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"Shafka vos assoo anna zhey Khaleesi.
(You do not command me, Khaleesi.)
"
―Qotho to Daenerys Targaryen[src]

Qotho was a bloodrider to Khal Drogo.

Biography[]

Background[]

Qotho is a Dothraki bloodrider in the service of Khal Drogo. He is one of Drogo's closest allies and a stalwart warrior who favors the arakh.[1]

Game of Thrones: Season 1[]

Qotho, alongside Cohollo and Haggo, accompanies Khal Drogo to view his bride, Daenerys Targaryen.[2] Qotho is present for the wedding of Drogo and Daenerys and then rides East with them to Vaes Dothrak.[3] When a drunken Viserys threatens Daenerys and her unborn child, Qotho breaks his arm and then restrains him while Drogo pours molten gold over his head, killing him.[4]

Drogo's fall

Qotho begins to doubt Drogo.

Qotho is present when Drogo declares that he will lead the khalasar across the Narrow Sea and invade Westeros in vengeance for the attempted assassination of Daenerys.[5] Qotho participates in the khalasar's raid of a village in Lhazar, a peaceful country to the south-east of Vaes Dothrak. When Mago defies Drogo, Qotho, along with his fellow bloodriders, steps forward to defend Drogo's honor, only for the khal to take matters into his own hands. He objects to the Lhazareen godswife Mirri Maz Duur treating a small wound Drogo takes, calling her maegi[6]

Drogo's wound festers and he becomes seriously ill. He falls from his horse in front of the khalasar, a sign of weakness. While Cohollo comes down from his horse and kneels to Drogo's side, Qotho and Haggo remain mounted. Daenerys orders the khalasar to take camp, but Qotho objects, though he ultimately relents. Later Daenerys calls for Duur, who says that only bloodmagic can save him. Duur claims that she needs to kill Drogo's horse. Qotho objects to the ritual and a fight ensues; Qotho pushes Dany to the ground causing her to go into premature labor. Jorah Mormont intervenes and engages Qotho in a vicious duel. Though Qotho takes the upper hand with his younger age and superior speed, his arakh is unable to penetrate Jorah's armor, giving Jorah enough time to finish him off, slashing him across the face with his sword.[1]

Game of Thrones: Season 5[]

Jorah mentions to a slave trader, Malko, that he killed Qotho in single combat, which convinces Malko to take Jorah and Tyrion to Meereen in order to sponsor Jorah in the fighting pits that Daenerys has re-opened. At the slave sale, however, Malko changes the story slightly and claims that Jorah actually killed Khal Drogo.[7]

In the books[]

In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Qotho is a skilled warrior, but he is also considered to be cruel and malicious, the least-likable of Drogo's three bloodriders. He has cruel eyes and quick hands that liked to hurt. Occasionally he molests Daenerys's handmaidens Doreah and Irri, leaving them bruised and sobbing. Even his horses seem to fear him.

In the books, Drogo's three bloodriders are Qotho, Cohollo, and Haggo. All three attempt to intervene when Mirri Maz Duur conducts her ritual to heal Drogo, and all three are killed in the resulting fight. Qotho was personally killed by Jorah, just as in the TV series. Unidentified extras fill in some of the actions carried out by Cohollo and Haggo, but do not take part in the fight with Jorah, so all three have been functionally condensed into Qotho.

Gallery[]

Appearances[]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 9: "Baelor" (2011).
  2. Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 1: "Winter Is Coming" (2011).
  3. Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 2: "The Kingsroad" (2011).
  4. Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 6: "A Golden Crown" (2011).
  5. Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 7: "You Win or You Die" (2011).
  6. Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 8: "The Pointy End" (2011).
  7. Game of Thrones: Season 5, Episode 6: "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken" (2015).

Notes[]

  1. In "You Win or You Die," Jorah Mormont receives a pardon stating that the current year is 298.

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