Jon Connington
The exiled former Hand of the Mad King, who loved Prince Rhaegar and lost everything in the rebellion, now returned with the Golden Company and a boy to put on the throne (book only).
A soul born at Griffin's Roost, sworn to Sellswords & Free Companies.
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
A Dance with Dragons 2 chapters of their own
Where the page and the screen part
The show cut Jon Connington entirely ÔÇö no Griff, no Shy Maid, no second Aegon, no stormlands invasion ÔÇö and quietly recycled his most distinctive affliction: the greyscale contracted saving Tyrion from the stone men was transplanted onto Jorah Mormont, along with the doomed-devotion flavor that goes with it, in the showÔÇÖs Valyria sequence. The Golden Company does reach the screen, but sails for Cersei under Harry Strickland and dies in a single morning, a fate that inverts the booksÔÇÖ arc, where ConningtonÔÇÖs company lands early, fights well, and holds a growing piece of Westeros as the published story ends. He is alive in the novels ÔÇö victorious at StormÔÇÖs End, hiding his gloved hand, waiting on a trial by battle with the greyscale that no man survives ÔÇö one of the largest characters, and largest storylines, the adaptation ever simply erased.