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Originally Posted by Buehler445

I'm for it if you throw it in a spoiler. I'd like to read it, but I'd probably drop it in a spoiler to be sure.

Spoiler!

Sorry on my above post, I forgot we were in the spoiler-free thread. There is a large speculation on something hinted in the books...and in the show as far as I am concerned, that Ned is Jon's uncle, not father.

There are a lot of vague hints in the show, and it is pretty much the same in the book...but more detailed. Theory is that Ned's sister loved Rhaegar Targaryen and ran away with him and married, and Jon is their son. She died birthing Jon, and Ned was there and promised to take him as his own to protect her baby from King Robert. Rhaegar was already dead in the war at that time, and with her death, Robert would kill the baby because he would not accept that she didn't love him.

Some hints are how Rhaegar was described a good guy, not a kidnapping rapist. Ned mentioned making a promise I think...need to find details. All the vagueness about how Layana died, and how it didn't fit well that honorable Ned would cheat on Cat. And he was always quiet about who the mother would be.