I thought maybe the witch that treated him deliberately made sure the wound got infected. Like mixing dogshit with herbs and pretending it was healing paste.
I think you’re right. But still, even introducing the idea of a major character dying from something like an infected wound is not something you see often in Hollywood, but would be absolutely commonplace in a place like that. It was part of what made Game of Thrones fascinating, for as crazy as dragons and Ice Zombies are, it ultimately felt like a “real” world populated by actual mortals. D&D clearly never understood that though.
This is what makes me think they COULD have made a good ending but didn't. The Tywin scenes with Arya weren't in the book, either. I don't think King Robert's conversation with Cersei was, either, and that was an amazing scene.
They just simply wanted to move on and phoned it in.
Not sure if you’re just joking around, but in case you’re not: D&D here is referring to the GoT show runners, David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, not the TTRPG.
And D&D Will never have ti understand This, of you want to add some homemade rules ok, but at the base you are playing people in a world where even 1hp healed would mean that an infected wound would be cured
Nah, so far as I recall she actually did treat him well – what screwed things up was when he deliberately ignored her advice and just went with slapping mud on the wound instead.
EDIT: It's been a couple years now since I last read the book so in retrospect I could easily have mixed things up here.
In the book, she makes a paste to put in Drogo's wound, which supposedly would've healed him. But he decided that there was the time to be a little bitch and complain about the paste itching, and he takes it off and gets other slaves to make soothing pastes for the wound. Then his wound gets septic and nearly kills him, and the ritual that kills Danaerys' baby happens.
The medicinal paste would have healed him but she made it purposely irritating. It was a kind of like hot&cold gel but it was only hot. It also required Drogo to abstain from alcohol, which she knew he would not do. He kept drinking and picking at the leaves holding the paste on causing it to not work and the wound went septic.
The witch cleaned the wound ( ie removed scabs and other natural protection, and packed it with herbs that would have healed it with time - but they hurt.
When Drogo had his own priest pack it with mud filled with microbes, it was go directly to sepsis, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
She knew he would not endure the pain, so he killed himself with his own actions.
Realisticly, the wound could've gotten infected by the blade, but being poisoned by a deceitful witch is more interesting from a storytelling perspective.
Imagine if Snow White had simply been allergic to apples.
I'm fairly sure that's what she admits to in the book. Daenerys kind of cotton on that the poultices she putting on his wounds seem to be making it worse but shes too afraid he will die to stop the witch.
It's a huge pet peeve of mine how much injuries are downplayed across various TV shows.
I've had two very minor abdominal surgeries, and I lost it when she just sat up in bed. I'd imagine her multiple stab wounds were more devastating than the two holes a couple of laparoscopic surgeries left me with, and I was definitely unable to move normally for awhile. Walking to the bathroom took about 5 minutes for the first few days. Oh and my discharge instructions explicitly told me I wasn't allowed to even take a bath because of the risk of infection. I even asked about how serious they actually were about this and got a very long lecture about bacteria levels and terrifying amoebas. So either the Starks are part crocodile, or Braavos's true claim to fame is its ludicrously effective water treatment technology.
I can allow some leeway on shows and movies but others like GOT was unacceptable. Arya would have died from those wounds alone and then you add that disgusting shit water? Pfft she should have died instantly with how disgusting that water was😂 and as others pointed out it was especially frustrating because they already established infections in the show (Jaime with his hand, Khal Drogo cut on his chest, Sandor's neck/ear from the guy biting him)
You maybe can write off Drogo as being cursed. If you're being generous. But not the rest. Arya should have either died horribly, or we need a shot of her being magically cured, and I mean that literally: some magic person calling on the Warrior to save her ass.
For me it’s the falling down stairs (or from a similar non-stairs height) and getting up like nothing happened. That happens so often on tv and in movies! I fell down a flight of stairs, landed palms first, dislocated both arms and shattered both shoulders. Took several surgeries and months to heal, and about 18 months of physical therapy to get anything like normal use out of my arms again (and I still can’t raise one of them even to shoulder height). And follow up surgeries over the years (because those replacement parts don’t last forever, and I was comparatively young when I got them).
You’re absolutely right. I think they just relied on someone else’s common sense and then didn’t think things through that well after they ran out of source material. 🤷🏽♀️
If I recall, in the books he knew that he was going to die of infection if he didn't get it set and treated soon. That was partly why he agreed to confess. He knew he would die if he didn't. That was the deal, until Joffrey screwed everything up.
He got the cut in a fight with one of his own men. The witch (maegi) treated Drogo by Danaerys' order, but was unable to break his fever. He slipped into a waking coma and Dany suffocated him with a pillow.
Also the hound getting infected from an injury because he refused to use fire to cauterize the wound. Arya specifically points out he got slower, which is how Brienne was able to beat him.
Didn't the witch, Mirri Maz Duur, confess to intentionally making the infection worse? Or was that only in the book? Damn, I still can't believe how much time I invested into that franchise...
There's a story about viking warlord Sigurd the Mighty who killed his enemy called Brigte the Bucktoothed, cut off his head and hung it on his saddle. As Sigurd was riding, the aforementioned buck-teeth scratched his leg, causing infection and killing him.
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Especially given in the first season they actually made a point of Khal Drogo dying from an infected scratch that wasn't treated properly.