Unaligned

Moqorro

a priest of R'hllor

House: the red temple of Volantis; a disciple of the High Priest Benerro

A red priest of Volantis last confirmed serving as spiritual counsel and healer aboard the Iron Fleet, following his own ship's destruction at sea.

Benerro, High Priest of Volantis's great red temple, does not leave his own city, but he sends his disciples where his prophecies point them — and Moqorro, one of the order's more accomplished priests, took ship for the east on business the text describes only as urgent and confidential, crossing paths along the way with Tyrion Lannister and Jorah Mormont, in whom he claims to see something neither man is eager to hear explained. Whatever his original errand, it ends when the ship carrying him is wrecked or burned at sea, and Victarion Greyjoy's fleet finds him clinging to the wreckage — a red priest fished half-drowned from the water by ironborn who worship a very different god and want, at first, to kill him for the trouble of the rescue.

The arc of Moqorro

This carries the character’s road through the published novels. Read on only if you do not fear to know.

Moqorro talks his way into Victarion's service by treating the festering wound in the ironborn lord captain's shield hand, and stays on as something between healer and prophet — warning Victarion that the horn called Dragonbinder, Euron's gift and instrument, must be claimed with blood before it can be safely blown, and offering visions of a war to come that put Tyrion Lannister's 'big shadow' at their center. Whether Moqorro serves R'hllor's purposes, Victarion's, or some design of his own that the text has not yet disclosed, remains an open question as the fleet sails on toward Meereen.

Where the books leave Moqorro: Moqorro's rescue from a burning ship has bound his fate, at least for now, to Victarion Greyjoy's — a red priest of considerable standing tending the wounds and reading the prophecies of an ironborn lord captain who trusts him rather less than the priest seems to expect.

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.

In the timeline

SourcesADWD · TyrionADWD · The Iron SuitorTWOIAF · The Free Cities

How does Moqorro come to serve Victarion Greyjoy?

Victarion's fleet finds him clinging to wreckage after his own ship is destroyed at sea, and Moqorro earns his place aboard by treating the festering wound in Victarion's shield hand — becoming, in effect, the fleet's healer and prophet both.

What does Moqorro tell Victarion about the horn Dragonbinder?

That it must be claimed with blood before it can be safely blown — a warning that hints at the horn's lethal cost to anyone who sounds it without the proper right.