While đọc A Song of Ice and Fire, I kept coming back to the câu hỏi of who is Jon Snow's mother. If bạn haven't read the first four sách (the only ones published at the time I am nghề viết văn this), then bạn probably want to stop đọc because I'll mention stuff that bạn probably don't want to know until George R. R. Martin reveals them to bạn - it's so much better that way.

So, I tinkered with a variety of ideas and then a crazy one came to me - what if Eddard isn't Jon's father? A lot of stuff starts making sense then: The urgency of which Eddard has to tell Jon... something. Why Eddard...