Drogon = The Stallion Who Mounts the World

[Mithras]

“Fierce as a storm this prince will be. His enemies will tremble before him, and their wives will weep tears of blood and rend their flesh in grief. The bells in his hair will sing his coming, and the milk men in the stone tents will fear his name.”

Ghosts lined the hallway, dressed in the faded raiment of kings. In their hands were swords of pale fire. They had hair of silver and hair of gold and hair of platinum white, and their eyes were opal and amethyst, tourmaline and jade. “Faster,” they cried, “faster, faster.” She raced, her feet melting the stone wherever they touched. “Faster!” the ghosts cried as one, and she screamed and threw herself forward. A great knife of pain ripped down her back, and she felt her skin tear open and smelled the stench of burning blood and saw the shadow of wings. And Daenerys Targaryen flew.

“…wake the dragon…”

The door loomed before her, the red door, so close, so close, the hall was a blur around her, the cold receding behind. And now the stone was gone and she flew across the Dothraki sea, high and higher, the green rippling beneath, and all that lived and breathed fled in terror from the shadow of her wings. She could smell home, she could see it, there, just beyond that door, green fields and great stone houses and arms to keep her warm, there. She threw open the door.

“…the dragon…”

And saw her brother Rhaegar, mounted on a stallion as black as his armor. Fire glimmered red through the narrow eye slit of his helm. “The last dragon,” Ser Jorah’s voice whispered faintly. “The last, the last.” Dany lifted his polished black visor. The face within was her own.

This dream is one of the most misinterpreted dreams of Dany. It is obvious that the dream is about the fulfillment of the prophecy of the Stallion.

[El Guapo]

I think it's unlikely that after that whole scene where Drogon returns and Dany rides off on him that he'd abandon her at that point.

But I'm faaaaaaaaaar from saying it definitely won't happen.

Exactly. The last chapter in ADWD, more specifically the last few paragraphs, were all about Dany finally gaining control of Drogon.

[pobeb]

@yolkboy:

If a dragons' hair is its horns, then bands of metal could be considered the bells... And isn't there a metal-banded dragon horn that is headed to mereen with the intention of singing upon Drogons arrival? ;)

[jon rhaegar stark]

A great theory and I agree. Just think of the irony, MMD did what she did to prevent STMTW from being born, and Drogon would never live if it weren't for her...

this

and i think we can make comparison between MMD and LORD VOLDEMORT both thought that they are acting to prevent the prophecy comes into fruition but instead made them happen

A prophecy can be read and it can have various interpretations and many candidates likely but it will never fail when the time comes it will be fulfilled

[Mithras]

… and the grass, still moving slightly. The wind, she told herself, the wind shakes the stalks and makes them sway.

The grass swayed and bowed low, as if before a king, but no king appeared to her.

The grass of the Dothraki sea was swaying because of the movement of the scout on his horse. The scout appeared to Dany but he was no king. Hence, the grass did not actually mean to bow before him. It was Drogon as the next quote proves.

… and Drogon came, snorting plumes of smoke. The grass bowed down before him.

The Dothraki grass bowing before Drogon as if he is a king foreshadows that Drogon will prove to be TSTMTW, not Dany.

[dbrandow]

By far the most compelling part of this argument, to me, is that the initial interpretation is that the Stallion is Rhaego, but Rhaego would be a rider, not a stallion. Drogo being the Stallion makes the prophecy far more literally true, and also follows the pattern of prophecies needing to be re-read after they come true to understand what the real underlying meaning actually was. They typically don't mean what you think they mean, so they don't end up being helpful to the recipients, they only make sense after the fact. This is a fail-safe, if you will, to prevent people from trying to circumvent the prophecy or try to make it come to fruition in the wrong time/manner.

[Sam with Hooters]

Well if memory serves there was one additional person sacrificed...

Try this on for size:

The three human lives brought the dragon eggs to life, just as you said. Since those three lives were "absorbed" by the dragons, the horse's life must've been what semi-healed Drogo (not enough "oomph" to heal him completely!). MMD had no idea that part of Rhaego would survive in Viserion, hence she fulfilled the prophecy while trying to counteract it (an idea which goes back at least to _Oedipus Rex_, if not earlier). I suspect a similar twist is waiting in Cersei's prophecy.

[Ser Joe the Unknighted]

I have thought for a while that Daenerys herself is the Stallion who mounts the world. Or At least she is the leader who unites the Khalasars and conquers the world.

[LordStoneheart]

For what it's worth (nothing to some), the 93 letter says

Dany will use the dragons to bind the Dothraki to her will. Drogon may be the brute strength that gets the Dothraki to follow her, but if it's her will she is doing the leading. To me, that means she is the Stallion since the prophecy is about a leader, not the leader's mount.