While kusoma A Song of Ice and Fire, I kept coming back to the swali of who is Jon Snow's mother. If wewe haven't read the first four vitabu (the only ones published at the time I am uandishi this), then wewe probably want to stop kusoma because I'll mention stuff that wewe probably don't want to know until George R. R. Martin reveals them to wewe - it's so much better that way.

So, I tinkered with a variety of ideas and then a crazy one came to me - what if Eddard isn't Jon's father? A lot of stuff starts making sense then: The urgency of which Eddard has to tell Jon... something. Why Eddard...