Inside Winterfell’s great hall, the living eat and drink in celebration of their victory. The flames consume the dead, and the smoke envelopes Winterfell. Several carry torches, and when Jon finishes his speech, they step forward and ignite the funeral pyres. The survivors are assembled in long, deep lines outside Winterfell’s walls. And we shall never see their like again.” They were the shields that guarded the realms of men. It is our duty and our honor to keep them alive in memory for those who come after us and those who come after them for as long as men draw breath. Everyone in this world owes them a debt that can never be repaid. Our fellow men and women who set aside their differences to fight together and die together so that others might live. “We’re here to say goodbye to our brothers and sisters,” Jon Snow says. The talky part of “The Last of the Starks” begins with a eulogy. She leaves a wolf-shaped pin - the sigil of House Stark - on his coat. Sansa cries over the body of Theon Greyjoy, who died defending Bran Stark/the Three-Eyed Raven last episode. Perhaps no one typifies the sacrifice better than the late Jorah Mormont, eternal servant of Daenerys Targaryen, who laid down his life defending her, the woman he loved but who could not love him back.
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