Before she died in childbirth, Lyanna made Ned promise to keep her son safe since she feared the newly crowned King Robert would find out the truth about Jon’s parentage and kill him because he’s a Targaryen and heir to the Iron Throne.
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The graphic shows that Jon Snow’s mother is Lyanna and Rhaegar is his father. Showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss have previously said they only really envisioned there ever be 70-75 hours, and they confirmed as much this week in an interview with Deadline.
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The infographic comes after “Game of Thrones'” Season 6 finale which featured a flashback scene of Lyanna handing her brother Ned Stark her newly born child as she laid in her deathbed. If you’re not caught up and don’t care about spoilers or are caught up to Season 6 Episode 10, then you are welcome to scroll past the spoiler free filler image and straight to the good stuff. HBO seems to have done the bit by revealing the name of Jon Snow’s father in an infographic posted on the “Making Of Game Of Thrones” blog. Other fans refused to believe Jon is half Targaryen until the show explicitly said it. “We still are pretty clueless as to the father, I think …” He is Ice (Stark) and Fire (Targaryen), and if Game of Thrones has a traditional hero, Jon Snow might be it. The series which aired the finale of the sixth season, last Sunday will have shorter final seasons, revealed the makers. The thing that has excited us from the beginning, back to the way we pitched it to HBO is, it’s not supposed to be an ongoing show, where every season it’s trying to figure out new story lines. You know she’s not going to go there for a beach vacation… By the time her brother got to her, she was on her deathbed, leaving her brother to raise her newborn son as his own.
