10 Game Of Thrones Fates Worse Than Death

Disease doesn't often get a chance to take many of the residents of Westeros, so its apt that the disfiguring affliction of Greyscale sometimes leaves the poor unfortunate in a state of ugly limbo.

Shunned by the major societies for fear of spreading the disease, Stone Men are normally exiled to ruins such as Old Valyria in order to live out their days in joyless suffering, alone and unwanted.

With there being no practical cure, the misery of The Stone Men is completed by their descent into animalistic madness, the insidious illness perverting the mind as it does skin.