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UPDATE:Jon Snow’sfatherhas now been seemingly confirmed by HBO.com.
But a new infographic on the data pipe’s official MakingGame of Throneswebsite clearly linksRhaegar as Snow’s father.
We also might now know Jon Snow’s real first name.
Credit: Helen Sloan/ HBO
Ned discovered his sister Lyanna dying in a bloody bed.
Either way, Rhaegar’s actions caused a civil war.
This much has long been backstory canon from George R.R.
Ned finds Lyanna had just given birth to a brown-eyed baby Jon Snow.
Even Ned’s wife Catelyn thought this, and strongly resented Jon due the betrayal that he represented.
You know he will.
You have to protect him.
We assume she’s asking Ned to raise the child and keep his lineage a secret.
Martin to let them adapt his books into an HBO series.)
The only potential wrinkle to the theory is that we’re not explicitly told Rhaegar is the father.
just spawned a whole new mystery of “so wait who is Jon Snow’sfather?")
So Jon Snow is the son of a Stark and likely a Targaryen too.
Before this, Jon Snow has never been remotely in the running for the Iron Throne.
And it’s impossible not to think about all of this without also thinking about Daenerys Targaryen.
So now, finally R+L = J (or, at the very least, x+L = J).
You might not have my name, but you have myblood.”
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