GoT Monday - Poor Jorah the Andal

So there's been some major spoilers for season 7 leaked over the last week or so.  I read them, because I'm dying for something, but I'm not going to share them.

I am going to say just one thing that will lead to the subject of this post. JORAH MORMONT was spotted on set IN COSTUME! He's interacting with some interesting people, but I will leave you to wonder who.

Anyway, last we saw Ser Jorah, Daenarys sent him away to find the cure to his greyscale. If you don't remember what greyscale is, it's a disease from the World of Ice and Fire that turns a persons skin scaly, flaky, dried out and rock-like. The most famous case of greyscale that we've seen on the show is Princess Shireen Baratheon.

She was infected with the sickness as a baby, but was mysteriously cured by a Red Priest. Children seem to have a better chance of surviving the illness than adults do. If you are infected as an adult, it is pretty much a death sentence. Once a person is infected, they have anywhere from 1 to 5 years left to live. Greyscale slowly spreads throughout your entire body, turning your insides into dried out stone like grossness.

If you remember back to season 5, Tyrion is on his way to Meereen with Varys when he is kidnapped by Jorah. Thinking he's won a way back into Daenarys' good graces by capturing a Lannister, Jorah takes Tyrion to Meereen himself. However, he decides to take a road much less travel. Their trek takes them through Old Valaryia, where most of the greyscale victims (called Stone Men) can be found. Of course, they're attacked, and while saving Tyrion from drowning, Jorah gets infected. He manages to hide it from everyone until season 6 when Daario notices it while searching for Dany with Jorah. When Dany finds out about it, she sends Jorah on a quest to find a cure for himself.

SO my question becomes...did he do it?

Honestly it could go either way. Jorah is the kind of guy that puts others needs ahead of his own. However, I do believe that he took Dany's words to heart and did in fact seek out a cure. So where did he go? Who did he go to for help? Well I have a couple of ideas.

There has been a Red Priestess that's been following Dany around and secretly offering her guidance. I'm talking about Quaithe. If you don't remember Quaithe, that's ok, cause we haven't seen her since season 2 when Dany and her Dothraki were in Qarth. Quaithe wears a red lacquered mask that could actually be hiding her own scarred face, scarred from maybe her own battle with greyscale? That would be a good reason to wear the mask to begin with. Also, she's a Red Priestess, it's possible that she knows of some fire magic that could help cure Jorah.

In the books we see that Red Priests are able to perform some form of magical healing. Maqorro (spelling?) is a Red Priest that is picked up by Victarion Greyjoy. Victarion had wounded his hand and was afraid of losing it completely. He strikes a deal with Maqorro, who heals the hand in dramatic fashion. The "healed" hand is more powerful than it was ever before (he demonstrates this by crushing some items), and is now black and looks like it's smoking.

That would be a pretty cool thing to happen to Jorah. There's already a theory that Jorah is the real LAST HERO or possibly even the actual Azor Ahai. A blackened, smoking arm would be a pretty cool accessory for an already bad ass hero.

So what's another way Jorah could cure himself? Well, what if after leaving Vaes Dothrak, Jorah journeys further East in Essos, to a place where magic thrives. A place where followers of every dark entity are free to practice their religion and experiment with their magic. Of all the places in this world, the one city that Jorah is most likely to find a cure and what makes the most sense (to me anyway, or it could just be wishful thinking) is Asshai-by-the-Shadow. Check out my post about Asshai! From Meereen, it's not that far away. Of course it's in the opposite direction than where Dany is heading, but Jorah is a man of his word. And if there is a possibility of a cure in Asshai, I'm certain Jorah would go there.

Asshai is where Red Priests are known to come from. It's where Melisandre is said to have come from. She started as a slave there, and was trained as a Red Priestess from an early age. We now know that her magic is quite powerful, because she's actually hundreds of years old but has a powerful glamor spell hiding her true appearance.

I, for one, would love a side plot of Jorah traveling to Asshai. It's supposed to be one of the most terrifying places in the World of Ice & Fire, and while we most likely will never see it, it will at least be cool to hear about it.

One last idea of where Jorah's quest may take him. Seeing as how the actor has been sighted on set, Jorah might have found some clues that will lead him home to the North. Maybe the cure to greyscale isn't fire, but ice. Maybe there's magic in the North that could help him. I don't think this is likely, but I DO hope to see a Mormont reunion between Jorah and Lyanna. And I wonder if Jon Snow would give up Longclaw (his Valaryian steel sword, originally belonging to Jorah and House Mormont) to Jorah in honor of his father, Jeor. If Jon is Azor Ahai reborn, then part of his prophecy says that he'll reforge Lightbringer (the fabled flaming sword of Azor Ahai), so needing a new sword because he no longer has Longclaw could be a cool plot point.

Anway, I hope Jorah is cured next season. What do you think? Will Jorah find a cure, or will he use his affliction as motivation to sacrifice himself for Dany's cause? ARRGGGHHHHH MAKE IT JUNE 2017 ALREADY!!!!! Happy Halloween everybody!