Despite the fact that there are only eleven episodes left of Game Of Thrones, the show is currently spending a curious amount of time with Jorah Mormont, a generally minor character in the grand scheme of the show.
Mormont, of course, is the loyal friendzoned servant of Daenerys Targaryen who contracted the deadly greyscale disease as a result of being banished by Khaleesi.
However, after helping save Daenerys’ life from both the Sons of the Harpy and the Dothraki, she accepts him back to her service and orders him to go find the cure for greyscale. So off Jorah went to the Citadel, which leads us to where we are now.
In this week’s episode, right before Samwell enters Jorah’s cell to try one last desperation cure, Jorah can be seen writing a letter to his beloved Khaleesi. In the episode, the contents of his letter are obscured by shadows, but HBO has since released an HD version of the final words Jorah was ever going to say to Daenerys.
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The letter reads:
“Khaleesi,
I came to the Citadel in the last hope that the maesters could treat me, as you ordered. Even with all their arts, I am beyond any cure but the grave.
I have had a longer life than I deserved, and I only wish I could’ve lived to see the world you’re going to build, standing by your side. I have loved you since the moment I met you.”
As a hopeless romantic myself, the reveal of this letter makes the scene all that more emotional, knowing that even in his final moments (or what he thought was his final moments) Jorah was thinking of Daenerys.
However, despite how endearing I find Jorah Mormont, I’m ultimately curious as to why he’s still in the show. Given that he isn’t dead yet, Jorah’s story can only go one of two ways.
The first option is that this entire subplot with Jorah and Samwell is just a misdirection and Jorah ultimately succumbs to the greyscale, which, would be a CLASSIC Thrones move.
Or, Jorah somehow survives, makes his way back to Daenerys, and dies heroically in an effort to save the life of the woman he loves. I’m leaning towards this option.
Either way, Jorah isn’t surviving until the end, I can promise you that.
