HBO shared a picture yesterday that had the world freaking out. The American television network retweeted a picture from Game of Thrones that shows Jon Snow and Jon Snow only. Of course people are freaking out over it because Jon Snow is alive (or so we’d like to believe) , but somehow we’ve kept our emotions aside and put a thought into that poster. It can easily be a public stunt. Just to mess with the fans and let them know what is coming to them in the month of April next year.
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The picture shows Jon Snow’s face with a splash of blood and his eyes can’t be seen properly. From the looks of it, it looks something dark and mysterious. But that’s not it; this has left us confused because we don’t know what’s exactly going to happen and to figure that out we took a little help from the fan theories. These fan theories have a fifty-fifty chance of them being correct or incorrect. Well, that’s something we will have to live with for now.
From what we found on the Internet, this is our favourite so far:
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Jon Snow can possibly be Azor Ahai. For those who are hearing this name from the first time, Azor Ahai was the one who ended the reign of White Walkers and brought end to ‘The Long Night’ a thousand years ago. According to the Legends, he is the one who forged the Lightbringer, the sword responsible to put White Walkers to death for good and would set its enemies into flames. Remember the tale Lady Melisandre always told Stannis about believing he will be the Azor Ahai? Well, we all know now that she was wrong after Stannis lost his life in his last battle (but he still lives in the books.)
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As the prophecy goes according to Lady Melisandre, “When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.” And keeping the last season in mind, the times are getting tougher because the White Walkers have almost arrived.
Like it’s written in the books, while Jon’s brothers in the Night’s watch draw their daggers to stab him one by one, he lays in the snow with a pool of his blood which many fans consider as ‘salt and smoke’. If that’s how it is, Jon will be reborn. As cool and crazy as it sounds, we can’t confirm any of it.
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For that we’ll have to wait till the Season six is out. Good luck waiting!
PS – Screw winter, the new punch line should now be *Jon Snow is coming!*