The_Dunedan

I agree about Drogo, and part of the -reason- he's both terrifying and a tremendous erotic and semi-romantic figure is that the fact that you -do- see him from Dany's VP. You know what he is: you see the kind of people he leads. Dany is terrified at her own wedding; three or four random young men kill one another on the dancing-floor fighting over women! This cat is Shaka Zulu, Ghengis Khan, and Geronimo all rolled into one 220lb package of pure dominance. From Dany's VP, having been raised in a very submissive role, to be required to be even more submissive but to Drogo ALONE is a revelation. She submits to Drogo, but in return she is required (or even, truthfully, -permitted-) to submit to nobody else, as Viserys learns to his grief. It's a very Dom/Sub relationship in a lot of ways, but it becomes very empowering for her. It's hard not to see how this would produce extremely intense emotions and attachments, especially in someone so young. The historical-fiction author Sharon Kay Pennman has remarked that the people of the Middle Ages, in a time before science or what we today would call skepticism (although atheism certainly existed), lived their lives in a state of what we today would describe as a child-like level of emotional intensity. I find it difficult to fault either her reasoning, her research, or her translations in that regard, and I think Martin captures that perfectly. It's there in all of his characters on one level or another (as you'll see), but nowhere is it more obvious (except perhaps once else) than with Dany and Drogo.