Jorelle Mormont | 19 | Unmarried | OPEN | Poppy Drayton
Like all of Maege Mormont’s daughters, Jorelle was supposedly sired by a bear. No one on Bear Island ever questioned that and the girls were raised as Mormonts, not Snows. Jorelle has three older sisters, Dacey, Alysane, and Lyra, as well as one younger sister, Lyanna. Despite the gap in their ages, Jorelle was always the closest to Lyra as the pair was growing up. They wanted a bond like Dacey and Alysane had, so they formed it with each other. Like all the women of Bear Island, Jorelle learned to fight from a young age and grew up as a warrior. She showed a great aptitude with the bow and arrow from the time she was small and honed her skills as she grew. Despite her preference for a bow, Jorelle also learned with other weapons just as her sisters did. After all, being a warrior was second nature for the Mormonts.
Jorelle has always admired her elder sisters, but especially Dacey. When Dacey went south for the Royal Wedding, she was distraught that she could not accompany her. However, the Sept’s destruction made it clear that remaining on Bear Island was the safer thing to do despite the young woman’s yearning to see the world beyond the Island and the Bay of Ice. She fretted over Dacey’s condition after finding out her sister was injured in the chaos, and did not fully believe word that she was alright until she saw Dacey with her own eyes. Despite the fear, Jorelle knew that all of Westeros was there and she could not help but feel envy for her sisters who had left the North and seen the incredible things beyond their small corner of the world. There was so much out there to see, but at the time Jorelle had no way to see any of it.
Of the girls Jorelle has always been the quietest. She was not the prettiest or the smartest, but that never bothered her. She could easily slip between the cracks and use that to her advantage. She was a warrior given her first weapon by her mother at a young age, just like her sisters. Maege loved all her daughters equally and Jorelle knew her sisters loved her as well. She had her place in the family and was more than content with it, even though she often wondered if she would end up married like Dacey, or find herself with children fathered by a bear like Alysane.
When war broke out in the North stayed relatively calm until the Ironborn rebelled. War finally reached them and when Maege Mormont left for war, Jorelle went with her. It was her first time to truly see much of the world, but despite the circumstances she was excited. Throughout the war she stayed near her mother’s side, at Maege’s insistence, but she fought as hard and as brave as any of the men on the field. Jorelle held her own and she managed to make it through the war. Hearing stories of the krakens rising from the sea as a child was something of legend from a lifetime past. It was the reason the women of Bear Island were warriors, but facing them head on was something different entirely. By the time the last of the rebellion was quashed, however, Jorelle was more than ready to return to the quiet life on the Island despite being curious as to what her future may hold. Jorelle knows that peace may not last forever so she wants to make the most of it while she can.
