- "He came from the sky. The black one. The winged shadow. He came from that sky and...my girl. My little girl."
- ―The goatherd describes his daughter's death at the hands of Drogon
A goatherd from Slaver's Bay is an unnamed minor character who first appeared in the fourth season. He is played by guest star Darren Kent and only appears in "The Children".
Biography
Season 4
The goatherd cares for his daughter's body.
The goatherd witnesses his 3 year old daughter, Zalla, being burnt alive by Drogon. He brings the charred bones before Daenerys in her throne room.[1]
Appearances
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In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Daenerys hears cases from several shepherds and goatherds of livestock being carried away by her dragons. The last one upturns a sack of charred broken bones on the floor of the throne room, and Daenerys quickly realizes they actually belonged to a child. The child is Hazzea, a four year old girl who was killed by Drogon. Daenerys is plagued by guilt and orders her three dragons caged, but Drogon escapes. Daenerys pays the father a hundred times the worth of a lamb, and promises him that Hazzea's bones shall be laid to rest at the Temple of the Graces, and a hundred candles shall burn night and day in her memory. Daenerys also tells the father to come back every year at Hazzea's nameday, and she will make sure his other children shall not want, but on condition that he does not tell anyone how Hazzea died.
For a moment Daenerys wonders if the child's death was staged by the former slave-masters to shame her, and she wasn't actually burned to death by her dragon. She quickly dismisses this idea, however, because she realizes that the goatherd waited to be heard last and only after all other claimants had left he throneroom, which wouldn't make sense if his purpose had been to publicly shame her.