This isn’t the first time the Greyjoy Rebellion has been name-checked in Season 7. That campaign is what earned both Jorah and Thoros knighthoods from Robert Baratheon. The final battle of that Rebellion was when Robert and Ned took back Pyke, and the walls of the castle were breached by a drunk Thoros, brandishing his flaming sword. That’s the rebellion that sent Theon to live with the Starks as Ned’s ward. Since the Greyjoys didn’t pledge to any side during Robert’s Rebellion, they had the armies and ships to try and reclaim what Balon saw as Greyjoy land before the events of the series. Back in the day, Thoros and Jorah both fought off Balon Greyjoy’s rebellion. Jorah has brought up this story once before in the show, but we didn’t know who Thoros was then, so "Thoros of Myr and his flaming sword" sounded more like legend than reality. The other cool Jorah moment is his buddy-buddy talk with Thoros of Myr. Which raises the question: why imply Jon Snow is going to have children by telling the bastard king, "May serve you well, and your children after you"? Is it just to up the tension even more, or have we begun laying a series of hints about the Targaryen line? More on that in a second. It’s that dishonor on Jorah, not the fact that he can’t pass it down the line, that weighs on him when he turns down his family’s ancestral sword. Unsaid was the fact that Jorah also knew the person Jon Snow thinks was his father, having been banished by Ned Stark after buying into the slave trade. The disgraced soldier and Jon Snow need to form a quick bond before all the wights hit the fan on the frozen lake, which means we got a continuation of last week's brush with history, when Jon admitted to knowing Jorah’s father, Lord Commander Mormont. Yes, we'll get to the Ice Dragon soon! But first a stop at Jorah's house. House Mormont (or: the past as a subtle tool for foreshadowing)
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