Mhysa | -game Of Thrones-

Djawadi uses the music to say what the visuals cannot: This is not a conqueror arriving. This is a mother coming home.

In the book series, the enslaved people of Astapor call Daenerys "Mhysa." The word is derived from the High Valyrian root for "mother." -Game of Thrones- Mhysa

In the book, Daenerys does not stay to be hailed by the slaves. She waits for the city to surrender and accepts a token force of slaves who wish to follow her, but she does not wade into the crowd. The scene where she is lifted up by the masses is an invention of showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Djawadi uses the music to say what the

Daenerys breaks the chains of Yunkai, and as the camera pulls back, we see a sea of brown faces cheering for a white-haired, fair-skinned queen. The final shot of the season is Dany’s face—triumphant, tearful, messianic. She waits for the city to surrender and

The freed slaves of Yunkai are not individuals. They are a chanting mass. We know Missandei and Grey Worm individually, but the crowd is a homogenous backdrop. Their only role is to reflect Daenerys’s glory.

In the context of the series, is a word in the Old Ghiscari language that means "Mother" .

From a storytelling perspective, the scene works brilliantly. It reminds the audience why we root for Daenerys after three seasons of watching good people suffer. She is the counter-argument to the cynicism of Westeros. She is hope.