Post by nightsqueen on Jun 11, 2020 3:08:35 GMT
Watchers on the Walls, a Theory - Part I Winter’s got no King
Hi everyone! this is the first part of a very long theory that has 6 parts, the purpose is to prove Jon Snow’s identity, and that in the north, nothing is what it seems, that Jon’s mystery is a suspenseful story, full of spies, treasons, some love, and most of all, that what’s happening is actually Bael’s song, to prove it, I am going to talk about:
Part I: Jon’s identity
Part II: Ned’s fever dream
Part III: Harrenhal
Part IV: Dragons and magic
Part V: Jon and wolves
Part VI: The Pink Letter
Part I: Winter's got no King
“Winter’s got no king. If you’d seen it, you’d know that, summer boy.” Bran VII – AGoT
a) It wasn’t cold enough: CSI Westeros
“If Gared said it was the cold …’ Will began.” Prologue AGoT
To prove that Jon’s parents are other people, and not who we think, that is, Rhaegar and Lyanna, I am going to analyze Lyanna’s disappearance in light of two other crimes that happened in the story that share the exact same pattern shown in the maiden’s disappearance. Which clearly, is not casual.
“His daughter Lyanna and his son Brandon are in the tombs beside him. Not me, another Brandon, my father’s brother. They’re not supposed to have statues, that’s only for the lords and the kings, but my father loved them so much he had them done.” Bran VII – AGoT
The way Bran talks about Brandon it kind of makes you think that he is the “king of the crypt” while Lyanna is the “lady of the crypt”, like if they were a couple. And of course, I think that is the point, to make you think of them like that, this takes relevance later, as we’ll see.
In Bael’s song, Lord Stark offers the bard to name whatever reward he wants. Bael chooses a rose when in fact what he wants is the maiden, that is, he wants the Starks “treasure”.
Furthermore, the song contains 2 tricks and an act of magic.
Bael comes to Winterfell claiming to be someone he is not (Sygerryk) that’s the first trick.
The Lord, enchanted by the bard’s song, offers him to name his reward and there comes the moment of the second trick, when Bael asks for the “fairest flower”, he’s obviously referring to the maiden, not a flower.
In the song, the magic act happens when Bael leaves the flower, (the rose) in the place where the maiden’s head had rested, that is, it’s an act of disappearance from which a child “magically” emerges. This could perfectly indicate that the child is a Stark simply because his mother is, except for 3 details:
After the war, the boy, now Lord Stark, brings home his father’s head as a “reward”. This indicates that the child replaces the father, not the mother.
The child “emerges” from the crypt, that is, his lineage is in the crypt, but it is not obvious, is hidden, as Bael and the maiden were hidden.
What awakens his grandfather, Lord Stark, and makes him realize that the maiden has returned, is the boy’s cry. That is, for the Lord, what’s important is the child, not the mother, the mother “is the instrument” through which the child arrives.
All this indicates that the maiden is indeed a Stark, but by marriage, not by birth.
It is time to talk about Lyanna’s disappearance.
I said that there are two other crimes in the story that will help us unravel Lyanna’s disappearance: Jon Arryn’s murder and Waymar’s duel to the “Other”.
If we pay attention, we will see that the 3 mysteries share the exact same pattern of three:
An initial crime that leaves clues
A second crime, independent from the first
A revealed truth that is solved with the clues of the first crime. In turn, this revelation explains the second crime.
The pattern is clearly not casual.
1) Waymar Royce’s death.
a) First Crime: A group of 8 wildlings disappear, the crime is never explained, we don’t know if they died, or are just hidden, the only clue is a battle-axe “a valuable weapon”.
b) Second Crime: involves 3 people, Waymar Royce, Will and Gared. Waymar, the epitome of the shining knight, decides to go to see the corpses himself, he has a duel with an “Other”, the epic “Dance with me then”; the scene includes a fantastic storytelling with sexual innuendo. Will finds a broken sword, Gared stays with the horses.
c) The truth revealed: A group goes out to find out the truth, they never return. Mysteriously two corpes appear, one of them, Othor, shows signs of having been killed with an axe, the other, Ranger Flowers shows no signs of violence. The bodies have 3 characteristics: a horn that did not sound, black hands, bright blue eyes.
d) Pattern: The clue of the first crime explains the third, the weapon used to kill Othor was an axe, the found truth explains the second crime, the appearance of the 2 corpses explains what happened to Waymar and Will.
Valuable Weapon—(Duel) Dance with me. knight, horse, broken sword —hand—eyes
2) Jon Arryn’s death
a) First Crime: Jon Arryn dies, the cause of death is unknown, or if it was even a crime, he was an old man after all, old people naturally die. If someone killed him, the author is unknown. Jon’s last words were “the seed is strong.”
b) Second Crime: Bran Stark, decides to climb a tower in WF (the First Keep) and witness a “duel” between the Lannister siblings that results in “the things I do for love”, meaning Jaime pushing the kid to his death, Bran gets broken, Jaime “the sword” and his “mare” Cersei, are never blamed.
c) The truth revealed: Ned goes to KL to found out if someone killed Jon Arryn, what he discovers is that the queen has an incestuous relationship with her brother and that the king’s sons are bastards, the truth is revealed thanks to the “book of the hand” and the “eyes” of the bastards. Those who know the truth keep silent. The horn does not sound.
d) Pattern: It is thanks to the words of the first crime, that is, the clue left (the seed is strong), that the found truth is revealed, (the bastards) which in turn explains the second crime, Bran’s falling. Bran saw the queen “dueling” his brother.
Strong Seed— (Duel) Things I do for love. Knight, horse, broken “sword” —hand—eyes
3) Lyanna Stark’s disappearance
a) First Crime: Lyanna Stark disappears, it is unknown if it is a murder, kidnapping or if she just escaped. The last known words of the maiden before her disappearance are: “love is sweet, but it cannot change a man’s nature.”
b) Second Crime: Brandon Stark, the big brother epitome, goes on horseback in search of Lyanna and cries out for a duel with Rhaegar “come out and die”, in response, he is obviously arrested along with his companions, including Jon Arryn’s heir.
c) The revealed truth: A lot of deaths happen; Ned dream about his sister in a “bed of blood” with a fever in which a strong handshake and eyes of fear are mentioned.
d) Pattern: from the logic of the previous crimes we know that Lyanna’s words are the clue that explains the found truth, that is Lyanna’s fever and eyes of fear. That, in turn, explains the second crime, that is, Brandon Stark in King’s Landing.
Man’s nature – (Duel) come out and die. Knight, horse “broken” sword –hand—eyes
We have:
3 clues: valuable weapon, strong seed, man’s nature
3 crimes that smell like sex: dance with me, the things I do for Love, come out and die
Those crimes in turn refer to: song (dance), statues (made for love), hidden (come out) and also references to a woman “dance”, a man “duel” and a child “come to my castle” that is, children’s games. The 6 references to Winterfell’s crypts.
3 truths that can be found with 3 clues: the hand, the eyes, the silent horn.
Jon’s eyes are Stark, no doubt, so one of his parents must be a Stark.
The burned hand is not about whether or not he is a Tagaryen, he’s not.
The clue is how he burned his hand, in the Lord Commander’s tower, dueling “Othor” the one whose hand was severed, and the one that had the horn.
In King’s Landing the King’s Guard tower is white, like Starfall. Othor’s attack happens during the night, that is, there are stars (as in the Dayne’s coat of arms) and as result of his bravery Jon is rewarded with a unique Sword (almost as unique as Dawn). Jon’s mother is Ashara Dayne. Jon was able to defeat Othor mostly thanks to Ghost, the “mute” wolf (the horn that never sound).
The Dayne’s name is in fact a deceit, the name makes you think about the “day” but their coat of arms is clearly about the night, or the end of the night, with a star and a white sword in a purple sky, meaning it’s dawn, the night is ending. The hour before the dawn is the “hour of the wolf”, so “the light that brings the dawn” is a wolf.
The Stark’s coat of arms shows a wolf running, if you put the two together, the Stark arms and the Dayne’s is like a wolf running to catch the falling star. And in a darker version, the sword cutting the wolf’s head.
There is more evidence, much more.
The original crime, that is, the Wildlings disappearance, Jon Arryn’s murder, and Lyanna’s disappearance are never solved by the person who went in seek of the truth.
Ned went looking for Jon’s Arryn murderer and never found her, he found the truth about the queen instead. He died without knowing that Jon was actually murdered by his wife. His wife’s name Lysa, coincidentally, contains the name of the poison with which he was killed, “Tears of Lys”.
Wymar went looking for dead wildlings and found “something else”, he never knew what happened to that group of people. Royce was killed by an “Other” who are not exactly like other humans, the confusion of the armor with the forest makes you think of the wolves that hide when hunting their prey. The duel, on the other hand, is very reminiscent of the scene in which Bran’s wolf fights to be the leader of the wolfs pack beyond the wall.
The same goes for Lyanna. Lyanna’s disappearance is not explained in Jon’s existence, but Jon’s birth explains Brandon’s outburst. In fact, as I will show in part II and III, Ned’s dream is not Lyanna’s “appearance”.
The pattern also leaves many clues to solve the mystery of Jon Snow’s identity. The 3 revealed truths share a common basic feature, the original crime remains unsolved, and in the second crime, which is committed to hide the truth, no one “sound the horn” that is, no one accused Jaime of pushing Bran , no one notified the NW, and no one knows that Jon is actually Brandon’s son, except Ned of course.
But if we pay attention, we will see that, in addition, the pattern shows a lot more things in common. The first crime symbolizes Jon’s mother, the second his father and the truth symbolizes him.
Let’s see
First crime, the mother:
Wildlings: “men and women both” says Will, they’re likely a clan or part of a clan. A “valuable weapon” as valuable as the Dayne’s, Ashara because of her beauty, and Arthur for his skills. The Wildlings disappear without a trace. “It was the Cold” is the first explanation that the Rangers think of. The “cold” is that Ned stole Ashara’ son, as Cersei thinks. Waymar dismisses that explanation, he says it couldn’t be the cold, based on two things: shelter and fire, which is not a reference to a random Dorne’s tower, but to the Dayne’s coat of arms, the sword is the “shelter” and the “fire” is the shooting star, and of course is reference to Winterfell the “shelter” with fire (the hot pools). Ashara was Lady Stark.
Arryn’s death. “The seed is strong” Jon says talking about the king’s bastards. Jon’s killer is his own wife, who escapes with her son from the crime scene. They say that what killed Arryn was a woman’s “weapon”, referring to the poison “tears of Lys”. Jon Snow’s mother, Ashara is the closest thing to a Valyrian in Westeros, people from Lys in turn, are Valyrian descendants. Arryn’s crime involves 3 people. Ashara’s death too.
Lyanna’s disappearance: “love cannot change a man’s nature” was the reason behind Lyanna’s mystery and behind Brandon presence in KL as I’ll explain in part III.
Second crime, The Father:
Waymar’s duel: Royce looks so much like Jon, that it could be him, or any Stark, like Brandon, Jon’s father. The phrase “dance with me then” points to Harrenhal, that is, Brandon’s request for Ashara to dance with Ned, and according to Selmy where a Stark “dishonored” her. Waymar kills Will by smothering him, the victim feels that “the touch was icy cold”. Brandon “died” smothered using a metal rope. Will, who puts a knife in his mouth while watching the duel, says that the “taste of iron gave him comfort.” This makes me think of two things. First, Ned trying to make Lyanna believe that Robert was going to be a good husband (giving her comfort), and second to Robb and his marriage to Jayne who “gave him comfort”. But there is one more detail that I did not notice until the thousandth time that I read the novels, when Ned is going to kill the deserter from the NW, he takes off his gloves to wield ICE, which again, speaks of the “comfort” that the cold iron gives. In Ned’s dream he is giving his comfort to his sister, to whom he refers as having “iron underneath”. Iron, ice, and comfort, all refers to a Stark, and not any Stark but a Lord, since the dead lords are sitting in the crypts sword in hand.
Bran’s flight: In addition of the victim’s name, and the “flying”, we have the tower that gives access to the Winterfell crypt as the scene of the crime, and the mention of “the things I do for love” that clearly indicates that it was Brandon (Ned’s brother) who fled for love, although not necessarily Ashara’s love.
Brandon in KL: It is more than clear that threatening Rhaegar’s life would lead to his arrest. But, in addition, Brandon actually fought a duel before going to KL, that is, the duel with Littlefinger for Cat’s hand.
The truth, the son, “Jon”:
The Rangers corpses: the rangers are Benjen’s “brothers”, one is called “Flowers” that is to say, indicates a woman, Jon’s mother is Benjen’s “sister” as she would be his sister in law. The other corpse “Othor” is “big and ugly” of Benjen’s 2 brothers, Brandon was the older, but the “big and ugly” refers to direwolves that are large and monstrous, “freaks” Theon called them, to which Jon, no less, says that they are not freaks, but simply, different. Brandon was “different” from Ned, he had a “wolf’s blood”. The hand of the sword and the blue eyes of the rangers allow to discover the hidden truth, they symbolize an act of magic in which the hand is faster than the sight. Jon burns his “hand of the sword” (Dayne). Jon’s eyes, as I already mentioned, have “more to the north” than the rest of the Starks, but not because he’s more northener, but for other reasons that I’ll talk about later. Finally, the 2 corpses “are reborn” and plainly they remember their way in Castle Black, wich means, they had a mission, though maybe it wasn’t exactly what we think. I believe that Brandon Stark also had a mission, that I’ll talk about in part III.
The Queen’s Bastard’s: The children are product of an incestual relationship between the Queen and her brother, anyone who paid attention could see that they were not at all like the King, who only gave them the name, like Eddard to Jon. Furthermore, both suspected mothers, Lyanna and Ashara are Ned’s sisters, Lyanna by birth and Ashara by marriage, making Ned an “incestuous” father. If there was any doubt, that Joffrey wasn’t Robert’s seed, Ned’s beheading clearly shows that Joffrey is not Robert’s son. In the same way, it is Jon’s behavior and especially the type of women that he likes, which proves without a doubt who his father is, and especially his reaction to the Pink Letter. In fact, Ygritte and Val represents Brandon’s “others”, one looks like Cat and the other, Val, is beautiful and “lethal” like the Dayne’s siblings. It is clear that Ygritte, Arya and Val represent Cat, Lyanna and Ashara. All of them, in their own way, Jon’s “mothers”.
Lyanna, Ned and the bed of blood: blood is an obvious reference to a baby. But the most interesting thing about this scene, as I will prove in the next part, is that it never happened, is just a product of Ned’s imagination, his way of rationalize the facts. There are 3 things that go unnoticed in that scene at first sight. First, Lyanna’s hands: depending on how the scene description is read, what is black can be the petals or her hands, a clear reference to Othor’s hands. Othor is the one that was murdered. Second, the maiden’s eyes change from distressed to calm when she gets the promise, a reference to Flowers’ eyes that changed from the original color to blue. Flowers is the one that died from “the cold”. Third, the promise. The phrase: “promise me, Ned” can easily be transformed into another: “promised men” which is a clear reference to Rhaegar, prime suspect of Lyanna’s mystery. I’ll prove in Part III that it wasn’t murder, the cold or Rhaegar who’s behind Lyanna’s mistery. And of course, she’s not Jon’s mother.
2.- Sygerrik means deceiver
As I stated in part 1, Bael’s song contains 2 tricks, an act of magic, and a reward.
The problem is, that there is more than one Bael in this story, there’s actually 4 of them. They are Brandon, Arryn, Eddard and Lyanna. In this part I am going to talk about a little about Brandon, and Lyanna. I’ll talk about Ned in part II and Arryn in part III.
Let’s start with the tricks.
The first deception is in the names.
Jon is not called Jon (neither for honoring Jon Arryn nor for King Jon Stark that’s buried in WF crypt) but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t even have a name, like Gilly’s boy.
One of them “name the reward”, that is, the boy.
Bael, contains the initial of each of his parents B-A-E-L, Brandon, who is “at the end” of the Crypt, or as the song says, the Stark line, “was at its end”, the parents that Cat thinks are Jon’s parents: Ashara and Eddard, and Lyanna, the mother that Ned attributes to the baby, because is easier than the truth, and the truth is, he is an usurper.
BAEL is the name of the “monster” created between the four of them. Bael, in turn, stands for “Bael the blessed” which is not accidental, since Rhaegar is the prime suspect, and he was in a “religious crusade” when he died “as a hero”. Even so, Rhaegar is not exactly innocent either, as we will see in the next part.
It’s time to name Jon, the reward.
Bael is several people, all of them, “usurpers”
Brandon: his place, his “head” is taken by his son, Jon. The “Stark of Winterfell”, whom he wants to prove that he is not afraid of, is actually Cat, who came to WF “thanks” to Brandon. In Bael’s song, Brandon is “daughterless”, Jon is Brandon’s son. Cat is the usurper of the place Jon believes belongs to his mother. Deep down, Jon knows perfectly well that he is the oldest “sibling” and since he believes to be Ned’s son, then Ned surely left his mother for Cat. That is why, while growing up, the pubescent Jon attributes a “power” to Cat that terrorizes him. Surely, he also heard the rumors that spoke of Ashara, which explains why Jon believes that his mother was a beautiful woman, of good birth (and not simply “some woman”) and that Ned surely stole his son and broke her heart
Arryn: I’ll talk about Jon in part III, but as for now, let’s just say that being the “rebellion’s father” and Ned’s perceived father, makes him Lord Rickard “usurper”.
Eddard: Ned is the one and only, true usurper. He is literally taking his brother place, is legally usurping the title of Lord of Winterfell, and married his brother betrothed.
Lyanna: Jon’s honorific mother and the one that “named” the reward.
In the dream (not in life), Lyanna is the one who “sings the song” to the Lord of Winterfell. The Lord, then, offers the Bard to name his reward, and the bard asks for a “Winter Rose”.
In the dream the last image that Ned has, are blue rose petals, that is, Winter roses, falling from the palms of her hands, dead and black.
Jon’s given name is Winter.
Of course is not his “true” name, but how Ned thinks about him.
The clues, as in all the crimes, are the hands, and in the eye that is really, really looking, and “sees”.
The right eye was open. The pupil burned blue. It saw. Prologue AGoT
Bael’s song contains 2 tricks, an act of magic, and a reward.
Thanks for reading! and sorry for any grammar or spelling mistakes since english is not my first language.
Hi everyone! this is the first part of a very long theory that has 6 parts, the purpose is to prove Jon Snow’s identity, and that in the north, nothing is what it seems, that Jon’s mystery is a suspenseful story, full of spies, treasons, some love, and most of all, that what’s happening is actually Bael’s song, to prove it, I am going to talk about:
Part I: Jon’s identity
Part II: Ned’s fever dream
Part III: Harrenhal
Part IV: Dragons and magic
Part V: Jon and wolves
Part VI: The Pink Letter
Part I: Winter's got no King
“Winter’s got no king. If you’d seen it, you’d know that, summer boy.” Bran VII – AGoT
a) It wasn’t cold enough: CSI Westeros
“If Gared said it was the cold …’ Will began.” Prologue AGoT
To prove that Jon’s parents are other people, and not who we think, that is, Rhaegar and Lyanna, I am going to analyze Lyanna’s disappearance in light of two other crimes that happened in the story that share the exact same pattern shown in the maiden’s disappearance. Which clearly, is not casual.
“His daughter Lyanna and his son Brandon are in the tombs beside him. Not me, another Brandon, my father’s brother. They’re not supposed to have statues, that’s only for the lords and the kings, but my father loved them so much he had them done.” Bran VII – AGoT
The way Bran talks about Brandon it kind of makes you think that he is the “king of the crypt” while Lyanna is the “lady of the crypt”, like if they were a couple. And of course, I think that is the point, to make you think of them like that, this takes relevance later, as we’ll see.
In Bael’s song, Lord Stark offers the bard to name whatever reward he wants. Bael chooses a rose when in fact what he wants is the maiden, that is, he wants the Starks “treasure”.
Furthermore, the song contains 2 tricks and an act of magic.
Bael comes to Winterfell claiming to be someone he is not (Sygerryk) that’s the first trick.
The Lord, enchanted by the bard’s song, offers him to name his reward and there comes the moment of the second trick, when Bael asks for the “fairest flower”, he’s obviously referring to the maiden, not a flower.
In the song, the magic act happens when Bael leaves the flower, (the rose) in the place where the maiden’s head had rested, that is, it’s an act of disappearance from which a child “magically” emerges. This could perfectly indicate that the child is a Stark simply because his mother is, except for 3 details:
After the war, the boy, now Lord Stark, brings home his father’s head as a “reward”. This indicates that the child replaces the father, not the mother.
The child “emerges” from the crypt, that is, his lineage is in the crypt, but it is not obvious, is hidden, as Bael and the maiden were hidden.
What awakens his grandfather, Lord Stark, and makes him realize that the maiden has returned, is the boy’s cry. That is, for the Lord, what’s important is the child, not the mother, the mother “is the instrument” through which the child arrives.
All this indicates that the maiden is indeed a Stark, but by marriage, not by birth.
It is time to talk about Lyanna’s disappearance.
I said that there are two other crimes in the story that will help us unravel Lyanna’s disappearance: Jon Arryn’s murder and Waymar’s duel to the “Other”.
If we pay attention, we will see that the 3 mysteries share the exact same pattern of three:
An initial crime that leaves clues
A second crime, independent from the first
A revealed truth that is solved with the clues of the first crime. In turn, this revelation explains the second crime.
The pattern is clearly not casual.
1) Waymar Royce’s death.
a) First Crime: A group of 8 wildlings disappear, the crime is never explained, we don’t know if they died, or are just hidden, the only clue is a battle-axe “a valuable weapon”.
b) Second Crime: involves 3 people, Waymar Royce, Will and Gared. Waymar, the epitome of the shining knight, decides to go to see the corpses himself, he has a duel with an “Other”, the epic “Dance with me then”; the scene includes a fantastic storytelling with sexual innuendo. Will finds a broken sword, Gared stays with the horses.
c) The truth revealed: A group goes out to find out the truth, they never return. Mysteriously two corpes appear, one of them, Othor, shows signs of having been killed with an axe, the other, Ranger Flowers shows no signs of violence. The bodies have 3 characteristics: a horn that did not sound, black hands, bright blue eyes.
d) Pattern: The clue of the first crime explains the third, the weapon used to kill Othor was an axe, the found truth explains the second crime, the appearance of the 2 corpses explains what happened to Waymar and Will.
Valuable Weapon—(Duel) Dance with me. knight, horse, broken sword —hand—eyes
2) Jon Arryn’s death
a) First Crime: Jon Arryn dies, the cause of death is unknown, or if it was even a crime, he was an old man after all, old people naturally die. If someone killed him, the author is unknown. Jon’s last words were “the seed is strong.”
b) Second Crime: Bran Stark, decides to climb a tower in WF (the First Keep) and witness a “duel” between the Lannister siblings that results in “the things I do for love”, meaning Jaime pushing the kid to his death, Bran gets broken, Jaime “the sword” and his “mare” Cersei, are never blamed.
c) The truth revealed: Ned goes to KL to found out if someone killed Jon Arryn, what he discovers is that the queen has an incestuous relationship with her brother and that the king’s sons are bastards, the truth is revealed thanks to the “book of the hand” and the “eyes” of the bastards. Those who know the truth keep silent. The horn does not sound.
d) Pattern: It is thanks to the words of the first crime, that is, the clue left (the seed is strong), that the found truth is revealed, (the bastards) which in turn explains the second crime, Bran’s falling. Bran saw the queen “dueling” his brother.
Strong Seed— (Duel) Things I do for love. Knight, horse, broken “sword” —hand—eyes
3) Lyanna Stark’s disappearance
a) First Crime: Lyanna Stark disappears, it is unknown if it is a murder, kidnapping or if she just escaped. The last known words of the maiden before her disappearance are: “love is sweet, but it cannot change a man’s nature.”
b) Second Crime: Brandon Stark, the big brother epitome, goes on horseback in search of Lyanna and cries out for a duel with Rhaegar “come out and die”, in response, he is obviously arrested along with his companions, including Jon Arryn’s heir.
c) The revealed truth: A lot of deaths happen; Ned dream about his sister in a “bed of blood” with a fever in which a strong handshake and eyes of fear are mentioned.
d) Pattern: from the logic of the previous crimes we know that Lyanna’s words are the clue that explains the found truth, that is Lyanna’s fever and eyes of fear. That, in turn, explains the second crime, that is, Brandon Stark in King’s Landing.
Man’s nature – (Duel) come out and die. Knight, horse “broken” sword –hand—eyes
We have:
3 clues: valuable weapon, strong seed, man’s nature
3 crimes that smell like sex: dance with me, the things I do for Love, come out and die
Those crimes in turn refer to: song (dance), statues (made for love), hidden (come out) and also references to a woman “dance”, a man “duel” and a child “come to my castle” that is, children’s games. The 6 references to Winterfell’s crypts.
3 truths that can be found with 3 clues: the hand, the eyes, the silent horn.
Jon’s eyes are Stark, no doubt, so one of his parents must be a Stark.
The burned hand is not about whether or not he is a Tagaryen, he’s not.
The clue is how he burned his hand, in the Lord Commander’s tower, dueling “Othor” the one whose hand was severed, and the one that had the horn.
In King’s Landing the King’s Guard tower is white, like Starfall. Othor’s attack happens during the night, that is, there are stars (as in the Dayne’s coat of arms) and as result of his bravery Jon is rewarded with a unique Sword (almost as unique as Dawn). Jon’s mother is Ashara Dayne. Jon was able to defeat Othor mostly thanks to Ghost, the “mute” wolf (the horn that never sound).
The Dayne’s name is in fact a deceit, the name makes you think about the “day” but their coat of arms is clearly about the night, or the end of the night, with a star and a white sword in a purple sky, meaning it’s dawn, the night is ending. The hour before the dawn is the “hour of the wolf”, so “the light that brings the dawn” is a wolf.
The Stark’s coat of arms shows a wolf running, if you put the two together, the Stark arms and the Dayne’s is like a wolf running to catch the falling star. And in a darker version, the sword cutting the wolf’s head.
There is more evidence, much more.
The original crime, that is, the Wildlings disappearance, Jon Arryn’s murder, and Lyanna’s disappearance are never solved by the person who went in seek of the truth.
Ned went looking for Jon’s Arryn murderer and never found her, he found the truth about the queen instead. He died without knowing that Jon was actually murdered by his wife. His wife’s name Lysa, coincidentally, contains the name of the poison with which he was killed, “Tears of Lys”.
Wymar went looking for dead wildlings and found “something else”, he never knew what happened to that group of people. Royce was killed by an “Other” who are not exactly like other humans, the confusion of the armor with the forest makes you think of the wolves that hide when hunting their prey. The duel, on the other hand, is very reminiscent of the scene in which Bran’s wolf fights to be the leader of the wolfs pack beyond the wall.
The same goes for Lyanna. Lyanna’s disappearance is not explained in Jon’s existence, but Jon’s birth explains Brandon’s outburst. In fact, as I will show in part II and III, Ned’s dream is not Lyanna’s “appearance”.
The pattern also leaves many clues to solve the mystery of Jon Snow’s identity. The 3 revealed truths share a common basic feature, the original crime remains unsolved, and in the second crime, which is committed to hide the truth, no one “sound the horn” that is, no one accused Jaime of pushing Bran , no one notified the NW, and no one knows that Jon is actually Brandon’s son, except Ned of course.
But if we pay attention, we will see that, in addition, the pattern shows a lot more things in common. The first crime symbolizes Jon’s mother, the second his father and the truth symbolizes him.
Let’s see
First crime, the mother:
Wildlings: “men and women both” says Will, they’re likely a clan or part of a clan. A “valuable weapon” as valuable as the Dayne’s, Ashara because of her beauty, and Arthur for his skills. The Wildlings disappear without a trace. “It was the Cold” is the first explanation that the Rangers think of. The “cold” is that Ned stole Ashara’ son, as Cersei thinks. Waymar dismisses that explanation, he says it couldn’t be the cold, based on two things: shelter and fire, which is not a reference to a random Dorne’s tower, but to the Dayne’s coat of arms, the sword is the “shelter” and the “fire” is the shooting star, and of course is reference to Winterfell the “shelter” with fire (the hot pools). Ashara was Lady Stark.
Arryn’s death. “The seed is strong” Jon says talking about the king’s bastards. Jon’s killer is his own wife, who escapes with her son from the crime scene. They say that what killed Arryn was a woman’s “weapon”, referring to the poison “tears of Lys”. Jon Snow’s mother, Ashara is the closest thing to a Valyrian in Westeros, people from Lys in turn, are Valyrian descendants. Arryn’s crime involves 3 people. Ashara’s death too.
Lyanna’s disappearance: “love cannot change a man’s nature” was the reason behind Lyanna’s mystery and behind Brandon presence in KL as I’ll explain in part III.
Second crime, The Father:
Waymar’s duel: Royce looks so much like Jon, that it could be him, or any Stark, like Brandon, Jon’s father. The phrase “dance with me then” points to Harrenhal, that is, Brandon’s request for Ashara to dance with Ned, and according to Selmy where a Stark “dishonored” her. Waymar kills Will by smothering him, the victim feels that “the touch was icy cold”. Brandon “died” smothered using a metal rope. Will, who puts a knife in his mouth while watching the duel, says that the “taste of iron gave him comfort.” This makes me think of two things. First, Ned trying to make Lyanna believe that Robert was going to be a good husband (giving her comfort), and second to Robb and his marriage to Jayne who “gave him comfort”. But there is one more detail that I did not notice until the thousandth time that I read the novels, when Ned is going to kill the deserter from the NW, he takes off his gloves to wield ICE, which again, speaks of the “comfort” that the cold iron gives. In Ned’s dream he is giving his comfort to his sister, to whom he refers as having “iron underneath”. Iron, ice, and comfort, all refers to a Stark, and not any Stark but a Lord, since the dead lords are sitting in the crypts sword in hand.
Bran’s flight: In addition of the victim’s name, and the “flying”, we have the tower that gives access to the Winterfell crypt as the scene of the crime, and the mention of “the things I do for love” that clearly indicates that it was Brandon (Ned’s brother) who fled for love, although not necessarily Ashara’s love.
Brandon in KL: It is more than clear that threatening Rhaegar’s life would lead to his arrest. But, in addition, Brandon actually fought a duel before going to KL, that is, the duel with Littlefinger for Cat’s hand.
The truth, the son, “Jon”:
The Rangers corpses: the rangers are Benjen’s “brothers”, one is called “Flowers” that is to say, indicates a woman, Jon’s mother is Benjen’s “sister” as she would be his sister in law. The other corpse “Othor” is “big and ugly” of Benjen’s 2 brothers, Brandon was the older, but the “big and ugly” refers to direwolves that are large and monstrous, “freaks” Theon called them, to which Jon, no less, says that they are not freaks, but simply, different. Brandon was “different” from Ned, he had a “wolf’s blood”. The hand of the sword and the blue eyes of the rangers allow to discover the hidden truth, they symbolize an act of magic in which the hand is faster than the sight. Jon burns his “hand of the sword” (Dayne). Jon’s eyes, as I already mentioned, have “more to the north” than the rest of the Starks, but not because he’s more northener, but for other reasons that I’ll talk about later. Finally, the 2 corpses “are reborn” and plainly they remember their way in Castle Black, wich means, they had a mission, though maybe it wasn’t exactly what we think. I believe that Brandon Stark also had a mission, that I’ll talk about in part III.
The Queen’s Bastard’s: The children are product of an incestual relationship between the Queen and her brother, anyone who paid attention could see that they were not at all like the King, who only gave them the name, like Eddard to Jon. Furthermore, both suspected mothers, Lyanna and Ashara are Ned’s sisters, Lyanna by birth and Ashara by marriage, making Ned an “incestuous” father. If there was any doubt, that Joffrey wasn’t Robert’s seed, Ned’s beheading clearly shows that Joffrey is not Robert’s son. In the same way, it is Jon’s behavior and especially the type of women that he likes, which proves without a doubt who his father is, and especially his reaction to the Pink Letter. In fact, Ygritte and Val represents Brandon’s “others”, one looks like Cat and the other, Val, is beautiful and “lethal” like the Dayne’s siblings. It is clear that Ygritte, Arya and Val represent Cat, Lyanna and Ashara. All of them, in their own way, Jon’s “mothers”.
Lyanna, Ned and the bed of blood: blood is an obvious reference to a baby. But the most interesting thing about this scene, as I will prove in the next part, is that it never happened, is just a product of Ned’s imagination, his way of rationalize the facts. There are 3 things that go unnoticed in that scene at first sight. First, Lyanna’s hands: depending on how the scene description is read, what is black can be the petals or her hands, a clear reference to Othor’s hands. Othor is the one that was murdered. Second, the maiden’s eyes change from distressed to calm when she gets the promise, a reference to Flowers’ eyes that changed from the original color to blue. Flowers is the one that died from “the cold”. Third, the promise. The phrase: “promise me, Ned” can easily be transformed into another: “promised men” which is a clear reference to Rhaegar, prime suspect of Lyanna’s mystery. I’ll prove in Part III that it wasn’t murder, the cold or Rhaegar who’s behind Lyanna’s mistery. And of course, she’s not Jon’s mother.
2.- Sygerrik means deceiver
As I stated in part 1, Bael’s song contains 2 tricks, an act of magic, and a reward.
The problem is, that there is more than one Bael in this story, there’s actually 4 of them. They are Brandon, Arryn, Eddard and Lyanna. In this part I am going to talk about a little about Brandon, and Lyanna. I’ll talk about Ned in part II and Arryn in part III.
Let’s start with the tricks.
The first deception is in the names.
Jon is not called Jon (neither for honoring Jon Arryn nor for King Jon Stark that’s buried in WF crypt) but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t even have a name, like Gilly’s boy.
One of them “name the reward”, that is, the boy.
Bael, contains the initial of each of his parents B-A-E-L, Brandon, who is “at the end” of the Crypt, or as the song says, the Stark line, “was at its end”, the parents that Cat thinks are Jon’s parents: Ashara and Eddard, and Lyanna, the mother that Ned attributes to the baby, because is easier than the truth, and the truth is, he is an usurper.
BAEL is the name of the “monster” created between the four of them. Bael, in turn, stands for “Bael the blessed” which is not accidental, since Rhaegar is the prime suspect, and he was in a “religious crusade” when he died “as a hero”. Even so, Rhaegar is not exactly innocent either, as we will see in the next part.
It’s time to name Jon, the reward.
Bael is several people, all of them, “usurpers”
Brandon: his place, his “head” is taken by his son, Jon. The “Stark of Winterfell”, whom he wants to prove that he is not afraid of, is actually Cat, who came to WF “thanks” to Brandon. In Bael’s song, Brandon is “daughterless”, Jon is Brandon’s son. Cat is the usurper of the place Jon believes belongs to his mother. Deep down, Jon knows perfectly well that he is the oldest “sibling” and since he believes to be Ned’s son, then Ned surely left his mother for Cat. That is why, while growing up, the pubescent Jon attributes a “power” to Cat that terrorizes him. Surely, he also heard the rumors that spoke of Ashara, which explains why Jon believes that his mother was a beautiful woman, of good birth (and not simply “some woman”) and that Ned surely stole his son and broke her heart
Arryn: I’ll talk about Jon in part III, but as for now, let’s just say that being the “rebellion’s father” and Ned’s perceived father, makes him Lord Rickard “usurper”.
Eddard: Ned is the one and only, true usurper. He is literally taking his brother place, is legally usurping the title of Lord of Winterfell, and married his brother betrothed.
Lyanna: Jon’s honorific mother and the one that “named” the reward.
In the dream (not in life), Lyanna is the one who “sings the song” to the Lord of Winterfell. The Lord, then, offers the Bard to name his reward, and the bard asks for a “Winter Rose”.
In the dream the last image that Ned has, are blue rose petals, that is, Winter roses, falling from the palms of her hands, dead and black.
Jon’s given name is Winter.
Of course is not his “true” name, but how Ned thinks about him.
The clues, as in all the crimes, are the hands, and in the eye that is really, really looking, and “sees”.
The right eye was open. The pupil burned blue. It saw. Prologue AGoT
Bael’s song contains 2 tricks, an act of magic, and a reward.
- The first trick is that Jon is no bastard, but the true Lord of Winterfel
- The second trick is that Lyanna’s mistery is not about Jon, but about the winter roses as I’ll prove in part III
- The act of magic is Ned, living his brother’s (and Jon’s) life
- The reward for the usurpers is that Winter is coming.
Thanks for reading! and sorry for any grammar or spelling mistakes since english is not my first language.
