No. Dany’s mistake was not in failing to genuflect in the direction of “Ghiscari” nationalism – remember all that business with the tokar? – but in failing to understand that there is not one Meereen, but two. There is the Meereen of the Masters and the Meereen of the slaves, and rather than choosing, Dany ended up falling between two stools.
If Dany had put more effort into cultivating her propaganda image, commissions depictions of herself as a Harpy, tapping into Ghiscar’s shared history with the Valyrian empire, and captializing on the proto-personality cult among the freedmen, could she have forged Ghiscar into a formidable, unified power using quasi-nationalist sentiment?
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