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Are the "people" re-incarnated by the Lord of Light real?
TL;DR - From the books perspective it seems that all those brought back by The Lord of Light are "undead". The shows perspective is not as clear.
The quote you have provided was part of a larger ...
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Why does Jon Snow have dark hair?
Historical Half Targaryens with Non-Valyrian features
That's the case with many Half Targaryens in history.
King Daeron II married Mariah Martell. His first born son, Prince Baelor had dark hair of ...
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Is Jon Snow immune to fire?
NO.
Jon was burned by the fire he used to kill the wights in Season 1 that invaded Castle Black.
Quotes from the book, which since this is Season 1, the scenes in the show remain highly faithful to. ...
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Was Jon Snow the first to kill a White Walker with Valyrian Steel?
Probably not
In A Feast for Crows, Chapter 5 Samwell Tarly tells Jon Snow that he found one account of the Long Night that spoke of the last hero slaying Others with a blade of dragonsteel and they ...
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What coat of arms does Jon Snow use?
GRRM stated that Jon should use the reverse colours of Ned Stark's Arms
George RR Martin told the company Valyrian Steel to use the reverse colours of Ned's arms on their swords:
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Is Jon Snow immune to fire?
As far as the books go, GRRM has said that even Daenerys is not immune to fire and surviving the pyre was a one-time thing related to the dragons.
In the show, Daenerys appears to be permanently ...
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Ghost as a Foreshadowing of Jon Snow's Lineage
Possibly, though only with broad strokes to signify Jon is different.
The dead direwolf and the pups forms part of a foreshadowing for the whole of book 1/season 1 in that Ned going down south will ...
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Why does everybody think Jon Snow is this character's son?
HBO has in fact confirmed that Rhaegar Targaryen is Jon Snow's father.
Anyway, in case you hate subtext, HBO has released an infographic which clearly labels Rhaegar Targaryen as Jon Snow's father ...
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Is Jon Snow immune to fire?
Probably not.
Only Daenerys has shown any kind of exceptional immunity to fire, while other Targaryens such as Viserys were not immune and died from fire/heat, suggesting this ability is not a ...
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Why didn't Jon Snow ask for help?
Because that's a lot of ravens. More than Winterfell possibly has available.
(and why would they have ravens that are primed to some minor castle in, say, the Reach?)
Instead, he sends a raven to ...
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Does Jon Snow ever bring his direwolf, Ghost, into battle?
Yes. In his fight with Qhorin Halfhand, the help of Ghost was a deciding factor.
And then Qhorin's sword was coming at him and somehow Longclaw leapt upward to block. The force of impact almost ...
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Did Lyanna Mormont ever ask Jon Snow to return the sword, Longclaw, to her family?
Jon Snow does not meet Lady Lyanna Mormont in the books. If such a meeting is going to occur, it will happen in the sixth book which isn't published yet. There is no explicit mention of Lady Mormont ...
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Why does Jon Snow have dark hair?
Jon Snow's mother, Lyanna Stark is a Notherner and has dark hair. And this gene is dominant as Jon Arryn said. "The seed is strong", implies that a parent with dark hair will probably have a son with ...
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What coat of arms does Jon Snow use?
He uses the Black/Dark grey head of a direwolf on a white background as can clearly be seen in the following video when Jon meets Ramsay before the Battle of the Bastards.
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Why didn't Jon Snow ask for help?
Feudal systems are a hierarchy. The minor lords are beholden to the Lords Paramount of the seven kingdoms who in turn are subject to the king (or queens in this case). They can't really go on their ...
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Was Jon Snow the first to kill a White Walker with Valyrian Steel?
I don't have a quote handy, but I think it's at least strongly implied in the books that this is not the case. When Sam was researching the Night's Watch archives, he found reference to both '...
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How to explain these inconsistencies in the R+L=J theory?
Jon's hand and immunity to fire
Targaryens aren't fire proof or fire-made-flesh. That is a wrong assumption on part of a few fans who are making too much of Daenerys' ability to avoid serious burns.
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What coat of arms does Jon Snow use?
Spoilers, maybe.
Technically by the end of Season 7 we know he's entitled to three different coats of arms, but has sworn off two of them:
as an acknowledged Stark bastard he can carry arms of a ...
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How do people know Jon Snow is a bastard just by his name?
So in this series there are a few rules surrounding bastards.
If the Bastard has a highborn parent then so long as that highborn parent acknowledges the Bastard they can have a bastardy surname.
EX: ...
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How did Jon Snow descend the wall in Season 3, Episode 7?
From A Storm of Swords:
They had descended the south face of the Wall at Greyguard, abandoned for two hundred years. A section of the huge stone steps had collapsed a century before, but even so ...
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What does "You know nothing, Jon Snow" mean?
From an in-universe prespective we are offered what Orell thinks of the phrase.
It essentially means that Jon does not know how the world truly works. That even with constructs like team work, loyalty,...
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Why didn't Jon Snow ask for help?
There is no need to send Ravens to all the Lords. Because, we could see most of the Lords are sworn to either Cersei or The King in the North (Jon himself). A meet has been arranged with the Queen of ...
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Did Lyanna Mormont ever ask Jon Snow to return the sword, Longclaw, to her family?
House Mormont with Lyanna at his head are very firm in their support of House Stark and by extension Jon Snow.
Lyanna Mormont: House Mormont has kept faith with House Stark for 1,000 years. We ...
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Why was Jon Snow so ignorant?
Isn't this one of the standard Stark traits? Being honourable and believing others are too. Ned, Rob and Jon died because of this.
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Why did Ned Stark never tell the truth about his son?
There appear to be two main reasons why this was the case.
Promise me, Ned
Ned is an honourable man and he promised Lyanna he would not tell anyone.
Lyanna Stark: You have to protect him. Promise ...
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