THE QUEEN
Daenerys “Stormborn” of House Targaryen is one of the pivotal characters of Game of Thrones. Though on the run since she was a baby, she believes she is the rightful heir to the Iron Throne. Played by Emilia Clarke on the HBO series, the silver-haired Daenerys is the youngest child of King Aerys II, aka the “Mad King”, and his sister/wife Rhaella. Daenerys was married off to Khal Drogo, a powerful warlord of the horse tribe Dothraki, which is why she is also called Khaleesi. Dany derives her power from three dragons whom she hatched on the funeral pyre of her husband. Thus she became the Mother of Dragons!

THE GIRL
Former t2 campus team member Roshni Ali is now an entrepreneur who loves travelling, photography, dancing and sports. 
“I absolutely adore Daenerys! I chose to recreate this iconic character because I can relate to her at a deeper level. She is an unconquered spirit. She thinks differently and backs herself constantly. I too am an ambitious woman, with many dreams and aspirations; and sometimes with the power of self-belief I am able to achieve my goals. I feel I can connect to Daenerys’s duality too. I can be compassionate and loving, yet burn down enemies with a smirk,” said the 24-year-old Martinian-Xaverian. The fact that she looks uncannily like the actress who plays Dany was a bonus. 

BOLD BROWS AND SUN-KISSED SKIN
According to style artiste Danielle Jones, it was a breeze to turn Roshni into “a dragon-taming, Yunkai-conquering beauty”. Daenerys has sun-kissed skin, bold brows and striking white-blonde locks, so Danielle  concentrated on Roshni’s brows and made her wear green lenses so that it reflected light. “I kept the make-up simple to give Roshni a sun-kissed look,” she said. Add to that a wig from Alibaba.com and voila, Calcutta’s own Stormborn was born!
 
BEING DAENERYS
“It was great.... Danielle studied the character and did my make-up so well, I couldn’t even recognise myself! At the riding school, sitting atop a horse called Askarel, I felt so powerful, so Targaryen! For a few moments I felt I actually became Daenerys. Now, all I need is to find my dragons!” laughed Roshni. 

THE LOCATION
The Royal Calcutta Turf Club Riding School, adjacent to the racecourse. “We have six Manipuri ponies and 11 thoroughbred horses. Our membership is open to all, for riders aged six years and above. We also practise jumping,” said Revaz Z. Martin, who runs the school.

GOT QUIZ

Fancy yourself as a Game of Thrones fanatic? Take the t2 quiz and test your GoT quotient. The first person to send in all correct answers stands to win George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire boxset of books from Starmark. 

1. What is the name of Ned Stark’s sword?
2. Only three characters from Game of Thrones have appeared in all the episodes of a given season — who are they and which seasons?
3. Emilia Clarke had so much blood on her while shooting one scene that she got stuck on a toilet seat during a break. True or false?
4. Who was the last Targaryen in Westeros?
5. Who planned the murder of Joffrey Baratheon?
6. What is the official House Lannister motto?
7. Who was Tyrion’s squire? 
8. Who is the current owner of the sword Oathkeeper?
9. How many times has Margaery Tyrell been married?
10. Name two actors from GoT who were also in the Harry Potter films.
11. What’s the answer to “What do we say to the god of death?” 
12. Who is known as the Knight of Flowers?
13. What is Jon Snow’s ‘Needle’ advice to Arya Stark?
14. What is the meaning of Valar Dohaeris?
15. What did Daenerys name her son?

(Compiled by Chandreyee Chatterjee)

Send in your answers with name, age, postal address and phone number to t2contest@abp.in 
Contest rules: 
♦ Contest open to residents of West Bengal only. 
♦ In the event of a tie, the winner will be picked through a lucky draw.
♦ The decision of Team t2 will be final. 

ESCAPING GAME OF THRONES SPOILERS

 

Game of Thrones. It’s made all of us kinda batty, don’t you think? Especially about that dreaded word — “spoilers”. Friendships are being broken, relationships are suffering stony silences and anyone who isn’t able to catch each new episode the moment it becomes available, begins to live in fear. I was on holiday recently and couldn’t watch the last episode till three days after its release. When I finally watched it without having encountered a single spoiler, I felt #LikeABoss! Here’s how I achieved the feat...

♦ Bad connectivity never felt so good! If you are unable to watch a fresh GoT episode, it is only a happy occurrence when the network bars on your phone are shorter than Jon Snow’s willy (as insinuated by Tormund), because the less people talk to you, the less they can spoil your happiness.  
♦ Scroll through Facebook like you are dodging Drogon’s fire. Even if you have already unfriended and blocked those on your list who post spoilers for vicarious joy, there are those paka ones who will put up status messages with references that give away a plot point or an OMG moment.
♦ If you must trawl through Twitter or Instagram, avoid GoT-related handles and hashtags the way Jorah Mormont should have avoided the Stone Men. 
♦ Mute and completely disappear, like Bran in Season 5, from the WhatsApp group dedicated to GoT. You have no one to blame if you so much as glance at the discussions raging there. 
♦ Restrict your online reading, you never know what spoiler will pop up on which website. 
♦ Be Arya Stark and turn blind for a while, and skip t2’s episode sum-up that comes out on Wednesdays. 
♦ The moment you get even a whiff of a discussion on the unseen episode, run like Sansa-Theon ran from Ramsay Bolton. 
Having followed my rules for three agonising days, I reached home and even before I changed or ate anything, I turned on the laptop. My Facebook status after an hour? #Mission Accomplished. What I really wanted to write? #BooyaB**ches

Sulogna Ghosh
There’s a special kind of hell reserved for those who give out GoT spoilers because...Tell t2@abp.in