As many people I got entranced by the Game of Thrones series. After I watched the first two seasons I started to read the books, starting from the third, to know how the story further progressed. After I read the last one I read the first and second one xd Yes not very conventional, I know and it's not the first time I did that, but whatever >.>
My favourite character is Jon Snow. A Song of Ice and Fire has got countless of different plot developments and questions that needs to be solved, however the one that has always intrigued me the most was who Jon Snow's real mother is/was?
I started browsing the internet and found this on a SOFA-wikia, it's a summary of a theory that has been discussed on SOFA forums thoroughly:
Warning, main contain serious spoilers!
Personally I really like this theory. It's weird I didn't consider this possibility before I read this, but that's probably because I didn't read the first book yet at that point and the TV series didn't elaborate much on this. Most of this theory is also based on info of the first book, which is pretty logical considering Eddard Stark is still alive then and he is the one who is remembering all of this.
Now for my personal input for the credibility of this theory. Jon Snow is regularly tied to the color white. I mean he is called 'snow', which is white. His dire wolf is an albino. His sword was ornamented with a white wolf. And what does Daenerys have? She has has got three dragons of which one is completely white.
Now it's never stated how Lyanna exactly died, only that she has been found in a pool of blood, which could easily be of childbirth. Any childbirth is potentially lethal for a woman, even more so in a world with a Middle-Ages theme and that apparently there was no one there to help here wouldn't be good for her either.
This also can be used as an explanation as why Eddard Stark has always been so adamant about not killing Daenerys and her child. Of course it's not honorable to kill children, however assuming that Jon is really Rhaegar's child, well logically it must stress the hell out of him as when just the existence of Daenerys and Viserys on the other side of the world pisses him off beyond believe, how would he react when he realizes his best friend raised the child of Rhaegar and Lyanna, the woman he loved so much?
Now I assume if you read this far, you read all the books, so then you would also know that in the last book Jon got repeatedly stabbed. Now it's not...uncommon for Mr. Martin to kill even main characters off >.> *cough cough* still there are reasons to believe as why Jon will not die. For starters till know he has been the primary link with the wall and what lies behind it. If he dies, then who will be that link? But secondly more important his character has been built up way too much to be killed that easily. Even after Martin's standards it's unlikely that characters like Tyrion are going to die simply because they are too valuable to the story and their characters stories haven't been completely told yet. That promise Eddard made to his sister still has to be explained. If it's not Jon, then who or what? And it's not going to be solved if Jon dies.
If my hunch is correct I suspect that Jon will 'die' and when you die at the wall, to avoid becoming a blue-eyed zombie, you need to get burned and when that happens his 'dragonblood' will boil due to the fire and he will be 'reborn' with silver hair and potential violet eyes.
Finally I also noticed something myself in the first book. When Eddard left the brothel with Pinky after visiting the latest addition to king Roberts bastard-gang and subsequently before Jaime Lannister attacked them, resulting in Eddard breaking his leg, Eddard Stark was for some inexplicable reason asking himself the question whether Rhaegar Targaryen ever visited brothels. Why the hell would he think such a weird thing, unless of course he mirrors Rhaegar to Robert which leads indirectly to the bastards-issue.
Even with all that it might just all be a coincidence xd every northern bastard is called snow and that Jon's dire wolf is an albino might just have been a logical choice to make it obvious that he is different from his brothers and sisters. Still it remains a fact that the mystery of Jon's mother and the 'promise' Eddard made to his sister remain unsolved and neither of them have been elaborated much one since the first book. You need to keep in your mind that originally it was supposed to be a trilogy, but during the writing process he came to the realization that it would take more than 3 books to tell it all. However this does mean that in the least the first book was written in the assumption that everything would be solved in the next two books, hence another reason why so much info about this matter was in the first book. Because after that nothing much was mentioned about these problems, it means that what was originally to be mentioned in those books still has to be told.
Food for thought.
My favourite character is Jon Snow. A Song of Ice and Fire has got countless of different plot developments and questions that needs to be solved, however the one that has always intrigued me the most was who Jon Snow's real mother is/was?
I started browsing the internet and found this on a SOFA-wikia, it's a summary of a theory that has been discussed on SOFA forums thoroughly:
Warning, main contain serious spoilers!
Many readers believe that Jon is not the son of Eddard Stark. Instead, he is the son of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen and Eddard's sister Lyanna. Rhaegar and Lyanna disappeared together to the Tower of Joy early in Robert's Rebellion. There, it's believed, Rhaegar leaves a pregnant Lyanna to defend his family's dynasty.
At the end of Robert's Rebellion, about one year later, Eddard and his companions find three of the Kingsguard at the Tower of Joy: Lord Commander Ser Gerold Hightower, Ser Oswell Whent, and Ser Arthur Dayne. The reasons for their presence and the ensuing fight are unknown, but defending the unborn son of the Heir Apparent would be a good reason to have been posted. The only known survivors of the fight were Eddard himself and Howland Reed. Eddard recalls his sister dying "in a bed of blood," where he made her an unknown promise just before she died.
Also, while Robb, Sansa, Bran and Rickon are said to have Tully features (hair color, eyes), Jon and Arya are said to be closer in appearance (which had made Sansa believe Arya was also a bastard like Jon, until her mother put Sansa's theory down). Arya is said to resemble Lyanna.
Further evidence to the truth of this theory in the eighth Eddard chapter of A Game of Thrones, in which Ned contemplates the significance of King Robert's bastards. As he muses, Ned's thoughts drift to Jon Snow, a logical segue, but also to his sister Lyanna, the promise he made her, and to Rhaegar Targaryen, implying some tacit link between the three individuals.
Daenerys Targaryen's visions in the House of the Undying include an image of Rhaegar with his newborn son Aegon, proclaiming that "there must be a third" because "the dragon has three heads". Given that, according to Jon Connington, Rhaegar's wife Elia was believed infertile after two difficult pregnancies, and that Aegon the Conqueror himself had two wives, it is logical for Rhaegar to have attempted to fulfill prophecy by having a third child with another woman.
If Rhaegar secretly married Lyanna, it would ironically mean that Jon is not a bastard despite his life having been defined by his believed bastard status to a great extent, and that he is the heir to the Iron Throne after Aegon VI Targaryen (although this last point is rendered moot so long as he belongs to the Night's Watch).
With Eddard beheaded by King Joffrey, Howland Reed is the only living person who knows the nature of Lyanna's death and what she made her brother promise.
At the end of Robert's Rebellion, about one year later, Eddard and his companions find three of the Kingsguard at the Tower of Joy: Lord Commander Ser Gerold Hightower, Ser Oswell Whent, and Ser Arthur Dayne. The reasons for their presence and the ensuing fight are unknown, but defending the unborn son of the Heir Apparent would be a good reason to have been posted. The only known survivors of the fight were Eddard himself and Howland Reed. Eddard recalls his sister dying "in a bed of blood," where he made her an unknown promise just before she died.
Also, while Robb, Sansa, Bran and Rickon are said to have Tully features (hair color, eyes), Jon and Arya are said to be closer in appearance (which had made Sansa believe Arya was also a bastard like Jon, until her mother put Sansa's theory down). Arya is said to resemble Lyanna.
Further evidence to the truth of this theory in the eighth Eddard chapter of A Game of Thrones, in which Ned contemplates the significance of King Robert's bastards. As he muses, Ned's thoughts drift to Jon Snow, a logical segue, but also to his sister Lyanna, the promise he made her, and to Rhaegar Targaryen, implying some tacit link between the three individuals.
Daenerys Targaryen's visions in the House of the Undying include an image of Rhaegar with his newborn son Aegon, proclaiming that "there must be a third" because "the dragon has three heads". Given that, according to Jon Connington, Rhaegar's wife Elia was believed infertile after two difficult pregnancies, and that Aegon the Conqueror himself had two wives, it is logical for Rhaegar to have attempted to fulfill prophecy by having a third child with another woman.
If Rhaegar secretly married Lyanna, it would ironically mean that Jon is not a bastard despite his life having been defined by his believed bastard status to a great extent, and that he is the heir to the Iron Throne after Aegon VI Targaryen (although this last point is rendered moot so long as he belongs to the Night's Watch).
With Eddard beheaded by King Joffrey, Howland Reed is the only living person who knows the nature of Lyanna's death and what she made her brother promise.
Personally I really like this theory. It's weird I didn't consider this possibility before I read this, but that's probably because I didn't read the first book yet at that point and the TV series didn't elaborate much on this. Most of this theory is also based on info of the first book, which is pretty logical considering Eddard Stark is still alive then and he is the one who is remembering all of this.
Now for my personal input for the credibility of this theory. Jon Snow is regularly tied to the color white. I mean he is called 'snow', which is white. His dire wolf is an albino. His sword was ornamented with a white wolf. And what does Daenerys have? She has has got three dragons of which one is completely white.
Now it's never stated how Lyanna exactly died, only that she has been found in a pool of blood, which could easily be of childbirth. Any childbirth is potentially lethal for a woman, even more so in a world with a Middle-Ages theme and that apparently there was no one there to help here wouldn't be good for her either.
This also can be used as an explanation as why Eddard Stark has always been so adamant about not killing Daenerys and her child. Of course it's not honorable to kill children, however assuming that Jon is really Rhaegar's child, well logically it must stress the hell out of him as when just the existence of Daenerys and Viserys on the other side of the world pisses him off beyond believe, how would he react when he realizes his best friend raised the child of Rhaegar and Lyanna, the woman he loved so much?
Now I assume if you read this far, you read all the books, so then you would also know that in the last book Jon got repeatedly stabbed. Now it's not...uncommon for Mr. Martin to kill even main characters off >.> *cough cough* still there are reasons to believe as why Jon will not die. For starters till know he has been the primary link with the wall and what lies behind it. If he dies, then who will be that link? But secondly more important his character has been built up way too much to be killed that easily. Even after Martin's standards it's unlikely that characters like Tyrion are going to die simply because they are too valuable to the story and their characters stories haven't been completely told yet. That promise Eddard made to his sister still has to be explained. If it's not Jon, then who or what? And it's not going to be solved if Jon dies.
If my hunch is correct I suspect that Jon will 'die' and when you die at the wall, to avoid becoming a blue-eyed zombie, you need to get burned and when that happens his 'dragonblood' will boil due to the fire and he will be 'reborn' with silver hair and potential violet eyes.
Finally I also noticed something myself in the first book. When Eddard left the brothel with Pinky after visiting the latest addition to king Roberts bastard-gang and subsequently before Jaime Lannister attacked them, resulting in Eddard breaking his leg, Eddard Stark was for some inexplicable reason asking himself the question whether Rhaegar Targaryen ever visited brothels. Why the hell would he think such a weird thing, unless of course he mirrors Rhaegar to Robert which leads indirectly to the bastards-issue.
Even with all that it might just all be a coincidence xd every northern bastard is called snow and that Jon's dire wolf is an albino might just have been a logical choice to make it obvious that he is different from his brothers and sisters. Still it remains a fact that the mystery of Jon's mother and the 'promise' Eddard made to his sister remain unsolved and neither of them have been elaborated much one since the first book. You need to keep in your mind that originally it was supposed to be a trilogy, but during the writing process he came to the realization that it would take more than 3 books to tell it all. However this does mean that in the least the first book was written in the assumption that everything would be solved in the next two books, hence another reason why so much info about this matter was in the first book. Because after that nothing much was mentioned about these problems, it means that what was originally to be mentioned in those books still has to be told.
Food for thought.
