Second Sons

Second Sons is a mercenary company associated with Daenerys Targaryen’s military forces. In the catalogue of her captains and commanders, it appears alongside the Stormcrows and the Unsullied, placing the company within an international war machine assembled from professional soldiers, sellswords, eunuch infantry, and naval personnel. Its decisive significance in the available material is organizational: it is not an anonymous band of fighters but a distinct company with a recognized commander and a place in Daenerys’s chain of command.

Organization and Command

The company is commanded by Ben Plumm, called Brown Ben, who is described as a mongrel sellsword. This identification gives the Second Sons a clear military representative and distinguishes the formation from the captains who command Daenerys’s other forces. Ben Plumm’s title, nickname, and status all belong to the company’s formal presentation: the text records not merely that he fights, but that he leads the Second Sons as one of Daenerys’s captains.

The company’s inclusion under the heading of captains and commanders also implies a structure larger than an individual retinue. It functions as a military unit that can be named, led, and placed beside other organized forces. The evidence does not specify its size, internal ranks, equipment, recruitment practices, or battlefield movements, so its documented identity rests on its command relationship and its position among Daenerys’s assembled forces.

Place Among Daenerys Targaryen’s Forces

The Second Sons are listed with Daario Naharis, a flamboyant Tyroshi sellsword commanding the Stormcrows, and Grey Worm, a eunuch commanding the Unsullied, a company of eunuch infantry. The juxtaposition is revealing without requiring the companies to be treated as identical. The Stormcrows represent another sellsword formation; the Unsullied are explicitly characterized as disciplined eunuch infantry; the Second Sons occupy the same broad military network while retaining their own name and command.

The list also places Ben Plumm near Strong Belwas, a eunuch and former fighting slave, and Groleo of Pentos, formerly captain of the great cog Saduleon and now an admiral without a fleet. These neighboring entries show the range of personnel gathered around Daenerys: individual champions, mercenary commanders, infantry leaders, and displaced naval officers. Within that heterogeneous retinue, the Second Sons are legible as a company whose identity is anchored by Ben Plumm’s leadership.

Evidence and Limits of the Record

The available evidence does not narrate a particular engagement involving the Second Sons, nor does it describe a bargain, defection, victory, defeat, or change in allegiance. It therefore supports a precise but limited account: the company is a mercenary organization under Ben Plumm’s command and forms part of Daenerys Targaryen’s military establishment.

That limitation matters because the company’s designation carries institutional weight even where its actions are not individually recounted. The text names the Second Sons in the same formal register used for other major forces, making their presence part of the political and military architecture surrounding Daenerys. Their documented role is consequently less a single episode than a position within an expanding coalition whose commanders come from different regions, backgrounds, and military traditions.