298 AC, hatched from a petrified egg on Khal Drogo's funeral pyre outside Vaes Dothrak
Died
not recorded — he flies on beyond the reach of the published chronicle
Size
The largest and swiftest-growing of Daenerys's three by a clear margin, already the terror of Meereen's fighting pits while still young enough, by any prior dragon's reckoning, to be called a hatchling.
Temperament
The wildest and least biddable of the three by his mother's own reckoning — first to fly free of Meereen, first to kill outside her sight, and the one dragon of the three who has shown himself, again and again, disinclined to be anywhere his rider expects him.
Drogon is named for the khal on whose funeral pyre he and his brothers were born, and the fire in his temperament suggests the name was well chosen. Of the three dragons hatched that night outside Vaes Dothrak, he grew fastest and strayed farthest — the first to leave his mother's sight for days at a stretch, and, in the novels' telling, the dragon responsible for the fighting-pit death of a child that ultimately saw his brothers chained beneath Meereen while he himself flew free of the consequences entirely.
By the close of the published novels he has carried Daenerys clear of a city she never wanted and out over the Dothraki sea, unbroken, largely unbiddable, and by every indication still growing — the single loudest promise the story has made and not yet redeemed. The Citadel, mindful that this is a tale still being told rather than a history already settled, offers no verdict on where that flight ends, and treats everything past this point as belonging to pages not yet written.
The fate of Drogon
This carries how the dragon's story ends in the published novels. Read on only if you do not fear to know.
Woken into the world alongside two brothers after a century and more of empty skies, and by the novels' own account still very much alive and only growing more dangerous — a story the chronicle keeps open rather than closed, as befits a beast whose ending George R. R. Martin has not yet written.
These partings name deaths, endings, and roads not yet ridden in the books. Unveil them only if both roads are known to you — or if you do not fear to know.
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SourcesA Game of ThronesA Dance with Dragons
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Who was Drogon?
Drogon is named for the khal on whose funeral pyre he and his brothers were born, and the fire in his temperament suggests the name was well chosen. Of the three dragons hatched that night outside Vaes Dothrak, he grew fastest and strayed farthest — the first to leave his mother's sight for days at a stretch, and, in the novels' telling, the dragon responsible for the fighting-pit death of a child that ultimately saw his brothers chained beneath Meereen while he himself flew free of the consequences entirely.
Is Drogon from the books or the show?
Book canon. This entry follows George R. R. Martin's novels and histories, and notes where the television series diverges rather than following it.