Jon Snow is one of the main characters of Game of Thrones and has avid fans all over the world. Many of them want to see him sit on the Iron Throne!
We have many more secrets to find out about him in the last season. But first lets recap everything we know so far!
- Jon Snow is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin
- And its television adaptation Game of Thrones
- In which he is portrayed by English actor Kit Harington
- He is a prominent point of view character in the novels
- And has been called one of the author’s “finest creations”
- And most popular characters by The New York Times
- Jon is a main character in the TV series
- His storyline in the 2015 season 5 finale generated a strong reaction among viewers
- Speculation about the character’s parentage has also been a popular topic of discussion among fans of both the books and the TV series
- Jon is introduced in 1996’s A Game of Thrones as the illegitimate son of Ned Stark
- Knowing his prospects are limited by his status, Jon joins the Night’s Watch
- Who guard the far northern borders from the wildlings who live beyond The Wall
- As the rest of the Starks face grave adversity, Jon finds himself honor bound to remain with the Watch
- In A Clash of Kings (1998), he joins a scouting party investigating the growing threat from the otherworldly “Others” beyond the Wall
- And manages to infiltrate the wildlings
- Jon learns of their plans to invade Westeros in A Storm of Swords (2000)
- And begins to fall in love with the fierce wildling woman Ygritte
- He betrays them, and Ygritte, before they can attack
- But the Night Watch’s victory comes at a heavy price for Jon
- Now the Lord Commander of the Watch, he appears briefly in 2005’s A Feast for Crows
- Jon returns as a prominent character in a A Dance with Dragons (2011)
- Working to negotiate an alliance between the Night’s Watch and the wildlings
- The growing animosity he has attracted from among the Watch finally catches up with him
- He is forced to face the dire consequences
- On the HBO series Game of Thrones, Jon’s storyline follows the character’s plot arc from the novel series
- Though season 6 and season 7 of the TV adaptation continue on from the events of Martin’s latest published installment
- Harington was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for the role in 2016
- He was also nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television in 2012, 2016 and 2017
- Following the plot of A Game of Thrones, in the first season Jon, the bastard son of Ned Stark, joins the Night’s Watch
- He arrives at the Wall with his direwolf Ghost in tow
- In “Lord Snow”, he is persuaded by Tyrion Lannister to put aside his prejudices and helps some of the others with their weapons training
- Jon befriends Samwell Tarly, an overweight, clumsy coward who is more an intellectual than a fighter
- Jon takes his vows but is disappointed about being made steward to Lord Commander Jeor Mormont rather than a ranger in “You Win or You Die”
- Jon saves Mormont from a wight in “The Pointy End”
- And in “Baelor” Mormont gives him the House Mormont ancestral sword Longclaw
- Made of Valyrian steel
- With a wolf’s head handle custom made for Jon, in thanks
- Jon learns of his father’s execution for treason in “Fire and Blood”
- And although tempted to leave the Wall to help his family, his sense of duty ultimately compels him to stay
- In the second season, Jon witnesses the wildling Craster
- A man with many wives who marries his own daughters, sacrifice his newborn son to the White Walkers in “The Night Lands”
- Later, as part of a small scouting party led by Night’s Watch ranger Qhorin Halfhand, Jon is tasked with killing a wildling prisoner
- The woman warrior Ygritte
- He finds himself unable to do so in “The Old Gods and the New”
- She escapes, only to capture him with her comrades in “The Prince of Winterfell”
- Qhorin orders Jon to pretend to defect and join the wildlings to discover their plans
- In “Valar Morghulis”, Qhorin stages a fight and secretly instructs Jon to kill him to gain the wildlings’ trust
- Jon does and is taken to meet Mance Rayder
- The wildlings’ King-Beyond-the Wall
- In the third season, Jon pledges his loyalty to Mance and travels with the wildlings
- Learning that they intend to scale the Wall and force their way south of the Wall
- Ygritte seduces Jon, and they have sex in “Kissed by Fire”
- When Jon refuses to kill an innocent man to prove his loyalty in “The Rains of Castamere”, he is attacked by the other wildlings but escapes
- In “Mhysa”, he is tracked by Ygritte, who shoots him with three arrows before he is able to escape again and return to Castle Black
- In “Two Swords”, Alliser Thorne and Janos Slynt call for Jon’s execution for defecting to the wildlings
- But Maester Aemon is convinced of Jon’s loyalty to the Watch and sets him free
- In “First of His Name”, Jon leads an expedition to Craster’s Keep
- There some men of the Watch have mutinied and murdered Lord Commander Mormont
- After defeating the mutineers, Jon is reunited with Ghost
- Tormund’s wildlings attack Castle Black while Mance’s army besieges the Wall in “The Watchers on the Wall”
- The wildlings are successfully repelled
- Although Ygritte is shot and dies in Jon’s arms
- Before Jon can negotiate with or kill Mance, Stannis Baratheon’s army arrives and routs the wildling camp
- Taking Mance prisoner in the season finale “The Children”
- In “The Wars to Come”, Stannis enlists Jon as an intermediary between himself and Mance
- Hoping to add the wildling army to his own
- Mance refuses to submit to Stannis, and the wildling king is burned at the stake by the red priestess Melisandre
- In “The House of Black and White”, Stannis offers to legitimize Jon and make him lord of Winterfell in exchange for his support
- Jon is voted the new Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch
- Initially tying with his nemesis Thorne but after the tie is broken by Maester Aemon’s vote
- Jon’s intention to welcome the wildlings into Westeros and grant them lands south of the Wall further enrages Thorne’s faction of the Watch
- Which holds a deep seated hatred for the wildlings
- In “Hardhome”, Jon travels by ship north of the Wall to the eponymous wildling village
- Seeking their support for his plan to ally the Night’s Watch and the wildlings against the growing threat of the White Walkers
- As some of the wildling clans board Stannis’ ships to travel south, a massive force of wights, led by White Walkers and their Night King, attacks the village
- Jon kills a White Walker with Longclaw
- Learning that not only dragonglass, but weapons forged with Valyrian steel, can destroy them completely
- Jon and his group barely make it out alive
- With only a fraction of the wildling forces
- Jon then permits the wildling forces to pass through the Wall into the North
- Shortly after returning to Castle Black in the season finale “Mother’s Mercy”, Jon is summoned to hear news of his missing uncle Benjen
- But is instead ambushed and stabbed to death by Thorne and his group of mutineers
- In “The Red Woman”, Davos Seaworth, Dolorous Edd, and other brothers of the Watch loyal to Jon barricade themselves in a room with Ghost and Jon’s body
- An attack by Thorne and his men is thwarted by the arrival of Tormund and his wildlings
- Davos encourages Melisandre to attempt to resurrect Jon in “Home”
- Although the ritual at first seems to fail, Jon suddenly awakens
- After hanging Thorne, Olly, Bowen Marsh, and Othell Yarwyck for their treason in “Oathbreaker”
- Jon gives command of the Watch to Edd and prepares to leave Castle Black
- In “Book of the Stranger”, he is reunited with his half-sister Sansa Stark
- Who has fled her abusive husband Ramsay Bolton and now seeks Jon’s aid in crushing the Boltons
- Jon is hesitant until a threatening message arrives from Ramsay demanding Sansa’s return
- And announcing Ramsay’s possession of their brother Rickon
- Jon, Sansa, Davos, Tormund, and Brienne of Tarth set off to recruit an army to take back Winterfell and rescue Rickon from Ramsay in “The Broken Man”
- But their forces grow to only half the size of Bolton’s
- As the armies face each other in “Battle of the Bastards”, Ramsay murders Rickon to enrage Jon
- Who rushes in with murderous fury
- A devastating battle ensues in which the outnumbered Stark forces are nearly slaughtered
- Until the Knights of the Vale from House Arryn arrive with Sansa and Petyr Baelish
- And attack the Bolton army from the rear
- Jon chases Ramsay back into Winterfell and beats him savagely
- Stopping before killing him
- Sansa subsequently feeds Ramsay to his own hounds
- In the season finale episode “The Winds of Winter”, Bran Stark has a vision of the past which shows Ned reuniting with a dying Lyanna in the Tower of Joy
- She makes him swear to protect her son Jon
- Meanwhile, the Northern lords name Jon the King in the North
- Attempting to bolster the North’s defenses in “Dragonstone”, Jon is frustrated when his authority is undermined by Sansa
- Who does not want him to repeat the mistakes that got their father Ned and brother Robb killed
- Jon dismisses a message from Cersei Lannister that he swear his allegiance to her
- In “Stormborn”, he receives an invitation to Dragonstone from Tyrion, on Daenerys Targaryen’s behalf
- Subsequently, receiving a message from Sam that a hoard of obsidian lies beneath the ancient Targaryen castle
- Jon decides to meet Daenerys
- Leaving a surprised Sansa as his regent
- At Dragonstone, he declines swearing fealty to Daenerys in “The Queen’s Justice”
- And instead asks for her assistance fighting the White Walkers
- She demurs but permits him to mine the obsidian
- In “Eastwatch”, Daenerys is surprised when her dragon Drogon approaches Jon and allows the King in the North to pet him
- Determined to convince Cersei that their true enemy is the army of the dead, Jon leads an expedition north of the Wall to capture a wight and bring it south to King’s Landing
- They manage to do so in “Beyond the Wall” but are surrounded by a horde of the Night King’s minions
- Daenerys arrives with her dragons
- But the Night King kills one of them with an ice spear
- Forcing the others to flee without Jon
- He is saved by the reappearance of his uncle Benjen, who is overtaken by the dead as Jon escapes back to the Wall
- Daenerys vows to fight the White Walkers with Jon
- And he agrees to swear fealty to her as his queen
- In “The Dragon and the Wolf”, the two negotiate a truce with Cersei
- Who agrees to join them in fighting the Night King’s forces
- Bran learns that Jon was born Aegon Targaryen
- The legitimate son and heir of Daenerys’ brother Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark
- Meanwhile, Jon and Daenerys finally give in to their growing feelings for each other and have sex
- Unaware that they are related by blood
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