“When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child. Then he will return, and not before.”
"I can’t have children."
| Canon | Can she get pregnant? | Key Evidence | |-------|----------------------|----------------| | | Yes (or at least, not impossible) | Miscarriage in ADWD; Mirri’s curse is poetic, not literal | | Show (HBO) | No | Direct statement of sterility; never reversed | | Fan Theory / Tinfoil | Maybe, and it will be the “bittersweet” ending | She births a child but dies in labor (mirroring Lyanna Stark) | can dany get pregnant
"When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child. Then he will return, and not before."
Dany can get pregnant again. The “curse” is a trick of language, and the miscarriage in ADWD is the strongest evidence. “When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east
After eating the toxic berries near the Dothraki sea, she experiences violent cramping and bleeding. She notes: “The blood came faster. She could feel it soaking through her trousers.”
The answer is far from a simple binary. To understand Daenerys’s reproductive potential, one must navigate a labyrinth of prophecy, magic, symbolism, and conflicting character statements. This article explores the curse of Mirri Maz Duur, the symbolic evidence of fertility, and the narrative implications of the "Stallion Who Mounts the World." Then he will return, and not before
Book readers often point to Daenerys’s final chapter in A Dance with Dragons (Chapter 71) as the strongest evidence that she fertile.
If those impossible events do occur, then the final condition—Dany’s womb quickening—becomes terrifyingly possible.