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Daenerys Targaryen
Viserys is Daenerys and Rhaegar’s brother and Aerys II Targaryen’s son. He trades Daenerys’s hand in marriage to Khal Drogo when Daenerys is 13 years old, despite her objections. He is intent on reclaiming the Crown, which he believes was stolen from his family by the Usurper, Robert Baratheon. Viserys hopes that Khal Drogo will use his army to support his quest to regain the throne, but he is an ineffectual leader and becomes the object of widespread derision when he and Daenerys join Khal Drogo and his khalasar (or band of nomadic people). Viserys frequently abuses Daenerys. When she tries to speak up, he warns her not to “wake the dragon.” Viserys frames his violence toward Daenerys in that way to claim that whatever abuse he subjects her to is her fault. When Khal Drogo witnesses Viserys pointing a sword at pregnant Daenerys, Khal Drogo kills Viserys. Daenerys gains more power after Viserys’s death.
Viserys Targaryen Quotes in A Game of Thrones
The A Game of Thrones quotes below are all either spoken by Viserys Targaryen or refer to Viserys Targaryen. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 23: Daenerys
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“The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends,” Ser Jorah told her. “It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.” He gave a shrug. “They never are.”
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Chapter 67: Sansa
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Sansa stared at him, seeing him for the first time. He was wearing a padded crimson doublet patterned with lions and a cloth-of-gold cape with a high collar that framed his face. She wondered how she could ever have thought him handsome. His lips were as soft and red as the worms you found after a rain, and his eyes were vain and cruel. “I hate you,” she whispered.
King Joffrey’s face hardened. “My mother tells me that it isn’t fitting that a king should strike his wife. Ser Meryn.”
The knight was on her before she could think, yanking back her hand as she tried to shield her face and back-handing her across the ear with a gloved fist. Sansa did not remember falling, yet the next she knew she was sprawled on one knee amongst the rushes. Her head was ringing. Ser Meryn Trant stood over her, with blood on the knuckles of his white silk glove.
Chapter 72: Daenerys
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Ser Jorah Mormont drew her aside as the sun was creeping toward its zenith. “Princess …” he began.
“Why do you call me that?” Dany challenged him. “My brother Viserys was your king, was he not?”
“He was, my lady.”
“Viserys is dead. I am his heir, the last blood of House Targaryen. Whatever was his is mine now.”
“My … queen,” Ser Jorah said, going to one knee. “My sword that was his is yours, Daenerys. And my heart as well, that never belonged to your brother.
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Viserys Targaryen Quotes in A Game of Thrones
The A Game of Thrones quotes below are all either spoken by Viserys Targaryen or refer to Viserys Targaryen. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 23: Daenerys
Quotes
“The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends,” Ser Jorah told her. “It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.” He gave a shrug. “They never are.”
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Chapter 67: Sansa
Quotes
Sansa stared at him, seeing him for the first time. He was wearing a padded crimson doublet patterned with lions and a cloth-of-gold cape with a high collar that framed his face. She wondered how she could ever have thought him handsome. His lips were as soft and red as the worms you found after a rain, and his eyes were vain and cruel. “I hate you,” she whispered.
King Joffrey’s face hardened. “My mother tells me that it isn’t fitting that a king should strike his wife. Ser Meryn.”
The knight was on her before she could think, yanking back her hand as she tried to shield her face and back-handing her across the ear with a gloved fist. Sansa did not remember falling, yet the next she knew she was sprawled on one knee amongst the rushes. Her head was ringing. Ser Meryn Trant stood over her, with blood on the knuckles of his white silk glove.
Chapter 72: Daenerys
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Ser Jorah Mormont drew her aside as the sun was creeping toward its zenith. “Princess …” he began.
“Why do you call me that?” Dany challenged him. “My brother Viserys was your king, was he not?”
“He was, my lady.”
“Viserys is dead. I am his heir, the last blood of House Targaryen. Whatever was his is mine now.”
“My … queen,” Ser Jorah said, going to one knee. “My sword that was his is yours, Daenerys. And my heart as well, that never belonged to your brother.
