Drogo

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Drogo
Khal Drogo by AniaEm.jpg
Artwork by Anja Dalisa ©

Alias Great Rider
Title Khal
Race Dothraki
Culture Dothraki
Died 298 AL
Dothraki Sea
Spouse Daenerys Targaryen
Books

Played by Jason Momoa
TV series Season 1
Drogo funeral Pyre. Art By Kim Pope, for the HBO TV adaptation

Khal Drogo is the powerful Dothraki warlord and feared warrior. He marries Daenerys Targaryen and subsequently grows to love her, promising to invade Westeros for her sake, but he died before the invasion could begin. He is the son of Bharbo. In the Game of Thrones Tv series Drogo played by Jason Momoa.

Appearance

Drogo's copper skined, tall and graceful, his hair and eyes were black. He had a long, drooping mustache and wore his hair in a long braid that came to his thighs, hung with tiny bells. Among his people, a warrior cuts his hair when he loses a battlet. Drogo has never lost. He rode a lean red stallion.

History

Drogo was born to Bharbo, a Dothraki[1], the famed nomadic horselords of the Dothraki Sea. The Dothraki are fierce warriors and Drogo was one of the best, his prowess in battle earned him his vast khalasar and before the age of thirty he led the largest khalasar Dothraki Sea, with forty thousand warriors, and had never been defeated. His Bloodriders are Cohollo, Qotho and Haggo. He owned a palace in Vaes Dothrak and a nine-towered mansion in Pentos, given to him by the magisters of the city to buy him off to avoid the Dothraki looting the city.

A Game of Thrones

While Drogo was in Pentos, the canny Illyrio Mopatis arranged a marriage between him and Daenerys Targaryen, in return for Drogo providing he brother Viserys ten thousand Dothraki warriors that he could use to regain the Iron Throne. [2]

On their wedding night Drogo's entire khalasar 40,000 warriors and uncounted women, children, and slaves are gathered in a field outside of Pentos for the ceremony, which would last from dawn to dusk, with Khal Drogo seated with Daenerys on earthen ramp at the head. As the feast begins to wind down Drogo receive a whip, arakh chased in gold, and a curved dragonbone bow from his bloodriders, traditional first offered to his wife which she refused. Finally Khal Drogo leads her off to consummate the marriage.[3]

Drogo and Daenerys's marriage became a surprisingly happy one. Though Drogo cut a ferocious figure before his men, he was tender to Daenerys on their wedding night. He also gifted her with a magnificent silver mare. As Daenerys learned to speak Dothraki, Drogo proved a quick study learning the common tongue of Westeros, though he retained a barbarous accent. Drogo's relationship with Viserys was not as pleasant. He quickly became scornful of Viserys's pushy demeanor and frequent transgressions of Dothraki taboos. When Viserys drew a forbidden blade in Vaes Dothrak, demanding his crown, Drogo killed him by upending a pot of molten gold over his head.

At Vaes Dothrak, the prophet-crones of the dosh khaleen proclaimed that Drogo and Daenerys's unborn child would be the Stallion that Mounts the World, a prophesied leader in Dothraki legend.[4] Drogo began to reconsider his promise to invade Westeros until an assassin attempted to kill Daenerys and claim Robert Baratheon's reward. Drogo reaffirmed his commitment to conquer the Seven Kingdoms for his wife's sake.[1] He pillaged several towns in Lhazar in order to harvest slaves to exchange for warships which would take his horde across the sea. While in Lhazar, Drogo's khalasar battled and defeated the rival khalasar of Khal Ogo. Drogo slew Ogo himself, but took a wound to the chest.[5]

Though Drogo was unconcerned with his minor wound, Daenerys convinced him to let Mirri Maz Duur, a Lhazareen maegi (herb-woman) she had rescued, make him a poultice. The poultice itched, and Drogo tore it off, causing the wound to fester. Drogo's condition deteriorated until he fell from his horse, a symbol to his warriors that he could no longer lead them. As he lingered near death, Daenerys convinced Mirri Maz Duur to use her blood magic to preserve his life.[6] The maegi betrayed her in revenge for the attack on her village, and the ritual only returned Drogo to a catatonic vegetable state, while causing their child Rhaego to die in Daenerys' womb. After Drogo would not wake up from this state, Daenerys smothered him with a pillow and built him a funeral pyre as his khalasar broke apart. She burned him on the pyre along with Mirri Maz Duur and entered the flames with her petrified dragon eggs.[7] The flames magically traded life for life, killing Mirri, preserving Daenerys, and hatching the three dragons.

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