#Golden company vs unsullied windows

Sign up to receive the weekly Westeros Playbook newsletter: click here. But now we see the truth: Dany isnвЂ™t going to break the wheel she *is* the wheel. Remember: Dany once promised to вЂњbreak the wheelвЂќ of entrenched power that crushes those at the bottom of society. Still, we wonder: How did the Breaker of Chains become the Mad Queen?

Are we holding Dany to a double standard? Why do we think of her as вЂњmad,вЂќ but never use that word to describe the late Tywin Lannister, who led the sack of KingвЂ™s Landing during RobertвЂ™s Rebellion, which saw the wholesale slaughter of innocents, including the deliberate murder of children? Is it only вЂњmadвЂќ when a Targaryen does it? And, thinking of the public images of both Cersei and Dany, is it only вЂњcrazedвЂќ when perpetrated by a woman leader? ThereвЂ™s a fine line between liberator and conqueror. The same sense of justice also led to acts that in hindsight should've raised more red flags: the burnings of the witch Mirri Maz Duur, the slavers at Astapor and and the Khals at Vaes Dothrak the crucifixion and execution of Mereneese noblemen. 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. WhatвЂ™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 TargaryenвЂ™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 sheвЂ™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: вЂњI've known a great many clever men. The people were ready to welcome a new queen.

#Golden company vs unsullied windows

BREAKING MAD: As the bells rang out across KingвЂ™s Landing, mothers hid behind shuttered windows and held their children close, CerseiвЂ™s kingsguard dropped their swords in surrender, a quiet fell.