This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: " He took up our infirmities and bore our diseases" . [ Isaiah 53: 4 (see Septuagint) ]
" Lord Too-Fat-to-Sit-a-Horse" . The letter that Lord Wyman Manderly had sent back from White Harbor had spoken of his age and infirmity, and little more. Stannis had commanded Jon not to speak of that one either.