hollowcrown Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Was Dany right to let Viserys be killed, or should she have exiled him? Is she aware kinslaying is the worst of all crimes and should she have exiled him rather than let Khal Drogo pour gold on his head? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Wedding Cake Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 It's not kinslaying when Khal Drogo kills him. I do sort of wish he stayed alive to keep Daeny on track to go to Westeros, but he deserved it and it was quite the poetic way for the Khal to answer Viserys' demands. Viserys' death was the stepping stone Daeny needed to grow as a character. She's still growing, finding her roots, which hopefully lead her fire and blood back to Westeros. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valyrian Spoon Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 It definitely wasn't kinslaying. Viserys drew a sword and threatened the life of a Khal's unborn son in Vaes Dothrak. Even if Dany did try to intervene to save him I doubt she couldn't have talked Drogo out of killing him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferocious Veldt Roarer Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I honestly don't know if the OP is serious.What alternative? What exile? It's said very plainly: it's death to unsheathe a blade in Vaes Dothrak. There's no mention of any other alternative. If there is, please point it in the book. If not, then please stop making stuff up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light a wight tonight Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Was Dany right to let Viserys be killed, or should she have exiled him? Is she aware kinslaying is the worst of all crimes and should she have exiled him rather than let Khal Drogo pour gold on his head? First, it was Drogo's call, not Dany's. She had no authority in that. Second, as has been pointed out it's an automatic death penalty for drawing a sword there. Third, exile wouldn't be acceptable to the Dothraki anyhow, and it's their land and their law. And is kinslaying a crime in Dothrakia? I doubt it. And a brother-in-law might not even count as kin anyhow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pod The Impaler Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Was Dany right to let Viserys be killed, or should she have exiled him? Is she aware kinslaying is the worst of all crimes and should she have exiled him rather than let Khal Drogo pour gold on his head? Exile him ? How? Viserys was the Targaryen heir, firstborn and male. All of Dany's claim to anything is negated if Viserys disowns her. She was the khal's wife, so she had that power, but in all things Targaryen, Viserys was (ironically) correct: she cannot give him orders. If exiled at all, it would be by Dothraki law, if at all. That raises the question of "exile to where ?" He's in Vaes Dothrak at the time, and already down to the level of being openly mocked by the common Dothraki (who do not suffer any weak man to live; they consider his life worth less than a horse's). Exile and death would be much the same. It is a moot point - the Dothraki do not exile, they kill. Even Dany could not have saved him once he did what he did in their sacred city (drawing steel on a pregnant woman - the khal's wife, and his own sister). At most they would have waited until they left the city, and then Viserys would have been challenged and very easily killed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikkel Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I agree, there is no blame to put on Dany here, if nothing else because it wasn't her call at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Suburbs Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 As soon as he threatened the unborn Rhaego, it was out of her hands. Death to whomever threatens the crown prince. Exile would be difficult for a nomadic society. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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