Boros Blount
A choleric, thickset knight of the Kingsguard, more bully than hero, quick to do a cruel king's bidding.
A soul born at The Crownlands, sworn to The Kingsguard.
The fuller tale
How it ends for them
The chronicle records no death for this soul ÔÇö they are living when the tale leaves them, or their ending is a page the maesters have yet to turn.
Their chapters, book by book
Where the page and the screen part
The show keeps only the function: an armored figure among Joffrey's beaters, unnamed in most viewers' memories and quietly absent after the early seasons, his duties absorbed by Trant's more legible villainy. The books keep the man ÔÇö the stripped cloak, the humiliating reinstatement, the food-taster's twilight, and Jaime's withering entries on him ÔÇö because the novels are conducting a study of the Kingsguard as a decaying institution and need Boros as evidence. He is alive in both tellings as far as either goes: the published books leave him tasting Tommen's suppers with poor grace, and the show simply loses track of him, the fate of every background sworn sword the camera stops needing.
Their journey
Where the two tellings send them to the same place the road runs whole; where they part, the screen keeps the left and the books the right.