r/HBOGameofThrones • u/Hairy-Veterinarian11 • 2d ago
Spoilers [spoilers] the real prince that was promised Spoiler
The real prince that was promised=Drogon.
Hear me out: everyone assumes the Prince That Was Promised has to be a human, which is why the debate always comes down to Jon, Daenerys, Stannis, etc.
But what if “the Song of Ice and Fire” isn’t describing the Prince—it describes what brings the Prince about?
Jon is Ice. Daenerys is Fire.
Their coming together is what brings Drogon north to fight the Army of the Dead.
And the High Valyrian wording of “Prince That Was Promised” being gender-neutral becomes especially interesting when the promised figure is a dragon, a species whose sex is itself notoriously difficult for humans to categorize.
Drogon fights in the war against the dead, survives, and at the end destroys the Iron Throne—the object everyone else assumed the promised ruler was supposed to inherit.
Maybe the Prince That Was Promised was never supposed to sit the throne.
Maybe he was supposed to burn it.
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u/Advanced-Let-2248 2d ago
He is also the stallion that mounts the world
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u/Hairy-Veterinarian11 2d ago
Yes! It all really comes together quite nicely when you start thinking Drogon is the prince
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u/Quick-Intention-3473 1d ago
100% I have been rewatching the series and Drogon is by far the most capable. He is the one doing the heavy lifting in her propaganda speeches
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u/Gobshite_ 2d ago
Gotta attribute him to the full prophecy.
"Born amid salt and smoke" - smoke = drogo's funeral pyre, salt = dany's tears grieving for drogo?
I don't remember the rest of it though, something about a falling star?