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Barristan was on the Small Council in Season 1 of the show. Remember how only he and Ned argued against sending an assassin to kill Dany? It's apparent that Barristan is lying to Jorah because he doesn't want Jorah to know that he knows that Jorah was a spy for Varys.

You're getting the books and the TV show confused, which Brian Cogman is fully aware of, which was my whole point.

In the show everyone is unanimous against Ned that Dany should be assassinated. There is no Barristan. I've seen all the episodes more than a dozen times. I'm deeply ashamed of myself.

My apologies! I just re-watched the small council scene in question (S1, Episode 5) and Barristan was not there. My memory has apparently fused the book scene with the show scene, because I still see Barristan there in my mind's eye.

* Poor Brian Cogman! As the series' keeper of the mythology it seems that D&D have tasked him with picking up all the loose strands created by previous departures from the book and try to start putting them all back together in one episode. You can hear his wheels grinding--often awkwardly! (note how he has to explain to the audience that Barristan WASN'T on the Small Council in the TV show, lest book readers become confused)--as he strives to complete this near-impossible task.

Barristan was on the Small Council in Season 1 of the show. Remember how only he and Ned argued against sending an assassin to kill Dany? It's apparent that Barristan is lying to Jorah because he doesn't want Jorah to know that he knows that Jorah was a spy for Varys.

Edit: Apologies for my error. I re-watched the small council scene (Season 1, episode 5) and Barristan was not, in fact, in attendance.

Besides, it almost sounds as if Moqorro doesn’t translate all that is written on the horn.

Given that Moqorro believes that Daenerys is the world's deliverer, it is obvious that Moqorro is not planning to help Victarion do anything that might harm Dany. Victarion is entirely too trusting towards Moqorro. There is every reason to believe that Moqorro has left out crucal elements of the inscriptions on the dragon horn, such as how to control the dragon after it answers the summons.