Going through Game of Thrones, illustrated edition today, and reading it again something’s was nagging me towards the end and I’d like to see if you had any insights. How exactly DOES Dany know/figure out how to bring back the dragons exactly? A lot of it she extrapolates from other sources and what she’s head but why is she so sure it’ll work? Do you think the books confirm some Daenys the Dreamer type of manifestation in her?

GRRM has described it as a miraculous event. I think it is a combination of extrapolating from her own actions (she puts the dragon eggs in the brazier in Dany VI, but it’s not hot enough), her dreams (the refrain of “wake the dragon” and at one point Rhaegar stands over the eggs in the brazier, in Dany IX), what she learns from Mirri Maz Duur. 

But as to why she’s so certain, I definitely think it’s a Dreamer situation, she’s having prophetic dreams throughout.