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| lastname = Reed
| Alias = Little Grandfather
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| image_caption = Jojen Reed by Joel Hustak © Fantasy Flight Games
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| Alias = Little grandfather{{Ref|ACOK|28}}<br>The little grandfather{{Ref|ASOS|9}}<br>The frogboy{{Ref|ACOK|35}}
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| Books = [[A Clash of Kings]] (Appears)<br>[[A Storm of Swords]] (Appears)<br>[[A Dance with Dragons]] (Appears)
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| Date_of_Birth = {{Date|286}}<ref>''See the [[Years after Aegon's Conquest/Calculations Ages (Continued)#Jojen Reed|Jojen Reed]] calculation.''</ref>
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| Place_of_Birth = [[Greywater Watch]]{{ref|awoiaf| Jojen Reed}}
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| Father = [[Howland Reed]]
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| Mother = [[Jyana]]
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| Books = ''[[A Clash of Kings]]'' (appears)<br>''[[A Storm of Swords]]'' (appears)<br>''[[A Feast for Crows]]'' (appendix)<br>''[[A Dance with Dragons]]'' (appears)
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| Played_by = [[w:Thomas Brodie-Sangster|Thomas Brodie-Sangster]]
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| TV_series = [[Game of Thrones - Season 3|Season 3]] {{!}} [[Game of Thrones - Season 4|Season 4]]
 
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'''Jojen Reed''' is [[Howland Reed]]'s only son and [[Meera Reed]]'s younger brother. Jojen has [[greensight]], the power of prophetic dreams. He is thirteen.{{Ref|aSoS|9}}
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'''Jojen Reed''' is a member of [[House Reed]]. He is Lord [[Howland Reed]]'s only son and [[Meera Reed]]'s younger brother. Jojen has [[greensight]], the power of prophetic [[greenseer|green dreams]]. In the television adaptation ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', Jojen is portrayed by [[w:Thomas Brodie-Sangster|Thomas Brodie-Sangster]].
  
==Characteristics==
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==Appearance and Character==
Jojen is barely an adolescent when he arrives at [[Winterfell]], but his gravity and mature personality make him seem older.{{Ref|aSoS|9}} He is short and slim with unusually deep green eyes, wearing green colored clothing.{{Ref|aCoK|21}} He knows a number of arcane things that he gleans from his dreams, including the day of his death.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}  
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{{See also|:Category:Images of Jojen Reed|l1=Images of Jojen Reed}}
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Jojen is short and slim, with unusually deep green eyes. He wears green-colored clothing, even his boots.{{Ref|ACOK|21}} Jojen is barely an adolescent when he arrives at [[Winterfell]], but his gravity and mature personality make him seem older.{{Ref|ASOS|9}} He knows a number of arcane things that he gleans from his dreams, including the day of his death.{{Ref|ACOK|28}}
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
In his childhood Jojen nearly died of greywater fever. While he was near death, he was visited by a [[Three-eyed crow]] that gave him the gift of [[greensight]], causing him to experience prophetic dreams. One such dream involved a chained wolf that the three-eyed crow was trying to free from a chain. When Jojen told his [[Howland Reed|father]] about the dream, Lord Howland sent him and his sister Meera to [[Winterfell]].{{Ref|aCoK|28}}  
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In his childhood, Jojen nearly died of [[greywater fever]]. While he was near death, he was visited in a dream by a [[three-eyed crow]]. The crow gave Jojen the gift of [[greensight]], causing him to experience prophetic dreams known as greendreams. One such dream involved a winged wolf bound with stone chains, that the three-eyed crow was trying to free. When Jojen told his father, [[Howland Reed]], about the dream, Lord Howland sent him and his sister Meera to [[Winterfell]].{{Ref|ACOK|28}}
  
===A Clash of Kings===
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Even though he experiences greendreams, Jojen is not a [[greenseer]], since he lacks the abilities of a [[warg]] and cannot commune with [[weirwood]] trees.{{Ref|ASOS|9}}
[[File:Mustamirri reedscamping.jpg|thumb|250px|Jojen and Meera, on their way to [[Winterfell]] - by mustamirri ©]]
 
In the middle of a Harvest Feast Jojen and his sister [[Meera Reed|Meera]] arrive to pledge the [[House Reed|Reeds']] support to [[Winterfell]] and [[Robb Stark|Robb]] after [[Eddard Stark]]'s death. [[Luwin|Maester Luwin]] tells Bran that he should meet these two warmly because Howland Reed was a great friend of his father and these are his children. Jojen asks about the [[direwolf|Direwolves]], wanting to see them and is told they are in the [[Godswood]].{{Ref|aCoK|21}}
 
  
Later, after Meera manages to defeat Summer using a net and frog spear, Jojen tells Bran that everyone in the Castle hears him scream when he sleeps, and asks about what frightens him. Jojen tells Bran that he should leave Winterfell sooner rather than later and Meera reveals that Jojen has the [[Greensight]]. Jojen and Meera ask Bran to tell them what frightens him; they tell him that that everyone in the Castle hears him scream when he sleeps. Bran does not tell, but is interested in what dreams Jojen has had. Jojen says he will tell if Bran will tell about his dreams. Jojen tells Bran that he is sure that he is ''the Winged Wolf'' bound to earth with chains.  
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==Recent Events==
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===''A Clash of Kings''===
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[[File:Jojen and Meera Reed.jpg|thumb|350px|Meera and Jojen Reed, by Amok©]]
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In the middle of the [[harvest feast]] at [[Winterfell]], Jojen and his sister [[Meera Reed|Meera]] arrive. They pledge [[House Reed]]'s support to Winterfell and the new [[King in the North]], [[Robb Stark]], renewing their vows after Lord [[Eddard Stark]]'s death. The siblings recite their oath to Robb's younger brother, [[Bran Stark]]. Jojen asks about the [[direwolf|Direwolves]], wanting to see them, and is told they are in the [[godswood of Winterfell]]. That night, Bran [[wolf dream|dreams]] of the Reeds meeting [[Summer]] and [[Shaggydog]], the direwolves of Bran and his brother [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]]. Jojen is not afraid of the direwolves, telling Meera that it is not the day he dies, and attempts to pet Summer.{{Ref|ACOK|21}}
  
Meera reveals that they were sent to Winterfell by their father after hearing about Jojen’s dreams. Bran tells them about the dreams of the [[three-eyed crow]]. The Crow has sent them to free him, and that the Crow is in the North beyond the Wall. Bran is also told that he must open his third eye to free himself. Bran says that he has only two, and that he does not need a third eye. Jojen’s questioning of Bran about his dreams upsets Bran, and Summer starts getting aggressive. [[Shaggydog]] also appears, brought by Summer’s anger. Meera tells Bran to call them off, but he does not know how, and Jojen tells Bran that Summer is reacting to his anger. When Meera tells Jojen to climb the tree, Jojen tells her that it is not yet time for him to die. Meera and Jojen escape up the Godswood. Bran calls [[Hodor]], who chases off the wolves.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}  
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After the feast, the other lords and knights depart within a few days, but the Reeds stay at Winterfell and become Bran's constant companions. Because of his solemnity, [[Old Nan]] nicknames Jojen "little grandfather". Some weeks after the feast, Meera and Jojen visit the godswood with Bran and play with Summer. Meera reveals to Bran that Jojen has the [[greensight]], and that they were sent to Winterfell by their father, [[Howland Reed]]. Jojen explains he has dreamed of a winged wolf and a [[three-eyed crow]] who lives [[beyond the Wall]]. He interrogates Bran about his own dreams, angering him, and Summer growls at Jojen. Though Bran tries to call him off, Summer begins to aggressively stalk Jojen, and is soon joined by Shaggydog. Jojen remains calm, again telling Bran and Meera that it is not the day he dies, but follows Meera's command to climb the [[weirwood]] to escape the direwolves.{{Ref|ACOK|28}}
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[[File:Mike Capprotti Jojen.jpg|thumb|350px|Jojen with [[Bran Stark]] and [[Summer]], by Mike Capprotti © Fantasy Flight Games]]
  
Later Jojen enters Bran’s room with Meera behind him after he is left in his room by [[Osha]] (while being carried, Bran questioned Osha who tells Bran that she has seen many of the mythical beasts of the North, but not a three-eyed-Crow). Bran finally tells them about his wolf dreams. Then Jojen reveals his dream: he dreamed that sea would come to Winterfell in the dark of night, drowning many people. Then Bran tells Jojen about his dreams of the Crow and the worst, his dreams of falling. Jojen tells him he is a Warg, and that he is powerful but will not fly unless he opens his third eye. Jojen also warns Bran not to tell anyone because people will fear him. After they leave, Bran attempts unsuccessfully to open the third eye.  
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Though Jojen's abilities are discounted by [[Maester]] [[Luwin]], Meera tells Bran of one of Jojen’s green dreams:
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{{Quote|You were sitting at supper, but instead of a servant, Maester Luwin brought you your food. He served you the king’s cut off the roast, the meat rare and bloody, but with a savory smell that made everyone’s mouth water. The meat he served the [[House Frey|Freys]] was old and grey and dead. Yet they liked their supper better than you liked yours.{{Ref|ACOK|28}}}}
  
In following days Bran tries to warn his household, but no one seems to believe him. He is also with Meera and Bran as they play a game of tiles and discuss the dreams. When Bran tells them that [[Maester Luwin]] thinks that it should be possible to change the dreams, Meera agrees with Bran that it should be possible. Meera  gets angry with her brother when he tells them that what he sees always come true. Then Jojen reveals that he has seen bodies of Bran and [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]] at the feet of the man they call Reek (not yet revealed as being actually [[Ramsay Snow]]) and he is skinning off their faces with a knife. Meera states that she could go down to the dungeons and kill Reek now, but Jojen tells her she will not succeed; first the jailers would stop her, and they will never believe.{{Ref|aCoK|35}}
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Later, Bran learns from Luwin of [[Robb Stark]]'s victory over Ser [[Stafford Lannister]] in the [[Battle of Oxcross]], and the death of Ser [[Stevron Frey]]. While Bran is happy for the victory, he knows that only Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] matters. In contrast, neither [[Walder Frey (son of Jammos)|"Big" Walder]] or [[Walder Frey (son of Merrett)|"Little" Walder]] seem bothered by their uncle Stevron's death. Because they are more concerned about the Frey line of succession than Stevron's death, the maester tells them that they should be ashamed. Bran realizes that the situation is the same as Jojen's green dream, proving its truth, and asks him for the dream he had about a bad thing coming to Winterfell.{{Ref|ACOK|35}}
  
When [[Theon Greyjoy]] takes Winterfell, Bran is lead out of his room where he meets Meera and Jojen, who have also been taken captive.{{Ref|aCoK|46}}
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Jojen tells Bran:
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{{Quote|I dreamed that the sea was lapping all around Winterfell. I saw black waves crashing against the gates and towers, and then the salt water came flowing over the walls and filled the castle. Drowned men were floating in the yard. When I first dreamed the dream, back at [[Greywater Watch|Greywater]], I didn’t know their faces, but now I do. That [[Alebelly]] is one, the guard who called our names at the feast. [[Chayle|Your septon's]] another. [[Mikken|Your smith]] as well.{{Ref|ACOK|35}}}}
  
Later, Bran, Meera, Jojen, [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]], [[Osha]] and [[Hodor]] fake an escape from Winterfell, returning to hide in the crypts until after the castle is sacked by [[Ramsay Bolton]]. Hodor has to force the crypts' door open with his massive strength and they find the castle destroyed. They discover many of the bodies of the people Jojen saw dead in his dream. In the godswood they find Maester Luwin unconscious. They waken him and he tells them of enemies in all directions. Luwin advises [[Osha]] to split the Stark children. Osha decides to take Rickon with her South and Jojen says that they will take Bran. After they separate, Jojen tells the others that their road is north, so he, Meera, Hodor and Bran travel north.{{Ref|aCoK|69}}
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Bran, confused and dismayed, responds that the sea is far away and Winterfell has high walls, but Jojen insists the sea will flow over the walls. Bran tells Jojen about his own dreams of the three-eyed crow and his dreams of falling. Jojen tells him he is a [[warg]], and that he is powerful but will not fly unless he opens his third eye. Jojen also warns Bran not to tell anyone because people will fear him. Bran tries to warn others about Jojen's dream, but mostly the dream of the sea is dismissed.{{Ref|ACOK|35}}
  
===A Storm of Swords===
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Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]] returns with a prisoner who was involved in the forced marriage and then murder of Lady [[Donella Hornwood]]. Jojen reveals he has seen the bodies of Bran and [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]] at the feet of the man they call [[Ramsay Snow|Reek]] and he is skinning off their faces with a knife. Meera states that she could kill Reek, but Jojen tells her she would not succeed.{{Ref|ACOK|35}}
Jojen is there when Hodor wakes Bran from the Wolf dream while in the ruins of a tower. Jojen warns Bran against spending too much time as the wolf, telling him that he must eat, and that eating in the Wolf Dream did not count. Bran tells Jojen that he wanted to eat the deer he had won in a fight against wolves; he was tired of the frogs Meera caught. Jojen asked if he had marked the trail, and Bran knows he did not do as Jojen told him again. Bran also points out that at one time Jojen was telling him to explore is skills in the Wolf dream and now he discourages him.  
 
  
It is revealed that Jojen is so serious that he has was nicknamed little grandfather at Winterfell. Jojen tells them that the next day they need to leave. Meera questions him on why they should leave given they seem safe and there is plenty of food. Jojen tells her that this is not the place they need to be. Meera and then Bran state they want to go to a village to at least get horses (or a boat), but Jojen tells her that they cannot reveal themselves to anybody because Bran is safe as long as it is thought he is dead. He continues by stating they are not robbers. Jojen explains to them that they must find Bran’s teacher; Jojen does not have the knowledge to train him since Jojen does not understand the gifts that Bran was given, which are way beyond Jojen’s gift. Then Meera tells Bran that Jojen is right, what they are is servants, and they will do what he tells them to do. Bran tells them that he wants to fly, and to take him to the crow with tears in his eyes.{{Ref|aSoS|9}}
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When [[Theon Greyjoy]] [[capture of Winterfell|takes Winterfell]], Bran is lead out of his room where he meets Meera and Jojen, who have also been taken captive.{{Ref|ACOK|46}} [[Alebelly]],{{Ref|ACOK|46}} Septon [[Chayle]],{{Ref|ACOK|50}} and [[Mikken]]{{Ref|ACOK|46}} are slain by the [[ironborn]], as Jojen had foreseen in his green dream. The Stark and Reed children later fake an escape with [[Osha]] and [[Hodor]], however, and hide in the [[crypts of Winterfell]].{{Ref|ACOK|69}} Unable to find them, Theon and "[[Ramsay Snow|Reek]]" murder a pair of [[miller's sons]] and present their flayed bodies as Bran and Rickon to the people of Winterfell.{{Ref|ACOK|50}}{{Ref|ACOK|56}}
  
As they move north, they are fed with the fish Meera spears and the squirrels or hares Summer finds. Bran often watches as Meera spears fish, admiring her speed and precision. As they progress north food becomes harder to find, and even Summer is having a hard time finding food. Jojen insists that they keep away from roads because roads have travelers that will spread tales about a giant, a cripple boy and a wolf. Jojen tells them about the mountain folks, when asked if the mountain people know they are there, Bran knows they do because of his wolf dreams.  
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When Jojen and his companions emerge from Winterfell's crypts, they find that the castle [[Sack of Winterfell|has been burned]] and its people killed. In the godswood, the dying Luwin advises Osha to split up the Stark children to make them harder to find. Osha decides to take Rickon with her south, and Jojen says that he and Meera will take Bran. After they separate, Meera, Hodor, and Bran travel north upon Jojen's recommendation.{{Ref|ACOK|69}}
  
When they are desperate, and the weather is turning bad, Summer finds them a cave where they find a mountain man (Bran thinks he is a Liddle) that shares his food with them. When asked if they should take the King’s road, the mountain man tells them that things are dangerous. Now there are flayed men (the bastard’s men), and dead men. As for the wall he tells them that the Bear disappeared north of the wall with most of his men and that his ravens had returned with no messages. He continues by stating things were different when there was a Stark in Winterfell. Jojen tells him that the wolves will be back. In the morning the man is gone, but he left some food for them.{{Ref|aSoS|24}}
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===''A Storm of Swords''===
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[[File:Mustamirri reedscamping.jpg|350px|thumb|Jojen and Meera cooking dinner, by mustamirri ©]]
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When Bran wakes from a wolf dream while in the ruins of [[Tumbledown Tower]], Jojen warns Bran against spending too much time as the wolf [[Summer]]. While Bran would like to stay, Meera and Jojen remind him it is dangerous for them to travel in the North, and that Bran will not learn about his gifts while remaining at the tower. After considering seeking refuge with [[House Stark]]'s bannermen, Bran tells the Reeds he wants to fly, and to take him to the three-eyed crow.{{Ref|ASOS|9}}
  
When Jojen tells Bran that Hodor likes it when somebody says his name, Bran tells them that that his real name is Walder and he is Nan’s distant progeny.{{Ref|aSoS|24}}
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As they move north, Jojen insists that they keep away from roads because roads have travelers that will spread tales about a [[Hodor|giant]], a [[Bran Stark|cripple boy]] and a [[Summer|wolf]]. When the weather turns bad in the [[northern mountains]], Summer finds them a cave, where they find a [[House Liddle|Liddle]] who shares his food and warns the [[kingsroad]] has become dangerous. When he states things were different when there was a Stark in Winterfell, Jojen tells him that he dreamed the wolves will return. In the morning the man is gone, but leaves some food for them.{{Ref|ASOS|24}}
  
They arrive at a village in disrepair: the most substantial building, the inn, only having only some walls still standing. When asked about the place, Bran tells them that this is part of the New Gift given to the Night's Watch thanks to Queen Alysanne. The area had been abandoned because of raiding by the [[Free Folk|Wildings]]. With the Watch not being as strong, the villages could not be protected, and the small folk moved south even though the land is good for farming as Jojen had noted earlier. Jojen tells them they have to find shelter since a storm is coming.  
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They arrive at a village in disrepair in the [[Gift|New Gift]]: the most substantial building, the inn, only has a few walls still standing. They take refuge from a storm in [[Queenscrown]], the [[holdfast]] in the middle of the lake, but they detect men in the village, one of whom turns out to be [[Jon Snow]] traveling with [[wildlings]]. Bran possesses Summer and attacks the wildlings going after Jon. Summer kills three of them, but takes an arrow to the shoulder. The group waits until the next day to leave after the wildlings are gone.{{Ref|ASOS|40}}{{Ref|ASOS|41}}
  
There is a Holdfast in the middle of the lake, but Meera notes that they have no boat. Bran tells them there is a stone causeway hidden under the water, and Meera easily finds it once she knows it is there. When asked how he knows this Bran tells them that Old Nan told him. In honor Queen Alysanne, who stayed there, there was a gold crown on the Holdfast; some of the gold can still be seen. Meera leads them across as the causeway ziged and zaged. It goes almost a third of the way around the island before coming back. The water comes only up to Hodor’s waist and the Reed’s chests, and is slippery, making the journey treacherous. The door to the holdfast cannot be completely closed, but Meera is able to open it all the way. Stairs lead up and down, but are closed off by rusted iron grates which cannot be forced. Bran is able from Hodor’s back to reach up and pull open the rusted grate covering a murder hole above them.  
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They arrive at the [[Nightfort]], the castle in Jojen’s green dream. The surefooted Meera climbs to the top of the [[Wall]] to get a look at the other side, while the boys search the abandoned buildings, but they cannot figure out how to get across the Wall. They decide to sleep that night in the kitchen, as it would provide some warmth and protection. As they go to sleep, Jojen states that maybe he will have a green dream to show him the way. In the middle of the night, they hear the sound of footsteps and heavy breathing coming up from a well in the kitchen, and Meera traps what emerges in her net and sticks it with her frog spear. Once they have more light, they see she has captured a Night's Watchman, [[Samwell Tarly]], and [[Gilly]] and [[Monster|her baby]] also exit the secret stairs in the well. Sam explains his group was aided by [[Coldhands]], a pale man with cold black hands who was dressed in the black of the Night's Watch, who has been sent to find Bran. Sam tells them that they came through [[Nightfort|the Black Gate]], a passage as old as the Wall. Sam will have to take them down through the well to the gate, because only a man sworn to the Night's Watch can open the gate. Jojen, Meera, Hodor, and Bran go down the well's stairway and through the Black Gate.{{Ref|ASOS|56}}
  
They climb up through the murder hole to the safety of group of small cells on the second level with a total of 5 levels. Bran asks Jojen how they will get past the wall, but Jojen is not sure, only that one of the castles along the wall may give them a way through. He tells them they cannot go to the occupied castles (besides, the Nights Watch may not let them pass). Bran tells them that his uncle told him that the gates through the wall were sealed when they were abandoned. Meera says they should open them, but Bran worries about letting bad things back through. It is then that Jojen sees a man on a horse in the village and then the storm arrives. The thunder scares Hodor who starts screaming his name in fear. Bran is able to quite him after Jojen asks him to. Immediately after this Jojen spies many more men in the village. Hodor starts screaming again in agony, but nobody can control Hodor. Then Bran reaches for him as he had for Summer (Bran knows that he was Hodor for a second) and Hodor collapses on the floor almost comatose.{{Ref|aSoS|40}}
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===''A Dance with Dragons''===
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Jojen, Meera, Bran, Hodor, and Coldhands travel [[beyond the Wall]] in search of the [[three-eyed crow]], riding Coldhand's great elk. The journey is difficult for all the children, as they struggle to find food and deal with the cold. Jojen especially becomes listless and demoralized. They take shelter in an abandoned [[wildling]] village while Coldhands deals with a threat. The group discusses the nature of Coldhands, deciding that he is not alive. Meera protects her weakened brother Jojen from the cold, though he tells Meera it is not the day he dies.{{Ref|ADWD|4}}
  
They arrive at the [[Nightfort]], this castle chosen because of Jojen’s Greendream. They cannot figure out from here how to get across the wall, and Bran tells Jojen that they should have gone to the Castle Black, but Jojen tells him they dare not. Jojen reminds Bran that he had helped his brother at the Queen’s Crown through Summer, killing at least 3 of the Wildings. There had been too many of them and Summer had been hit by an arrow during his escape. Afterwards Bran could not reach Summer, being driven away by the pain. After that night, it took a while for the Wildings to leave, and so the group waited until the next day to leave. Summer had finally swum across, and Meera removed the arrow and treated the wound.  
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When his great elk collapses along their journey, Coldhands whispers a blessing in an [[True Tongue|unknown language]] and slits the [[animal]]'s throat; he and Meera butcher the carcass for food. They reach the [[cave of the three-eyed crow]], and Meera helps Jojen climp up the hill, half-carrying, half-dragging him. When the group is ambushed by [[wights]] near the entrance, Coldhands fights them off while Meera jabs at them with her spear to keep them away. Bran [[skinchanger|takes control]] of Hodor and attacks the wights, and Meera defends the giant man when a wight claws at him. [[Leaf]], one of the [[children of the forest]], fends off the wights, allowing Hodor to carry Jojen and Meera to rescue Bran's crippled body. Inside the cave, the group meet the remaining children and the three-eyed crow.{{ref|ADWD|13}}
  
At the Nightfort  Meera climbs to the top of the wall, and the other two search the buildings. They decide to sleep that night in the kitchen because it would provide some protection. The kitchen has a central well with steps inside leading down. As they go to sleep, Jojen states that maybe he would have a Greendream to show him the way. Bran cannot get to sleep, and then hears sounds that are coming from the well that are getting louder, footsteps. Bran wiggles over to Meera and wakes her. She hears the sound at once, arms herself, then goes to the well. Bran cannot let Meera handle the threat alone, so forces his way into Hordor (it is very difficult). As Hordor, he grabs a sword. When the thing finally comes over the edge of the well, Bran, in fear, loses connection with Hodor, who starts screaming. Meera traps the thing in her net and sticks him with her frog spear. When the fire is stoked up they see a girl, [[Gilly]], with a baby and a fat man in the black of the Nights Watch trapped in the net. It is [[Samwell Tarly|Sam]].
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Though they find safety in the cave, staying there for months while Bran learns about being a [[greenseer]] from the three-eyed crow, Jojen falls into a resigned depression. He wanders through the caverns alone, and often climbs up to the cave's mouth to stare out at the forest for hours, shivering. Meera tells Bran that Jojen wants to go home to [[Greywater Watch]]. She says that Jojen isn't willing to try and fight his fate, stating that the greendreams do not lie. Meera says she had hoped finding the three-eyed crow would do something, but now she wonders why they even came. After Bran is fed the [[weirwood paste]] and communes with Winterfell's [[heart tree]] for the first time, Hodor returns him to their sleeping chamber in the cave, but neither Meera nor Jojen are there.{{Ref|ADWD|34}}
  
The girl asks if Jojen is the one that [[Coldhands]] sent them to get, the one that Coldhands was sent to find. Coldhands had told them that there would be people in a castle. When Jojen asks how Sam and his group got through the wall, and Sam told him that they came through the Black Gate, a gate as old as the wall. Sam will have to take them back because only a man sworn to the Nights Watch can open the gate. Sam tells them that Coldhands was dressed in the black of the Nights Watch but pale. He rides an elk and has ravens. 
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==Quotes by Jojen==
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{{Quote|This is not the day I die.{{Ref|ACOK|21}}|Jojen, to [[Meera Reed]]}}
  
Coldhands did not come because he cannot pass beyond the wall because there are spells woven into it. When Sam sees the cripple, the one Jojen tells him he is one that Coldhands wants, he recognizes Bran as Jon’s brother. When Jojen states that Bran is dead, Sam realizes that they are keeping Bran being alive a secret, and Sam states that he and Gilly can keep a secret. Bran then tells Sam that Jon is alive. When Summer licks Sam’s hand, Bran decides they will go with him. The gate is made of a White [[Weirwood]] with a withered face. The door opened its eyes and asked “Who are You.” Sam answers with a rhyme and the door allows them to pass.{{Ref|aSoS|56}}
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{{Quote|I dreamed of the man who came today, the one they call [[Reek]]. You and [[Rickon Stark|your brother]] lay dead at his feet, and he was skinning off your faces with a long red blade.{{Ref|ACOK|35}}|Jojen, to [[Bran Stark]]}}
  
===A Dance with Dragons===
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{{Quote|The dream was green, Bran, and the green dreams do not lie.{{Ref|ACOK|35}}|Jojen, to [[Bran Stark]]}}
Jojen, [[Bran Stark|Bran]], [[Meera Reed|Meera]], [[Hodor]], and [[Coldhands]] travel north of the [[Wall]] in search of the [[three-eyed crow]].{{Ref|aDwD|4}} They reach the cave of the three-eyed crow, but are ambushed by [[wight|wights]] just outside the cave’s entrance.  Because Jojen is too weak to continue, Meera carries him on her back. Inside the cave, the group meet the remaining [[children of the forest]] and the three-eyed crow.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran II (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran II]]</ref> 
 
  
Jojen falls into a resigned depression.  He wants to go home to [[Greywater Watch]].  Meera implies while speaking with Bran that Jojen has had a [[greenseer|greendream]] of his fate when he goes to Greywater Watch, and that the outcome is not good.<ref>[[A Dance with Dragons]], [[Bran III (A Dance with Dragons)|Bran III]]</ref>
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{{Quote|'''Bran Stark:''' You're a greenseer.<br>'''Jojen Reed:''' No, only a boy who dreams.{{Ref|ASOS|9}}}}
  
==Jojen’s Prophesies==
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{{Quote|If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.{{Ref|ASOS|24|}}|Jojen, to [[Bran Stark]]}}
Earlier [[Bran Stark|Bran]] had gotten angry at [[Jojen Reed]] when he continues to ask about the wolf dreams, and [[Summer]] starts growling at Jojen in response to Bran’s anger. [[Shaggydog]] appears and joins his brother wolf, and they attack. Jojen and his sister [[Meera Reed|Meera]] escape by climbing a tree. Bran then talks to Maester [[Luwin]] about [[Greenseer|green dreams]] and the maester tells him dreams sometimes come true, but magic has gone, and dreams are just dreams. Afterwards Meera comes to his room, and Bran tells her about what the maester said. She leaves him with one of Jojen’s green dreams:
 
  
{{Quote|You were sitting at supper, but instead of a servant, Maester Luwin brought you your food. He served you the king’s cut off the roast, the meat rare and bloody, but with a savory smell that made everyone’s mouth water. The meat he served the Freys was old and grey and dead. Yet they liked their supper better than you liked yours.{{Ref|aCoK|28}}}}
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==Quotes about Jojen==
Later [[Bran Stark|Bran]] learns of his brother’s victory, and the death of Ser [[Stevron Frey]] from Maester Luwin. Bran knows that only Lord [[Tywin Lannister]] matters, as [[Walder Frey (Big)|Big Walder]] states, which disquiets him. Niether Big Walder or [[Walder Frey (Little)|Little Walder]] seem bothered by their uncle Ser [[Stevron Frey]]’s death, who note he was very old (50 or 60) and always tired. Little Walder asks if Ser [[Emmon Frey]] is now heir, and his brother gives him line of ascension: Ser [[Ryman Frey]], [[Edwyn Frey]], and [[Black Walder Frey]], [[Petyr Frey]], [[Aegon Frey]] and his sons. Little Walder states the Ryman is too old, and then asks if they think he will be lord, and Big Walder states he will be lord and does not care. The maester tells them that they should be ashamed.
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{{quote|It was hard to sulk with [[Meera Reed|Meera]]. She was much more cheerful than her brother, and always seemed to know how to make him smile. Nothing ever scared her or made her angry. Well, except Jojen, sometimes ... Jojen Reed could scare most anyone.{{ref|ASOS|9}}|thoughts of [[Bran Stark]]}}
After Bran is carried back to his room, Jojen enters the room unbidden with Meera behind him. Brans asks Jojen if he had heard about the bird; it was not supper, it was a letter from Robb. Jojen tells him that the [[Greenseer|green dreams]] are not easy to understand. When Bran asks Jojen to tell him his dream, and that he will believe him no matter how strange it sounds. Then Jojen reveals:
 
  
{{Quote|I dreamed that the sea was lapping all around Winterfell. I saw black waves crashing against the gates and towers, and then the salt water came flowing over the walls and filled the castle. Drowned men were floating in the yard. When I first dreamed the dream, back at Greywater, I didn’t know their faces, but now I do. That Alebelly is one, the guard who called our names at the feast. Your [[Chayle|septon’s]] another. Your [[Mikken|smith]] as well.}}
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Bran, confused and dismayed, replies:
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{{Quote| But the sea is hundreds and hundreds of leagues away, and Winterfell’s walls are so high the water couldn’t get in even if it did come}}
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{{Quote| In the dark of night the salt sea will flow over these walls,” said jojen. “I saw the dead, bloated and drowned.}}
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Bran tries to warn others, but mostly the dream is dismissed. Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]] finally returns with a prisoner, [[Reek]] who was involved in the forced marriage and then murder of Lady [[Donella Manderly|Hornwood]]. Jojen reveals to Bran that he had a green dream where Reek is skinning off his face.
 
 
 
When Bran meets with the Reeds later that night, Meera agrees that it should be possible to change prophesies. Meera gets angry with her brother when he tells them that what he sees always come true. Then Meera states that [[Alebelly]] and Bran should both fight to avoid their fates. Bran asks if he drowns also and Jojen reveals another dream:
 
 
 
{{Quote| Not drowned. I dreamed of the man who came today, the one they call Reek. You and your brother lay dead at his feet, and he was skinning off your faces with a long red blade.}}
 
Meera states that she could go down to the dungeons and kill Reek now, but Jojen tells her she will not succeed; first the jailers would stop her, and they will never believe. Even if Bran went to [[Greywater]] the green dreams do not lie.{{Ref|aCoK|35}}
 
 
 
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{{Quote|If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate. {{ref|asos|24|}}}}
 
 
 
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Jojen Reed by Joel Hustak © Fantasy Flight Games

Aliases
  • Little grandfather[1]
  • The little grandfather[2]
  • The frogboy[3]
Allegiances
Culture Crannogmen
Born In 286 AC[4]Greywater Watch[5]
Father Howland Reed
Mother Jyana
Books

Played by Thomas Brodie-Sangster
TV series Season 3 | Season 4

Jojen Reed is a member of House Reed. He is Lord Howland Reed's only son and Meera Reed's younger brother. Jojen has greensight, the power of prophetic green dreams. In the television adaptation Game of Thrones, Jojen is portrayed by Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

Appearance and Character

Jojen is short and slim, with unusually deep green eyes. He wears green-colored clothing, even his boots.[6] Jojen is barely an adolescent when he arrives at Winterfell, but his gravity and mature personality make him seem older.[2] He knows a number of arcane things that he gleans from his dreams, including the day of his death.[1]

History

In his childhood, Jojen nearly died of greywater fever. While he was near death, he was visited in a dream by a three-eyed crow. The crow gave Jojen the gift of greensight, causing him to experience prophetic dreams known as greendreams. One such dream involved a winged wolf bound with stone chains, that the three-eyed crow was trying to free. When Jojen told his father, Howland Reed, about the dream, Lord Howland sent him and his sister Meera to Winterfell.[1]

Even though he experiences greendreams, Jojen is not a greenseer, since he lacks the abilities of a warg and cannot commune with weirwood trees.[2]

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Meera and Jojen Reed, by Amok©

In the middle of the harvest feast at Winterfell, Jojen and his sister Meera arrive. They pledge House Reed's support to Winterfell and the new King in the North, Robb Stark, renewing their vows after Lord Eddard Stark's death. The siblings recite their oath to Robb's younger brother, Bran Stark. Jojen asks about the Direwolves, wanting to see them, and is told they are in the godswood of Winterfell. That night, Bran dreams of the Reeds meeting Summer and Shaggydog, the direwolves of Bran and his brother Rickon. Jojen is not afraid of the direwolves, telling Meera that it is not the day he dies, and attempts to pet Summer.[6]

After the feast, the other lords and knights depart within a few days, but the Reeds stay at Winterfell and become Bran's constant companions. Because of his solemnity, Old Nan nicknames Jojen "little grandfather". Some weeks after the feast, Meera and Jojen visit the godswood with Bran and play with Summer. Meera reveals to Bran that Jojen has the greensight, and that they were sent to Winterfell by their father, Howland Reed. Jojen explains he has dreamed of a winged wolf and a three-eyed crow who lives beyond the Wall. He interrogates Bran about his own dreams, angering him, and Summer growls at Jojen. Though Bran tries to call him off, Summer begins to aggressively stalk Jojen, and is soon joined by Shaggydog. Jojen remains calm, again telling Bran and Meera that it is not the day he dies, but follows Meera's command to climb the weirwood to escape the direwolves.[1]

Jojen with Bran Stark and Summer, by Mike Capprotti © Fantasy Flight Games

Though Jojen's abilities are discounted by Maester Luwin, Meera tells Bran of one of Jojen’s green dreams:

You were sitting at supper, but instead of a servant, Maester Luwin brought you your food. He served you the king’s cut off the roast, the meat rare and bloody, but with a savory smell that made everyone’s mouth water. The meat he served the Freys was old and grey and dead. Yet they liked their supper better than you liked yours.[1]

Later, Bran learns from Luwin of Robb Stark's victory over Ser Stafford Lannister in the Battle of Oxcross, and the death of Ser Stevron Frey. While Bran is happy for the victory, he knows that only Lord Tywin Lannister matters. In contrast, neither "Big" Walder or "Little" Walder seem bothered by their uncle Stevron's death. Because they are more concerned about the Frey line of succession than Stevron's death, the maester tells them that they should be ashamed. Bran realizes that the situation is the same as Jojen's green dream, proving its truth, and asks him for the dream he had about a bad thing coming to Winterfell.[3]

Jojen tells Bran:

I dreamed that the sea was lapping all around Winterfell. I saw black waves crashing against the gates and towers, and then the salt water came flowing over the walls and filled the castle. Drowned men were floating in the yard. When I first dreamed the dream, back at Greywater, I didn’t know their faces, but now I do. That Alebelly is one, the guard who called our names at the feast. Your septon's another. Your smith as well.[3]

Bran, confused and dismayed, responds that the sea is far away and Winterfell has high walls, but Jojen insists the sea will flow over the walls. Bran tells Jojen about his own dreams of the three-eyed crow and his dreams of falling. Jojen tells him he is a warg, and that he is powerful but will not fly unless he opens his third eye. Jojen also warns Bran not to tell anyone because people will fear him. Bran tries to warn others about Jojen's dream, but mostly the dream of the sea is dismissed.[3]

Ser Rodrik Cassel returns with a prisoner who was involved in the forced marriage and then murder of Lady Donella Hornwood. Jojen reveals he has seen the bodies of Bran and Rickon at the feet of the man they call Reek and he is skinning off their faces with a knife. Meera states that she could kill Reek, but Jojen tells her she would not succeed.[3]

When Theon Greyjoy takes Winterfell, Bran is lead out of his room where he meets Meera and Jojen, who have also been taken captive.[7] Alebelly,[7] Septon Chayle,[8] and Mikken[7] are slain by the ironborn, as Jojen had foreseen in his green dream. The Stark and Reed children later fake an escape with Osha and Hodor, however, and hide in the crypts of Winterfell.[9] Unable to find them, Theon and "Reek" murder a pair of miller's sons and present their flayed bodies as Bran and Rickon to the people of Winterfell.[8][10]

When Jojen and his companions emerge from Winterfell's crypts, they find that the castle has been burned and its people killed. In the godswood, the dying Luwin advises Osha to split up the Stark children to make them harder to find. Osha decides to take Rickon with her south, and Jojen says that he and Meera will take Bran. After they separate, Meera, Hodor, and Bran travel north upon Jojen's recommendation.[9]

A Storm of Swords

Jojen and Meera cooking dinner, by mustamirri ©

When Bran wakes from a wolf dream while in the ruins of Tumbledown Tower, Jojen warns Bran against spending too much time as the wolf Summer. While Bran would like to stay, Meera and Jojen remind him it is dangerous for them to travel in the North, and that Bran will not learn about his gifts while remaining at the tower. After considering seeking refuge with House Stark's bannermen, Bran tells the Reeds he wants to fly, and to take him to the three-eyed crow.[2]

As they move north, Jojen insists that they keep away from roads because roads have travelers that will spread tales about a giant, a cripple boy and a wolf. When the weather turns bad in the northern mountains, Summer finds them a cave, where they find a Liddle who shares his food and warns the kingsroad has become dangerous. When he states things were different when there was a Stark in Winterfell, Jojen tells him that he dreamed the wolves will return. In the morning the man is gone, but leaves some food for them.[11]

They arrive at a village in disrepair in the New Gift: the most substantial building, the inn, only has a few walls still standing. They take refuge from a storm in Queenscrown, the holdfast in the middle of the lake, but they detect men in the village, one of whom turns out to be Jon Snow traveling with wildlings. Bran possesses Summer and attacks the wildlings going after Jon. Summer kills three of them, but takes an arrow to the shoulder. The group waits until the next day to leave after the wildlings are gone.[12][13]

They arrive at the Nightfort, the castle in Jojen’s green dream. The surefooted Meera climbs to the top of the Wall to get a look at the other side, while the boys search the abandoned buildings, but they cannot figure out how to get across the Wall. They decide to sleep that night in the kitchen, as it would provide some warmth and protection. As they go to sleep, Jojen states that maybe he will have a green dream to show him the way. In the middle of the night, they hear the sound of footsteps and heavy breathing coming up from a well in the kitchen, and Meera traps what emerges in her net and sticks it with her frog spear. Once they have more light, they see she has captured a Night's Watchman, Samwell Tarly, and Gilly and her baby also exit the secret stairs in the well. Sam explains his group was aided by Coldhands, a pale man with cold black hands who was dressed in the black of the Night's Watch, who has been sent to find Bran. Sam tells them that they came through the Black Gate, a passage as old as the Wall. Sam will have to take them down through the well to the gate, because only a man sworn to the Night's Watch can open the gate. Jojen, Meera, Hodor, and Bran go down the well's stairway and through the Black Gate.[14]

A Dance with Dragons

Jojen, Meera, Bran, Hodor, and Coldhands travel beyond the Wall in search of the three-eyed crow, riding Coldhand's great elk. The journey is difficult for all the children, as they struggle to find food and deal with the cold. Jojen especially becomes listless and demoralized. They take shelter in an abandoned wildling village while Coldhands deals with a threat. The group discusses the nature of Coldhands, deciding that he is not alive. Meera protects her weakened brother Jojen from the cold, though he tells Meera it is not the day he dies.[15]

When his great elk collapses along their journey, Coldhands whispers a blessing in an unknown language and slits the animal's throat; he and Meera butcher the carcass for food. They reach the cave of the three-eyed crow, and Meera helps Jojen climp up the hill, half-carrying, half-dragging him. When the group is ambushed by wights near the entrance, Coldhands fights them off while Meera jabs at them with her spear to keep them away. Bran takes control of Hodor and attacks the wights, and Meera defends the giant man when a wight claws at him. Leaf, one of the children of the forest, fends off the wights, allowing Hodor to carry Jojen and Meera to rescue Bran's crippled body. Inside the cave, the group meet the remaining children and the three-eyed crow.[16]

Though they find safety in the cave, staying there for months while Bran learns about being a greenseer from the three-eyed crow, Jojen falls into a resigned depression. He wanders through the caverns alone, and often climbs up to the cave's mouth to stare out at the forest for hours, shivering. Meera tells Bran that Jojen wants to go home to Greywater Watch. She says that Jojen isn't willing to try and fight his fate, stating that the greendreams do not lie. Meera says she had hoped finding the three-eyed crow would do something, but now she wonders why they even came. After Bran is fed the weirwood paste and communes with Winterfell's heart tree for the first time, Hodor returns him to their sleeping chamber in the cave, but neither Meera nor Jojen are there.[17]

Quotes by Jojen

This is not the day I die.[6]

—Jojen, to Meera Reed

I dreamed of the man who came today, the one they call Reek. You and your brother lay dead at his feet, and he was skinning off your faces with a long red blade.[3]

—Jojen, to Bran Stark

The dream was green, Bran, and the green dreams do not lie.[3]

—Jojen, to Bran Stark

Bran Stark: You're a greenseer.
Jojen Reed: No, only a boy who dreams.[2]

If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.[18]

—Jojen, to Bran Stark

Quotes about Jojen

It was hard to sulk with Meera. She was much more cheerful than her brother, and always seemed to know how to make him smile. Nothing ever scared her or made her angry. Well, except Jojen, sometimes ... Jojen Reed could scare most anyone.[2]

—thoughts of Bran Stark

Family

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