Jorah is impressed by Daenerys's growing ability to command. ĭaenerys and Jorah Mormont in the Dothraki sea. Mormont is less than certain that this will happen. Viserys dismisses the charges as foolishness, saying such things will be tolerated under his rule. Eddard Stark wanted to execute him for breaking the law. Ser Jorah tells Viserys that he lost his home because he sold some poachers to slavers (which is illegal in the Seven Kingdoms). He gives her bark to eat in order to keep her strength, telling her of the Dothraki Ghost grass theory and consoling her that her marriage will get easier. While traveling to Vaes Dothrak, Jorah notices that Daenerys is struggling to cope with Drogo's sexual appetites. He tells her of his Northern origin that he served her father for many years, and pledges to serve the rightful king, her brother Viserys. She asks his origin, correctly assuming he is from Westeros. He introduces himself and presents Daenerys with some books containing songs and stories from Westeros. Jorah appears at the wedding of Khal Drogo and Daenerys Targaryen, in a marriage arranged by Illyrio Mopatis. However, Jorah is actually a Northman, descended from the First Men.īesides the Common Tongue of Westeros, Ser Jorah is fluent in the Dothraki language. He is called Jorah the Andal by the Dothraki, as they assume that all people from Westeros are Andals. However, his income would not be enough to satisfy Lynesse, and she eventually left him and became a concubine for a richer man. He served in mercenary companies such as the Golden Company.
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He was stripped of his Lordship and fled to the Free Cities to avoid being executed by Eddard Stark, though he decided to leave his family's ancestral Valyrian steel sword, Longclaw, behind, which Jeor would pass down to Jon Snow. Jorah was eventually caught and disgraced. Ultimately, he resorted to selling poachers into slavery, which has been illegal in the Seven Kingdoms for millennia and is a great taboo throughout Westeros.
Jorah married Lynesse Hightower, but his new wife had expensive tastes that Jorah struggled to fund. His father later voluntarily joined the Night's Watch in favor of Jorah becoming Lord of Bear Island and head of House Mormont. Jorah had a distinguished early career, and participated in the Siege of Pyke during the Greyjoy Rebellion, for which he was knighted by King Robert Baratheon. Jorah Mormont is the son of Jeor Mormont of House Mormont, the Lords of Bear Island and vassals of House Stark in the North. Participating in the Battle of Winterfell, Jorah dies protecting his queen. After he helps save her life from both the Sons of the Harpy and the Dothraki, Daenerys accepts him back into her service, and orders him to come back to her after he finds a cure to his disease, which he eventually does at the hands of Citadel acolyte Samwell Tarly at Oldtown.įollowing their reunion on Dragonstone, he aids Daenerys further in order to provide proof to Cersei Lannister of the threat of the army of the dead, after which he joins the northern cause at Winterfell following a parley in King's Landing. On his way back to Daenerys, this time with Tyrion, the pair are captured by slavers and sold into the fighting pits of Meereen. He later captures Tyrion Lannister in the hope of winning his way back to her, an endeavor that leads to him contracting the deadly greyscale. When Daenerys learns of his past espionage, he is dismissed from her service and ordered to leave her presence.
He also developed strong, but unrequited, feelings for his queen. After preventing an assassination attempt on Daenerys, he stops sending reports to Varys, ignoring an official royal pardon that would allow him to return to Westeros. However, he grows to respect and admire Daenerys, serving her in earnest. Originally, Jorah was working as a spy for Varys, King Robert Baratheon's spymaster, sending him information about Viserys Targaryen's efforts to reclaim the throne. He had sworn fealty to his fellow exile Daenerys Targaryen, the Targaryen claimant to the Iron Throne, and was the first to help her adapt to life as a khaleesi of the Dothraki. Ser Jorah Mormont was an exiled Northern lord from Westeros, previously living in Essos. " There's a beast in every man, and it stirs when you put a sword in his hand." ―Jorah Mormont to Daenerys Targaryen