Jory Cassel
Captain of the Stark household guard and nephew to old Ser Rodrik, a steady, loyal swordsman who follows his lord south.
A soul born at Winterfell.
The fuller tale
Season One
Jaime Lannister meets Ned in the street: Jory dies with a dagger through the eye, Ned's leg is spear-struck.
Where they stand. Winterfell and King's Landing.
How it ends for them
On the screen. Killed in King's Landing (S1┬ÀE5)
Winterfell's captain of guards followed his lord south and stood with him in the streets of King's Landing when Jaime Lannister came for a reckoning. He died with a dagger through the eye, defending Ned to the last.
On the page. Killed in the street (AGOT, ch. 36)
Winterfell's captain died in the street outside Chataya's when Jaime Lannister came to answer Tyrion's arrest ÔÇö a dagger through the eye, his men cut down around him, and his lord's leg shattered under a dying horse.
When Catelyn seized Tyrion on the road, Jaime Lannister came looking for repayment and found Ned Stark outside Littlefinger's brothel with a handful of guards. The street fight that followed was short and entirely one-sided in the ways that mattered: Jory died at his lord's side, killed by Jaime himself ÔÇö in the show, a dagger driven through his eye after Jory's sword had barely cleared its sheath; in the books, cut down with the rest of Ned's men in the melee while a Lannister spear-wall did its work and Ned's leg was crushed under his dying horse. Either way he ends exactly where thirty years of service had always placed him: between danger and Eddard Stark. Winterfell learned of it by raven, and Ser Rodrik had to hear how his brother's son died in a southern gutter over a queen's brother's arrest.
Their chapters, book by book
A Game of Thrones 1 chapter that name them
Where the page and the screen part
The tellings differ only in staging. Book Jory dies in the same street brawl but in the general butchery of Ned's men, one name among several the books make you feel; the show isolates him for a duel-length moment with Jaime Lannister and gives him the dagger through the eye that viewers remember. The show also invented a warm little scene of Jory and Jaime trading war stories at Winterfell ÔÇö veterans of the Greyjoy Rebellion on opposite sides of everything else ÔÇö which quietly sharpens what follows between them. In both tellings his true structural role is identical: he is the first man of Winterfell's own to die for the Starks' southern adventure, the war's down payment.
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.