their prophetic dreams of transformation.

While touring Lady Margaery around the Sept of Baelor, Joffrey Baratheon regaled,

“Over there in that urn, the ashes of Aerion Targaryen. Aerion Brightflame, they called him. He thought drinking wildfire would turn him into a dragon. He was wrong.”

“The Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. King Jaehaerys once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a Targaryen is born, the gods toss a coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.”

-Ser Barristan Selmy

Viserys threatened Daenerys, “You don’t want to awaken the dragon,” believing himself it. A nod to the truth, taken for metaphor.

He met his end with her noting,

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“He was no dragon.

Fire cannot kill a dragon.”

Fire can kill Targaryens, yes.

Yet, Dany is clearly something much more than her brother ever was. Ancient blood magic finally manifesting in a perfect storm…

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Her father Aerys, the Mad King, was taken with visions and found endlessly chanting, “Burn them all.” Like his ancestors before, he believed himself the focus of them as a broken Jaime Lannister recounted to Brienne,