

The lesser threat of the child Daenerys was shipped to her own birthplace of Dragonstone, to be raised by King Robert’s brother (and likely to be wed into a loyal house or to the King’s own heir, Joffery). Yet this disturbance came at a greater unrest for Westeros, with a short-lived Ironborn uprising having taken place not long before and it is said that this recent bloodshed had slaked the Usurper’s appetite for further death and he showed an unprecedented mercy towards the Targaryen siblings.

The Targaryen restoration started in a position of their greatest weakness, the young escaped prince and princess Viserys and Daenerys in custody of King Robert of House Baratheon (the events that led to this are murky, though we can estimate that they were either ransomed or recaptured from Essos).
