15 BEST Game Of Thrones Season 8 Theories

8. Azor Ahai/TPTWP IS Jon

Call it Azor Ahai, call it The Prince That Was Promised, the prophecy is more or less the same. While there is a chance they’re different, they’ve certainly been used interchangeably by Melisandre, who is the biggest proponent of the prophecy, and whether you go on the show or the books - where there’s more specific criteria, including being born amidst smoke and salt, beneath a bleeding star, and waking dragons from stone - it narrows down to the same two people: Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen.

Is one of them going to be The Prince - or Princess - That Was Promised? To be Azor Ahai Reborn and save the world from darkness?

Probably, yes, in a fashion.

There’s been too much service given to this prophecy for it to mean NOTHING in the end, but it also can’t be as straightforward as one of them being Azor Ahai, the other being Nissa Nissa, and the chosen one wielding Lightbringer to kill the Night King.

It needs to be something less literal, and less… conventional.

Jon is going to lead the living against the dead. He’s ready to fight the Night King. His troops will sustain losses, but probably emerge victorious. He isn’t going to be Azor Ahai because of prophecy; he’s not going to kill Daenerys to bring forth Lightbringer. He’ll be Azor Ahai/TPTWP because that’s just who he is. Not out of prophecy, but out of duty. The former isn't written in stone, but it's what the person makes of it. He’ll fight back the darkness and lead the world into the light because he is a fighter and a leader, and he still won’t be the one to kill the Night King.

[James]