Jojen Reed carries a gift the crannogmen of the Neck have kept alive longer than most of Westeros credits them for: true green dreams, visions that come to him unbidden and, so far as the record shows, without exception prove accurate. A single dream of a winged wolf bound in chains was enough to send his father dispatching both his children north to Winterfell, and further dreams since have guided Jojen's steps with a certainty that unsettles even the greenseer-in-training he has been sent to help. He is smaller and frailer than his elder sister Meera, and knows it, but carries a kind of grim composure about his own visions that reads less like courage than like a boy who has already seen how his part in this ends. A maester records, with the discomfort proper to his order, that a green dreamer's foresight is among the few gifts north of the Neck the Citadel has never managed to convincingly dismiss.
Jojen Reed
- Life
- no fixed AC year given; a boy of about thirteen by internal description, when the story opens
- House
- Reed
- Allegiance
- House Stark; House Reed
- Seat
- Greywater Watch
- Culture
- Crannogmen of the Neck
- Religion
- The Old Gods of the Forest
- Notable for
- A green-dreaming boy whose visions of a winged wolf in chains set Bran Stark's northward journey in motion
Last seen accompanying his sister and Bran Stark on a journey no maester of the Citadel would have sanctioned.
Where they appear
These partings name deaths, endings, and roads not yet ridden in the books. Unveil them only if both roads are known to you — or if you do not fear to know.
Key events
- no fixed yearBorn to Lord Howland Reed at Greywater Watch, gifted from a young age with true green dreams
- no fixed yearDreams of a winged wolf bound in chains, a vision vivid enough that his father sends him and his sister north
- 299 ACArrives at Winterfell with Meera shortly before the castle's sack, and joins Bran Stark's flight instead
- 299-300 ACGuides the party's course beyond the Wall through further green dreams, his health steadily failing along the way
- 300 ACReaches the three-eyed crow's cave in a state of resigned despair his own visions appear to have foretold
Reading the character
Jojen Reed's green dreams give the books one of their clearest, least-disputed windows into genuine prophecy — visions that arrive unbidden and, so far as the story ever shows, without exception prove accurate, a certainty that unsettles even the greenseer-in-training he has traveled so far to help train. His frailty beside his more physically capable sister only sharpens the contrast between the gift he carries and the body it is housed in.
His unusually calm, almost resigned manner about his own visions reads as a boy who has learned to trust what he sees even when it unsettles him — one of the story's more striking demonstrations of what it might mean to live with real foreknowledge of what is still to come.
The arc of Jojen Reed
This carries the character’s road through the published novels. Read on only if you do not fear to know.
These partings name deaths, endings, and roads not yet ridden in the books. Unveil them only if both roads are known to you — or if you do not fear to know.
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Is Jojen Reed alive?
As of A Dance with Dragons, yes, though gravely weakened — the chronicle keeps his condition at the three-eyed crow's cave veiled.
Who is Jojen Reed?
The green-dreaming son of Lord Howland Reed, sent north with his sister Meera to guide Bran Stark to the three-eyed crow after a vision he could not ignore.