Warning: Spoilers for the Game of Thrones finale follow.
The final season of Game of Thrones was a bona fide bloodbath, with more main characters biting the dust than in any of the hit show's previous seven seasons.
Yet one of the high profile dead was originally supposed to survive until the bitter end.
Nope, it's not Daenerys Targaryen (or even Jamie and Cersei), but rather the mother of dragons' right-hand man Ser Jorah Mormont, played by British actor Iain Glen.
![Ser Jorah Mormont (Iain Glen) served as Daenerys Targaryen's right-hand man throughout Game of Thrones. Photo / HBO](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/AEDQZ3WYULMKKUTXYDOLACBT34.jpg?auth=40bd3f6c2c04d341f2fac364c3824cd146b7dcb19c478d711ea0a98c0e408d6b&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)