Jojen Reed

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Jojen Reed
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Jojen and Meera Reed by Amoka©
Jojen and Meera Reed by Amoka©

Alias Little Grandfather
Allegiance House Reed
Culture Crannogmen
Born In +/- 286 AC
Books

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

Jojen Reed is a member of House Reed. Thirteen years old,[1] he is Lord Howland Reed's only son and Meera Reed's younger brother. Jojen has greensight, the power of prophetic dreams. In the HBO adaptation Game of Thrones he is portrayed by Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

Characteristics

Jojen is barely an adolescent when he arrives at Winterfell, but his gravity and mature personality make him seem older.[1] He is short and slim with unusually deep green eyes, wearing green-colored clothing.[2] He knows a number of arcane things that he gleans from his dreams, including the day of his death.[3]

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 his father, Howland Reed, about the dream, Lord Howland sent him and his sister Meera to Winterfell.[3]

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Jojen and Meera, on their way to Winterfell - by mustamirri ©

In the middle of the harvest feast at Winterfell, Jojen and his sister Meera arrive to pledge the Reeds' support to Winterfell and King Robb Stark after Lord Eddard Stark's death. Jojen asks about the Direwolves, wanting to see them and is told they are in the godswood. The boy is not afraid of them, telling Bran and Meera that it is not the day he will die.[2]

Meera reveals that Jojen has the greensight and that they were sent to Winterfell by their father, Howland Reed, after hearing about Jojen’s dreams. Jojen explains he has dreamed of a winged wolf and a three-eyed crow who lives beyond the Wall. Jojen does not panic when the direwolves become aggressive, but follows Meera's command to climb a weirwood to escape them. His green dreams are discounted by Maester Luwin.[3]

Later Jojen reveals he has dreamed the sea will come to Winterfell in the dark of night, drowning many people. 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. After they leave, Bran attempts unsuccessfully to open the third eye. In the following days Bran tries to warn his household, but no one seems to believe him. When Bran tells them Luwin thinks that it should be possible to change the dreams, Meera agrees it should be possible. Jojen insists what he sees always come true, and he 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.[4]

When Theon Greyjoy takes Winterfell, Bran is lead out of his room where he meets Meera and Jojen, who have also been taken captive.[5] Later, Bran, Meera, Jojen, Rickon, Osha and Hodor fake an escape from Winterfell, hiding instead in the crypts until after the castle is sacked by Ramsay Snow. When they emerge from the crypts they find the castle destroyed and the dead bodies of the people Jojen saw in his dream. In the godswood the dying 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, Meera, Hodor and Bran travel north upon Jojen's recommendation.[6]

A Storm of Swords

When Bran wakes from a wolf dream while in the ruins of Tumbledown Tower, Jojen, who was nicknamed "little grandfather" by Old Nan because of his solemnity, warns Bran against spending too much time as the wolf Summer. It is dangerous for them to travel in the North and 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.[1]

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. 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 the wolves will be back. In the morning the man is gone, but he left some food for them.[7]

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.[8][9]

They arrive at the Nightfort, the castle in Jojen’s green dream, but they cannot figure out how to get across the wall. They decide to sleep that night in the kitchen because it would provide some protection. As they go to sleep, Jojen states that maybe he will have a green dream to show him the way. When they hear something coming from a well, Meera traps it 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 Samwell Tarly. Sam tells him that they came through the Black Gate, a passage as old as the wall. Sam will have to take them back because only a man sworn to the Night's Watch can open the gate. Sam explains his group was aided by Coldhands, who was dressed in the black of the Nights Watch, but pale. Coldhands did not come because he cannot pass beyond the Wall as there are spells woven into it. Meera, Jojen, Hodor and Bran go through the Black Gate.[10]

A Dance with Dragons

Jojen, Bran, Meera, Hodor, and Coldhands travel north of the Wall in search of the three-eyed crow.[11] They reach the cave of the three-eyed crow, but are ambushed by 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.[12]

Jojen falls into a resigned depression, wanting to go home to Greywater Watch. Meera implies while speaking with Bran that Jojen has had a greendream of his fate when he goes to Greywater Watch, and that the outcome is not good.[13]

Jojen’s Prophesies

Earlier 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 escape by climbing a tree. Bran then talks to Maester Luwin about 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:

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.[3]

Later 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 Big Walder states, which disquiets him. Niether Big Walder or 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. 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 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:

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.

Bran, confused and dismayed, replies:

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

To this Jojen replies:

In the dark of night the salt sea will flow over these walls,” said jojen. “I saw the dead, bloated and drowned.

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 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:

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.[4]

Quotes

If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.[14]

- Jojen to Bran Stark

References and Notes

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