Jez is a serving girl at Winterfell.
Abel's spearwives begin serving at Winterfell after the wedding of Ramsay Bolton to "Arya Stark", whom they are intending to rescue. When a Bolton guard asks Theon Greyjoy what happened to the usual servants like Jez and Maisie, Theon says they are not attending Lady Arya because they did not keep her water warm.
Jezhene.
With the Sons of the Harpy killings continuing, Queen Daenerys Targaryen has every noble family of Meereen who is of dubious loyalty send her a child as a hostage. These children are made her cupbearers.
Daenerys hopes having noble children as hostages will halt the killings, but it does not. However, Daenerys refuses to allow any harm to come to the children. She grows fond of them all, and ignores Skahaz mo Kandaq's counsel to kill one for every death done by the Sons of the Harpy.
When Daenerys disappears on Drogon's back, the cupbearers continue to serve her husband, King Hizdahr zo Loraq.
Ser Barristan Selmy plots with Skahaz mo Kandaq to seize control of Meereen in the queen's name. Although Skahaz wants to kill the cupbearers in return for the deaths of the hostages Daenerys had granted to the besiegers of Meereen, Barristan also refuses to allow any harm to come to the children. Jezhene is in Hizdahr zo Loraq's chambers when Barristan arrests him and kills his bodyguard, the pit fighter Khrazz. The young cupbearer Qezza cries at the sight, and Jezhene comforts her.
Jhala is the southernmost of the three largest of the Summer Islands, and the largest overall. Walano and Omburu are each less than half the size of Jhala, though either of them is still larger than all the landmass of the Stepstones combined. As with the other two large islands in the chain, Jhala is large enough to support multiple rival princedoms.
The Red Flower Vale is a river valley in eastern Jhala and the Sweet Lotus Vale is a river valley in western Jhala. Ebonhead is a town on its southern coast at the mouth of the Sweet Lotus Vale. To its north are the Indigo Straits and the island of Omboru. To the south is Parrot Bay and the three islands called The Bones, as well as the islands Doquu and Xon. The Golden Head is a peninsula in southeast Jhala. To the north of Golden Head is a group of small islands called Lizard Head. To the west is the island Moluu.
Prized goldenheart trees grow in the forests of Jhala and Omburu, but not Walano.
Jhaqo is a *ko* in the *khalasar* commanded by Khal Drogo.
Jhaqo is the second member of Drogo's khalasar to declare himself *khal* after Drogo's illness. His khalasar consists of twenty thousand riders. Mago becomes one of his bloodriders.
Before departing, Mago steals Eroeh, an innocent girl Daenerys Targaryen had protected from him. Mago rapes her and gives her to Jhaqo to rape as well. The girl is then raped by six of Jhaqo's other men before having her throat slit. When Daenerys learns of Eroeh's fate, she promises that Jhaqo and Mago will pay for their crime.
Daenerys Targaryen and her dragon Drogon, as Khal Jhaqo finds them. © Feliche
Jhaqo's *khalasar* discovers Daenerys Targaryen and her dragon Drogon in the Dothraki sea.
A Jhat is a war chief among the Jogos Nhai. They lead bands of this nomadic people along with a moonsinger. Jhats command in matters of war, battle, and raid, whereas moonsingers act as priestesses, healers, and judges, and rule the life of the band in all other matters. Girls who chooses to the warrior's way to become jhat one day are expected to dress and live as men.
A jhattar is the "*jhat* of jhats" or war leader of the whole people among the Jogos Nhai. By tradition, they own a drinking cup made from the gilded skull of Lo Bu, the forty-third and last scarlet emperor of the Golden Empire of Yi Ti. Dozens of jhattars have led the Jogos Nhai against the city of Kayakayanaya.
Jhiqui is a Dothraki handmaiden of Daenerys Targaryen.
See also: Images of Jhiqui
She has skin the color of copper, with black hair and almond-shaped eyes.
She is of an age with Daenerys Targaryen and Irri.
Jhiqui was born in a rival *khalasar* which was defeated by Khal Drogo. She was enslaved.[*citation needed*]
Sarita Piotrowski as Jhiqui on HBO's adaptation
Jhiqui, Doreah, and Irri are given to Daenerys Targaryen as wedding gifts to serve as her handmaids.
Jhiqui remains with Daenerys after the death of Khal Drogo.
After struggling through the red waste, Irri and Jhiqui attempt to convince Daenerys not to stay in Vaes Tolorro, believing it haunted by ghosts.
Jhiqui is present when Daenerys purchases the Unsullied. Jhiqui and Irri free Rhaegal and Viserion to attack the Astapori slavers when Daenerys has the Unsullied attack their former masters.
Jhiqui and Irri both develop a crush on Rakharo who has grown more tall and muscular. Both argue who he would prefer.
Jhiqui later accompanies Daenerys to Daznak's Pit as part of the royal procession.
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Jhogo by Cloudninja9©
Jhogo is a Dothraki horserider of Daenerys Targaryen's khas who later becomes one of her bloodriders.
Jhogo is very thin with a faint shadow of a mustache. He is fearless and quick to laugh.
Jhogo is one of four Dothraki warriors assigned to the *khas* of Daenerys Targaryen within the *khalasar* of Khal Drogo. When Viserys Targaryen attacks his sister in the Dothraki Sea, Jhogo uses his whip to separate them.
When Daenerys intends to have Drogo healed using blood magic by Mirri Maz Duur, his bloodriders attempt to stop it. In the ensuing fight, Jhogo and Rakharo team up to kill Haggo.
When Daenerys names Jhogo ko and asks him to become one of her bloodriders alongside Aggo and Rakharo, she offers him the silver-handled whip she received as a present during her wedding. He is at first reluctant, but he is the first of the three to accept after the dragons are born.
During their journey across the red waste, Jhogo advises Daenerys to either tie the dying Doreah to a horse saddle or leave her.
While her *khalasar* rests in Vaes Tolorro after crossing the Red Waste, Daenerys orders her three bloodriders to scout out the country, each one in a different direction. Jhogo leaves to the south-east and follows the shierak qiya. He is the last to return, having found the city of Qarth, and is accompanied by three representatives of the city, Pyat Pree, Quaithe and Xaro Xhoan Daxos.
Jhogo leads the procession during Daenerys' visit to the Hall of a Thousand Thrones to petition the Pureborn, using his whip to set the crowd aside.
Jhogo later accompanies Daenerys to the House of the Undying, where he warns her that it is a evil place, a haunt of ghosts and maegi.
Afterwards, Jhogo, along with Aggo, rides with Daenerys to Qarth's waterfront to seek a ship, where he buys a handful of fat white cherries to eat.
Jhogo guards Daenerys when she visits the Plaza of Pride to discuss the purchase of Unsullied slaves. He leads the procession back to her ships and almost pulls his silver-handled whip to move back the Astapori crowd, but is stopped by Daenerys before he escalates the situation.
Jhogo protects the rear of the litter alongside Rakharo during the fall of Astapor. He kills several Good Masters and Astapori slavers on the day of the battle, taking down one slaver soldier with his silver-handled whip.
On the march to Yunkai, Jhogo and his fellow bloodriders are also made kos by Daenerys and are put in charge of commanding the 30-odd mounted khalasar remaining to her, leaving their guarding duties to Arstan Whitebeard and Strong Belwas. Jhogo dismisses the threat of the Yunkish scouts and later participates in the battle of Yunkai, successfully leading the Dothraki mounted warriors in wedge formation against the enemy center.
During the siege of Meereen, Jhogo almost comes to blows with Aggo and Rakharo over who would fight Oznak zo Pahl, the Hero of Meereen; Daenerys ultimately stops her bloodriders from fighting, deeming them brave but too young and valuable to lose.
Jhogo and the other Bloodriders continue to serve their *khaleesi*.
Jhogo, Aggo and Rakharo are commanded by Daenerys to use her khalasar to subdue the hinterlands of Meereen and end the slavery there.
Daenerys later recalls Jhogo and her other bloodriders back to Meereen. They arrive in time to assist her in feeding the thousands of survivors from the Siege of Astapor, where Jhogo tries to stop Daenerys from letting the sick refugees touch her. He and Rakharo are shamed into aiding the sufferers of the bloody flux by helping them bathe in the nearby ocean.
When peace is signed between Yunkai and Meereen, Jhogo - along with Groleo, Daario Naharis, Hero and three kin to the new King of Meereen, Hizdahr zo Loraq – are given over to the Yunkish camp to vouch for the safety of the seven Yunkai commanders who are allowed to enter the city of Meereen.
At the council called by Ser Barristan Selmy, the elderly *jaqqa rhan* Rommo agrees Jhogo must be freed, as he is Daenerys' "blood of her blood" and the honour of the khalasar demands it.
Jhogo was the first to lay his arakh at her feet. "Blood of my blood," he murmured, pushing his face to the smoking earth.
Jhogwin is the Dothraki name
The Jhogwin became extinct a thousand years ago, leaving behind their massive bones.
Jinqi is a city in Yi Ti in southern Essos. It is located near a delta along the Jade Sea, north of Leng. The nearby river flows from the Bleeding Sea to the north.
The dynasty of the maroon emperors kept their martial court at this city, to better guard the eastern frontiers of the empire against reavers from the Shadow Lands.
Not to be confused with Johanna Lannister, the wife of Jason Lannister.
Joanna Lannister was a member of House Lannister who became Lady of Casterly Rock, the wife of Lord Tywin Lannister, and the mother of Cersei, Jaime and Tyrion.
See also: Images of Joanna Lannister
Joanna's father, Ser Jason, was the younger brother of Tytos Lannister, Lord of Casterly Rock. She had one older sibling, Damon, a son from her father's first marriage, and five younger siblings (three brothers, two sisters), the eldest of whom was Stafford. She also had an older bastard sister, Lynora.
Joanna went to King's Landing in 259 AC, for the coronation of King Jaehaerys II Targaryen, and remained as a lady-in-waiting for the future queen, Princess Rhaella Targaryen. There were rumors that Joanna gave her maidenhead to Prince Aerys the night of Jaehaerys's coronation, and that she briefly became Aerys's paramour after he ascended the Iron Throne. However, Grand Maester Pycelle insists these tales are baseless, as Tywin would not have married Joanna if they were true, "for he was ever a proud man and not one accustomed to feasting on another man's leavings."
Joanna married her first cousin, Tywin, now serving as Aerys's Hand of the King, in 263 AC in a lavish ceremony in the Great Sept of Baelor.
Not long thereafter, Joanna was dismissed by Queen Rhaella Targaryen from her service in King's Landing. While Rhaella turned a blind eye towards most of her husband's infidelities, she did not approve when it concerned one of her own ladies, several of whom were sent away from court. Joanna departed for Casterly Rock at once, and she seldom visited the capital afterwards.
Joanna's marriage to Tywin was reportedly a happy one, and she became Tywin's trusted counselor and companion. Her influence on her husband was such that people say that Tywin ruled the Seven Kingdoms as Hand,
A pregnant Joanna with her children, Cersei and Jaime, by naomi-makes-art73.
In 266 AC, Joanna gave birth to Cersei and Jaime, with Tywin present. King Aerys ordered Tywin to bring Joanna and the children to King's Landing when the children were old enough to travel, but Lord Tytos Lannister died before this could occur. Instead, Tywin, Aerys, Prince Rhaegar, and half the court went to the westerlands in 267 AC, where they remained for most of the next year.
Joanna attended the Anniversary Tourney in King's Landing in 272 AC, held to celebrate Aerys's tenth year on the Iron Throne. Aerys insulted Joanna by asking her if nursing her children had ruined her breasts, and the king refused the outraged Tywin's resignation the next day.
At some point within the next year, Joanna's servant caught Jaime and Cersei together, engaged in some kind of sexual activity. Joanna sent the maid away, moved Jaime's chamber to the other side of Casterly Rock, and put a guard outside of Cersei's chamber. She then warned her twins that they must never do such a thing again, or else she would be forced to tell their father.
During her time as Queen Rhaella's lady-in-waiting, Joanna had befriended the Princess of Dorne, another member of the court., who were not yet promised in marriage, so the two women planned to have their children be wed to each other.
In 273 AC, Joanna died birthing her youngest son, the dwarf Tyrion, while the Martells were on their way to Casterly Rock. Once confronted on the subject, Tywin bluntly refused all the offers (Jaime wed to Elia, Cersei wed to Oberyn, or both), and instead offered newborn Tyrion for Elia, an offer meant to be insulting.
Tywin seldom spoke of his wife, but he was greatly saddened by her death
Tywin and Joanna Lannister, by Bella Bergolts ©
King Joffrey I Baratheon drapes Margaery Tyrell with a wife's cloak worn first by Joanna in her wedding to Tywin Lannister and then by Cersei Lannister in her wedding to Robert I Baratheon.
One of Cersei's dromonds is named *Lady Joanna* to honor the queen's mother.
During the siege of Riverrun, Ser Jaime Lannister dreams and sees a woman he barely recognizes. At first, he believes her to be his sister, Cersei, but then realizes it is his mother. She asks if he will forget his father like he has forgotten her. She talks about the future that Tywin had wanted for his children: his son a knight and his daughter a queen. She cries when Jaime replies that they have indeed become that.
Ser Barristan Selmy tells Daenerys Targaryen of the desire of her father, King Aerys II Targaryen, for Joanna.
Tywin: Casterly Rock. Never.
Tyrion: Why?
Tywin: You ask that? You, who killed your mother to come into the world? You are an ill-made, devious, disobedient, spiteful little creature full of envy, lust, and low cunning. Men's laws give you the right to bear my name and display my colors, since I cannot prove that you are not mine. To teach me humility, the gods have condemned me to watch you waddle about wearing that proud lion that was my father's sigil and his father's before him. But neither gods nor men shall ever compel me to let you turn Casterly Rock into your whorehouse.
- Tywin Lannister and Tyrion Lannister
Lord Tywin seldom spoke of his wife, but Tyrion had heard his uncles talk of the love between them. In those days, his father had been Aerys's Hand, and many people said that Lord Tywin Lannister ruled the Seven Kingdoms, but Lady Joanna ruled Lord Tywin.
- thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
He was not the same man after she died, Imp. The best part of him died with her.
- Gerion Lannister to Tyrion Lannister
Daenerys: And my father? Was there some woman he loved better than his queen?
Barristan: Not ... not loved. Mayhaps wanted is a better word, but ... it was only kitchen gossip, the whispers of washerwomen and stableboys ...
Daenerys: I want to know. I never knew my father. I want to know everything about him. The good and ... the rest.Barristan: As you command. Prince Aerys ... as a youth, he was taken with a certain lady of Casterly Rock, a cousin of Tywin Lannister. When she and Tywin wed, your father drank too much wine at the wedding feast and was heard to say that it was a great pity that the lord's right to the first night had been abolished. A drunken jape, no more, but Tywin Lannister was not a man to forget such words, or the ... the liberties your father took during the bedding.
- Daenerys Targaryen and Barristan Selmy
Only Lady Joanna truly knows the man beneath the armor, and all his smiles belong to her and her alone. I do avow that I have even observed her make him laugh, not once, but on three separate occasions!
- Pycelle reporting to the Citadel
With her death, Grand Maester Pycelle observes, the joy went out of Tywin Lannister, yet still he persisted in his duty.
- writings of Yandel
Joanna Swyft is a member of House Swyft, the daughter of Ser Steffon Swyft.
Jocasta Lannister was the wife of Lord Lyman Lannister during the reign of King Maegor I Targaryen. It is unknown what her birth house was, before marrying Lord Lyman.
Jocasta's husband, Lord Lyman Lannister, protected Prince Aegon and Princess Rhaena Targaryen during the early years of the reign of King Maegor I Targaryen, extending them guest right. During their stay at Casterly Rock, Jocasta first discerned that Rhaena was pregnant.
Jocelyn Baratheon was a member of House Baratheon. She was the daughter of Lord Rogar Baratheon and Dowager Queen Alyssa Velaryon, and their second child together.
Alyssa Velaryon, the widow of King Aenys I Targaryen, married Rogar Baratheon, Lord of Storm's End, in 50 AC. The marriage produced two children, Boremund and Jocelyn.
Jocelyn married the Prince of Dragonstone, Aemon Targaryen, the eldest living son and heir apparent of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen.
Jocelyn Penrose was a member of House Penrose and the daughter of Ronnel Penrose and his wife Elaena Targaryen.
Lady Jocelyn Stark was the only daughter of Lord Willam Stark and Lady Melantha Blackwood. She was married to Benedict Royce and had children.
In the first edition of *The World of Ice and Fire*, Benedict Royce was listed as Benedict Rogers, but this was confirmed by Elio Garcia to be a typo.
Jocelyn Swyft is a member of House Swyft. She is a lady attendant of Queen Cersei Lannister.
Jocelyn is present when Dowager Queen Cersei Lannister receives news of Tywin Lannister's death.*]
When Cersei completes her walk of penance and enters the Red Keep, Jocelyn provides a blanket when Lord Regent Kevan Lannister commands the naked Cersei to be covered up.
Jodge is a squire for Ser Dunaver. He can not hold his water during the night.
Jodge is part of Tywin Lannister's army when it takes Harrenhal.
*"Joffrey" redirects here. For the historical King of the Rock, see Joffrey Lannister. For other characters named Joffrey, see Joffrey (disambiguation).*
Prince Joffrey Baratheon is known to the Seven Kingdoms as the eldest son and heir of King Robert I Baratheon and Queen Cersei Lannister. A member of House Baratheon of King's Landing, his siblings are Princess Myrcella and Prince Tommen. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones*, he is played by Jack Gleeson.
See also: Images of Joffrey Baratheon
Joffrey has the Lannister look
Twelve years old at the beginning of *A Song of Ice and Fire,]
Joffrey's surcout is divided, showing both the Baratheon stag of his father, King Robert I, and the Lannister lion of his mother, Queen Cersei.
Joffrey grew up as a spoiled and indulgent child with a cruel streak within him. His father, King Robert I Baratheon, is deeply disappointed with his son and feels little affection for Joffrey
Once after learning a kitchen cat was pregnant, Joffrey killed the animal and cut open its belly to see the kittens inside. He showed one of the unborn kittens to his father. Robert was so shocked and angry he hit Joffrey so hard it knocked out two of his baby teeth.
Cersei assigned Sandor Clegane to be her son's sworn shield.
For Joffrey's twelfth name day, King Robert organized a tourney in King's Landing in 298 AC, where, amongst others, Lord Walder Frey, Lord Jon Arryn, Lord Stannis Baratheon, and Ser Davos Seaworth were present.
Joffrey and the rest of the royal family take the kingsroad to Winterfell after Lord Jon Arryn's death, as King Robert I Baratheon asks Lord Eddard Stark to become the new Hand of the King.
After Bran Stark is critically injured after falling from the First Keep, Joffrey's uncle, Tyrion Lannister, slaps Joffrey for speaking rudely of the boy's condition.
On the way from Winterfell to King's Landing, Joffrey spends a day riding and drinking wine with Sansa. They come upon Arya Stark and her friend Mycah, a butcher's boy, who are practicing sword fighting. A drunk Joffrey commands Mycah to spar with him. When Mycah does not take up the challenge, Joffrey pricks him with his sword, Lion's Tooth, while ignoring pleas to leave the boy alone. Arya smacks him with her stick, allowing Mycah to escape. An enraged Joffrey slashes at Arya, but is injured when her direwolf, Nymeria, protects her.
Joffrey later claims before his father's court at Darry that he had been attacked by Mycah and Nymeria. Search parties are sent out to find Mycah, Nymeria and Arya. Sandor Clegane rides down Mycah, while Sansa's direwolf, Lady, is executed after Queen Cersei Lannister interferes. This earns Joffrey the hatred of Arya. Robert's younger brother, Lord Renly Baratheon, openly laughs at his nephew for being beaten and disarmed by a girl younger than him.
While drinking with Eddard Stark at the Hand's tourney at King's Landing, King Robert openly despairs of his son and heir, revealing to his old friend that he has often thought of abdicating; the only thing that stops him is the thought of Joffrey sitting on the Iron Throne with his mother whispering in his ear.
Acting as the new Hand, Ned Stark discovers that Joffrey, along with his siblings, are actually bastards born of incest between Cersei and her twin, Ser Jaime of Robert's Kingsguard.
Following Robert's death, Joffery summons the council and commands that they make arrangements for his coronation as Lord of the Seven Kingdoms. When Ned produces Robert's will, which declares Ned regent and mentions "the heir" rather than specifying Joffrey as heir to the Iron Throne, Cersei tears it up and advises Ned to swear fealty to her son. Ned in turn reveals that Joffrey has no claim to the throne and that his uncle, Lord Stannis Baratheon, is the true heir, but Eddard is quickly arrested for treason.
Joffrey sitting on the Iron Throne - by Magali Villeneuve ©
After taking the Iron Throne as Robert's heir, Joffrey starts his first court session by naming his grandfather, Lord Tywin Lannister, as the new Hand of the King, appointing his mother to the small council and Jaime Lannister as Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, and dismissing the legendary knight Barristan Selmy from his service, against all traditions. When Barristan storms out in disgust, making a remark about the ease with which Stannis would take the throne from him, Joffrey orders Barristan seized and questioned,.
Eddard's son Robb captures Jaime in the Whispering Wood plunging Westeros into devastating civil war.
Joffrey continues to mistreat and abuse Sansa, a penalty for each of Robb's victories. Forcing her to look at her father Eddard's severed head is the start of a string of beatings he commands his Kingsguard to abuse her with. He threatens to force her to look on her brother Robb's head when he kills him, as he boasts, in single combat.
King Joffrey Baratheon - by Magali Villeneuve ©
Stannis Baratheon, Lord of Dragonstone and the brother of King Renly and the late King Robert, has his supporters spread the message that Joffrey and his siblings, Prince Tommen and Princess Myrcella, are bastard abominations. Stannis presses his own claim to the Iron Throne.
Ser Arys Oakheart tells Sansa Stark that smallfolk refer to the red comet as King Joffrey's Comet. During a small tourney held to honor the boy king's name day, Sansa convinces Joffrey to spare the life of the drunken Ser Dontos Hollard, who becomes Joffrey's new fool.
Joffrey rules with whim and caprice, proving difficult for even his mother to control. Sansa becomes imprisoned to his will, and he frequently has his Kingsguard, with the exception of the Hound, beat her when she displeases him.
Joffrey's cruelty and the decreased quality of life at King's Landing due to food shortages and other hardships make Joffrey an unpopular king, and he is nearly killed in a riot sparked by his temper. Acting as his temporary Hand, only Tyrion stands up to Joffrey's authority, and the king develops a special hatred for his uncle. Tyrion, in return, holds his nephew in contempt, viewing him as a monster.
During the Battle of the Blackwater, Joffrey wears gilded mail and enameled crimson plate, with a golden lion on his helm, and he carries a new blade, Hearteater.
Following the battle, Joffrey rewards many of the survivors in the throne room. The king puts aside his betrothal to Sansa and instead promises to wed Margaery Tyrell, Mace's daughter and the widow of Renly. He is excused from court after cutting his arm on the Iron Throne.
Lord Tywin Lannister becomes Joffrey's Hand of the King, replacing Tyrion.
Sansa Stark informs Olenna Tyrell, Margaery's grandmother, of Joffrey's cruel personality.
Joffrey is delighted when he hears of Robb Stark's death at the Red Wedding and wants his head so he can serve it to Sansa at his own wedding, in addition to wanting to show no mercy to the northern and river lords who surrendered following Robb Stark's death. Tywin instructs Joffrey to be merciful in victory, but then sends the king from the Hand's solar when Joffrey is insulting in response.
Depiction of The Purple Wedding by Conor Campbell©
Prior to his wedding, Joffrey receives a goldenheart bow from Jalabhar Xho, riding boots from Tanda Stokeworth, a jousting saddle from Kevan Lannister, scorpion brooch from Oberyn Martell, silver spurs from Addam Marbrand, and a tourney pavilion from Mathis Rowan. The king is presented with a model of a war galley by Paxter Redwyne, who says *King Joffrey's Valor* is being built for him at the Arbor. Tyrion gives Joffrey a rare book, *Lives of Four Kings*, and Mace gifts him a seven-sided wedding chalice.
Tywin gives his grandson a Valyrian steel sword as a wedding present, which Joffrey names Widow's Wail. Joffrey slices Lives of Four Kings with his new sword, demanding a better present from Tyrion and Sansa.
Joffrey's marriage to Margaery in 300 AC is on the first day of the new century at the Great Sept of Baelor.
While Tyrion is taken into custody by the Kingsguard, Sansa escapes King's Landing with the aid of Petyr Baelish..
Joffrey is laid in state in the Red Keep's sept in gilded armor, and when Jaime returns to King's Landing he makes love to Cersei in front of the corpse.
During Tyrion's trial for Joffrey's death, witnesses downplay the king's behavior and exaggerate Tyrion's actions.
Joffrey, with the exception of his mother Cersei,
Joffrey's younger brother, King Tommen I Baratheon, weds his widow, Margaery Tyrell.
One of Cersei's dromonds is named *Brave Joffrey* in the late king's honor.
I cannot abide the wailing of women.
—Joffrey to Tyrion Lannister
My mother bids me let Lord Eddard take the black, and Lady Sansa has begged mercy for her father. But they have the soft hearts of women. So long as I am your king, treason shall never go unpunished. Ser Ilyn, bring me his head!
—Joffrey, to the assembled crowd of King's Landing, and Ilyn Payne
Tywin: Joffrey, when your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you. And any man who must say 'I am the king' is no true king at all. Aerys never understood that, but you will. When I've won your war for you, we will restore the king's peace and the king's justice. The only head that need concern you is Margaery Tyrell's maidenhead.
Joffrey: You talk about Aerys, Grandfather, but you were scared of him.
Cersei: Joffrey, apologize to your grandfather.Joffrey: Why should I? Everyone knows it's true. My father won all the battles. He killed Prince Rhaegar and took the crown, while your father was hiding under Casterly Rock. A strong king acts boldly, he doesn't just talk.
—Tywin Lannister, Joffrey, and Cersei Lannister
Joffrey: I want to see, kof, see you ride that, kof kof, pig, Uncle. I want...
Margaery: Your Grace?
Joffrey: It's, kof, the pie, noth- kof, pie. I, kof, I can't, kof kof kof kof...
—Joffrey and Margaery Tyrell as he dies
Joffrey is truly a little shit.
—Jon Snow to Arya Stark
She could not hate Joffrey tonight. He was too beautiful to hate.
—thoughts of Sansa Stark
I am sorry for your girl, Ned. Truly. About the wolf, I mean. My son was lying, I'd stake my soul on it. My son ...
I have dreamed of giving up the crown. Take ship for the Free Cities with my horse and my hammer, spend my time warring and whoring, that's what I was made for. The sellsword king, how the singers would love me. You know what stops me? The thought of Joffrey on the throne, with Cersei standing behind him whispering in his ear. My son. How could I have made a son like that, Ned?
Cersei: She would have done anything for Joffrey, until he cut off her father's head and called it mercy. That put an end to that.
Tyrion: His Grace has a unique way of winning the hearts of his subjects.
Joffrey the Illborn, small wonder he's faithless, with the Kingslayer for a father.
—a knight of House Cerwyn to Bran Stark
Olenna: What sort of man is this Joffrey, who calls himself Baratheon but looks so very Lannister?
Sansa A monster. Joffrey is a monster. He lied about the butcher's boy and made Father kill my wolf. When I displease him, he has the Kingsguard beat me. He's evil and cruel, my lady, it's so. And the queen as well.—Olenna Tyrell and Sansa Stark
You can lead a king to water, but with Joff one had to splash it about before he realized he could drink it.
*Tyrion: Joffrey would have been a worse king than Aerys ever was. He stole his father's dagger and gave it to a footpad to slit the throat of Brandon Stark, did you know that?
*Jaime: I ... I thought he might have.
Tyrion: Well, a son takes after his father. Joffrey would have killed me as well, once he came into his power. For the crime of being short and ugly, of which I am conspicuously guilty.
Brienne: Joffrey was your...
Jaime: My king. Leave it at that.
Brienne: You say Sansa killed him. Why protect her?Jaime: Because Joff was no more to me than a squirt of seed in Cersei's cunt. And because he deserved to die.
Cersei: Joffrey had no love for Robb Stark, but the younger boy was nothing to him. He was only a child himself.
Jaime: A child hungry for a pat on the head from that sot you let him believe was his father.
Joffrey Caswell was Lord of Bitterbridge and head of House Caswell during the reign of Aerys I Targaryen. At the time of the Second Blackfyre Rebellion he was twenty years of age. He was thin, a poor rider and even worse lance.
Lord Joffrey attended the Whitewalls tourney. After falling asleep in his wine the night before, Lord Joffrey faced Ser Kyle in his first joust of the tourney. He defeated Ser Kyle in the first tilt.
Ser Joffrey Dayne was a knight of House Dayne during the reign of Aegon I Targaryen.
In 10 AC during the First Dornish War, King Aegon I Targaryen's attempt to conquer Dorne, Ser Joffrey marched an army to the walls of Oldtown, razing the fields and villages outside it.
Ser Joffrey Doggett, known as the Red Dog of the Hills, was a knight of House Doggett during the reign of King Maegor I Targaryen, and a member of the Lannisport chapter of the Warrior's Sons.
In 43 AC, during the Faith Militant uprising, Ser Joffrey was chosen as the new Grand Captain of the Warrior's Sons to replace the late Ser Damon Morrigen. He was determined to restore the order to its former glory and rode with a hundred men to seek the blessing of the High Septon. By the time he arrived at Oldtown, he had amassed two thousand followers of knights, squires and freeriders.
By 44 AC, the Warrior's Sons were outlawed and no longer had the strength to defy the Iron Throne in open battle, so the Red Dog sent them out disguised as hedge knights to hunt down and kill Targaryen loyalists and "traitors to the Faith". Former Warrior's Son Ser Morgan Hightower, Old Lord Merryweather, Lord Rowan's son and heir, Ser Davos Darklyn's aged father and Blind Jon Hogg were all killed by Doggett's followers.
By late 45 AC, ser Joffrey ruled the hill country north of the Golden Tooth in all but name.
Septon Moon and Ser Joffrey Doggett led the Poor Fellows against the king in 48 AC.
For the monarch of the Seven Kingdoms of Lannister descent, see Joffrey Baratheon
Joffrey Lannister, born Joffrey Lydden, was the first King of the Rock of Andal descent.
Ser Joffrey, a knight of House Lydden, was married to the only daughter of King Gerold III Lannister, who was of First Men ancestry. When the king died without male issue, Joffrey was crowned by a council and took the name of House Lannister.
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Ser Joffrey Lonmouth, known as the Knight of Kisses, was a knight of House Lonmouth. He was likely a lover to Ser Laenor Velaryon. Prince Joffrey Velaryon was named after him.
Ser Joffrey was Laenor Velaryon's favorite knight and companion. At Laenor's wedding to Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, Joffrey rode as Laenor's champion in the tourney while Ser Harwin Strong rode for the princess. During the tourney, Ser Criston Cole attacked him with a morningstar and cracked his helm. He died six days later without recovering consciousness; Laenor never left his side and wept at his death.
Ser Laenor wanted to name his first son, Jacaerys, after him, but was overruled by his father, Lord Corlys Velaryon. Instead, Laenor's third son, Joffrey, bore his name.
Ser Joffrey Staunton was a knight of House Staunton and a member of the Kingsguard during the reign of Aegon III Targaryen.
While riding with Prince Aegon near Fairmarket in 155 AC, the prince's horse threw a shoe. When they sought the local smith the prince liked his buxom young wife, Megette. The prince absconded with the blacksmith's wife, buying her for seven gold dragons along with the threat of Ser Joffrey.
Prince Joffrey Velaryon, also known as Joff, was the thirdborn son of Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and her first husband, Ser Laenor Velaryon.
Joff was a strapping lad. Like his brothers Jacaerys and Lucerys, he had brown eyes and hair, and a pug nose. This caused many at court to suspect that Ser Harwin Strong was their true father.
He was named after his father's favorite knight and companion, Ser Joffrey Lonmouth.
When Joffrey was three years old, his ten-year-old dragonless half-uncle, Prince Aemond Targaryen, slapped him in an attempt to claim Vhagar for himself. Joffrey called for his two older brothers, and in the ensuing fight Aemond lost an eye.
Joffrey was twelve years old at the start of the civil war which became known as the Dance of the Dragons. Joff was ordered to Gulltown to defend the Vale of Arryn against King Aegon II Targaryen's dragons, with Rhaena Targaryen chosen to accompany him. Grand Maester Munkun suggests that it was Jacaerys's desire to keep his brother far away from the fighting.
Joffrey died during the storming of the Dragonpit trying to ride Syrax in order to save the dragons in the Dragonpit.
I want to fight for you, Mother, as my brothers did. Let me prove that I am as brave as they were.
- Joffrey to Rhaenyra Targaryen
Jogos Nhai men astride zorses - by Marc Simonetti ©
The Jogos Nhai are a people of Essos who live east of the Bone Mountains on the plains of the Jogos Nhai, which lie north of Yi Ti and the Shrinking Sea.
Jogos Nhai are as a rule, a head shorter than the Dothraki and are described as squat, bowlegged, and swarthy, with large heads, small faces, and sallow-colored skin. Men and women both have pointed skulls, a result of the custom of binding the heads of their newborn during the first two years of life.
The Jogos Nhai are a nomadic people who live in yurts, tents, and saddles. They are a proud, warlike race who prize freedom above all and are never content to remain in once place for long.
Besides their custom of skull modification, the Jogos Nhai shave their heads but for a single strip of hair down the center of the skull, while women go wholly bald and are said to scrape all the hair even from their pubic area.
The Jogos Nhai are also renowned for their zorses.
They travel in small bands closely connected by blood. Each one is commanded by a *jhat, or war chief, and a moonsinger, who combines the roles of priestess, healer, and judge. The *jhat leads in war, battle, and raid, whereas other matters are ruled by the band's moonsinger. There are also female jhats and male moonsingers, but girls who choose the warrior's way are expected to dress and live as men, whereas boys who choose to become moonsingers must dress and live as women, making it difficult to tell apart when such cases take place.
Unlike the Dothraki khalasars, Jogos Nhai's band do not make war upon one another, as their gods forbid them to shed the blood of their own people. Young men do ride out to steal goats, zorses, and dogs from other bands, while girls go forth to abduct husbands, but these are rituals hallowed by the gods, during which no blood may be shed. However, the Jogos Nhai do live in a perpetual state of warfare against all their neighboring peoples.
The religion of the moonsingers is prominent among them.
Legend claims the Jogos Nhai, led by their *jhattar* - the jhat of jhats and war leader of all their people - Gharak Squint-Eye, slew the last of the Jhogwin at the Battle in the Howling Hills.
The Jogos Nhai carried out constant attacks upon N'Ghai, reducing the once proud kingdom to a single city, Nefer, and its hinterlands.
Prior to the Dry Times, the Jogos Nhai were also involved in a bloody border war with the Patrimony of Hyrkoon that saw the zorse-riders poisoning rivers and wells, burning down towns and cities, and carrying off thousand Hyyrkoon into slavery. The Hyrkoon, for their part, sacrificed tens of thousands of Jogos Nhai to their dark gods. Thus, the enmity between the zorse-riders and the warrior women of the Bone Mountains runs deep into the present, and over the centuries dozens of jhattars have led armies up the Steel Road and broken against the walls of Kayakayanaya. Nevertheless, the moonsingers sing of the glorious day when the Jogos Nhai will prevail over the remnants of Hyrkoon and spill over the mountains to claim the fertile lands beyond.
Even the Golden Empire of Yi Ti have been target of the Jogos Nhai depredations. Raids into the empire are a way of life for the zorse-riders, and a source of the gold and gems that decor the arms and necks of moonsingers and jhats as well as of the slaves that serve them and tend their herds. Over the past two thousand years, YiTish cities, towns, farms, and fields beyond count have been reduced to ruins and ashes. Many imperial generals and three God-Emperors have led armies to bring the nomads to heel but have seldom ended well and soon the raids began anew, even when jhats were compelled to vow eternal fealty to the God-Emperor and foreswear raiding forever.
During his long reign, forty-second scarlet emperor Lo Han led three such invasions of the plains, yet by the time of his death the Jogos Nhai carried out bolder and more rapacious raids than when he began his reign. His successor, Lo Bu determined to end the threat of the nomads for all time, assembled a mighty host, said to be three hundred thousand strong, and crossed the borders of the empire with slaughter as his only purpose. Tributes, hostages, oaths of fealty, or offerings of peace failed to sway him and his vast army swept the plains, leaving behind a burning wasteland.
When the nomads resorted to their traditional tactic of melting away at the approach of the army, Lo Bu divided his host into thirteen smaller armies and sent them forth in all directions to hunt down the zorse-riders. History tells a million Jogos Nhai died at their hands.
The rival clans of Jogos Nhai unified under *jhattar* Zhea, a woman in man's mail, who, in the period of two years isolated each of Lo Bu's thirteen armies, slew their scouts and foragers, starved them, denied them water, led them into wastelands and traps, thus destroying each army one by one. Finally, her riders fell on Lo Bu's own host and carried out a slaughter to terrible that every stream for twenty leagues around was choked in blood. Among the slain was Lo Bu himself, whose skull was stripped of flesh and dipped in gold, becoming Zhea's drinking cup. Ever since, every jhattar of the Jogos Nhai has drunk fermented zorse milk from the gilded skull of the Boy Too Bold By Half, as Lo Bu is remembered.
In the Eastern Market of Vaes Dothrak Daenerys Targaryen espies the striped black and white horses of the Jogos Nhai.
In Qarth a pair of Jogos Nhai present Daenerys one of their striped zorses, as a token to the Mother of Dragons.
Jogos Nhai fighters are among those who come to Meereen to battle in Daznak's Pit.
Not to be confused with Joanna Lannister, the wife of Tywin Lannister.
Johanna Lannister was the Lady of Casterly Rock through her marriage to Lord Jason Lannister.
During the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons, Lady Johanna's husband, Lord Jason Lannister, and his twin brother, Tyland, supported the greens. Jason led his banners and marched to the field in support of Aegon II Targaryen, but he was slain in the Battle at the Red Fork in 130 AC.*]
The ironborn squabbled over Dalton's succession after the Red Kraken was murdered at Faircastle a few years later. Since the Lannister fleet had been destroyed by the Greyjoys, Johanna allied with the lord admiral of the Reach, Ser Leo Costayne, to have the westermen invade the Iron Islands in 134 AC. When one of Dalton's salt sons was taken to Casterly Rock as a captive, Johanna had him gelded and made him her son's fool.
Johanna reclaimed the dwindling glory of House Lannister and also lent gold to King's Landing to help rebuild the extensive damages caused by the previous civil war.
Lady Johanna Swann was a niece of the Lord of Stonehelm in the early second century who became an influential courtesan known as the Black Swan in Lys.
After driving pirates from the Stepstones in the late first century, the Triarchy became gradually greedier with their tolls for passage, with the Lyseni captains even taking women, girls, and comely boys to turn into bedslaves. When fifteen years old, Johanna was thus enslaved, and her niggardly uncle Lord Swann refused to pay the ransom. Johanna became a celebrated courtesan known as the Black Swan, and was eventually ruler of Lys in all but name.
John II Gardener, called the Tall, was a King of the Reach and head of House Gardener. He sailed his barge up the Mander to its very headwaters, planting the Gardener banner wherever he went and receiving homage from lords and petty kings whose lands lined the river's banks.
John Mudd can refer to the following characters:
John the Oak is a legendary son of Garth Greenhand and a giantess. He was a huge man, eight feet tall in some tales, or even ten or twelve in others. Even though chivalry was brought by the Andals millennia later, he's credited with bringing chivalry to Westeros. His descendants became House Oakheart.
Jojen Reed is a member of House Reed. He is Lord Howland Reed's only son and Meera Reed's younger brother. Jojen has greensight, the power of prophetic green dreams. In the HBO adaptation *Game of Thrones* he is portrayed by Thomas Brodie-Sangster.
See also: Images of Jojen Reed
Jojen is short and slim with unusually deep green eyes, wearing green-colored clothing.
In his childhood Jojen nearly died of greywater fever. While he was near death, he was visited by a three-eyed crow that gave him the gift of greensight, causing him to experience prophetic dreams known as greendreams. One such dream involved a chained wolf that the three-eyed crow was trying to free from a chain. When Jojen told his his father, Howland Reed, about the dream, Lord Howland sent him and his sister Meera to Winterfell.
Even though he experiences greendreams, Jojen is not a Greenseer as, lacking the abilities of a warg, he cannot commune with weirwood trees.
Jojen and Meera, on their way to Winterfell - by mustamirri ©
In the middle of the harvest feast at Winterfell, Jojen and his sister Meera arrive to pledge the Reeds' support to Winterfell and King Robb Stark after Lord Eddard Stark's death. Jojen asks about the Direwolves, wanting to see them and is told they are in the godswood. The boy is not afraid of them, telling Bran and Meera that it is not the day he will die.
Meera reveals that Jojen has the greensight and that they were sent to Winterfell by their father, Howland Reed, after hearing about Jojen’s dreams. Jojen explains he has dreamed of a winged wolf and a three-eyed crow who lives beyond the Wall. Jojen does not panic when the direwolves become aggressive, but follows Meera's command to climb a weirwood to escape them. After Jojen's green dreams are discounted by Maester Luwin, Meera tells Bran of one of Jojen’s green dreams:
You were sitting at supper, but instead of a servant, Maester Luwin brought you your food. He served you the king’s cut off the roast, the meat rare and bloody, but with a savory smell that made everyone’s mouth water. The meat he served the Freys was old and grey and dead. Yet they liked their supper better than you liked yours.
Later Bran learns from Luwin of Robb Stark's victory over Ser Stafford Lannister in the Battle of Oxcross, and the death of Ser Stevron Frey. While Bran is happy for the victory, he knows that only Lord Tywin Lannister matters. In contrast, neither "Big" Walder or "Little" Walder seem bothered by their uncle Stevron's death. Because they are more concerned about the Frey line of succession than Stevron's death, the maester tells them that they should be ashamed.
Jojen later tells Bran:
I dreamed that the sea was lapping all around Winterfell. I saw black waves crashing against the gates and towers, and then the salt water came flowing over the walls and filled the castle. Drowned men were floating in the yard. When I first dreamed the dream, back at Greywater, I didn’t know their faces, but now I do. That Alebelly is one, the guard who called our names at the feast. Your septon's another. Your smith as well.
Bran, confused and dismayed, responds that the sea is far away and Winterfell has high walls, but Jojen insists the sea will flow over over the walls. Bran tells Jojen about his own dreams of the three-eyed crow and his dreams of falling. Jojen tells him he is a warg, and that he is powerful but will not fly unless he opens his third eye. Jojen also warns Bran not to tell anyone because people will fear him. Bran tries to warn others, but mostly the dream of the sea is dismissed.
Ser Rodrik Cassel returns with a prisoner who was involved in the forced marriage and then murder of Lady Donella Hornwood. Jojen reveals he has seen the bodies of Bran and Rickon at the feet of the man they call Reek and he is skinning off their faces with a knife. Meera states that she could kill Reek, but Jojen tells her she would not succeed.
When Theon Greyjoy takes Winterfell, Bran is lead out of his room where he meets Meera and Jojen, who have also been taken captive.
When Jojen and his companions emerge from Winterfell's crypts they find that the castle has been burned and its people killed. In the godswood the dying Luwin advises Osha to split the Stark children. Osha decides to take Rickon with her south and Jojen says that they will take Bran. After they separate, Meera, Hodor and Bran travel north upon Jojen's recommendation.
Meera and Jojen at the Neck - by Amok ©
When Bran wakes from a wolf dream while in the ruins of Tumbledown Tower, Jojen, who was nicknamed "little grandfather" by Old Nan because of his solemnity, warns Bran against spending too much time as the wolf Summer. It is dangerous for them to travel in the North and Bran will not learn about his gifts while remaining at the tower. After considering seeking refuge with House Stark's bannermen, Bran tells the Reeds he wants to fly, and to take him to the three-eyed crow.
As they move north, Jojen insists that they keep away from roads because roads have travelers that will spread tales about a giant, a cripple boy and a wolf. Summer finds them a cave where they find a Liddle who shares his food and warns the kingsroad has become dangerous. When he states things were different when there was a Stark in Winterfell, Jojen tells him that the wolves will be back. In the morning the man is gone, but he left some food for them.
They arrive at a village in disrepair in the New Gift: the most substantial building, the inn, only has a few walls still standing. They take refuge from a storm in Queenscrown, the holdfast in the middle of the lake, but they detect men in the village, one of whom turns out to be Jon Snow traveling with wildlings. Bran possesses Summer and attacks the wildlings going after Jon. Summer kills three of them, but takes an arrow to the shoulder. The group waits until the next day to leave after the wildlings are gone.
They arrive at the Nightfort, the castle in Jojen’s green dream, but they cannot figure out how to get across the wall. They decide to sleep that night in the kitchen because it would provide some protection. As they go to sleep, Jojen states that maybe he will have a green dream to show him the way. When they hear something coming from a well, Meera traps it in her net and sticks him with her frog spear. When the fire is stoked up they see a girl, Gilly, with a baby and Samwell Tarly. Sam tells him that they came through the Black Gate, a passage as old as the wall. Sam will have to take them back because only a man sworn to the Night's Watch can open the gate. Sam explains his group was aided by Coldhands, who was dressed in the black of the Nights Watch, but pale. Coldhands did not come because he cannot pass beyond the Wall as there are spells woven into it. Meera, Jojen, Hodor and Bran go through the Black Gate.
Jojen, Bran, Meera, Hodor, and Coldhands travel north of the Wall in search of the three-eyed crow.
Jojen falls into a resigned depression, wanting to go home to Greywater Watch. Meera implies while speaking with Bran that Jojen has had a greendream of his fate when he goes to Greywater Watch, and that Jojen isn't willing to try and fight his fate, reasoning that the greendreams do not lie. Meera's reaction to this conversation implies that a return back home for Jojen might have unpleasant consequences.
I dreamed of the man who came today, the one they call Reek. You and your brother lay dead at his feet, and he was skinning off your faces with a long red blade.
– Jojen, to Bran Stark
If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.
– Jojen, to Bran Stark
Jokin is a member of the Stormcrows and the commander of the company's archers.
When Daario Naharis is given as a hostage to the Yunkai, Jokin and the Widower become the joint commanders of the Stormcrows. They are present at the war council called by Barristan Selmy.
The Jolly Fellows were a possible mercenary company. They were led by Nine Eyes who was a member of the Band of Nine.
They took part in the War of the Ninepenny Kings.[*citation needed*]
Jommo is a *khal* of a *khalasar*. He is a sometime ally of Khal Drogo.
Jommo is in Vaes Dothrak at the same time as Khal Drogo. He has four wives. He was part of the procession through Vaes Dothrak that proclaims Rhaego as the stallion who mounts the world.
Jommo is an uncertain ally of Daenerys Targaryen.
Jommy was a man in service to House Baratheon at Storm's End.
When Lord Steffon Baratheon's ship, the *Windproud*, sank during a storm in Shipbreaker Bay, Jommy was one of the men sent to reclaim the corpses that washed up on the shore. He was the one who found Patchface and to his dying day, Jommy claimed that Patchface was dead when he found him. However, when Jommy grabbed his ankles, Patchface spat up water and sat up.
Jon Arryn was a head of House Arryn whose titles included Lord of the Eyrie, Defender of the Vale, and Warden of the East. He served as Hand of the King to Robert I Baratheon from 283 AC until his unexpected death in 298 AC.
Jon was the husband of Lady Lysa Arryn and father of Lord Robert Arryn, and he acted as a second father to Lord Eddard Stark and King Robert.
See also: Images of Jon Arryn
Jon had broad shoulders.
Jon had a reputation for being prudent,
While in King's Landing, Lysa commissioned a double-edged longsword for Jon which he carried while sitting the Iron Throne in place of King Robert I Baratheon. Jon's blade has wings on its crossguard, a falcon-head pommel, and is engraved in silver to resemble mountain sky.
Jon was born as the eldest son of Lord Jasper Arryn. Not much is known about his youth or his parents. He had a younger brother, Ronnel, and a sister, Alys, who married Ser Elys Waynwood. Jon was Keeper of the Gates of the Moon while his father lived, and after his father's death he named his brother Ronnel and later his cousin Denys to that position.
Jon's first wife was Jeyne Royce, but she died in childbed, their daughter stillborn. His second marriage was to Rowena Arryn, a cousin, who died of a winter chill during a childless marriage.
Jon fostered Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon as his wards in the Vale of Arryn. As they grew, the two boys became close companions and regarded the childless Jon as a second father.
Main article: Robert's Rebellion
Jon's heir, Elbert Arryn, was murdered by King Aerys II Targaryen in King's Landing,
While Ned Stark returned to the north to call his banners, Jon and Robert led the taking of Gulltown, allowing Robert to return to the stormlands.
Jon participated in the Battle of the Trident,
Jon as Hand for King Robert I Baratheon.
The first task Jon undertook was making peace with Dorne. The southern region was incensed by the deaths of Prince Lewyn and Princess Elia during the war, and Prince Oberyn Martell tried to raise the kingdom to support Viserys Targaryen, the surviving son of King Aerys II. The year after Robert I Baratheon took the throne (284 AC), Jon returned the bones of Lewyn to Sunspear and brokered a peace with Doran Martell, the Prince of Dorne.
To strengthen Robert's hold on the throne, Jon negotiated the king's marriage with Cersei Lannister
Robert left Jon with much of the responsibility of running the Seven Kingdoms, but Jon could not stop Robert from spending huge amounts of money on tournaments and excess, putting the realm in serious debt.
Jon and his son Robert, art by Juliana Pinho ©.
Jon's marriage with Lysa was loveless, with Lysa finding Jon to be too old and hating his bad breath. After three girls and two boys miscarried, Lysa gave Jon a sickly son and heir, Robert Arryn.
Jon was considered robust for his age, but he became ill the night after he borrowed Grand Maester Malleon's book, and quickly wasted away. Jon's maester, Colemon, tried treating an assumed stomach illness by purging the body. The moribund Jon kept mentioning the name Robert, and his final words to his wife Lysa Arryn and King Robert I Baratheon were "the seed is strong".
After Jon's death, King Robert suggested to Lysa that her young son Robert should become a ward of Lord Tywin Lannister and be sent to Casterly Rock, as he feared that being raised by his mother would make his namesake weak. Lysa refused the suggestion brusquely and, against the wishes of the king, one night fled from King's Landing with her son and returned to the Vale of Arryn.
Jon Arryn by TheMico ©.
King Robert I Baratheon decides that Lord Eddard Stark should succeed Jon as Hand of the King, which angers both Queen Cersei Lannister, who had hoped her brother Ser Jaime would assume the position and fears that Eddard would move to curb Lannister influence, and Stannis Baratheon, who thinks he is owed the position through his fifteen years of service on the small council.
Lysa writes a coded letter to her sister Catelyn Stark, in which she claims that Jon was murdered by Queen Cersei. This convinces Catelyn and eventually Eddard, who had been inclined to refuse King Robert's offer, that he must assume the position of Hand, so that he can find out the truth about Jon's death and expose those responsible.
However, when Eddard arrives at the Red Keep, he realizes that Lysa's return to the Eyrie with most of the Arryn household and Stannis's departure to Dragonstone prevent him from questioning crucial witnesses about the circumstances and background of Jon's death. Left without other options, he begins to rely on information provided by Lord Petyr Baelish and Varys. Petyr, known as Littlefinger, feeds Eddard largely useless information, while Varys suggests Jon might have been poisoned by his squire, the now-knighted Ser Hugh of the Vale, who is killed in the Hand's tourney.
Eddard learns that Stannis began to suspect Queen Cersei's children had been fathered not by King Robert but by her brother Ser Jaime, the Kingslayer, which would make them illegitimate and Stannis therefore Robert's rightful heir. Concerned that such a suggestion coming from him would be seen as motivated by his own ambitions, Stannis did not confide in the king but rather raised the issue with Jon Arryn, whom Robert would be more inclined to believe.
Jon and Stannis began to investigate the matter secretly by seeking out bastards Robert had begotten. Together they visited the armory of Tobho Mott where Gendry was employed, one of Robert's offspring who bore a striking resemblance to his father. They also visited Chataya's brothel, where Robert had fathered a girl, Barra, who also clearly had the king's features.
Jon was seeking further proof that Cersei's children could not be Robert's in Grand Maester Malleon's book *The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms*, a ponderous tome lent to him by Grand Maester Pycelle. The book would have informed him, as it later informs Lord Eddard Stark, that whenever members of houses Lannister and Baratheon wed, their offspring always bore clear Baratheon features (unlike Cersei's children Joffrey, Myrcella, and Tommen, who more closely resemble the Lannisters).
Meanwhile, Eddard's wife Catelyn takes Tyrion Lannister captive at the crossroads inn for his assumed role in plotting her son Bran's death.
By the time Eddard finds out what Jon had been investigating and what had provided the likely cause for his death, it is too late to inform King Robert, as the king goes hunting in the kingswood and fighting breaks out in the riverlands in response to Tyrion's abduction by Catelyn.
Stannis remains at Dragonstone, which keeps him from sharing his suspicions about Cersei's children with Lord Eddard and from directly challenging the legitimacy of Joffrey when he assumes the throne after King Robert dies from being gored in the kingswood.
Tyrion Lannister forces Grand Maester Pycelle, a staunch supporter of Lannister interests, to confess he believed that Queen Cersei Lannister wanted Jon dead. Cersei considered Jon a threat to her plan of putting her son Joffrey on the Iron Throne after her husband, King Robert I Baratheon, had been disposed of.
Sansa Stark learns that unbeknownst to Jon, Lysa Arryn and Petyr Baelish had maintained a relationship since their youth. She had convinced Jon to bring Petyr to court in King's Landing so that they could be close together.
I need good men about me. Men like Jon Arryn.
– Robert I Baratheon to Eddard Stark
Jon Arryn was a wise man and a good Hand.
– Eddard Stark to Robert I Baratheon
I loved that old man, I swear it, but now I think he was a bigger fool than Moon Boy.
– Robert I Baratheon to Eddard Stark
The seed is strong, Jon Arryn had cried on his deathbed, and so it was.
– thoughts of Eddard Stark
Lysa's match with Lord Arryn had been hastily arranged, and Jon was an old man even then, older than their father. An old man without an heir. His first two wives had left him childless, his brother's son had been murdered with Brandon Stark in King's Landing, his gallant cousin had died in the Battle of the Bells. He needed a young wife if House Arryn was to continue ... a young wife known to be fertile.
– thoughts of Catelyn Stark
The death of the noble Hand, Jon Arryn, has unleashed a madness on the land, a madness of pride and violence.
– writings of Yandel
Ser Jon Bettley, better known as Beardless Jon Bettley, is a knight of House Bettley.
Beardless Jon was spotted by Ser Jaime Lannister riding at a quintain in the yard of the Red Keep.
Jon Brax is the youngest son of Ser Flement Brax and Morya Frey.
Jon Brightstone was a petty king of the First Men from House Brightstone who claimed the title King of the Fingers before the Andal invasion.
Jon paid an Andal warlord to cross the narrow sea in order to use his swords against Dywen Shell, who also contested control of the Fingers. The warlord eventually turned against Jon, however, and the king was tortured and beheaded. An Andal knight named Corwyn Corbray took Jon's daughter for his bride.
Lord Jon Bulwer was Lord of Blackcrown and head of House Bulwer during the reign of Robert Baratheon. He married Victaria Tyrell and had one child with her, Alysanne.
He died of a summer fever..
Lord Jon Charlton was head of House Charlton during the reign of Viserys I Targaryen.
Jon was slain in the Battle by the Lakeshore fighting for the blacks during the Dance of the Dragons.
Jon Connington, also known as Griff,
See also: Images of Jon Connington
Jon Connington and Rhaegar Targaryen
Art by yakuzafish
In his youth, Jon's hair and beard were fiery red.
A capable warrior and commander, Jon was described in his youth as proud, bold, energetic, reckless, and thirsty for glory.
George R.R. Martin has confirmed that one of the POV characters in *A Dance with Dragons* is gay,
Jon Connington - by mustamirri ©
Jon Connington was the only son of Armond Connington, Lord of Griffin's Roost, and his wife.
During a time when his father was still alive, Rhaegar visited Griffin's Roost upon returning from a trip to Dorne, and visited the tallest tower of the castle with Jon.
See also: Robert's Rebellion and the Battle of the Bells.
During Robert's Rebellion, King Aerys II Targaryen dismissed his Hand of the King, Lord Owen Merryweather, believing him ineffectual and suspecting foul play by Owen in favor of the rebels.
Jon promised King Aerys he would deliver Robert's head,
King Aerys held Jon responsible for his defeat at Stoney Sept and exiled him, stripping him of his titles and passing the rule of Griffin's Roost to Ser Ronald Connington, who had been Jon's castellan..
After the war, the new king, Robert I, took nine-tenths of the Connington lands, distributing them to more fervent supporters. He also took away the lordship from House Connington, making them a house of landed knights.
The exiled Jon joined the Golden Company
After a few short years in the company, Jon and Myles were approached by Illyrio Mopatis and Lord Varys, who informed them that Prince Rhaegar Targaryen's infant son, Aegon, had survived the Sack of King's Landing during Robert's Rebellion.
While Jon went along with Varys's scheme for Prince Aegon's sake, he believed it a dishonorable slight and resented the shameful lie of his death. Varys, however, was adamant about the need for secrecy.
Griff with Aegon - © Steamey
Jon Connington, having dyed his hair blue, goes under the name "Griff" and has been raising his claimed son, "Young Griff", secretly Prince Aegon. Jon is still haunted by his failure at the Battle of the Bells,
Griff and Young Griff travel on the *Shy Maid* alongside Haldon, Rolly Duckfield, Lemore, Ysilla, and Yandry.
While the Shy Maid journeys down the Rhoyne, Jon forbids Tyrion from drinking wine after the latter becomes drunk during one of his first night on the ship, and orders him to write down everything he still recalls from his extensive reading about dragonlore.
The company soon reaches Selhorys, where Jon sends Haldon with Tyrion to learn about rumors that Daenerys has not yet left Meereen.
Jon Connington deals with his greyscale. ©FFG
The journey of the Golden Company to Westeros is difficult, due to the autumn storms. The ships are scattered, and the Volantene fleet drops them off on multiple different locations, leaving the landing of the Golden Company with a smaller host. Despite this, Jon leads a group of men in the successful taking of Griffin's Roost, his own former seat. Jon reminisces over Prince Rhaegar Targaryen visit to Griffin's Roost, his defeat in the Battle of the Bells, his exile by King Aerys II Targaryen, and the taking of his lands by King Robert I Baratheon. Jon is glad that his cousin Ronald, who had received rule over Griffin's Roost after Jon's exile, is dead, as it means he will not have to fight him, as well as that Ronald's son, Red Ronnet, is away. Jon has his remaining family members taken into custody, and tells Haldon to prepare a letter to Doran Martell, telling the Prince of Dorne that his sister Elia's son, Prince Aegon, is still alive. When Haldon discusses rewards to hand out to lords in order to convince them to join Aegon's cause, Jon refuses to marry Aegon off, insisting he must be free to marry Daenerys once she returns to Westeros. He also refuses to present himself as a marriage candidate, for fear of having his greyscale become known.
When Prince Aegon arrives at Griffin's Roost four days later, Jon recalls how he had disagreed with the boy's decision to name Rolly to the Kingsguard, as Jon had hoped to fill the White Swords with younger sons of important lords to bind them to their cause. Jon informs the prince that they are planning to take Storm's End in ten days, having previously refused the suggestion of making an alliance with Stannis Baratheon. Aegon agrees with Jon's plan, but demands he lead the attack himself.
Jon wishes to let the Iron Throne believe that the invading force is simply an exiled lord attempting to retake his old seat, and he plans to write King Tommen I Baratheon for a pardon to support the ruse.
Ser Addam Whitehead is among a group of men from the Weeping Town who seek out Jon at Griffin's Roost.
I understand hate well enough.
– Jon, to Tyrion Lannister
Let me live long enough to see the boy sit on the Iron Throne, and Varys will pay for that slight and so much more. Then we'll see who's soon forgotten.
– Jon's thoughts
Death, he knew, but slow. I still have time. A year. Two years. Five. Some stone men live for ten. Time enough to cross the sea, to see Griffin's Roost again. To end the Usurper's line for good and all, and put Rhaegar's son upon the Iron Throne. Then Lord Jon Connington could die content.
- Jon's thoughts
I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.
– Jon's thoughts
I failed the father, but I will not fail the son.
– Jon's thoughts
He has supped on hate himself, this one. It has warmed him in the night for years.
– Tyrion Lannister's thoughts
We want no songs about the gallant exile. Those who die heroic deaths are long remembered, thieves and drunks and cravens soon forgotten.
- Varys to Jon
Send me against my uncle, and I will bring you back his head, and the head of this false dragon too.
– Ronnet Connington, to the small council
What victories has he ever won that we should fear him? He could have ended Robert's Rebellion at Stoney Sept. He failed. Just as the Golden Company has always failed. Some may rush to join them, aye. The realm is well rid of such fools.
– Mace Tyrell, to the small council
Too soon. Connington is too young, too bold, too eager for glory.
– Tywin Lannister, on Jon being named Hand of the King
If this is indeed Jon Connington, he will be a different man. Older, harder, more seasoned ... more dangerous.
– Kevan Lannister's thoughts
Arianne: What sort of man was he? Honest and honorable, venal and grasping, proud?
Daemon: Proud, for a certainty. Even arrogant. A faithful friend to Rhaegar, but prickly with others. Robert was his liege, but I've heard it said that Connington chafed at serving such a lord.
– Arianne Martell and Daemon Sand
Melons or maidenheads, it’s all the same to your sort. If you want it, you take it. If you should see this Lord Connington, you tell him that I knew his mother, and she would be ashamed.
- Mary Mertyns to Chains and Arianne Martell
The Appendix of *A Dance with Dragons* lists Jon Connington as a previous lord of Storm's End. This has been confirmed to have been a mistake, and should have been "Lord of Griffin's Roost" instead.
Ser Jon Cupps is a knight of House Cupps. He is married to Leyla Hightower, one of the daughters of Lord Leyton Hightower.
Ser Jon Florent was a knight from House Florent during the reign of Daeron II Targaryen. His relation to the main branch is not known.
Ser Jon is listed in the roll of arms as participating in the tourney at Ashford Meadow, 209 AC.
Ser Jon Fossoway is the Knight of New Barrel and head of the green-apple Fossoways. He is married to Janna Tyrell, the sister of Lord Mace Tyrell.
See also: Images of Jon Fossoway
Jon is described as genial.
Ser Jon is among the nobles who declare for Renly Baratheon and is present beneath the walls of Bitterbridge when Lady Catelyn Stark arrives.
Jon goes over to Stannis's forces after Renly's death during the siege of Storm's End. The castle's castellan, Ser Cortnay Penrose, proposes to settle the siege with single combat. Jon advises Stannis to take him up on the offer. Jon is prepared to take the challenge himself, although he admits that he is not as good as Lord Bryce Caron or Ser Guyard Morrigen.
Jon fights for Stannis at the Battle of the Blackwater but is captured by Lothor Brune. He bends the knee to King Joffrey I Baratheon.
Jon's wife, Janna Tyrell, hawks with Margaery Tyrell in King's Landing.
Ser Jon Heddle, better known as Long Jon Heddle, was a knight who owned the Crossroads Inn. He was crippled.
Long Jon took over the inn when he retired from adventuring. He took up ironworking and forged a sign in the shape of a dragon out of black iron that would clank in the wind. This gave his inn its new name, the Clanking Dragon.
In 196 AC when Long Jon's son was an old man, the Blackfyre Rebellion broke out. Lord Darry, who was a fierce Targaryen supporter, cut down the sign of the inn and hacked it to pieces because it resembled the coat of arms of the rebels (a black dragon on a red field).
Jon Hightower was the Lord of the Hightower and head of House Hightower. He served as Hand of the King during the final years of King Aegon the Unworthy's reign. He brought Serenei of Lys, the last of Aegon IV's mistresses, to court at King's Landing.
Jon Hogg, known as Big Jon Hogg, was member of House Hogg during the Faith Militant uprising.
During the Faith Militant uprising, Jon Hogg remained loyal to the Iron Throne. He fought in the battle at the Great Fork, under the command of King Maegor I Targaryen. Early in the battle, he was blinded by a sword slash, yet he managed to rally his men and led a charge that broke through the lines of the Faith Militant and put the Poor Fellows to flight.
Ser Jon Hollard was a knight of House Hollard, the steward of Duskendale. He was married to the sister of Lord Denys Darklyn.
In the aftermath of the Defiance of Duskendale, Ser Jon was executed along with his wife and his son.
Jon Lothston is a sellsword in service to the Golden Company. As a serjeant, he is a high-ranking officer.
Jon wears his worldly wealth upon his person and a lord’s ransom in golden arm rings. Each ring signifies one year's service with the Golden Company.
Jon is a Westerosi exile. His surname Lothston was a house that once loomed large in the histories of the Seven Kingdoms. He may or may not be of House Lothston, as in the free companies a man can call himself whatever he chooses.
Jon Lothston and Marq Mandrake exchange a glance when Jon Connington reveals to the highest ranking members of the Golden Company that Prince Aegon Targaryen is still alive, while the other officers remain silent, causing Connington to realize they had already known about Aegon. Like the other officers of the company, Jon swears his allegiance to Aegon before they invade Westeros.[*citation needed*]
Jon Lychester was a Lord of House Lychester during the Faith Militant uprising.
During the Faith Militant uprising, Lord Jon took up arms on behalf of the High Septon and the Starry Sept against the Iron Throne. He fought in the battle at the Great Fork alongside Lord Rupert Falwell and other puissant knights from the westerlands and riverlands, as well as hundreds of Poor Fellows, against the royal army led by King Maegor I Targaryen himself. It is unknown if he survived.
Jon Lynderly is the head of House Lynderly and is the Lord of the Snakewood in the Vale.
Petyr Baelish asks Lord Jon for a son to ward at the Eyrie with Robert Arryn;
Jon Mooton was a Lord of Maidenpool and head of House Mooton during Aegon's Conquest.
Jon became Lord of Maidenpool when his brother was killed in combat against Aegon I Targaryen. Jon yielded Maidenpool to House Targaryen after the battle, becoming one of the first adversaries to join Aegon's cause. He commanded the Targaryen army during the Field of Fire, as Aegon took to the skies on Balerion.
Jon Myre, better known as Pinchface Jon Myre, is a member of House Myre.
Pinchface Jon brought a dozen longships in support of Euron Greyjoy at the kingsmoot.
Jon is feasting in the ruins of a castle near the Arbor with some of Euron Greyjoy's men, and takes part in mocking Aeron Greyjoy when the latter is brought up from the hold of the *Silence*.
Jon O' Nutten is an outlaw from Nutten and is a member of the brotherhood without banners.
Jon Penny is a boy orphaned by the War of the Five Kings. He might have been a member of House Penny.
Jon is among the orphans taken in by Willow Heddle at the Crossroads Inn. When Brienne of Tarth and her party arrive to stay at the inn, Jon is sent to help Septon Meribald with his bundles of food.
Ser Jon Penrose was a knight of House Penrose during the reign of King Daeron II Targaryen.
Ser Jon challenged Ser Tybolt Lannister at the Tourney at Ashford Meadow, Ser Tybolt was unhorsed and broke his sword in his fall, but fought back with shield alone to win the bout.
Lord Jon Piper was head of House Piper during the reign of Maegor I Targaryen.
Lord Jon joined his support to Prince Aegon when he launched a rebellion against his uncle, King Maegor. Lord Piper died with the rebels at the battle Beneath the Gods Eye in 43 AC.
Jon Pox is the friend of the brother of Septon Meribald. He died in the War of the Ninepenny Kings.
Willam and his brothers, Meribald, Robin, Owen and Owen's friend Jon Pox all went off to fight in the War of the Ninepenny Kings. During the War, Willam and Robin died from a fever. Owen died in battle and Jon was hanged for rape. Meribald survived to become a septon.
Ser Jon Redfort is a knight of House Redfort and a son of Lord Horton Redfort.
Ser Jon Roxton, also known as Bold Jon Roxton, was a knight of House Roxton during the Dance of the Dragons. He was the wielder of the Valyrian steel sword Orphan-Maker.
Ser Jon fought on the side of King Aegon II Targaryen and the greens during the Dance of the Dragons, a civil war between Aegon II and his half-sister, Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, over the Iron Throne of Westeros.
At the Battle on the Honeywine, Lord Owen Costayne was mortally wounded by Jon's black Valyrian steel blade, Orphan-Maker. Jon was a member of the Caltrops conspiracy, which wanted the dragonriders Hard Hugh Hammer and Ulf the White dead, in no small part due to their outrageous demands for lordships and kingships in return for their dragons joining Aegon II's cause.
During the Second Battle of Tumbleton, "Bold" Jon slew Hugh Hammer when he least suspected it, splitting him from groin to throat with Orphan-Maker. Shortly thereafter he was killed by Hugh's men in a ten against one fight. Jon managed to kill three of them before he himself was killed. Legend says that he slipped on a part of Hugh's entrails in an ironic twist of fate.
We kill the bastards now. Afterward, let the bravest of us claim their dragons and fly them into battle.
- Jon to the other Caltrops
Jon: Lord Hammer, my condolences.
Hugh: For what?
Jon: You died in the battle.
– Jon and Hugh Hammer during the Second Battle of Tumbleton
*"Jon" redirects here. For other characters named Jon, see Jon (disambiguation).*
Jon Snow is the bastard son of Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell..
See also: Images of Jon Snow
Jon has more Stark-like features than any of his half-brothers.
Jon looks solemn and guarded,
While Lord Eddard Stark openly acknowledged Jon as his son and allowed him to live at Winterfell with his half-siblings, Jon felt like an outsider nonetheless. While Jon has good relationships with his siblings, especially Robb, with whom he trained since they were children,
As a northerner raised at Winterfell, Jon keeps faith with the old gods.
After joining the Night's Watch, Jon dresses in their official black garb.
Snow and Stark at sword-play
Jon was born in 283 AC, near the end of Robert's Rebellion.[N 1] Jon was named by Lord Eddard Stark.
Lord Eddard Stark was fiercely protective of Jon
Jon grew close to his true-born siblings, especially Robb and Arya. Due to the fact that they both looked alike, Arya came to believe that she was bastard-born as well and shared with her brother with this fear; Jon reassured his half-sister this was not the case.
Since he was young, Jon's hero was King Daeron, the Young Dragon, who had conquered Dorne at the age of fourteen.
Kit Harington as Jon Snow in *Game of Thrones*
Jon accompanies his father, Lord Eddard Stark, his brothers Robb and Bran, his father's ward Theon Greyjoy, and others from Winterfell to the execution of Gared, a deserter from the Night's Watch. On their way back to Winterfell, Jon and Robb race ahead and find a litter of direwolf pups. When Eddard states that killing the pups quickly would forestall a painful and slow death, Jon points out that there are five pups – one for each of Eddard's legitimate children – and the direwolf is the sigil of House Stark, indicating that they must be meant to have the wolves. The comparison only works out because Jon is not claiming a pup for himself, and Eddard gives in. As they leave, Jon discovers an albino pup, cast away from its litter.
Because he is a bastard, Jon is not allowed sit with his siblings and the royal children during the feast welcoming King Robert I Baratheon and his family to the north. At the feast he speaks with his uncle, Benjen Stark, the First Ranger of the Night's Watch. When Benjen suggests that the Night's Watch could use a man as observant as Jon, Jon quickly requests to accompany him to the Wall when he leaves, as even a bastard can rise to a position of honor there.
Although hesitant about it at the feast, Benjen eventually approaches Luwin, telling the maester that Jon had expressed interest in joining the Night's Watch .
The decision for him to go to the Wall leaves Jon angry in the days before he is set to leave.
At Castle Black, Jon first remains aloof and distant, making no friends; he scorns his fellow recruits who return the feeling, resenting him due to his attitude. Days after their arrival, Benjen leaves to lead a ranging, and while Jon requests to accompany him, Benjen refuses to allow it, leaving Jon angry. After a fight between Jon and several other recruits, Jon speaks with Donal Noye, the armorer at Castle Black, who points that Jon has been a bully to the other recruits. When a letter arrives from Winterfell informing Jon that Bran, though crippled, has awoken and will live, Jon is ecstatic, and when he returns to the Common Hall, he offers his fellow recruits advice on their swordplay.
As new recruits are about to arrive at Castle Black, eight recruits, including Jon, are chosen to take their vows. Sam is not chosen, and Jon realizes that it will only be a matter of time that Sam will be hurt of killed in training without his friends present to protect him. Jon visits Maester Aemon and asks if Aemon will persuade Lord Commander Jeor Mormont to take Sam from training and allow him to take his vows, pointing out that Sam, due to his ability to write, read, and to math, would make a good personal steward for Aemon.
Though he is now a sworn brother of the Night's Watch, Jon becomes torn between the Watch and his former family when he learns from Sam that Robb has marched south with an army. Maester Aemon explains to Jon the difficulty of keeping true to the Night's Watch's vows at times, citing among other examples the deaths of most of his relatives at the end of Robert's Rebellion, causing Jon to realize Aemon is a Targaryen.
The next day, Lord Commander Mormont chastises him for running, and Jon agrees to fully commit to the Watch. He accepts his place as Jeor's squire and prepares for the journey beyond the Wall which Mormont plans to lead.
Jon meets Ygritte - by M.Luisa Giliberti ©
The Night's Watch prepares for the great ranging north to investigate the haunted forest, after the disappearances beyond the Wall of several rangers, including Benjen Stark. Jon brings his direwolf, Ghost.
Jon fetches Samwell Tarly for Lord Commander Jeor Mormont, who has been waiting for maps of the lands further north. Jeor and Jon discuss his hand, which still troubles him, but is slowly getting better. They discuss Maester Aemon, and Jeor reveals that Aemon had once been offered the Iron Throne, but instead had decided to remain a maester, and the throne passed to his younger brother, Aegon IV Targaryen. Jeor points out the similarities between Jon and Aemon in having a brother for king; Jon reassures the Lord Commander that, like Maester Aemon, he too will keep his vows.
The ranging party passes through several wildling villages, including Whitetree, but find no hint of any wildling presence.
In the Skirling Pass, Qhorin's party comes across a group of wildling sentries, and Jon is one of those assigned to take them out. He kills one of the man, but discovers his second target is a woman. Jon decides to take the girl, called Ygritte, prisoner instead. He reveals to her that he is the bastard son of Eddard Stark, and during the night, Ygritte tells Jon the story of "Bael the Bard", a song which insinuates that, through Bael, the Starks too have wildling blood. Later, Qhorin orders Jon to kill her, but Jon secretly lets her go instead. Before she leaves, Ygritte informs Jon that Mance Rayder would accept him, if he wanted to join the free folk.
Jon Snow during the struggle at Castle Black - by Michael Komarck ©
Jon meets with Mance Rayder and convinces him that his desertion is sincere. During their conversation, Jon learns Mance's plans to invade the Seven Kingdoms.
Jon reaches Castle Black barely conscious. He is tended to by Maester Aemon and warns the Night's Watch of the upcoming attack of the wildlings. Maester Aemon and Grenn gently break the news to Jon that his brothers, Bran and Rickon, have died at the command of Theon Greyjoy.
The death of Ygritte by zippo 514 ©
Jon's service defending the Wall earns him popular support and his release from imprisonment. Jon meets with Stannis, who tells him that if he recognizes Stannis as king, he will legitimize him and make him Lord Jon Stark of Winterfell, as he needs "a son of Ned Stark" in order to gain support of the North.
Separately, Robb Stark, believing Bran, Rickon, and Arya to be dead, decides to legitimise Jon and name him his heir over his mother Catelyn's objections, to prevent Winterfell and the North from falling into Lannister hands following Tyrion Lannister's marriage to Sansa.; however it is unknown how widely the decree has been disseminated, if at all, and Jon remains ignorant of his legitimisation by Robb.
In King's Landing, Queen Regent Cersei Lannister is outraged to learn of Jon's appointment as Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, as he has given Stannis shelter. The small council agrees that Jon must be removed from command. Pycelle suggests to inform the Watch that the crown will sent no more men to the Wall until Jon is removed, but Qyburn suggests that they send a hundred men to the Wall who will be given the secret order to remove Jon. Cersei is delighted with the idea.
Slowly Jon grows into his position as a leader. Jon takes up residence within Donal Noye's quarters, following the blacksmith's death in the previous novel.}}
Lord Commander Snow executes Janos Slynt - by Jaskolski ©
When Jon orders Janos Slynt to garrison one of the abandoned castles along the Wall, Janos refuses. Jon publicly points out that the punishment for refusing a direct command is death, yet gives Janos three chances to follow orders (noting as he does so that it was more chances than Janos gave his father when he betrayed Ned two years prior). After Slynt refuses once more, scoffing at the idea that Jon can command him or the Night's Watch, Jon orders him to be executed for his insubordination. However, he then recalls the laws of the First Men and his father, and beheads Slynt himself, using Longclaw to carry out the sentence and exacting small justice for Ned. This increases Stannis' respect for Jon and cements his new position.
Jon displeases his fellow commanders of the Night's Watch by sending the wildling Val to treat with Tormund Giantsbane. This results in a fragile alliance between the Night's Watch and the wildlings. Jon settles the wildlings on the Gift and gives the warriors the opportunity to guard the Wall by garrisoning unoccupied castles against the Others. As the wildings are moved into the gift, Mance Rayder is given to the flames by Melisandre..
With Stannis about to march on Deepwood Motte, Jon advises him to seek the help of the Northern mountain clans. Following Jon's advice, Stannis is able to secure the allegiance of the clans, greatly augmenting his own strength. Soon after Stannis has taken Deepwood, news arrive of Ramsay Bolton's impending marriage to "Arya Stark". Stannis immediately marches on Winterfell, the chosen site for the marriage, to face the forces of the Boltons.
Depiction of The Stabbing of Jon Snow by Conor Campbell ©
Melisandre tells Jon she sees in her flames a girl on a dying horse making for Castle Black; she is convinced it must be Arya escaped from the Boltons. Melisandre also tells him she sees him surrounded by daggers in the dark, but he pays no mind to this warning. When Jon is awoken by Mully, who tells him that a girl has arrived on a dying horse, Jon's thoughts instantly go to Melisandre's vision; he giddily thinks that Arya may have come to him as prophesied and he and his half-sister will be reunited, but recognizes the girl as Alys Karstark, who states that she is fleeing a forced marriage to her uncle Cregan Karstark. Alys tells Jon her uncle only desires her because she is heir to Karhold and pleas Jon for his help.
Weeks after Stannis has departed for Winterfell and is supposedly rallying his troops to battle, Jon receives a taunting letter purportedly from Ramsay Bolton entitled 'Bastard,' which claims that Stannis has been defeated and Mance Rayder captured. It demands fealty from Jon to House Bolton if the Night's Watch is to survive and gives a detailed account of Ramsay's actions which Jon views to his disgust repeatedly sully the honor of what was once the ancient seat of House Stark.
Main article: Jon Snow/Theories
Jon Snow's parentage remains a topic of discussion among readers of the series, as his mother remains unidentified. On several occasions, the topic is brought to the reader's attention in text, although several characters provide different possibilities. Eddard's wife, Catelyn Tully, heard from her maids the tales Eddard's soldiers had told about Ashara Dayne, though Eddard refused to confirm this when she confronted him, and silenced the stories about Ashara at Winterfell.
Fans of the series have speculated about his parentage for many years, with numerous theories having been developped during that time.
Arya: I wish you were coming with us.
Jon: Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.
– Arya Stark and Jon
Jon: First lesson: stick them with the pointy end.
Arya: I know which end to use!
– Jon and Arya Stark regarding Needle
Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the girls and have Mikken melt down his sword for horseshoes.
– Jon to Tyrion Lannister
Tyrion Lannister had claimed that most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it, but Jon was done with denials. He was who he was; Jon Snow, bastard and oathbreaker, motherless, friendless, and damned. For the rest of his life –however long that might be– he would be condemned to be an outsider, the silent man standing in the shadows who dares not speak his true name.
- Jon's thoughts
Jon was not afraid of death, but he did not want to die like that, trussed and bound and beheaded like a common brigand. If he must perish, let it be with a sword in his hand, fighting his father's killers. He was no true Stark, had never been one... but he could die like one. Let them say that Eddard Stark had fathered four sons, not three.
- Jon's thoughts
There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
– Jon to Samwell Tarly
The more you give a king, the more he wants. We are walking on a bridge of ice with an abyss on either side. Pleasing one king is difficult enough. Pleasing two is hardly possible.
– Jon to Samwell Tarly
Edd, fetch me a block.
– Jon to Eddison Tollett before the execution of Janos Slynt
Cregan: I see what you are, Snow. Half a wolf and half a wildling, baseborn get of a traitor and a whore. You would deliver a highborn maid to the bed of some stinking savage. Did you sample her yourself first? If you mean to kill me, do it and be damned for a kinslayer. Stark and Karstark are one blood.
Jon: My name is Snow.
Cregan: Bastard.Jon: Guilty. Of that at least.
– Cregan Karstark and Jon
You have more of the north in you than your brothers.
– Tyrion Lannister to Jon
Never ask me about Jon. He is my blood and that is all you need to know.
– Eddard Stark to Catelyn Stark
Whoever Jon's mother had been, Ned must have loved her fiercely, for nothing Catelyn said would persuade him to send the boy away. It was the one thing she could never forgive him. She had come to love her husband with all her heart, but she had never found it in her to love Jon. She might have overlooked a dozen bastards for Ned's sake, so long as they were out of sight. Jon was never out of sight, and as he grew, he looked more like Ned than any of the trueborn sons she bore him. Somehow that made it worse.
– Catelyn Stark's thoughts
Jon's more a Stark than some lordlings from the Vale who have never so much as set eyes on Winterfell.
– Robb Stark to Catelyn Stark
My lords, when Donal Noye was slain, it was this young man Jon Snow who took the Wall and held it, against all the fury of the north. He has proved himself valiant, loyal, and resourceful. Were it not for him, you would have found Mance Rayder sitting here when you arrived, Lord Slynt. You are doing him a great wrong. Jon Snow was Lord Mormont's own steward and squire. He was chosen for that duty because the Lord Commander saw much promise in him. As do I.
– Aemon to Janos Slynt
The gift was strong in Snow, but the youth was untaught, still fighting his nature when he should have gloried in it.
– Varamyr's thoughts
The only gods he worshipped were honor and duty.
– Melisandre's thoughts
Jon Snow, bastard-born, had always been eclipsed by his trueborn sibling, the young hero men had called the Young Wolf.
– Melisandre's thoughts
One of the unresolved issues in A Song of Ice and Fire is the identity of Jon Snow's mother.
Jon Snow has the following thoughts on his mother in A Game of Thrones:
. . .Even his own mother had not had a place for him. The thought of her made him sad. He wondered who she had been, what she had looked like, why his father had left her. Because she was a whore or an adulteress, fool. Something dark and dishonorable, or else why was Lord Eddard too ashamed to speak of her?
Another theory claims Jon's mother was Ashara Dayne, his father being likely Eddard Stark, who was in love with her, or his older brother Brandon Stark. Lady Dayne was said to be with both of them during the Tourney at Harrenhal. According to Ser Barristan Selmy, one of the Starks bedded her at the tournament and got her with child. It was also known by many that she was pregnant before she killed herself by jumping from the tower of Starfall, also called the Palestone Sword, a tower on Starfall's cliff by the sea.
Though Ser Barristan believes the bastard child of Lady Dayne was a stillborn girl, some still believe Ashara Dayne to be the mother of Jon Snow. Among those who believe so is Queen Cersei Lannister. Both she and Lady Catelyn Stark have heard this rumor, but Eddard refuses to answer Catelyn when she asks if Ashara Dayne was Jon's mother.
Wylla, the wet nurse at Starfall, is another possible mother. According to King Robert Baratheon, he recalls Ned bedding a wench during the Rebellion. On their way down the Kingsroad from Winterfell, he tries to recall her name, calling her, "Your bastard's mother." Ned says her name was Wylla, but refuses to talk more about it.
Catelyn recalls how with the war at an end riding to Winterfell... meeting Jon and his wet nurse. It very likely that this wet nurse is none other than Wylla because Ned went to Starfall returning the sword Dawn to Lady Ashara Dayne. These events are the source for two rumors that circle about Winterfell: the death of Arthur Dayne by Ned's hand and that Ashara Dayne is Jon's mother. It is Ned that silences this rumor about her. There are only two possible sources for these rumors; Wylla and Lord Howland Reed; however Howland is lord of Greywater Watch thus making Wylla the most likely candidate.
Lord Edric Dayne tells Arya Stark that Wylla is Jon's mother. He recounts to Arya Stark that he was a milk-brother to Jon Snow since Edric was also nursed as a baby by Wylla. He also claims they are not blood brothers either. However Arya notes that all Dornishmen are liars. In the case of Edric, it may actually be a lie perpetuated by Wylla to protect the true parentage of Jon Snow.
Lord Godric Borrell recounts to Davos Seaworth about a fisherman and his daughter who brought Eddard Stark in secret across the Bite to the North at the beginning of Robert's Rebellion. The fisherman died in a storm that almost short-ended their journey, but his daughter continued and successfully saw Ned to the Sisters before the boat went down. If Lord Borrell is to be believed, Ned left her with a bag of silver and a bastard in her belly, which she named Jon Snow after Lord Jon Arryn.
Speculation on what promise Ned gave. By Cris Urdiales ©
Many readers believe that Jon is not the son of Eddard Stark. Instead, he is the son of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen and Eddard's sister Lyanna Stark. Rhaegar and Lyanna disappeared together to the Tower of Joy early in Robert's Rebellion. There, it's believed, Rhaegar leaves a pregnant Lyanna to defend his family's dynasty.
At the end of Robert's Rebellion, about one year later, Eddard and his companions find three of the Kingsguard at the Tower of Joy: Lord Commander Ser Gerold Hightower, Ser Oswell Whent, and Ser Arthur Dayne. The reasons for their presence and the ensuing fight are unknown, but defending the unborn son of the Heir Apparent would be a good reason to have been posted. The only known survivors of the fight were Eddard himself and Howland Reed. Eddard recalls his sister dying "in a bed of blood," where he made her an unknown promise just before she died.
Also, while Robb, Sansa, Bran and Rickon are said to have Tully features (hair color, eyes), Jon and Arya are said to be closer in appearance (which had made Sansa believe Arya was also a bastard like Jon, until her mother put Sansa's theory down). Arya is said to resemble Lyanna. In the same line of comparison with his "siblings"; while all their direwolves are described having dark fur, Jon's, Ghost is white - a color oft associated with Targaryen features.
Further evidence to the truth of this theory in the eighth Eddard chapter of A Game of Thrones, in which Ned contemplates the significance of King Robert's bastards. As he muses, Ned's thoughts drift to Jon Snow, a logical segue, but also to his sister Lyanna Stark, the promise he made her, and to Rhaegar Targaryen, implying some tacit link between the three individuals.
Daenerys Targaryen's visions in the House of the Undying include an image of Rhaegar with his newborn son Aegon, proclaiming that "there must be a third" because "the dragon has three heads". Given that, according to Jon Connington, Rhaegar's wife Elia was believed infertile after two difficult pregnancies, and that Aegon the Conqueror himself had two wives, it is logical for Rhaegar to have attempted to fulfill the prophecy by having a third child with another woman. Another of the visions Daenerys sees is the image of a blue winter rose growing from a chink in a wall of ice, filling the air with sweetness. Lyanna was noted by Ned to be fond of winter roses, and he associates them with her death. Jon, who could be the product of Lyanna, is currently at the Wall.
If Rhaegar secretly married Lyanna, it would ironically mean that Jon is not a bastard despite his life having been defined by his believed bastard status to a great extent, and that he is the heir to the Iron Throne after Aegon VI Targaryen (although this last point is rendered moot so long as he belongs to the Night's Watch).
With Eddard beheaded by King Joffrey, Howland Reed is the only known living person who knows the nature of Lyanna's death and what she made her brother promise; however it is suggested that someone else may know:
...After that he remembered nothing. They had found him still holding her body, silent with grief. The little crannogman, Howland Reed had taken her hand from his.
The *Game of Thrones* episode "The Winds of Winter" shows that Jon is indeed the son of Lyanna Stark and that the promise she exacted from Ned was indeed to protect her son from Robert Baratheon, before she died in childbed in the Tower of joy. However, it remains to be seen if the books will follow the television series.
Jon: I don’t even know who my mother was. Tyrion: Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are.
– Tyrion Lannister to Jon Snow
Arya: Who's Wylla?
Ned Dayne: Jon Snow's mother. He never told you?
Arya: Jon never knew his mother. Not even her name.
– Edric Dayne to Arya Stark
Whoever Jon's mother had been, Ned must have loved her fiercely, for nothing Catelyn said would persuade him to send the boy away.
Not to be confused with Jon Snow.
Jon Stark was a King in the North and head of House Stark before the War of Conquest. There is a statue of Jon within the crypt of Winterfell.
When sea raiders landed in the east, Jon drove them out and built a castle, the Wolf's Den, at the mouth of the White Knife, so as to be able to defend the mouth of the river.
See also Jon Umber (son of Jon) or Jon Umber (husband of Serena).
Jon Umber, known as Greatjon Umber
See also: Images of Jon Umber (Greatjon)
Jon is a large man, nearly seven feet tall. He is heavily muscled and is a formidable warrior. Jaime Lannister regards him as one of the strongest living men in Westeros when thinking of who could match him in a fight.
The Greatjon is proud, boisterous, and fierce, and impressed only by those who earn his respect. He wields the biggest, ugliest greatsword that Bran Stark has ever seen, which makes it bigger than Ice.
Greatjon - by John Matson ©
Jon leads his men when Robb Stark calls the bannermen of House Stark to Winterfell. At first he challenges the young lord's authority, threatening to take his forces home if he is placed behind Lords Halys Hornwood or Medger Cerwyn in the order of march. After being called out by Robb, the Greatjon draws his sword, only to have the direwolf Grey Wind knock the sword from his hands and bite off two fingers. Impressed with Robb's courage, the Greatjon makes a joke of it instead of becoming angry and becomes Robb's greatest champion.
When the northern host splits at the Twins, Greatjon goes south with Robb's force along with his son, the Smalljon, leading the van of the army and participating in the battles of the Whispering Wood and the Camps, where he sets fire to the Ser Jaime Lannister's siege towers.
Lord Jon is present when Robb Stark explains his terms for peace with the Iron Throne in the Great Hall of Riverrun. After participating in the Battle of Oxcross, the Greatjon goes on to capture the gold mines at Castamere, Nunn's Deep, and the Pendric Hills.
After Robb breaks his marriage contract with the Freys, Greatjon Umber offers to make marriage contracts for his uncles, Mors and Hother, in Robb's place..
During the wedding feast at the Twins, the Greatjon drunkenly sings "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" while musicians perform "Flowers of Spring". He carries Edmure's bride, Roslin Frey, over his shoulder and takes her from the hall as part of the bedding customs.
In preparation for the Freys' betrayal of House Stark, Petyr, Merrett, and Ser Whalen Frey were tasked with getting the Greatjon too drunk to fight. Despite consuming enough alcohol to kill three normal men, when the Red Wedding begins eight men are needed to subdue the Greatjon in chains. He takes the sword of the first man to attack him, kills one, wounds two others, and bites off half the ear of Ser Leslyn Haigh.
The Greatjon is held captive at the Twins.
With the Greatjon still a captive of the Freys, a portion of House Umber, led by his uncle Hother Whoresbane, grudgingly swears fealty to House Bolton, though according to Lord Roose Bolton their loyalty is highly dubious.
Jon is mentioned as having "sons and brothers" with him when he answers Robb's calling of the banners.
Robb: My lord father taught me that it was death to bare steel against your liege lord, but doubtless you only meant to cut my meat.
Greatjon: Your meat, is bloody tough.
– Greatjon to Robb Stark after Grey Wind bites off two fingers
We'll shove our swords up Tywin Lannister's bunghole soon enough, begging your pardons, and then it's on to the Red Keep to free Ned.
– Greatjon to Catelyn Stark
MY LORDS! Here is what I say to these two kings! Renly Baratheon is nothing to me, nor Stannis neither. Why should they rule over me and mine, from some flowery seat in Highgarden or Dorne? What do they know of the Wall or the wolfswood or the barrows of the First Men? Even their gods are wrong. The Others take the Lannisters too, I've had a bellyful of them. Why shouldn't we rule ourselves again? It was the dragons we married, and the dragons are all dead! There sits the only king I mean to bow my knee to, m'lords. The King in the North!
Leave off, Karstark, it was a mother's folly. Women are made that way.
– Greatjon to Rickard Karstark
Your creepers best come fast, or my men will swarm those walls and win the Moat before you show your face. I'll make a gift of it to you when you come dawdling up.
– Greatjon to Robb Stark
I thought he was going to kill me. Did you see the way he threw down Hal, like he was no bigger than Rickon? Gods, I was so scared.
– Robb Stark to Bran Stark
Catelyn: Your father once told me that the Greatjon was as fearless as any man he had ever known.
Robb: Grey Wind ate two of his fingers, and he laughed about it.
– Catelyn Stark and Robb Stark
Catelyn would sooner Lord Umber had seen fit to stay sober, but telling the Greatjon not to drink was like telling him not to breathe for a few hours.
– thoughts of Catelyn Stark
Greatjon Umber on the Game of Thrones wiki.
Jon Umber was a member of House Umber, he was married to Serena Stark, but they had no issue.
Jon Umber, known as the Smalljon* he is portrayed by Dean S. Jagger.
See also: Images of Jon Umber (Smalljon)
Despite his name, Smalljon Umber is nearly as tall as his father, the Greatjon, and might become taller still. Like his father, he is strongly built.
Smalljon Umber is one of the thirty highborn warriors who form Robb Stark's personal guard. He fights with this unit during the battle in the Whispering Wood.
The Smalljon accompanies Robb during his invasion of the westerlands. At the storming of the Crag, he and Black Walder Frey scale the walls while Robb attacks the main gate.
The Smalljon guards Robb at the Twins during the wedding of Lord Edmure Tully and Lord Walder Frey's daughter, Roslin. During the massacre that follows the wedding, the Smalljon throws a table over Robb, the wounded King in the North, to block the crossbow bolts that rain down on them. He is wounded by a crossbowman while running for his swordbelt, going to his knees. The Smalljon is killed in the Red Wedding when men wearing mail and shaggy furs[N 1] pour into the hall, and one beheads him with two swings of his axe.
Jon is mentioned as having brothers and sisters.
Jon Vance is a maester of the Citadel formerly of House Vance of Atranta. He has four brothers: Ser Ronald, Ser Ellery, Ser Hugo and Kirth.
Ser Jon Waters was the bastard son of Lord Alyn Velaryon and Princess Elaena Targaryen.
Jon Waters was the bastard son of the seafarer Lord Alyn Velaryon, called "the Oakenfist", and Princess Elaena Targaryen. He had a twin sister, Jeyne Waters. Elaena had hoped to marry Alyn, but he was lost at sea.
Jon's trueborn son, also a great knight, changed the family name to Longwaters to remove the taint of bastardy. His line continues until the present times.
Ser Jon Wylde is a knight of House Wylde. He is married to Elyana Vypren and has one child, Rickard Wylde.
Jonelle Cerwyn is a member of House Cerwyn and is the daughter of Lord Medger Cerwyn.
Jonelle is plump and homely.
Jonelle accompanies her father to Winterfell when Robb Stark calls his banners.
After the deaths of her father, Medger,
Jonelle swears fealty to the Iron Throne.
Lord Jonnel Stark, also known as One-Eye, was a Lord of Winterfell and the head of House Stark in the latter half of the second century after Aegon's Conquest. He was the second son of Lord Cregan Stark, and the first by his third and final wife, Lynara Stark.
Jonnel had only one eye.
Jonnel became the Lord of Winterfell after the death of his father, Cregan. Jonnel married twice, to Robyn Ryswell and his niece Sansa Stark, but neither marriage had issue. He was succeeded by his brother, Barthogan Stark, as Lord of Winterfell.
He was interred in the crypts of Winterfell after his death.
Jonos Arryn was a member of House Arryn and the younger brother of Ronnel Arryn, the last King of Mountain and Vale and first Lord of the Vale after Aegon's Conquest.
In 37 AC, at the start of the reign of King Aenys I Targaryen, Jonos rose in rebellion. He deposed and imprisoned his own brother and declared himself King of Mountain and Vale. In response King Aenys I commanded his Hand of the King, Lord Alyn Stokeworth, to sail to the Vale and deal with the usurper. That order was recalled out of fear that Harren the Red, a rebel from the riverlands, might infiltrate King's Landing.
Taking matter into own hands, Lord Allard Royce of Runestone gathered forces to sweep away Jonos's supporters, penning him at the Eyrie. However, this led Jonos to send his brother flying out of the Moon Door, earning him the nickname Jonos the Kinslayer.
Jonos and his garrison remained defiant until Prince Maegor Targaryen flew to the Eyrie atop the dragon Balerion. Rather than face the fire, Jonos was seized by his garrison and delivered to Lord Royce through the Moon Door. Surrender saved Jonos's followers from burning, but not from death. All of them were hanged per the orders of Maegor, who denied the highborn rebels the honor of beheading.
Jonos Bracken is the Lord of Stone Hedge and head of House Bracken. In the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* he is portrayed by Gerry O'Brien.
See also: Images of Jonos Bracken
Jonos is heavier than Jaime Lannister but not as tall. He has thick shoulders and arms, and coarse brown hair and brown eyes. Jonos wears a brown woolen tunic embroidered with the red stallion of House Bracken. When ready for combat, he wears plate and mail and a grey steel greathelm with a horsehair crest.
Jonos often glowers and blusters.
Jonos has daughters and a bastard son, Harry Rivers. His rival, Lord Tytos Blackwood, does not believe that Harry was fathered by Jonos, however.
Gerry O'Brien as Jonos Bracken in *Game of Thrones*
Before arresting Tyrion Lannister at the crossroads inn, Catelyn Stark has Bracken men-at-arms affirms that Jonos is loyal to her father, Hoster Tully, the Lord Paramount of the Trident.
After the death of King Robert I Baratheon, the Iron Throne decrees that Jonos and other river lords swear fealty to the new king, his successor, Joffrey I Baratheon.
After the siege of Riverrun is broken in the Battle of the Camps, Jonos returns from ruined Stone Hedge. At Robb Stark's war council in Riverrun, he sits as far away as possible from his rival, Tytos Blackwood, Lord of Raventree Hall. Jonos suggests allying with King Renly Baratheon against King Joffrey I Baratheon and the Lannisters, and surprisingly agrees with Tytos in denying Catelyn's suggestion of peace. Jonos joins the other river lords in declaring Robb to be King in the North
During the liberation of Stone Hedge, Lord Jonos is wounded and his nephew, Hendry, is slain.
Jonos agrees with his rival, Lord Blackwood, that Ser Edmure Tully has devised a good plan to trap Lord Tywin Lannister in the riverlands.
Jonos's natural son, Harry Rivers, is revealed to have been killed by the Lannisters.
Jonos is cold toward Catelyn because she released Robb's captive, Ser Jaime Lannister.
Tywin expects that Jonos will yield after the Red Wedding.
Jonos Bracken by cloudninja9©
Lord Jonos besieges Raventree Hall on behalf of the Iron Throne. After Jaime resolves the siege of Riverrun, Lord Karyl Vance implores him to intervene at Raventree since Lord Tytos Blackwood will never surrender to Jonos.
Ser Jaime Lannister arrives to end the siege of Raventree, finding Jonos with a common woman named Hildy. When Jaime inquires about Lady Bracken, Jones responds that she spends all her time praying after Stone Hedge was burned by Tywin Lannister.
Jonos hands Jaime a map with the lands he wants for subduing Lord Tytos Blackwood, along with compensation for the damage Ser Gregor Clegane and the Mountain's men did to his land and family. Jaime points out Jonos has not subdued Tytos and that letting him keep his head after initially declaring for House Stark seems recompense enough for the damage caused by Gregor, who is already dead. Jonos insists that he will keep faith with the crown as he did with the Starks.
During his surrender to Jaime, Tytos agrees to surrender a smaller portion of Blackwood land than requested by Lord Bracken. Jonos is also unhappy that Jaime is taking one of Tytos's sons, Hoster, as a hostage instead of his only daughter, Bethany. Jaime upsets Jonos by ordering him to send one of his own daughters to attend Queen Regent Cersei Lannister at court in King's Landing.
Gregor Clegane laid waste to my fields, slaughtered my smallfolk, and left Stone Hedge a smoking ruin. Am I now to bend the knee to the ones who sent him? What have we fought for, if we are to put all back as it was before?
– Jonos, at Robb Stark's war council in Riverrun
Aye, I kept faith with the Young Wolf. As I'll keep faith with you, so long as you treat me fair. I bent the knee because I saw no sense in dying for the dead nor shedding Bracken blood in a lost cause.
– Jonos to Jaime Lannister
The red stallion was ever a welcome sight in Riverrun ... My father counts Jonos Bracken among his oldest and most loyal bannermen.
– Catelyn Stark, to House Bracken men-at-arms
When did Blackwood and Bracken agree about anything that was not certain, I ask you?
– Edmure Tully to Catelyn Stark
Tytos: For all his rutting, he has not proved man enough to father sons.
Jaime: He had a bastard son killed in the war.
Tytos: Did he? Harry was a bastard, true enough, but whether Jonos sired him is a thornier question. A fair-haired boy, he was, and comely. Jonos is neither.
Jonos Frey is a member of House Frey, the second son of Rhaegar Frey and Jeyne Beesbury.
King Jonos Stark was King In The North and Lord of Winterfell. He is buried in the crypts beneath Winterfell.
Ser Jonothor Darry, also known as Jon Darry, was a knight of House Darry and a member of King Aerys II Targaryen's Kingsguard. According to semi-canon sources, he was the brother of Ser Willem Darry, master-at-arms at the Red Keep.
Jaime Lannister remembers Jonothor as an earnest man.
After the battle of the Bells during Robert's Rebellion, Ser Jonothor and Ser Barristan Selmy were sent to rally the remnants of the forces commanded by Lord Jon Connington, the Hand of the King.
On the night that King Aerys II Targaryen burned his next Hand, Lord Qarlton Chelsted, Ser Jonothor was standing watch outside the royal apartments with Ser Jaime Lannister when Aerys began raping his sister-wife, Queen Rhaella Targaryen. When Jaime stated they should protect her as well, Jon allowed that they should, but not from him.
Ser Jonothor was one of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen's three Kingsguard who rode with him from the Red Keep to lead the royal army at the battle of the Trident. Before departing, Jaime pleaded with Rhaegar to command Jon to remain at the Red Keep and guard Aerys in his stead. In response, Jon snapped at his younger sworn brother and reminded him of his duty.
Ser Jon was slain at the Trident,
When you donned that cloak, you promised to obey.
– Jonothor to Jaime Lannister
Jaime: We are sworn to protect her as well.
Jonothor: We are, but not from him.
– Jaime Lannister and Jonothor outside Rhaella Targaryen's bedchamber
I learned from the White Bull and Barristan the Bold. I learned from Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning, who could have slain all five of you with his left hand while he was taking a piss with the right. I learned from Prince Lewyn of Dorne and Ser Oswell Whent and Ser Jonothor Darry, good men every one.
– Jaime Lannister to Loras Tyrell, Osmund Kettleblack, Balon Swann, Meryn Trant, and Boros Blount
Dornish puppeteers perform the tale of Florian and Jonquil at the Ashford Tourney. Art by Mike S. Miller.
Jonquil is a character of the tale where she falls in love with her knight, Florian the Fool.
According to legend, Florian first spied Jonquil bathing with her sisters in a pool in what is now Maidenpool.
There are songs about Florian and Jonquil; "Six Maids in a Pool" may be one of them. They are favorites of Sansa Stark.
During the tourney at Ashford Meadow, Dunk observed Tanselle performing a puppet show of Florian and Jonquil.
There is an as-yet-untitled famous song about Florian and Jonquil known by Sansa Stark. She offers to sing the song to Sandor Clegane but he declines.
Jonquil: You are no knight, I know you. You are Florian the Fool.
Florian: I am, my lady, As great a fool as ever lived, and as great a knight as well.
Jonquil: A fool and a knight? I have never heard of such a thing.
Florian: Sweet lady, all men are fools, and all men are knights, where women are concerned.
- the puppeteers performing the tale of Florian and Jonquil during the Ashford Tourney
Ser Jorah Mormont is an exiled knight, the former head of House Mormont and Lord of Bear Island. He fled Westeros to escape execution for trading in slaves and took up work as a mercenary in the Free Cities, eventually entering the service of the last Targaryens. He becomes one of the most trusted companions of Daenerys Targaryen. Jorah is portrayed in the television adaptation *Game of Thrones* by Iain Glen.
See also: Images of Jorah Mormont
Jorah is a large middle-aged man, swarthy and hairy. He is black bearded and balding, but still strong and fit.
Jorah wears wool and leather, with his dark green tunic displaying the standing black bear of House Mormont.
Jorah was married at a young age to a girl from House Glover as desired by his father Jeor Mormont, Lord of Bear Island. While they were married for ten years, Jorah's wife was unable to carry a child to term. She eventually died following her third miscarriage.
During Robert's Rebellion, Jorah fought on the side of the rebels. He was present during the Battle of the Trident in 283 AC
After the death of his first wife, Jorah received multiple marriage offers from other houses. Before he made his decision, however, Balon Greyjoy, Lord of the Iron Islands, rose in rebellion in 289 AC..
During a tourney at Lannisport to celebrate the victory over the Greyjoy rebels, Jorah met Lynesse Hightower, who was half his age, and became smitten with her beauty. He asked for her favor to wear during the tournament, for which she gave her permission. Jorah unexpectedly defeated all challengers. He faced Ser Jaime Lannister last, and after they broke nine lances to no result, King Robert I Baratheon granted Jorah the victory. Jorah named Lynesse his queen of love and beauty, and asked Lynesse's father, Lord Leyton Hightower, for her hand in marriage that same night. Surprisingly, Leyton agreed. Jorah and Lynesse were married at Lannisport, after which they returned to Bear Island.
The marriage did not remain happy for long. Having spent her life as part of wealthy House Hightower in Oldtown, Lynesse was unprepared for life on harsh and isolated Bear Island and quickly grew miserable. Jorah attempted to reproduce the lifestyle to which his wife was accustomed, but only succeeded in driving himself into financial ruin.
Jorah, by Jacques Bredy © Fantasy Flight Games
Desperate to pay off his debts, Jorah participated in one of the Seven Kingdoms' oldest taboos, slavery. When House Mormont's liege, Eddard Stark, learned that Jorah had sold poachers to a Tyroshi slaver, he condemned him to death. However, when the Warden of the North arrived on Bear Island to execute him in 293 AC, Jorah had already fled with Lynesse.
Rather than join his father in taking the black, Jorah took Lynesse with him into exile. While Jorah wanted to go to Braavos, Lynesse wanted a warmer home,
Heartbroken, Jorah went to Volantis, where he spent the better part of a year.
Iain Glen as Jorah in *Game of Thrones*
Jorah is present at the feast held in Drogo's manse in Pentos, where Princess Daenerys Targaryen is presented to the Dothraki *khal*.
Jorah is secretly in the employment of Varys, the master of whisperers for King Robert I Baratheon. Hoping to earn a royal pardon and return to Westeros from his exile, Jorah reports on the Targaryens' movements to King's Landing. He is quick to inform Robert about Daenerys's marriage to Drogo.
Jorah counsels Daenerys on the Dothraki way of thinking and living.
Jorah accompanies Daenerys and her escort to the western market, where he insists on visiting a caravan captain alone. Illyrio has sent a letter warning that King Robert has promised a lordship to whomever slays Viserys, Daenerys, or her child. Jorah returns to Daenerys's side just in time to confront a merchant about attempting to sell her poisoned wine.
Jorah remains with the khalasar as they travel south towards Lhazar. He participates in battle when Drogo falls upon the khalasar of Khal Ogo, who had just sacked a town of the Lhazareen. Daenerys orders Jorah to stop Drogo's men from raping the Lhazareen women, and although Jorah admires Daenerys’s intent, he tries to explain that she cannot save all the women.
Drogo is wounded in the battle, and although Mirri Maz Duur has seen to his wound, the khal ignores the *maegi'*s instructions, and his wound begins to fester.
Jorah pledges to Daenerys Targaryen - by Amok ©
Daenerys's child, Rhaego, is a stillborn monstrosity. When Daenerys wakes up from her fevered sleep, a weakened Jorah is unable to tell her the truth about the child, so Mirri tells her. Daenerys and Jorah believe that by carrying her into the tent during the ritual, Jorah inadvertently caused her son's death. Jorah escorts Daenerys to Drogo, revealing that his khalasar is gone and Drogo is now catatonic.
Preparations are made for Drogo's funeral pyre, but Jorah fears that Daenerys plans to commit suicide by entering the pyre. He begs her to come with him to Yi Ti, Qarth, the Jade Sea, and Asshai. Daenerys promises she does not intend to die with Drogo, and when she later asks the men from her *khas* and Jorah to swear their service to her, Jorah is the only one to do so. Daenerys promises him a dragon-forged Valyrian steel longsword and names him the first of her Queensguard. Jorah suggests selling the dragon eggs, but Daenerys has them placed upon Drogo's pyre. She has Jorah and Rakharo bind Mirri to the pyre. Jorah shouts at Daenerys when she walks into the burning pyre, which kills Mirri. When the flames have gone and the ground has cooled off the next morning, Daenerys is amidst the ashes, unhurt, with three living dragons. Jorah wordlessly falls to his knees, while the remaining Dothraki swear Daenerys their loyalty.
Jorah gifts Daenerys with a peach at Vaes Tolorro - by Dorota Pijewska ©
Jorah's hip has not yet fully healed. When they arrive at Vaes Tolorro, he counsels Daenerys to remain in the city for a while, until her khalasar has recovered its strength. Jorah tells Daenerys about his marriages to a Glover, who died, and Lynesse Hightower, who abandoned him. When Jorah mentions that she resembles Lynesse, Daenerys realizes that Jorah is in love with her.
Jorah accompanies the khalasar to Qarth. He is mistrustful of the Qartheen, especially the merchant prince Xaro Xhoan Daxos, the warlock Pyat Pree, and the shadowbinder Quaithe, and he counsels Daenerys to not linger in the city for long. Daenerys sends Jorah to the port of Qarth to learn about tidings from the Seven Kingdoms. He returns with Quhuru Mo, captain of the *Cinnamon Wind*, who tells them that King Robert I Baratheon is dead, Joffrey I Baratheon has ascended the Iron Throne, and it is rumored that Robert's brothers, Stannis and Renly, are going to claim the Iron Throne. A skeptical Jorah disagrees with Daenerys openly declaring her intent to take the throne herself, as she lacks an army, gold, and ships.
Unlike Xaro, Jorah is intrigued when Daenerys dresses in the Qartheen fashion, baring a breast.
Daenerys sends Jorah to Pyat Pree to arrange a meeting with the Undying Ones.
Jorah accompanies Daenerys to the docks of Qarth, seeking a ship to take them from Qarth following the destruction of the House of the Undying. Daenerys discusses her visions from the building and the claims of the Undying Ones. Two men, Strong Belwas and his squire, Arstan Whitebeard, save Daenerys from a Sorrowful Man. They claim to have been sent by Illyrio to bring Daenerys back to Pentos. When Jorah remarks that Arstan is rather old to be a squire, Arstan admits to knowing Jorah, having seen him fight at Pyke and participate in the subsequent tourney at Lannisport. Although Jorah admits Arstan looks familiar, he does not recall having met him.
Jorah, by Britt Martin © Green Ronin Publishing
While *Balerion* takes them to Pentos, Jorah reacts with hostility when Arstan provides Daenerys with more accurate information about the dragons once held by House Targaryen and Prince Rhaegar Targaryen's fighting abilities. Jorah is also bothered by Arstan insinuating knowledge of Lynesse Hightower and the tourney at Lannisport.
That night, Jorah visits Daenerys in her chamber, where he again speaks of his distrust for Arstan, Belwas, and Illyrio Mopatis, claiming that Arstan does not act like a squire. Suggesting that Daenerys go to Pentos with an army, Jorah proposes they sail for Astapor in Slaver's Bay, where Unsullied are trained and sold, telling her the story about the Three Thousand of Qohor. Excited by the idea of acquiring the beginnings of her own army, Daenerys agrees on the approach. However, Jorah kisses her and offers himself in marriage.
When she visits the Plaza of Pride to view the Unsullied of Astapor, Daenerys leaves Jorah on Balerion, taking Arstan with her instead. Arstan is against Jorah's plan to have Daenerys buy the eunuch soldiers, and he reminds her that Jorah had been a slaver himself. When she returns to the ship, Jorah informs Daenerys that three slavers inspected her ships' trading goods. When Jorah supports purchasing the Unsullied, an angry Daenerys slaps him. When Daenerys later tells him that she refuses to shed the blood of innocents, Jorah tells her about Aegon's Conquest and the Sack of King's Landing, where many women were raped. He states that the Unsullied do not rape, sack, or plunder. Regardless, Daenerys wishes to lead free men into battle who believe in her cause.
Jorah accompanies Daenerys to the Plaza of Pride, where she strikes a deal with the Good Masters. Later, Daenerys confides in Jorah and her bloodriders. The next day, Jorah goes with Daenerys and her people to buy the Unsullied.
At Yunkai, Jorah states his belief that the army of the Yellow City can easily be defeated by Daenerys's forces. He is present for each of the three meetings with the captains of the free companies and the Wise Masters, and for once agrees with Arstan when the latter argues Mero, the captain of the Second Sons, is not to be trusted. When Daenerys tells her council of her plans, Jorah approves. He later brings Daario Naharis of the Stormcrows, who was caught sneaking into the camp, to Daenerys, and counsels against using the Stormcrows in battle against Yunkai after Daario declares the loyalty of the company. Jorah leaves hurt when his queen insists she does not desire him.
Jorah follows Daenerys to Meereen, unhappy with the large number of freed slaves that follow Daenerys, calling them "mouths with feet". He does not believe they have to fight the "hero of Meereen", and calls the victory "hollow". He advises Daenerys to leave Meereen be, as they see no way to enter the city or starve the city out, and march for Pentos instead. He admits that in that scenario, Daenerys will be unable to feed the freed slaves who have decided to follow her, and Daenerys refuses to let that happen.
Jorah, by Darek Zabrocki © Fantasy Flight Games
When Arstan Whitebeard saves Daenerys from Mero, Daenerys angrily accuses Jorah of not informing her of Mero's escape. Upon learning that Arstan, an old man with a wooden staff, managed to kill Mero, Jorah becomes suspicious once again. Arstan reveals he is actually Ser Barristan Selmy, formerly Lord Commander of the Kingsguard for Robert I Baratheon, and he tells Daenerys that someone has been informing on her since the day she married Drogo. Jorah admits that he had spied on her and Viserys, but had stopped when he fell in love with her. Angrily, Daenerys sends them with Belwas and twenty men into the sewers of Meereen to take the city for her.
Although Daenerys half hopes that Jorah and Arstan will die, they are successful in freeing Meereen's slaves, granting her victory in the siege of Meereen. The thought of Jorah makes Daenerys feel angry, agitated, and sick, but she summons him and Arstan nonetheless. Although shamed, Jorah refuses to beg for forgiveness and instead insists Daenerys forgive him on account of his loyal service and love to her. Although Daenerys had planned to forgive him, she finds herself unable to, realizing it had been Jorah who had informed King Robert of her pregnancy. Instead, she banishes Jorah from Meereen, swearing to kill him if she ever sees him again.
When he lies dying during the mutiny at Craster's Keep, Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, asks Samwell Tarly to tell his son that his dying wish is for Jorah to takes the black.
Jorah, marked with a demon's masked after being enslaved
By Mike Hallstein
Recalling the prophecies of the Undying Ones, Daenerys Targaryen, Queen of Meereen, thinks of Jorah as one of her three betrayers.
At a brothel in Selhorys, Jorah hires a beautiful whore with silver hair. He recognizes Tyrion Lannister when the dwarf comes down the stairs of the brothel cartwheeling, and takes him prisoner, planning to deliver him to Daenerys.
Jorah travels with his captive on horseback to Volantis, where they overhear the red priest Benerro preach that Daenerys will come and free them. Jorah sells his horse and saddle, and buys manacles for his captive, to make him seem like a slave. He rents a room in the Merchant's House, where he chains Tyrion to the wall. Although Jorah had not given Tyrion his name, the dwarf figures it out for himself, and reveals Varys had sent him on his journey from Pentos. Jorah, admitting he accepted gold from Varys once, insists his loyalties lie elsewhere now. Jorah takes Tyrion with him when he visits the widow of the waterfront in search for a passage to Meereen, but the widow declares she does not trust Jorah, and tells him to go elsewhere. When he is about to leave, Tyrion is attacked by Penny, a female dwarf who blames him for the death of her brother, Oppo. Jorah intervenes, disarming Penny, but this earns him more scorn from the widow, as knights are supposed to defend the weak. However, Penny's attack changes the widow's mind on giving aid. She tells Tyrion to be on the *Selaesori Qhoran* when it sets sail for Qarth. While Tyrion respectfully expresses gratitude, Jorah expresses doubt, but the widow insists Benerro has foreseen that the ship will never reach its intended destination.
Tyrion Lannister and Jorah - by Jamga ©
Jorah and Tyrion share a small cabin on the Selaesori Qhoran. Because Tyrion insists they cannot leave Penny in Volantis, they bring her with them on the ship. However, Jorah makes it clear to Tyrion that Penny is Tyrion's responsibility. During the first storm, a drunken Jorah ends up in a pool of his own vomit. to eat. Jorah mocks Tyrion for mock jousting with Penny for entertainment, but grows angry when Tyrion guesses that Jorah was sent away by Daenerys. Jorah punches Tyrion and tells him to find another place to sleep.
The ship encounters another, fiercer storm, during which several crew members are lost or mortally wounded. Jorah claims to Tyrion that he slept through it, which Tyrion doubts. Following the storm, they are stranded once more for nineteen days, until a distant ship appears which Jorah identifies as a slaver.
The slaver takes the captives taken on the Selaesori Qhoran to the slave market the Yunkai'i have created during the second siege of Meereen. Jorah is placed on the auction block after Tyrion and Penny have been sold to Yezzan zo Qaggaz. Not knowing why, Tyrion lies and convinces his overseer, Nurse, that Jorah is part of their act, playing the bear who attacks Penny, "the maiden fair", while Tyrion is the knight who saves her. Jorah is bought by Yezzan as well,
When Yezzan is stricken with the pale mare, Jorah, Tyrion, and Penny are send to fetch water for their master. However, Tyrion leads them into the camp of the Second Sons to Ben Plumm, the company's captain. As Jorah's face has become unrecognizable, Plumm and his serjeants recognize him by his voice.
Having fled from Daznak's Pit atop Drogon,
Jorah and Tyrion agree that the Second Sons need to go over to Meereen's side, before Daenerys Targaryen returns to the city. When Ben Plumm summons his captains, Jorah is called to his tent as well. A Yunkish messenger, sent by Morghaz zo Zherzyn, commands the Second Sons to attack Daenerys's Unsullied, but Ser Barristan Selmy leads an attack from the city against the Yunkai'i. When the messenger recognizes Tyrion and demands him to be handed over for punishment, Jorah kills him.
The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace. They never are.
– Jorah to Daenerys Targaryen
Horselord. Try me.
– Jorah to Qotho
Daenerys: Viserys is dead. I am his heir, the last blood of House Targaryen. Whatever was his is mine now.
Jorah: My ... queen. My sword that was his is yours, Daenerys. And my heart as well, that never belonged to your brother.
– Daenerys Targaryen and Jorah
Jorah: I vow to serve you, to obey you, to die for you if need be.
Daenerys: Whatever may come?
Jorah: Whatever may come.Daenerys: I shall hold you to that oath. I pray you never regret the giving of it.
– Jorah and Daenerys Targaryen
Jorah: There are ghosts everywhere. We carry them with us wherever we go.
Daenerys: Tell me the name of your ghost, Jorah. You know all of mine.
Jorah: Her name was Lynesse.
– Jorah and Daenerys Targaryen
I did things it shames me to speak of. For gold. So Lynesse might keep her jewels, her harper, and her cook. In the end it cost me all.
– Jorah to Daenerys Targaryen
Jorah: I should not have waited so long. I should have kissed you in Qarth, in Vaes Tolorro. I should have kissed you in the red waste, every night and every day. You were made to be kissed, often and well.
Daenerys: I ... that was not fitting. I am your queen.
– Jorah and Daenerys Targaryen
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs. The scent of blood is all it takes to wake him.
– Jorah to Daenerys Targaryen
widow: Why would you seek Daenerys Targaryen, whom half the world wants dead?
Jorah: To serve her. Defend her. Die for her, if need be.
widow: You want to rescue her, is that the way of it? From more enemies than I can name, with swords beyond count … this is what you'd have the poor widow believe? That you are a true and chivalrous Westerosi knight crossing half the world to come to the aid of this ... well, she is no maiden, though she may still be fair.
– the widow of the waterfront and Jorah
His crime had dishonored the north.
– Eddard Stark's thoughts
So the slaver has become a spy. I would rather he become a corpse.
– Eddard Stark to Robert I Baratheon
Sometimes he thinks of me as a child he must protect, and sometimes as a woman he would like to bed, but does he ever truly see me as his queen?
– Daenerys Targaryen's thoughts
You have been a better friend to me than any I have known, a better brother than Viserys ever was. You are the first of my Queensguard, the commander of my army, my most valued counselor, my good right hand. I honor and respect and cherish you—but I do not desire you, Jorah Mormont, and I am weary of your trying to push every other man in the world away from me, so I must needs rely on you and you alone. It will not serve, and it will not make me love you any better.
– Daenerys Targaryen to Jorah
He lied to me, informed on me, but he loved me too, and he always gave good counsel.
– Daenerys Targaryen's thoughts
One whispered word had done what fists and clubs could not; it had broken him. I should have let the crone have him. He's going to be about as useful as nipples on a breastplate.
– Tyrion Lannister's thoughts after Jorah receives the news of Daenerys Targaryen's marriage to Hizdahr zo Loraq
He looks every inch a sellsword and not at all like the half-broken thing we took from Yezzan's cage.
– Tyrion Lannister's thoughts after Jorah joins the Second Sons