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| “ | 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 |
| “ | 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. | „ |
| ~ Jorah to Daenerys, after forcibly kissing her. |
Ser Jorah Mormont, formerly Lord Jorah Mormont, is one of deuteragonists in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation, Game of Thrones.
He is an exiled knight, having lived in the Free Cities in Essos as a mercenary for roughly five years prior to the beginning of the main story. He is brave and fierce, but also jealous, possessive, and sometimes violent when provoked. He is the former head of House Mormont and Lord of Bear Island, as well as the son of Jeor Mormont, the 997th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. He is the nephew of Maege Mormont, the current Lady of Bear Island, the former Lord Commander of Daenerys Targaryen's Queensguard, and currently a sellsword of the Second Sons under the employ of Brown Ben Plumm.
Jorah has married twice, his first wife being a deceased girl of House Glover and his second, current and estranged wife being Lynesse Hightower, who according to Jorah himself physically resembles Daenerys. Jorah hates his former liege lord, Eddard Stark.
In the television adaptation Game of Thrones, he was protrayed by Iain Glen.
Appearance and Personality[]
Overview[]
At a young age, long before his father took the black, Jorah was married to a girl of House Glover, but in 10 years of marriage, the couple was unable to have a child, with his wife eventually dying after her third miscarriage. At some point prior to Robert's Rebellion, Jorah became Lord of Bear Island after his father, Lord Jeor Mormont, joined the Night's Watch. A veteran of Robert's Rebellion, Jorah participated in the Battle of the Trident in 283 AC and saw the aftermath of the Sack of King's Landing.
Jorah is also a veteran and a war hero of Greyjoy's Rebellion, famous for having fought bravely in the Siege of Pyke and being one of the first combatants to enter the breach of the Greyjoys' castle. His deeds earned him a knighthood, and he was personally anointed by the High Septon. He met Lynesse Hightower during the post-war celebrations in the city of Lannisport, where he became the champion of the tourney held in honor of King Robert I Baratheon's victory against the Ironborn. Receiving the blessing of Lord Leyton Hightower, Lord Jorah married Lynesse Hightower at Lannisport, but the marriage would grow into an unhappy one when Lynesse found herself miserable and discontent on the impoverished and quiet Bear Island. Although their marriage is consummated, Jorah and Lynesse are now estranged, and the latter lives in Lys as the chief concubine of merchant prince Tregar Ormollen.
Jorah's marriage is the reason why he had to flee Westeros to avoid punishment and execution, as the lifestyle of his demanding wife caused the modest House Mormont to suffer debts that they were unable to pay. Jorah resorted to engaging in the slave trade to pay his debts, but his crimes were discovered by Eddard Stark, the Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North. After Jorah went into exile, the rulership of Bear Island passed to his aunt, Lady Maege Mormont.
Jorah and his wife fled to the Free Cities, where Jorah took up work as a mercenary. Eventually, a few years after his wife cut bridges with him, Jorah became a spy for the Iron Throne, under the employ of Varys, the master of whisperers of King Robert I Baratheon, in the hopes of gaining a royal pardon and being allowed to safely return to Westeros. As a double agent, Jorah eventually entered the service of House Targaryen, under the false allegiance of Viserys Targaryen, with the help of Magister Illyrio Mopatis, the main accomplice and old friend of Varys. However, Jorah quickly fell infatuated with Viserys' 13-year-old sister, Daenerys Targaryen, who reminded him of his estranged wife Lynesse, and grew genuinely loyal and devoted to her. Jorah ultimately becomes one of Daenerys's most trusted companions. He is also named her Lord Commander of the Queensguard, until his banishment in the final stages of A Storm of Swords, when he is replaced by Ser Barristan Selmy.
To his credit, Jorah left behind Longclaw, the ancestral Valyrian steel sword of the Mormonts, rather than taking it with him to Essos. His aunt Maege sent the blade to Jeor Mormont at Castle Black, who eventually passed it to his steward Jon Snow during the early stages of the War of the Five Kings.
Jorah's father is murdered by deserters in the mutiny at Craster's Keep. Jeor's last words included Jorah, telling Samwell Tarly to tell the realm about all the events of the Great Ranging beyond the Wall, his final words being: "The Fist. The wildlings. Dragonglass. This. All. Tell my son. Jorah. Tell him, take the black. My wish. Dying wish." It is unknown if Sam will ever be able to bring Lord Mormont's last wishes to Jorah.
A Game of Thrones[]
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A Clash of Kings[]
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A Storm of Swords[]
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A Dance with Dragons[]
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The Winds of Winter[]
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Trivia[]
- Jorah's television counterpart in Game of Thrones was infected with greyscale fighting stone men to save Tyrion Lannister. This does not happen at all in A Song of Ice and Fire, in which Tyrion faces the stone men in the Sorrows before he is kidnapped by Jorah. In the books, the ones who are attacked by stone men are Jon Connington's company, and while sailing through the Rhoyne, Tyrion is with them. It is not Jorah who becomes infected with greyscale from fighting stone men and saving Tyrion, but Jon Connington, who is currently hiding his infection from everyone else. Jorah doesn't have the disease, and he finds Tyrion after the events, meeting him by chance in a brothel at Selhorys, a Volantene town, where he kidnaps him and takes him away from Connington and the boy Aegon Targaryen. It is after this that Tyrion is brought to Volantis by Jorah, while the television version did this journey backwards and had Tyrion kidnapped in Volantis instead of Selhorys.
- Oddly enough, the screenwriters of the television show changed the location of the stone men's colony, choosing, of all places, the ruined city of Valyria as the location. This choice is questionable and has been disliked by most readers, as lore-wise, Valyria and the entire southern part of the Valyrian peninsula are meant to be mysterious, burned, sorcery-ridden, infected, and haunted lost lands of pure horror that are impossible to travel in, and there is absolutely no human life there, with the sky always being red. In the books, the colony of stone men is found in the Sorrows, within ruined Rhoynish cities and forests, allegedly ruled by the "Shrouded Lord." The colony was set by the Volantene, while any attempt to colonize Valyria and the ruined lands of the Smoking Sea utterly failed, with every single person ever sent there never returning and vanishing without a trace. Not even a dragon of "Emperor" Aurion came back from Valyria, and two survivors (Aerea Targaryen and the dragon Balerion) who might have been in Valyria returned to King's Landing in disturbing conditions, with Aerea suffering a gruesome death after returning.
- Euron Greyjoy is the only known person who allegedly sailed through the Smoking Sea, visited Valyria, and survived, and whether any of his current living crewmates have been with him on such a voyage is unknown.
- Oddly enough, the screenwriters of the television show changed the location of the stone men's colony, choosing, of all places, the ruined city of Valyria as the location. This choice is questionable and has been disliked by most readers, as lore-wise, Valyria and the entire southern part of the Valyrian peninsula are meant to be mysterious, burned, sorcery-ridden, infected, and haunted lost lands of pure horror that are impossible to travel in, and there is absolutely no human life there, with the sky always being red. In the books, the colony of stone men is found in the Sorrows, within ruined Rhoynish cities and forests, allegedly ruled by the "Shrouded Lord." The colony was set by the Volantene, while any attempt to colonize Valyria and the ruined lands of the Smoking Sea utterly failed, with every single person ever sent there never returning and vanishing without a trace. Not even a dragon of "Emperor" Aurion came back from Valyria, and two survivors (Aerea Targaryen and the dragon Balerion) who might have been in Valyria returned to King's Landing in disturbing conditions, with Aerea suffering a gruesome death after returning.
External Link[]
- Jorah Mormont on the A Wiki of Ice and Fire.
