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(1) The fall of King Aerys II occured 9 months earlier, in 283 A.L. Thus, she was born in 283 or 284 A.L., but the latter date sounds more likely due to the 9 month interval.

(2) "The Targaryen fleet was smashed while it lay at anchor, and huge stone blocks were ripped from the parapets and sent hurling into the wild waters of the narrow sea." (1p25)

(3) Inalchik, the governor of Otrar, suffered a similar fate after he killed one of Ghengis Khan's envoys. After the mongols seized Otrar in 1220 A.D, they executed Inalchik by pouring molten silver into his eyes and ears until he died (p82, How Great Generals Win, B. Alexander).

(4) I don't know for sure what Jorah actually did there, but he was probably up to something because he didn't want Dany to follow him. The later assassination attempt might have been staged to win Dany's trust.

(5) One of the girls is named Eroeh. She's later raped and killed by Mogo and his bloodriders when Khal Drogo's khalasar disintegrates.

(6) "[The child was] monstrous. Twisted. I drew him forth myself. He was scaled like a lizard, blind, with the stub of a tail and small leather wings like the wings of a bat. ... He had been dead for years." Mirri (1p632). "Rhaego, her stillborn son by Khal Drogo, slain in the womb by Mirri Maz Duur." (3pAppendix).

(7) Jorah believes that Robert's death won't change anything, because "his son rules in his place". Dany disagrees, believing that the Seven Kingdoms will disintegrate like Drogo's khalasar did.

(8) Later, when Arstan (whose real name is Barristan) swears his service to Dany, he tells her that "I told you before that I used a false name so the Lannisters would not know that I'd joined you. ..." (3p811).

(9) Jorah is only slightly rebuked by Dany after the incident, perhaps because of Dany's ambivalent feelings towards him. But later she tells him: "You have been a better friend to me than any I have known. ... I honor and respect and cherish you - but I do not desire you, ... , and I'm weary of you trying to push every other man in the world away from me, ..." Dany (3p484).

(10) "The Unsullied are well trained, but even so, many will fall in battle. I shall need the boys as replacements to take up the swords they drop." Dany (3p305).

(11) What they actually did on that meeting is only hinted at in the book, but the hints strongly suggest that they were figuring out the details for a surprise attack on the slavers next day: Dany only summoned those she truly trusted, and her bloodriders were preparing their weapons later that night. Jorah tells her: "Tomorrow will be hot and hard, I promise you. You'll need your strength." (3p310) Dany probably formed the idea of misleading the Good Masters as a last-resort, before her negotiations with them: "She had considered long and hard and found no other way. ..." (3p306).

(12) Of those, 8.600 were fully trained. The remaining 5.000 were boys or bareheaded, armed men still in training (3p312).

(13) Her sellswords and heavy infantry totals about 14.000-14.500 men. The remaining soldiers are freedmen from Yunkai and Astapor. The figures seem to be a bit inconsistent though, because Dany says that "... and Jorah had organized the fighting men into four strong companies, ..." (3p649). A company usually consists of a few hundred men (but companies may vary widely in size), and adding these numbers to the first total still leaves a few thousand men unaccounted for. However, if each company is 1.000 man strong, the grand total is closer to 18.000-18.500, which is consistent with the grand total of almost 20.000 mentioned in the book.

(14) Because a child was nailed on every milepost along the coast-road, we can assume that the road distance from Yunkai to Meereen is close to 163 miles (~262 km). Because the large host was slowed down by its size, kids, weak and older people, it probably took about a week to reach Meereen.

(15) The ruling council consisted of a scholar, a healer and a priest. The envoy claimed that "... those sly rogues betrayed your trust. It was revealed that they were scheming to restore the Good Masters to power and the people to chains. Great Cleon exposed their plots and hacked their heads off with a cleaver, and the grateful folk of Astapor have crowned him for his valor." Cleon was a former butcher in Grazdan mo Ullhor's kitchen.

(16) "The truth is, I wanted to watch you for a time before pledging you my sword. To make certain that you were not ... mad. But I see no taint in you. ... every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. Your father was not the first. ...", Barristan (3p811).

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