10 Most Shocking Moments In Game Of Thrones Season Finales

The parentage of Jon Snow was, for a long time, the most widely discussed theory among the GOT fandom, who had to wait until the season six finale to learn that R+L really does = J.

The Seven Kingdoms of Westeros believe Jon to be the bastard son of Ned Stark and an anonymous woman whom Ned lay with during Robert’s Rebellion. However, Bran’s ability to visit the past eventually revealed that married Ned was a well-behaved chap all along.

Bran reentered the vision of his father at the Tower of Joy, where a young Ned walked in on his sister Lyanna bleeding to death, having given birth to a boy fathered by Rhaegar Targaryen. She made him swear to take the child back to Winterfell and raise him as his own to protect him from Robert Baratheon, who was promised to Lyanna before Rhaegar cockblocked him and would murder the baby if he knew of his true heritage.

This confirmed that Jon is a Targaryen and thus related to Daenerys (he’s her nephew). Bran has decided to keep this rather important information to himself so far while GOT geeks speculate on new theories, such as the identity of the Night King, or quite how Greyworm and Missandei made sweet, sweet love in that Dragonstone chamber.