Game of Thrones: Daenerys Targaryen WAS pregnant in final season? (2024)

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Was Daenerys pregnant at the end of Game of Thrones? ›

Daenerys was pregnant in an alternate ending of season 8, but the scene got discarded as an explanation was missing and little is known about it because it was never released.

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In Season 1, Daenerys married Khal Drogo and became pregnant with their son, Rhaego. The child was stillborn, presumably due to Mirri Maz Duur's blood magic. The witch ultimately used Rhaego's life to help restore Drogo, who remained in a vegetative state and never recovered.

That tantalizing scene of Jon Snow's butt existed for two reasons: to show that the characters have the hots for each other, but also to explain how Dany becomes pregnant later on (presumably in season 8).

Rhaego was the stillborn son of Daenerys Targaryen and Drogo. The reason for his stillbirth is that his mother asked a maegi in the village, Mirri Maz Duur, to save his father's life, as Drogo was dying of an infected wound).

But in the first of the “A Song of Ice and Fire” books on which the show is based, there's another line to Mirri's curse: “When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child.” Essentially, the reason Daenerys thinks she can't have children is that Mirri cursed her, killed her baby and wrecked her husband.

In George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, Daenerys' son Rhaego is stillborn after she enters the tent in which Mirri Maz Duur is performing a blood magic ritual on Khal Drogo. The witch then implies to Dany that she is infertile after she discovers that Drogo has been left in a catatonic state.

Daenerys Targaryen about her unborn son. Rhaego was the son of Drogo and Daenerys Targaryen. According to a Dothraki prophecy, he would have been the Stallion Who Mounts the World. He was stillborn after being involved in a blood magic ritual.

Drogo returning to her would be the Dothraki uniting behind her. If Dany was pregnant before being carried off by Drogon, then she is not anymore. She starved for weeks, which can lead to miscarriage because the fetus can't be supported anymore. She ate possibly poisonous berries, which can lead to miscarriage.

It's hard to know. One thing we do know (or at least suspect) is that, despite all of this, Dany does appear to get pregnant once more. In the books, she seems to suffer a miscarriage after eating some green berries, which taste bitter and familiar: Perhaps Mirri used them in Dany's secret drink.

Could Daenerys get pregnant again? ›

She got pregnant again when she started being sexually active again (with Daario and then with Hizdahr). But yes I think what she experiences at the end of the fifth book is clearly a miscarriage, meaning, she can at least get pregnant.

In the books, Dany was 13 when she was pregnant with Rhaego. She turned 14 soon after her dragons hatched.

Rhaego

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Rhaego was the son of Khal Drogo and Khaleesi Daenerys Targaryen. He was named in honor of his uncle, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen. He was stillborn after being involved in a blood magic ritual performed by Mirri Maz Duur.

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The Birth Of The Dragons

The birth of Dany's dragons is one of the most significant events in the story. Dragons were extinct from the world for over a century before Daenerys hatched her petrified eggs, giving life to Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion, and earning her moniker as the Mother of Dragons.

But in the TV series, Dany is depicted to be slightly older, and is believed to be 16 years old when she meets Khal. In the novel, she is around 22 when she is killed by Jon Snow, but on the show, she would be around 25 when she is stabbed to death.

She may be the Mother of Dragons, but Daenerys apparently can't have human children.

While filming season one of Game of Thrones in 2010, Headey was pregnant with her first child Wylie. The producers decided to use a body double, while also dressing Headey in long flowing dresses and robes to hide the pregnancy.

When finally did give birth to the baby, it is said that the child had a hole where her heart should have been, a tail, and scales for skin—a monster, as her mother had cursed her to be.

Prosthetic designer confirms: the baby was deformed

“When the babe at last came forth, she proved indeed a monster: a stillborn girl, twisted and malformed, with a hole in her chest where her heart should have been and a stubby, scaled tail. The dead girl had been named Visenya.

In the book, Visenya was described as being born with dragon-like defects, including scales, a tail, and a twisted body. Rhaenyra's baby did end up having scale-like defects and a malformed body in House of the Dragon, which aligns with the occasional reports of Targaryen women bearing dragon-like stillborn children.

Does the Targaryen bloodline end with Daenerys? ›

In the television series Game of Thrones, the Targaryen dynasty ends with Daenerys and her nephew, Rhaegar's youngest son Aegon, who was raised as Jon Snow.

He needed the army more than he needed to marry his sister since that would have (he hoped) brought him more than marrying his sister himself ever could. He and Dany spent their lives dodging assassins and spies from Westeros- the more immediate need was to reclaim their former kingdom.

As Aemma bleeds out, their child is born — a son named Baelon Targaryen.

To Daenerys Targaryen, the three eggs she later hatches are warm to the touch, although other people do not feel the heat. Dragons have been known to lay eggs in a clutch of up to at least five, and a dragon may lay several clutches during its lifetime.

Daenerys Targaryen is the last known living Targaryen, and she is immune to fire. This immunity is a special power believed to be a birthright of all Targaryens, which is why Daenerys is the one and only known survivor of dragon eggs being thrown into fire.

She is called The Unburnt because she walked into the flames and lived. But her brother sure as hell wasn't immune to that molten gold. Daenerys survived the flames when her dragons were born thanks to a mysterious, magical mix of Mirri Maz Duur, sacrifice, and dragon eggs.

In the prophecy, Mirri Maz Duur tells Dany that Khal Drogo will only come back and Daenerys will only have children "when the sun rises in the west and sets in the east; when the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves." This is all that is said in the show, though the book's prophecy continues with: " ...

So, who is the real father of Rhaenyra's children? In the show and in George R.R. Martin's Fire and Blood novel, it is heavily implied that Ser Harwin Strong, a knight and the captain of the City's Watch, is the true father of Jacaerys, Lucerys, and Joffrey.

Here's the full prophecy from the Song of Ice and Fire books: “When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child.

One of the first times we see Rhaenyra as truly angry throughout the entirety of Season 1 is during the traumatic miscarriage of her daughter Visenya.

How did Daenerys get pregnant with dragons? ›

Daenerys is called Mother of Dragons because she brought three dragons from dead eggs back to life. So figuratively, she went into fire and gave birth to dragons.

Daenerys, for instance, is just 13 when she's married off to Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo in the very first Game of Thrones book.

A Clash of Kings

Following the hatching of her dragons, Daenerys is known as "Mother of Dragons" and "Dragonmother" to her khalasar and the people of Qarth.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones. Jon revealed his true parentage to Daenerys on episode 2 of season 8 of Game of Thrones: He is the son of Dany's brother, Rhaegar Targaryen, which means that Daenerys is his aunt.

If this is true, then Daenerys's dragons—Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion—were descended from Dreamfyre, who is the only adult female dragon noted in the book to have laid eggs. She died during the Targaryen civil war known as the Dance of Dragons.

The prevailing theory is that Targaryen's really do have dragon blood flowing in their veins, and their children look like this while being carried to term. This would explain why only premature births seem to exhibit reptilian appendages.

Rhaego is son of Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo. He was named after his late uncle, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen. In the television adaptation Game of Thrones, Rhaego is portrayed by Wren Ros Elliot-Sloan.

While filming season one of Game of Thrones in 2010, Headey was pregnant with her first child Wylie. The producers decided to use a body double, while also dressing Headey in long flowing dresses and robes to hide the pregnancy. “We just hid the pregnancy,” Headey said to Vulture in 2013.

Because of the prophecy, Daenerys believes she is barren. That's why she sees her dragons as her children and why Viserion's death affects her so deeply. As far as she knows, she will never give birth again, and her only family is a trio of dragons who came out of the fire with her.

Despite being saved by Daenerys from being raped by the tribe's warriors, however, the priestess betrays her and the magic ritual results in Daenerys's unborn child being stillborn and leaves Drogo in a catatonic state.

Does Daenerys have a miscarriage? ›

Mirri was then supposed to use Drogo's horse as a sacrifice, but when she begins chanting, Daenerys starts feeling sharp pains in her stomach and collapses, going into labour. When she awakes, she learns that Khal Drogo has been left in a vegetative state by Mirri's blood magic, and she's lost her baby, Rhaego.

Who's the father of Cersei's child? The father, based on the all the evidence and context, is again Jaime Lannister, Cersei's brother. The first time we heard about the pregnancy was back in season 7, when Jaime was still knocking around King's Landing.

This also explains why she never seemed pregnant—she was drinking wine in Season Eight, and though that wasn't a concern in Medieval times because fetal alcohol syndrome wasn't identified until 1973, Tyrion guessed Cersei was pregnant when she declined a glass of wine he'd poured her.

No, Cersei Lannister does not have a fourth child. Cersei has three children, all of whom are deceased. She had two sons with her former husband, Robert Baratheon: Joffrey and Tommen. She also had a daughter, Myrcella, with Jaime Lannister, who is believed to be Cersei's brother.

Rhaego

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Rhaego was the son of Khal Drogo and Khaleesi Daenerys Targaryen. He was named in honor of his uncle, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen. He was stillborn after being involved in a blood magic ritual performed by Mirri Maz Duur.

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She got pregnant again when she started being sexually active again (with Daario and then with Hizdahr). But yes I think what she experiences at the end of the fifth book is clearly a miscarriage, meaning, she can at least get pregnant.

The Targaryen family hails from Old Valyria, where lighter skin tones and hair colours were particularly common. As a result, the family had white or silvery blonde hair. The Targaryens have been able to keep their distinguishing Valyrian characteristics due to years of inbreeding.