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Originally Posted by GreenLantern
He knows a secret.. a big secret involving Ned's sister.
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Fair warning, spoilers below, but it's a spoiler thread so I'm not covering them.
Jon being her son has been brought up multiple times in this thread. I watched the first couple episodes of A Game of Thrones before reading the books but very early on in the show Ned told Jon that they would talk about his mother and it seemed important enough that there was a certain mystery to it.
When reading the books with that in mind I didn't get to the end of A Game of Thrones before I bought into Jon being her son. I feel like GRRM would be doing a rewrite if that doesn't end up being the case, the stories of Ashara, Wylla and the fishermen's wife or whatever that we end up hearing later seem almost to draw the scent away from the big reveal 20 years later that wont (shouldn't) be all that surprising to the faithful followers.
The Kingsguard protecting Lyanna at the tower of joy should raise some questions. When Ned flat out starts asking them why they aren't with Viserys (the apparent King at this time) I feel like that should have raised a huge question mark when their one oath is to protect the King and they don't even care about Viserys.