Daenerys I Targaryen

"I spent my life in foreign lands. So many men have tried to kill me, I don't remember all their names. I have been sold like a broodmare. I've been chained and betrayed, raped and defiled. Do you know what kept me standing through all those years in exile? Faith. Not in any gods. Not in myths and legends. In myself. In Daenerys Targaryen. The world hadn't seen a dragon in centuries until my children were born. The Dothraki hadn't crossed the sea. Any sea. They did for me. I was born to rule the Seven Kingdoms, and I will."

- Daenerys Targaryen to Jon Snow Queen Daenerys I Targaryen, also known as Daenerys Stormborn, and colloquially known as Dany, was the twenty-second ruler of the Seven Kingdoms and the eighteenth and final monarch of the Targaryen Dynasty. She was the third child and only daughter of King Aerys II Targaryen and his wife, Queen Rhaella Targaryen, and the younger sister of Rhaegar and Viserys Targaryen. She reigned in King's Landing for less than a day before her death in 305 AC, and was succeeded by her second cousin once removed, Gendry I Baratheon. She was formerly styled as Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the First of Her Name, Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men, Protector of the Seven Kingdoms, the Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, the Unburnt, the Breaker of Chains, and the Mother of Dragons.

Born on Dragonstone following the death of her father, she spent most of her early life in the Free Cities with her abusive brother Viserys, after the rest of her family was killed during Robert's Rebellion, which resulted in her House being ousted from the Iron Throne and replaced with House Baratheon. She was married to and eventually fell in love with Khal Drogo, having a still-born son with him before his untimely death. Despite losing her husband, Daenerys successfully hatched three dragons and used her newfound power and influence to embark on a war of emancipation against the cities of Slaver's Bay, successfully abolishing slavery in the region. Daenerys then launched an invasion of Westeros to attempt to reclaim the throne for House Targaryen, but soon diverted her efforts north to fight in the Great War. Just before the Fall of Winterfell, Daenerys legitimised Gendry, one of King Robert's bastards, as Gendry Baratheon, and appointed him her successor. Ultimately, Daenerys briefly became Queen in earnest after succeeding Cersei I Lannister following her death, before Daenerys herself was killed during the Battle of King's Landing. However, Daenerys was never crowned, nor did she sit upon the Iron Throne. Daenerys' death, combined with that of Jon Snow's, marked the final extinction of House Targaryen.