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| “ | Once there were two moons in the sky, but one wandered too close to the sun and cracked from the heat. A thousand thousand dragons poured forth, and drunk the fire of the sun. That is why dragons breathe flame. | „ |
| ~ Doreah's tale to Daenerys Targaryen. |
Doreah is a minor character in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation, Game of Thrones.
Doreah is a Lysene handmaiden, initially sold at the age of nine as a child bedslave to a pleasure house in Lys. At some point, years later, she was bought by Magister Illyrio Mopatis of Pentos and became one of his handmaidens. By the time she was a young adult, she was given to Viserys Targaryen, who bedded her, before giving her to Daenerys Targaryen, along with the Dothraki handmaidens Irri and Jhiqui, as a wedding gift for her marriage with Khal Drogo. While she is not a villain in the novels, she ultimately betrays Daenerys in the television series.
In the TV series adaptation, she was portrayed by Roxanne McKee.
Biography[]
Doreah continues to serve as Daenerys' handmaiden as the small remains of the khalasar make their way through the Red Waste. She is fascinated by her lady's dragons and asks her what Viserys knew of them, only to be told that he knew "nothing of dragons." Daenerys's silver horse dies during their journey. Daenerys halts the majority of the column and sends her bloodriders to scout ahead.
Kovarro returns, having reached the city of Qarth. Daenerys leads her people there and is dismayed when she is refused entry by the ruling elders, the Thirteen. The khalasar are eventually admitted, but only after Daenerys threatens to burn the place to the ground once her dragons are grown. They all enter under the protection of Xaro Xhoan Daxos.
Xaro welcomes Daenerys into his home palace, giving her people accommodations and buying her gifts. Later, Irri watches as Daenerys and Doreah lean on the stone balcony of their new apartment. Drogon is perched on the edge of the balcony, with a lump of raw meat between them. Daenerys instructs Drogon to breathe flame on the meat by saying "dracarys," the old Valyrian word for "dragon fire." Drogon does as she commands, charring the meat. Doreah and Daenerys watch the dragon gleefully as he feasts on the cooked morsel. Daenerys says that Drogon will be able to feed himself from now on. Doreah reaches for another lump of meat, but Daenerys instructs her to let Drogon sleep. Doreah holds out her hand to help the dragon back into his wooden cage, and he climbs onto it. Daenerys tells Doreah that the dragon loves her, eliciting a frown from Irri.
Doreah picks up a dress from the bed and asks if Daenerys has seen it. She tells her that Xaro had it made for her and reports hearing that he is the wealthiest man in Qarth. Irri concurs with her fellow handmaiden. Doreah adds that Qarth is the richest city in Essos. Daenerys tells Doreah that they know nothing about their host and suggests that men often speak about other men when they are happy, suggesting that Doreah seduce some of Xaro’s fellow citizens to obtain more information. Doreah says that Daenerys would look like a real princess in Xaro’s dress, and Irri objects to the title, correcting Doreah that Daenerys is a Khaleesi. Irri breaks the ensuing awkward silence by encouraging Daenerys to wear the dress as a guest’s courtesy to Xaro. Xaro throws a reception for Daenerys in his gardens. Doreah and several of the khalasar are also present. Daenerys is pleased to see Doreah ingratiating herself with several of the men present.
However, soon Doreah sneaks back to their home and strangles Irri to death. When the others return home, Daenerys' men have all been brutally murdered; her dragons are stolen; Irri lies dead on the floor; and Doreah is missing. Daenerys tells Ser Jorah that she believes Doreah is dead.
After Daenerys retrieves her dragons, she finds a sleeping Doreah abed with Xaro in the latter's palace, revealing that she had in fact betrayed Daenerys and her dragons to the conspirators. Although she pleads for her life, she is locked inside the merchant prince's vault along with him to die.
Trivia[]
Doreah's Valyrian appearance in the novels.
- The scene in which Doreah kills Irri can only be seen in deleted scenes. It can be assumed it happened offscreen.
- In the novel series, Doreah never betrayed Daenerys and died in the Red Waste during the second book.
- In the first season, her character was overall the same as her book counterpart.
- In the TV series, Doreah does not have the common Lysene physical features, while her novel counterpart has fair hair and blue eyes.
- In the novels, it is mentioned that Viserys is usually kinder to Doreah than to Daenerys's other handmaids, Irri and Jhiqui, who are both Dothraki, unlike Doreah, who is Lyseni. This is likely the same case in the television series as well.
- In the novels, Doreah is 19 and turning 20 by the time of her first appearance, not much younger than Viserys, who is around 22. She is older than Daenerys, Irri, and Jhiqui, who are all around 13 and 14 years old. Viserys instructed her to be the tutor to teach sexual arts.
External Links[]
- Doreah on the Wiki of Westeros.
