Then again: Maybe this is the Dany we knew all along. She freed thousands from slavery in Essos, despite armed resistance. Years ago, she stopped the Dothraki horde from raping Lhazareen women. What’s puzzling us: Is this the Dany we thought we knew? In her meteoric rise to power, the Dragon Queen had earned a reputation for fairness and justice. We may never know what Dany thought, but we know the result: a massacre the likes of which Westeros has never seen, leaving untold thousands dead and much of the city destroyed. What rang through Daenerys Targaryen’s head in that moment? The names of those she believed betrayed her, from Lord Varys to Jon Snow to Tyrion? Faces of her loved ones who perished along her journey to this point? Or was it the bad advice she’d received over the years - advice that isolated her, led to the deaths of two of her dragons, weakened her position to take the throne? And, in that moment, did she choose to finally follow a piece of advice the Lady Olenna Tyrell reportedly once told her: “I've known a great many clever men.

The people were ready to welcome a new queen. BREAKING MAD: As the bells rang out across King’s Landing, mothers hid behind shuttered windows and held their children close, Cersei’s kingsguard dropped their swords in surrender, a quiet fell.

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