How did Shireen get greyscale?
The late Shireen, who caught greyscale as a baby through an infected doll she held to her face, solely had the remnants of the rash on the left side of her face. Unlike most people who get greyscale, the princess was cured.
How did Jorah get greyscale?
When Jorah Mormont contracts greyscale in Season 5 and falls to the infection after he rescues Tyrion from a drowning death near the ruins of Valyria, the camera lingers on his already stony wrist before the screen fades to black. The development is so important, such a foreboding cliffhanger, that it ends the episode. Who are the stonemen in Game of Thrones? The Stone Men are people severely afflicted with greyscale. They are called "Stone Men" because of how the disease makes their skin dead, hard and cracked like stone. Stone Men are often shunned from society; exiled to the ruins of cities in Essos such as Old Valyria.
What happens when the stone men touch you?
Greyscale, also known as "Prince Garin's curse", is a dreaded and usually fatal disease that can leave flesh stiff and dead, and the skin cracked and flaking, and stone-like to the touch. What is the cure for greyscale? Greyscale on Game of Thrones: Jorah Mormont's mysterious ailment, diagnosed and explained. Per a study Sam swiped from the maesters' library at the Citadel, the spread of greyscale can be stopped by peeling off the scaled skin and applying a special salve to the raw flesh of the affected areas.
How did Jorah get to the Citadel?
While traveling with Tyrion, Jorah was infected with greyscale, a deadly disease that Daenerys sent him to find a cure for during Season 6. Fans were thus surprised when Jorah, or at least his infected hand, appeared in the Season 7 premiere at the Citadel. How did Sam cure Jorah? According to one of the screenshots, "exposed skin to be cleansed and soaked in a salve made from the resin of pine, the green bark of elder twigs, white beeswax and oil from the olive." And it worked!
Why did Daenerys go crazy?
Her descent into madness literally translates into lack of trust for all women in power, because it conveys the message that women are prone to unjustified fits of fury that raze cities to the ground, similar to what Cersei did when she exploded the Sept of Baelor in season 6. Did the stonemen touch Tyrion? They narrowly escape, but not before teasing viewers with what looked like a doomed Tyrion being dragged underwater by a Stone Man. Thankfully Jorah intervened in time, and it appears that having your boot grabbed by a Stone Man doesn't qualify as “touching” — Tyrion is unharmed.
Is Grayscale a real disease?
Greyscale causes the skin to become very thick and scaly (or hyperkeratotic), with rashes that spread over time and may eventually cover the entire body. As we have seen with Jorah, as the disease progresses, the thick scale can also become scabbed, with pus underneath.