In Game of Thrones, when Tyrion Lannister suggested Bran become the new king of the Seven Kingdoms he said, “And who has a better story than Bran the Broken? A boy, pushed from the tower, who couldn’t walk but learned to fly. The crippled boy who crossed the wall and became the Three-Eyed Raven. He’s all our memory (knowledge). Who better to lead us to the future?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was that story Illyrio Mopatis and her brother Viseres told Daenerys, that gave her her first ideal to contend for power. It was their stories of her forefathers\u2019 and Targaryen descendants\u2019 aspirations, and the story she herself chose to be right for her, which gave her the determination and courage to follow through on her plans right till the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They told her from the start, that the number one goal for any surviving Targaryens was to return to Westeros and reclaim their rightful seat on the Iron Throne – it was encoded into her brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDo you know what kept me standing through all those years in exile? Faith. Not in any gods. Not in myths and legends. In myself. In Daenerys Targaryen. The world hadn’t seen a dragon in centuries until my children were born. The Dothraki hadn’t crossed the sea. Any sea. They did for me. I was born to rule the Seven Kingdoms, and I will.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is the stories people tell others that stick, it\u2019s the stories your parents told, the ones your mother sang as a lullaby, the ones you believed in and which became part of who you are, and part of your actions. It\u2019s the stories you tell yourself every day that make you do things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It was the stories that each mother, father or elders told the younger ones, that made them believe what they could or could not do. Until it became the child\u2019s. And the children become the characters in those stories, acting out the script as it was foretold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was the story: A Song Of Fire And Ice<\/em>, that Sam presented to the new ordinance at their first meet as an elective monarchy at the end of the final episode of Game of Thrones, that millions of people across the world were fascinated by. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That story, based on the epic fantasy novels by George RR Martin (who as at 2020, had a personal net worth of $120 million), spanned eight seasons, with 73 episodes, bringing together 566 characters, was created with a total show budget of $1.5 billion, earning $3.1 billion through HBO subscriptions alone. Just on its own, Game of Thrones Season 8 earned an average of $88 million dollars per episode from HBO subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jon Snow was the rightful heir to the throne when it came to earnings, being responsible for $501 million of HBO\u2019s earnings based on his time on screen across all eight seasons. When looking at which characters have earned the most for HBO per minute on screen, Grey Worm topped the list, earning $953,378 for every minute on screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not bad, for just a story<\/em><\/strong> that has enthralled millions of people across the globe – inspired by the original imaginative thought of just one author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Creating begins as an imagined story… In Game of Thrones, when Tyrion Lannister suggested Bran become the new king of the Seven Kingdoms he said,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_customify_content_layout":"","_customify_sidebar":"","_customify_page_header_display":"","_customify_disable_header":"","_customify_disable_header_top":"","_customify_disable_header_main":"","_customify_disable_header_bottom":"","_customify_disable_page_title":"","_customify_disable_content_vertical_padding":"","_customify_disable_footer_top":"","_customify_disable_footer_main":"","_customify_disable_footer_bottom":"","_customify_breadcrumb_display":"","_customify_header_transparent_display":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-create"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2773,"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions\/2773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}