Sam knew. Bran knew. Fans of both the Game of Thrones books and TV show knew. Now, after 7 seasons of knowing next to nothing, Jon Snow finally knows the truth about himself too.
Warning: serious spoilers for Season 8, Episode 1 ahead!
Sam knew. Bran knew. Fans of both the Game of Thrones books and TV show knew. Now, after 7 seasons of knowing next to nothing, Jon Snow finally knows the truth about himself too.
Warning: serious spoilers for Season 8, Episode 1 ahead!
The shame of the bastard surname "Snow" followed Jon wherever he went, driving him to take up the Black and become a man of the Knight's Watch.
His constant need to see the best in people led him to place his trust in people he shouldn't have. Like a group of traitors in the Knight's Watch, who 'killed' him for siding with the White Walkers.
To defeat the Night King, he allied with - and ultimately fell in love with - Daenerys, of the House Targaryen, the First of Her Name, et cetera. They ended Season 7 with a lover's tryst on the Narrow Sea, en route to the North to face the dead.
Samwell spilled the true tea on Jon's parentage in the crypts of Winterfell. Because all secrets are whispered in dark basements, surrounded by dead people. Naturally.
We know it's true because we got validation from Bran's creepy greenseer Three-Eyed-Raven abilities.
One would assume he also came to the conclusion that he's been, um, romantically intimate with auntie Daenerys.
Luckily for Daenerys, Jon Snow has never expressed a desire to rule anything. But he's inspired the North to rally around him as a "bastard" - imagine what he could do with the best claim to the Iron Throne?