Thoros of Myr
A fat, hard-drinking red priest of R'hllor with a fondness for flaming swords, riding with the brotherhood in the war-torn Riverlands.
A soul born at Myr, sworn to The Brotherhood Without Banners.
The fuller tale
How it ends for them
On the screen. Died beyond the Wall (S7┬ÀE6)
The red priest who brought Beric back nineteen times took a wight bear's jaws in the blizzard beyond the Wall, and the cold finished what the claws began. There was no one left to say the words over him.
His death belongs to the show alone. On the wight hunt beyond the Wall, in the whiteout beyond Eastwatch, the party is ambushed by an undead bear, and Thoros takes its jaws across the ribs saving the Hound. He is cauterized with his own flaming sword, drinks to the pain, and walks on ÔÇö but the wounds and the cold work together through the night on the frozen lake, and when the dawn comes, the priest does not. Beric burns the body where it lies: with Thoros gone, the Brotherhood's resurrections are spent, and every life left in the party is down to its last. In the published books Thoros is alive ÔÇö a diminished, grieving figure by the Brotherhood's fires, but breathing, with all his flock's darkest chapters still unwritten around him.
Their chapters, book by book
Where the page and the screen part
The show gives Thoros the ending; the books, so far, give him the aftermath. In the published books he is alive in the Riverlands, sidelined and sorrowing under Lady Stoneheart's leadership ÔÇö he refused to give the kiss of fire to Catelyn Stark's body, a line he would not cross and Beric would, and the Brotherhood that resulted no longer answers to anything Thoros recognizes as the Lord's work. The show, having cut Stoneheart, promoted him instead into the northern war and the wight hunt, an expedition with no book counterpart. His backstory is book-enriched too: the tithed eighth son, the wildfire-sword tourney career, and the friendship with Robert are all page material the show only gestures at.
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.