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In Dance, Jon 1 he thinks of the wolves and his brothers and says, "Jon pissed in darkness, filling his chamber pot as the Old Bear's raven muttered complaints. The wolf dreams had been growing stronger, and he found himself remembering them even when awake. Ghost knows that Grey Wind is dead. Robb had died at the Twins, betrayed by men he'd believed his friends, and his wolf had perished with him. Bran and Rickon had been murdered too, beheaded at the behest of Theon Greyjoy, who had once been their lord father's ward … but if dreams did not lie, their direwolves had escaped. At Queenscrown, one had come out of the darkness to save Jon's life. Summer, it had to be. His fur was grey, and Shaggydog is black. He wondered if some part of his dead brothers lived on inside their wolves."

I happen to have been just back at my computer to check this. I don't remember Jon ever thinking or hearing otherwise about his Stark brothers. Maybe I forgot. That shit happens.

It takes only a very small amount of brainpower to realize that Bran and Rickon had escaped with their wolves (I mean, Theon would not have wanted the wolves wandering around without the kids to control them), which leads us to the fact that the wolves never would have let Bran and Rickon be taken whilst they were alive. I mean, look what Summer did to save Jon. I remember Jon wondering if Bran might be alive given that Summer had saved him, but this is after his trip to the Wildlings of course, and maybe he thinks Bran is living on in Summer. Either way, he might have tried to find Summer.

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In Dance, Jon 1 he thinks of the wolves and his brothers and says, "Jon pissed in darkness, filling his chamber pot as the Old Bear's raven muttered complaints. The wolf dreams had been growing stronger, and he found himself remembering them even when awake. Ghost knows that Grey Wind is dead. Robb had died at the Twins, betrayed by men he'd believed his friends, and his wolf had perished with him. Bran and Rickon had been murdered too, beheaded at the behest of Theon Greyjoy, who had once been their lord father's ward … but if dreams did not lie, their direwolves had escaped. At Queenscrown, one had come out of the darkness to save Jon's life. Summer, it had to be. His fur was grey, and Shaggydog is black. He wondered if some part of his dead brothers lived on inside their wolves."

I happen to have been just back at my computer to check this. I don't remember Jon ever thinking or hearing otherwise about his Stark brothers. Maybe I forgot. That shit happens.

It takes only a very small amount of brainpower to realize that Bran and Rickon had escaped with their wolves (I mean, Theon would not have wanted the wolves wandering around without the kids to control them), which leads us to the fact that the wolves never would have let Bran and Rickon be taken whilst they were alive. I mean, look what Summer did to save Jon. I remember Jon wondering if Bran might be alive given that Summer had saved him, but this is after his trip to the Wildlings of course, and maybe he thinks Bran is living on in Summer. Either way, he might have tried to find Summer.

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It takes only a very small amount of brainpower to realize that Bran and Rickon had escaped with their wolves (I mean, Theon would not have wanted the wolves wandering around without the kids to control them), which leads us to the fact that the wolves never would have let Bran and Rickon be taken whilst they were alive. I mean, look what Summer did to save Jon. I remember Jon wondering if Bran might be alive given that Summer had saved him, but this is after his trip to the Wildlings of course, and maybe he thinks Bran is living on in Summer. Either way, he might have tried to find Summer.

I agree. As readers who see the world as more of the whole, we can see that, but there are points where Jon is still naive and can't even recognize or admit he is a skinchanger. I just wanted to reference what I could find to help answer the question is all :cheers:

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I think it only takes a small amount of brain power for us, the readers, to realize that Bran and Rickon escaped with their wolves.  Jon has no idea what happened.  It will be interesting to see if Sam's withholding of intel regarding Bran makes a difference or not to Jon when all truth comes to light.   As to legitimization, if this even actually happens, will serve to validate Jon to himself is probably more important than his legitimization can be to anyone else.   If Robb has done this thing it will go a very long way in building Jon's self esteem and validating his cause.   With any luck, we may find out exactly why a Stark must always be in Winterfell through this story line.  Robb's will is less likely than a full on parentage reveal, but I like the transitional psychological building it does for Jon.   Really, what is the Jon we have at the end of Dance going to do with being a Targ?   Being the Stark in charge could open Jon to all the potential and responsibility to come when his parentage is revealed.   As to the Wall, I completely concur that all hell will break lose.   I'm dubious about the Queen's men and many of the Wildlings joining in on Jon's side right away and see more of a conquest by sheer numbers that the Wildlings command the Watch and Wall.   They do need to protect their new homes and surely realize the danger they face in allowing the mutineers to continue any sort of command.  Tormund is the clear leader of the Wildlings to me, but I anticipate the Queens men will throw in with their Wildling King.   The Thenn's position will be interesting too.   Mel's position of influence will also be an interesting thing to watch play out with a whole new set of circumstances at the Wall.   I don't think many of the Wildlings will appreciate her burning of either Mance or the weirwoods.  Just sayin' on that count.  Shrieen may very well be THE wild card in this.   

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Oh sweet summer children discussing Jon's right to the succession of Winterfell and his naivete before his death.  Jon is not just Julius Caesar.  He is Alice about to step through the Looking Glass.  The man that awakens will not be the same boy that was stabbed.  Everything will be changed.  Magic will have brought him back and Magic will hit everyone, even the deniers south of the wall smack in the face.  When he awakes Jon will know whatever Bran has learned from Bloodraven.  With that knowledge he will begin to do whatever needs to be done to make things right with the world.  What that may be I do not think GRRM has let us know yet but the clues are that it will be like no other song ever sung.  

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I think Catelyn changed so drastically because she was dead for a long period of time.  I think Jon will warg into Ghost to keep his same characteristics and so he truly never does die.  So I think we could see the exact same Jon Snow as before Stab-gate.

 

I could be totally wrong, but I dont think we would have been exposed to the fact that Jon his green-dreams if it would not come into play.  And I can not see a better time for that to come into play than now.

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I think Catelyn changed so drastically because she was dead for a long period of time.  I think Jon will warg into Ghost to keep his same characteristics and so he truly never does die.  So I think we could see the exact same Jon Snow as before Stab-gate.

 

I could be totally wrong, but I dont think we would have been exposed to the fact that Jon his green-dreams if it would not come into play.  And I can not see a better time for that to come into play than now.

How did she change really? All her desires for peace were to recover what she could of her family. As at the time of her death she believed that only Sansa was still alive and her in the power of the Lannisters and unlikely to be returned. All she would have left is vengeance, she's not that different.

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Tormund Thunderfist’s Funeral Oration for Jon Snow

(A/N:  What follows is a parody of Marc Antony’s funeral oration from Shakespeare’s tragedy Julius Caesar, probably the most famous speech in all of Western literature. 

In this rewrite with a wildling perspective, Tormund Thunderfist speaks at Jon Snow’s funeral, in the fashion of Marc Antony, emulating the tactics of crowd control and manipulation for which Shakespeare’s Antony is known. 

Through verbal irony, saying one thing and meaning another, Tormund refers to the ‘Honorable Men/Honorable Crows’ [respectively] who killed Jon Snow.  Carefully and with finesse, Tormund’s tone grows more sarcastic as he gauges the crowd’s reaction.  After delivering an Oscar-worthy performance, dramatically pausing, noisily sobbing, raggedly breathing, and loudly and painfully choking back womanish screams, Tormund turns away to conceal his veils tears [NOT!]   

Like Antony, who was detained by Cicero outside the Senate so as not to interfere, Tormund was in the Shieldhall, yet  Tormund seemingly knows where each conspirator stabs Jon Snow.  He exaggerates – and lies.  Like Antony, Tormund attempts to rouse the emotions of his audience with the following strategies designed to evocate desired effects:

1)     Tormund makes the crowd feel guilty for believing Jon Snow is an oathbreaker and a  turncloak, offering evidences to the contrary;

2)      Tormund makes the crowd feel sad/sympathetic by displaying Snow’s cloak rent with jagged tears from the daggers;

3)     Tormund makes the crowd ANGRY by showing them Snow’s body and reading Snow’s will.  [Keep in mind that I know Tormund cannot read – he, like Antony, is performing; he exaggerates and makes up stories that paint him in the best possible light.)

 Read on –  I hope this makes you smile – or laugh!

Follow along with Marlon Brando as Antony delivering the oration on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X9C55TkUP8

 

 

Scene 2.  (In front of Castle Black is an enormous funeral pyre prepared for the Lord Commander’s body. A distressed crowd of  NW men, Freefolk, King and Queensmen, and others have gathered to hear Tormund speak.  Bowen Marsh’s oration asserts reasons that demand the actions of the NW SBs.  After Jon Snow publicly reveals his intentions to turn his cloak, to play the traitor, and to betray his NW brothers, Bowen and his supporters murder JS:  “For the Watch.”)

( Tormund enters, carrying the shrouded corpse of Jon Snow.  The crowd gasps as Tormund  places the body on the funeral pyre; then the “wasps”  buzz audibly  as Tormund prepares to speak.)

Tormund: Freefolk, Crows, Bearded Queen, and the Rest o’ you,

(Tormund pauses to blow his horn loudly to quiet the unruly group)

Hush up and listen so your ears may hear!

I am here to speak o’ Lord Commander Crow,

not to sing his praises, Har!

The treasons that the bastard planned  live after him;

Any good he did will burn with his bones;

So be it with Jon Snow.

Steward Bowen Marsh says Jon Snow was a turncloak.

If this lie is true, the Lord Crow  gravely has paid for it.

Here, with permission of Marsh and the rest o’ his Crows,

Am I allowed to speak at Jon Snow’s funeral.

He hero-worshiped me and envied my manliness – a magnet for spearwives and queens.

But Bowen Marsh and his Crows call Jon Snow a traitor and a turncloak,

a warg and a skinchanger,  an upstart and  a base-born  Bastard,

And Marsh and his Crows are, as we know, all honorable men.

Commander Snow spoke in the Shieldhall, with me at his side.

Do you remember?  He asked for volunteers

To join him against the Flaying Bastard of Bolton?

(Wildlings and brothers shake their heads, cross arms, mutter to one another in angry tones)

Was this treason?  He gave no orders to the Night’s Watch to march with him!

If you all remember, none o’ the Crows even volunteered!

Not one offered to protect the bearded queen, her gray faced daughter,

the red bitch [cough] witch, the Wildling Princess Val, and Mance Rayder’s babe.

Yet the Lord o’ Crow did not force his men to join –

Did he?

Har!  Did this in Jon Snow mark him as a turncloak?

When the Freefolk crossed the Wall, some sick, injured, and crippled,

Lord Snow wept for them.

Treason needs be made o’ sterner stuff.

Yet Steward Marsh names Lord Crow a turncloak,

And this black brother calls himself  honorable..

Har!  The red sorceress told me in secret that thrice (holds up three fingers and waves them about dramatically)

I repeat three times

Commander Crow refused the Kingly King

who offered to forgive Snow’s Crow words,

and give him Winterfell!  The Kingly King tempted Lord Crow,

and he offered to name him Lord Jon Stark,

and erase the bastard name SNOW forever!

Hence forth Lord Crow-Snow will be the trueborn son and heir

of Lord Eddard Stark, Warden of the North.

Har!  And yet Jon Crow refused.

Aye, so the Kingly King  sweetened the pot,  offering to Snow

The Wilding Princess Val to wife!

And Thrice did Jon Snow refuse.  Was he a turncloak?

Yet Ides of Marsh says Snow was doing treason;

And, sure, you bet, he is an honorable man o’ the Watch.

I am speaking not to turn you against the steward and his Crows –

I am but a man of few words

who speaks no falsehoods, just salts the truth with a stretcher now and then.

Har, ‘twas you Crows who voted Jon Snow your Lord Commander –

So once upon a time you had faith in him, and not without good reasons.

I ask you why now, that he is dead and gone,

No one weeps for him?

Arg!  I hope the Others and their soldier corpses take you dry-eyed,

black hearted folk with your empty heads.

Hold up!  (Tormund retrieves a handkerchief from his sleeve.  He is overcome with emotion, and he roars through his nose into the cloth.  He then dabs the corners of his eyes).

Forgive me -

My heart is broken and bleeding beside Jon Snow’s,

There on the funeral pyre.

 I  t’was a second father to the boy,

and many a time he called me “father” on accident,

mistaking me for his own  dear sire the honorable Lord Ned Stark,

just as once he mistook me for the-king-beyond-the wall Mance Rayder. Har! 

Tormund is always getting mistaken for Lords and Kings.

Arg.  Give me have a moment to dry me eyes

before my tears soak the wood on the pyre.

(Tormund turns, his back to the crowd; beneath the shadow across his face a smile of satisfaction, maybe even pride, tugs at the corners of his lips. The crowd at his back whisper loudly in defense of Snow, and Tormund’s smugness shows he is pleased by the results of his funeral oration).

Dolorous Edd Tollet:  Methinks he has a strong argument with much and more truth.  But most people lie about the truth, especially the people who are my friends; but if they lie about the truth, they are liars, deceivers, betrayers, certainly not friends.  Maybe I should jump on that pyre when it is lit because with my luck that dream I had about becoming Lord Commander will come to pass, and I will be surrounded with non-friends.  But if I dive into the flames, the red witch might glamor me into a worm; or I might not fully cook and die a long, painful death.  Alas, Alack!  Jon Snow has been wronged!

Leathers:  He’s been wronged.

Queen:  Has he, savage?  If I were you, I would pray that a worse Lord Commander may NOT replace him?

Mormont’s Raven:  Corn, Corn, Corn.

Val:  Heed Thunderfist’s words.  Jon Snow refused ME, the Stark name and Winterfell to stay true to the Watch and his Crow vows.  Therefore, ‘tis false that he is a turncloak.

Toregg:  Aye!  Any man to refuse Val must be a loyal brother – or blind.

Borroq:  If this is true, then some will pay a blood price.  Vengeance for the boy!  (Borroq returns to sharpening the tusks of his boar.)

Melisandre:  (A mist rises from the pores of her skin not concealed beneath yards and yards of the mysteriously swirling red fabric of her garments, even though no wind  blows.)

Only life can pay for death. 

(Her ruby glows at her throat.  Tormund turns back to the audience, and Melisandre gasps). 

Gasp!  Look!  (Mel points at Tormund)

Poor soul.  His eyes are red as R’hollor’s fires with his weeping.

Toregg:  There’s not a nobler Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch than Jon Snow!

Mormont’s Raven:  Snow.  Snow.  Jon Snow.

Leathers:  Shut your hole.  Thunderfist speaks.

Tormund:  Only yesterday Jon Snow’s wisdom might

Have held the Wall against the foes beyond.  Look at him now!

There he lies with no one to pray for him.

Oh!  If I had the powers of the red witch, or Bowen Marsh,

I would stir up your emotions, calling you to mutiny and rage.

But if I incite a riot at the Wall,

I should wrong Steward Marsh and Wick Littledick,

who,  you all know, are honorable men:  I vow I will not do them wrong;

 I’d rather wrong the Dead, to wrong you, and maybe me –

But I will not wrong such honorable men.

(Mormont’s Raven quorks, as if on cue, strutting out from Jon Snow’s funeral shroud.  In his beak he carries a sealed scroll, which he drops to speak).

Mormont’s Raven:  Snow. Jon Snow. Snow.

(The bird steadies beady black eyes on Tormund.  Tormand slams his palm onto his forehead so hard his neck jerks back, his bottom lip drops open, and his eyes widen).

‘Tis Lord Crow’s tricksy bird!  And look what he has!

(Tormund emotes recognition as false as a Kingslayer who is sworn to protect the King).

It is Jon Snow’s will! I near forgot!

Mormont’s Raven:  King. Jon Snow.  King. Jon Snow. 

Tormund:  No – I am not a King, although I am oft  mistaken for such. 

Now, bring me the parchment with the seal o’ Jon Snow,

and I will give you corn. 

(Mormont’s Raven eagerly snatches up the scroll, flies to Tormund’s shoulder, and Tormund reverently takes the will from the bird’s beak.)

Mormont’s Raven:  Corn! Corn! Corn!  (Tormund finds a handful of corn).

Tormund:  Looky here!

(Tormund displays the seal and cracks it to unroll the scroll, his eyes devouring the grammatically correct, comprehensive last wishes of Lord Commander Snow . . . even though we all know Tormund never learned to read.  Tormund moans as if in pain, rolling up the parchment, hanging his head low and shaking it back and forth.)

This tricksy bird, you all know, once sat on Mormont’s shoulder,

Then  Jon Snow’s.  And now to me he flies with what he found

in the Lord Crow’s pocket;

‘Tis his will!

Allow me to share this testament - - Which, pardon me,

I do not intend to read – for if you knew the contents herein written,

 you would kneel before Jon Snow,

 you would kiss dead Jon Snow’s wounds, aye.

Take a drop o’ his blood, and unroot a hank o’ his hair

 – get a piece o’ Snow as a token to help you remember

 the greatest Crow that ever walked the Wall.

And when, and even if you pre-plan your own funeral

and think up words to speak your legacy,

and even if you have a horse, or piece o’ armor, or golden dragons, 

and even if  you get it writ before you pass on –

which could be any day, for even those who pretend to be a friend

 might stab you in the back. 

Or, someone nearby may secretly envy you;

jealous of your fine Valyrian steel, o’ your woman, o’ your name.  

As for me, I suffered  jealousies o’ men who coveted my big . . .er . . . weapon.  (The tricksy, bossy bird cuts off Tormund’s all-too-familiar boast, screeching in his ear from his death grip on Tormund’s shoulder.)

Mormont’s Raven:  Will!  Read will!  Will. Read Tor Mund.

Val:  We’ll hear Snow’s will!  Read it, Tormund Giantsbane!

All:  The will, the will!  We will hear Jon Snow’s will!

(In the distance, a direwolf howls, his ear-splitting cry echoes the keening of the Old Gods who watch carefully the affairs of men through the weirnet that prides itself on a thousand and one eyes.)

Tormund:  Patience, all of you.  (Tormund speaks a bit softer, sighing strategically, giving the impression that the will has sucked out his spirit and left him riddled with guilt and pain)

I strongly advise you, I must not read the will. 

Trust me, please.  If you could see inside my mind,

you might learn the painful truth –

‘Tis a good thing you have no  clue that the Bastard Jon Snow has made US

– you and me -  his heirs.

O, if you ever found out what’s safely guarded in my brain,

I will tremble like a bride on her first wedding night –

so afeared of what may come of it.

O!  You will be enraged!  It will make you go mad!

All:  Read the will; read the will; read the will.

You shall read it to us, Jon Snow’s will.

Tormund:  Enough!  You force me to read the will?

But, oh dear, I have talked too much. 

May the Old Gods forgive me.  And the Others take me.

I fear I wrong those honorable men, the Crows and queen’s men,

whose daggers stabbed Lord Snow.  O – I do fear it.

Melisandre:  They were the traitors:  honorable men!

All:  The will!  The Will!  What’d he leave us!

Borroq:  They are villains, murderers!  Read the will!

We’ll burn the traitors later.  First, the will!

Tormund:  You really want me to read the will?

Then come closer – make a ring around the corpse of Snow,

and let me show him that writ the will.

Move!  Out of my way, Bearded Queen. 

(Tormund lifts Queen in air and moves her aside.  He winks at her slyly and whispers so softly she cannot tell if Tormund Thunderfist speaks or the raven bobbing drunkenly on his thick, bulging shoulder).

Tormund: I never had me a woman with a mustache. 

And you have never had a man like me

with a weapon unlike any other  in size and width.

Queen:  O dear. [Blushes coyly]  My husband’s weapon is Lightbringer.

Tormund:  I never thought of lighten the way.  Never got lost, myself. 

But if you be liking things on fire . . . er . . .

Leathers:  Get back! 

Toregg:  Make room for Tormund Thunderfist, most valiant!

Tormund:  Watch it!  Nay – do not press upon me – stand far off! 

A few voices:  Get Over.  Back.  Don’t touch me!

He said to make a ring.  Get out of the pyre, Stupid.

Tormund:  If any of you have held back your tears,

prepare to let them fall. 

(Tormund gently removes Jon Snow’s funeral shroud, once his cloak, which Tormund shakes out dramatically; this garment is peppered with gaping  holes, stained with dry, and wet blood still dripping from fabric)

You all recognize the Lord Crow’s cloak: 

I recall the first time I saw Snow in these black wings

when he did fly down from the Wall

to live with the Freefolk. 

Looky here – note this blood splatter,

a crusty ring around the collar:

In this place Wick Whittlestick ran his dagger through.

See this big hole?  Devious Alf of Runnymudd made this tear.

Through this [Tormund looks through a large jagged opening, impressed with the reaction of horror his words has had on his attentive audience].

Bowen Marsh, who Jon Snow loved

as if he were his own beloved father, stabb’d.

Har!  And as Jon Snow plucked Marsh’s cursed steel from his stomach,

Mark you how Jon Snow’s blood did follow it.

For Bowen Marsh, as you know,

was Jon Snow’s idol –[ aside - in my absence] –

Judge all o’ you and the gods how dearly

Jon Snow loved him.

Bowen Marsh’s cut was the most deepest and most hurtful o’ them all.

For when the Lord Crow did see this traitor,

whom Jon Snow loved as if he were his own long lost-beyond-the wall

Uncle Benjen, or as his now dead true-born brothers

the Young Wolf, Bran, and Rickon o’ House Stark.

Upon the vision o’ his own dear brother of the Night’s Watch

who stuck him in the gut –well-

Jon Snow dropped  to his knees, his wounds smoking,

and then he toppled over, burying his face in the snow. 

O, what a racket assaulted our ears as Jon Snow fell,

Him masked by snow, his cuts running boiling blood.

With him we too fell, whilst bloody traitors flourish

like weeds to strangle us.

Har!  Now you weep!  Do you feel pity?  

O.  Now I hear you sniffle and cry –

Feel o’bit of pity, you do?

These are precious drops.

Prepare, tender o’ heart, sob when you behold

Our Lord Commander Snow maimed by traitors’ daggers.

Look – Now! 

Here is himself, marr’d, as you all do witness,

By traitors.

(Tormund reveals Jon’s corpse to expose a bloody spectacle. At the same time, Jon Snow’s wounds bleed anew, a thin curtain of mist rises slowly from his body.)

Random Spearwife:  O!  Hideous sight!

Mully:  O honorable Lord Snow!

Iron Emmett:  Butcher’s work!

Queen:  O most bloody sight!  (Queen faints) 

Shireen:  Is he dead?  What happened to his face?

Leathers:  Traitors!  Villains.

PatchFace:  Oh, oh, oh, no!  Poor Jon Snow.

Toregg:  We will be avenged!

All:  Revenge!  Burn!  Kill!  Slay!  Castrate!  Blind!

Let not a traitor live.

Tormund:  Wait a minute! (Blows horn to call to order angry mob bent on destruction and vengeance)

Doloros Edd:  Hear the Thunderfist.

Flea:  We’ll hear him; we’ll follow him. We’ll die with him!

Tormund:  Good friends – loyal friends – I did not speak to get you all fired up

so that you mutiny.

Them Crows who done this deed are honorable.

I am near convinced none o’ them had personal griefs with Jon Snow (eye roll):

they are too wise and loyal,

And will no doubt answer you with this reason:

“For the Watch!  For the Watch!”

I am here not to win your hearts –

For I am no mummer, no twister o’ words and lies – like Bowen Marsh.

But, as most o’ you know me, a simple, blunt man

Who loved my friend; and the Ides o’ Marsh knew this well, and

they still gave me permission to speak o’ Snow.

For I lack the wit, the talent, the tricksy moves,

The speaking power to stir men’s blood. 

I call it as I see it.

I will tell you a secret wish of mine own:

Take a hard look at Jon Snow’s wounds.

They look like poor, dumb mouths,

But if I could conjure a spell, I would give tongues to Jon Snow’s wounds –

And I would ask these bloody mouths to speak on my behalf –

There would be a Voice that would anger your spirits.

With mine own words and Jon Snow’s wounds talking with me –

All together we will move the stones and ice and snow to rise and mutiny!

All:  We’ll mutiny?

Shireen:  What’s a mutiny? 

Satin:  Come away, then.  Come, tie up the conspirators.

Tormund:  Hear me, good folk.  Hear me till I finish.

(Blows horn to recall angry mob ready to rape and pillage and kill.)

Tormund:  Why, friends, you are running about like chickens with your heads cut off.

You know not what you do.

You forgot the will I mentioned.

All:  Most true.  The will.  Let’s stay to hear the will.

Tormund:  Here is Jon Snow’s will, under his personal seal –

It says here -

To Tormund Thunderfist, that’s me,

Jon Snow does leave me his tricksy bird so long as I don’t eat him;

 his Ghost; and his Longclaw.

To every Freefolk , and to some Crows not traitors,

he gives a golden dragon.

Shireen:  A golden dragon?  With wings?

Mormont’s Raven:  Dragon Jon Snow.  Dragon!  Dragon!

Mully:  Most noble Commander Crow! 

Iron Emmett:  We’ll revenge his death!

Wun Wun:  O woe is me.  No more handsome Jon Snow!

Disraught speasrwife:   Oh No, no more handsome Jon Snow

Tormund:  Patience.  I’m not done!

Moreover, he has left the Freefolk

The land he calls the Gift, on this side o’ the Wall.

He has left this boon to you,

And to your heirs forever. Land for all.

You can walk about and recreate yourselves.

Here lies Lord Commander Jon Snow!  When comes such another?

Dolorus Edd:  Never, Never.  He is the only Jon Snow I know. 

Leathers:  Burn his body in holy fires –

Iron Emmett:  Tie the Conspirators to stakes – and with brands of fire lit from Jon Snow’s funeral pyre, cook them!

We’ll burn their bodies justly.

Random Wildling:  Fetch the fire!

Mully:  Pull the bindings tighter.

Mormont’s Raven:  Burn! Burn!  Burn!

Melisandre: If you wish, but at great risk,

 If I feed these honorable men to my flames, 

The Lord of Light may cast them from the warmth of his fire.

I cannot disguise hearts made of black ice from Rh’ller

(Melisandre lights Jon Snow’s funeral pyre, and once the flames taste the King’s blood from the dagger rents, the flames shoot into the sky like rockets, then explode.   Sparks of blazing color burst, sending bands of light that magically formed a bouquet of roses, turning red, then yellow, and blue. The billowing petals  flashed and winked and then fell away, spent ash darkening the layer of powdery snow.)

Tormund:  (an aside) Aye! I planted trouble –

which will like as not cause great damage

to these traitorous crows flapping about their Wall!

Payback!  Take whatever form you will!  Be off!

Har!  I need a drink.  All this tall talking has left me parched.

 

 

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Agree with the OP in general. Totally love the Ceasar parallel, and I think they will share a similar fate. Or a worse one.

Jon will rise and go South to help take Winterfell from the Boltons. He'll kill Ramsay.

Do agree that he'll be dead for a little while, Cat was dead for days and in the river. He won't decay that fast.

Can't wait to find out if we are right. Or, I guess we will have to.

 

 

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On Thursday, 7 January 2016 at 9:09 AM, Good Guy Garlan said:

But since the PL states Stannis is dead, then Shireen automatically becomes Queen, and Selyse Regent. So I think Selyse and/or Mel will start shouting orders, and they'll probably try to get their hands on anyone with "king's blood" to resurrect either Stannis or Jon, which includes: Gerrick Kingsblood, his daughters, Val, and the monster. And who knows what the Others will do if someone tries to burn that kid.

Oh shit

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how does everyone feel about this plot now that the show has put jon into the king in the north seat? i kind of felt like the glover that was at the wall was scoping jon out to see if he was a good man/leader before they told him he was legitmized. in the books i kind of think mel may burn jons body with shirene to bring stannis back thinking that the pink letter was ture, but jon comes back instead. could be the kiss or some dum body washing thing like the show but would rather the burn the body. but will he take down the boltens like in the show or will stannis do it. i think it would be kool if jon and the wildlings play the role of the vale from the show and arrive late to turn the battle of ice in stannis favour

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On 10.10.2016 at 11:00 PM, king 0f the north said:

how does everyone feel about this plot now that the show has put jon into the king in the north seat? i kind of felt like the glover that was at the wall was scoping jon out to see if he was a good man/leader before they told him he was legitmized. in the books i kind of think mel may burn jons body with shirene to bring stannis back thinking that the pink letter was ture, but jon comes back instead. could be the kiss or some dum body washing thing like the show but would rather the burn the body. but will he take down the boltens like in the show or will stannis do it. i think it would be kool if jon and the wildlings play the role of the vale from the show and arrive late to turn the battle of ice in stannis favour

Hey, 

you're relatively new here so you probably don't know, but stuff that happens in the show should only be discussed in the show part of the forum. This part of the forum only focuses on the books, so nothing that happens in the show should be mentioned here. Some people here don't watch the show and they want to remain unspoiled. BTW there wasn't Glover at the Wall. The Northern Lords at the wall were members of the mountain clans. 

To the OP: I have to refresh my memory about Caesar's assassination, so I can't judge whether or not Jon's assassionation was similar to his, but I agree with many points you've addressed. 

I agree Bowen and co. did not think this through and I think the situation at Castle Black might even more complex than you described. Bowen and his cronies probably believed that Jon was breaking his oath and that they were justified in killing him. However, if I'm not mistaken many NW members weren't in the Shieldhall when Jon gave his speech. I don't have ADWD with me right now, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know the majority of Jon's audience were wildlings. The higher officers of the NW and their cronies were also there, but I think many NW members didn't hear the speech. So, all they see is Bowen and co. attacking Jon for unknown reasons and they might belief that Bowen does it just because he disagreed with Jon's wildling policy or because he wanted to become LC himself and these members of the NW might not be too happy with Bowen killing Jon. 

I don't think that Bowen Marsh has that many supporters as he would like to have. He constantly says that "the men are unhappy", but we don't know how many of the NW members actually were against Jon. Some NW members might have agreed with Jon's wildling policy and others might not have agreed with it initially, but they might have seen reason after they saw that the wildlings didn't go raiding and that they aided in rebuilding the castles along the wall. Most of the rangers might have agreed with Jon's plans, the new recruits also seemed to like Jon and there are probably also some other members of the NW who were on Jon's side. 

Furthermore, there are probably some members of the NW who disagreed with Jon's plans, but who wouldn't go as far as killing him. It's one thing to disagree with your commander, but quite another thing to kill him. I found it quite interesting that Marsh and Yarwick were shown as to seperate parties in Jon's last ADWD chapter. In the other chapters of the book, they were always shown together, but during the shieldhall speech they remained seperated and each of them was surrounded by his own men. Yarwick was not mentioned as one of Jon's attackers. 

I agree that the wildlings will fight for Jon. He was the only Lord south of the wall who willing to help them and they were in a mood for fighting after Jon read Ramsay's letter to them. Wun Wun is also in a dangerous mood and I guess he liked Jon. It's not very smart to provoke a giant. It's a bit ironic that Bowen who always feared that the wildlings will attack the NW and just gave them reason to do so. 

I think the aftermath of Jon's assassination will result in complete chaos: 

Jon's supporters and the wildlings will fight against Bowen and the people loyal to him. Then we have some NW members who are sort of neutral, but may easily get caught up in the fighting. We have Selyse and the King's men. Selyse didn't like Jon, but Mel apparently has a different position and the two could end up opposing each other. It has never been mentioned that the members of the mountain clans left castle black and I doubt that they will be happy about a son of Eddard Stark getting killed (especially not if they are part of the GNC and know about the content of Robb's will). 

There will be slaughter and many NW members will be killed. With a LC who's bleeding out, a First Stewart who just attacke the LC, and the position of the First Ranger vacant, the next highest members at castle black are the First Builder (who doesn't have leadership qualities) and the Master of Arms. The latter position is currently held by a wildling, Leathers. 

I think Mel will ressurrect Jon, but it might take some time. She needs to get close to his body first and it would be better to wait with the ressurrection until the fighting at castle black is over. So Jon will probably spend some time in Ghost. I think he will leave the NW. People who were ressurrected seem to be focussed on their last plans before dying and Jon's plans were to go south and kill Ramsay. Therfore, I believe that he will take the Wildlings south in order to retake Winterfell from the Boltons. 

I also believe that the Jon in TWOW will differ from the Jon that we saw in the first 5 books. Some people believe that GRRM only used the assassination in order to free Jon of his vows, but I believe that he also used it in order to change Jon's character and that the Jon in Book 6 will be more of a grey character.

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Do people honestly believe that Jon won't have a POV in Winds, I'd guess he'll be back fairly quickly (in the first half the book) now to be honest.  I feel he was ultimately stabbed to free him of his Nights watch vows and to ultimately lead him to a position of power to lead people through the long night. 

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1 hour ago, JonSnowed said:

Do people honestly believe that Jon won't have a POV in Winds, I'd guess he'll be back fairly quickly (in the first half the book) now to be honest.  I feel he was ultimately stabbed to free him of his Nights watch vows and to ultimately lead him to a position of power to lead people through the long night. 

I reckon it's got to be bigger than that. If his death was just about freeing him from his vows, then why didn't GRRM have him die of AIDS, or a polar bear, or kill him off in a wildling attack - why bother with his whole ADWD plot? It's probably important that he chooses to abandon his vows before he's killed.

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19 hours ago, JonSnowed said:

Do people honestly believe that Jon won't have a POV in Winds, I'd guess he'll be back fairly quickly (in the first half the book) now to be honest.  I feel he was ultimately stabbed to free him of his Nights watch vows and to ultimately lead him to a position of power to lead people through the long night. 

I hope we won't loose the Jon POV, because he's one of my favourite characters.

Sam's 1. chapter in AFFC also showed us that he is a character who can be difficult to understand when we don't have his thoughts. The only POV who's currently close to him is Melisandre and she doesn't really understand him. 

Besides GRRM said that Jon will learn who is Mother is and we should really get his thoughts on this. 

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Well, the only other PoV we have at the Wall is Mel, and while I like Jon, a bit more clarification on Mel would be lovely, also, if she resurrects Jon it would seem a bit deux ex unless we were riding along with her.

I don't think we are getting new PoVs, but I would love Val's, she's a priestess I think, like that woman we saw slit the guys throat in Bran's vision. She definitely can just ride through the wild north and bring back horde or wildlings Jon's Rangers couldn't even find or approach safely.

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