Jojen Reed
A solemn young crannogman of House Reed, gifted (and burdened) with green dreams that show him things yet to come.
A soul born at Greywater Watch, sworn to House Reed.
The fuller tale
Season Three
Bran meets Jojen and Meera Reed, and learns the word for what he is: warg.
Where they stand. Queenscrown.
Season Four
Bran reaches the heart tree; Jojen dies at its roots; the Three-Eyed Raven waits below.
Where they stand. Craster's Keep.
How it ends for them
On the screen. Fell beyond the Wall (S4┬ÀE10)
The boy who dreamed the future knew he would not survive the journey north, and went anyway. Wights dragged him down within sight of the three-eyed raven's cave; his sister gave him mercy, and the children's fire took the rest.
In the show, Jojen dies within sight of the end of his own road. As the party crosses the frozen clearing before the three-eyed raven's cave, wights erupt from the snow itself, and Jojen ÔÇö too weak by then to fight ÔÇö is dragged down and stabbed, again and again, before the children of the forest can reach him. Meera gives her brother mercy with her own blade, and the children's fire-bombs take his body as the survivors are pulled into the cave he spent his last strength delivering them to. He knew, the scene is framed to suggest, and came anyway. In the books no such scene exists: Jojen Reed is alive in the greenseer's cave as of the published volumes ÔÇö though so visibly failing, and so heavy with unspoken foresight, that readers have been braced for years.
Their chapters, book by book
A Clash of Kings 3 chapters that name them
A Storm of Swords 2 chapters that name them
A Dance with Dragons 1 chapter that name them
Where the page and the screen part
The tellings part company at the cave. In the published books Jojen is alive ÔÇö drained, homesick and increasingly fatalistic in the greenseer's caverns, where his gloom has fed one of fandom's most notorious theories about what exactly goes into the weirwood paste Bran is fed; the books have confirmed nothing. The show settled his account on camera instead, at the cave's very threshold. It also aged both Reeds up and trimmed their folklore ÔÇö the books' Jojen arrives wreathed in crannog strangeness, green-dreaming Winterfell's fall in detail (the sea coming to Winterfell, the drowned men in the halls) that the show never staged. Show Jojen is a gentle guide; book Jojen is that and something eerier, a boy the narrative itself seems careful around.
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.