Jorah Mormont’s death has to be one of the most heartbreaking moments of Game of Thrones Season 8. The exiled knight died heroically, defending the woman he loved and served with all his heart. But that was not the fate the writers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss originally had in mind for him. Interestingly, he was supposed to travel beyond the Wall with Jon Snow, the very man who killed his Queen Daenerys Targaryen.

Game of Thrones writer Dave Hill told Entertainment Weekly that Jorah Mormont was meant to one of the people who welcome Jon Snow at the Wall after his exile. In fact, the scene where Jon crosses the Wall to go into the Wild North was originally envisioned as Jorah, Jon, and Tormund Giantsbane coming out of the gate.

Hill says, “For a long time we wanted Ser Jorah to be there at The Wall in the end. The three coming out of the tunnel would be Jon and Jorah and Tormund. But the amount to logic we’d have to bend to get Jorah up to The Wall and get him to leave Dany’s side right before [the events in the finale] … there’s no way to do that blithely. And Jorah should have the noble death he craves defending the woman he loves.”

In any case, it would probably be too heartbreaking for Jorah to witness Daenerys’ Mad Queen turn and her final, tragic fate. Actor Iain Glen agrees: “There’s a sweetness in that because Jorah will never know what she did … It’s a blessing for him that he never found out what happened to her. And from a pragmatic story point of view, his death served a greater purpose.”

The greater purpose would be pushing Daenerys a little more towards her terrible final act – the burning of King’s Landing. Jorah was her truest friend and also the only person who could change her mind in the whole of Westeros.

In that sense, Jorah’s death was one of the three events (the other two were the deaths of Rhaegal and Missandei) that ultimately led to Daenerys’ madness, and transformed Westeros’ future in the process.

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