I started reading Game of Thrones knowing beforehand that the novel contained some significant deaths. I did not know specifically who was going to die, but I was warned that it was going to be devastating. So when Jory Cassel was cut down by Jamie Lannister's men, I assumed the big moment had arrived. My inaccurate assumption made the deaths that followed all the more poignant and shocking.
I liked Jory. He wasn't given a great deal of characterization and we never got to see the world through his eyes, but there was something very appealing about his character. When I first saw a promotional picture of Jamie Sives, I knew instinctively that he was Jory. But how?
