The back story of the fall of the Targaryen is rather grim. Ned and Robert grew up together as wards under John Arryn of the Eyrie. Lyanna was betrothed to Robert but 'went missing' with the crown prince Rhaegar. Robert was the most hit hard by the news of the 'kidnapping'.

Ned's brother, Brandon, along with his companions went to the king's court demanding the return of their sister and threatened to take matters into his own hands. The mad king arrested them for conspiring to murder his son and summoned their fathers to answer the charges. They were all sentenced to death but Ned's father requested a trial by combat. The king declared fire as his champion and proceeded to burn Ned's father alive in his armor while Brandon was forced to watch and died strangled with a cord around his neck.

The mad king murderous streak continued as he demanded the head of Ned and Robert, Arryn refused and thus began the rebellion against the reign of the mad king.

Robert killed Rhaegar in battle. The mad king was slain by Jaime. Two of the royal kids were savagedly killed by The Mountain. The Queen was brought to Dragonstone along with Visery where she died giving birth to Daenarry. The last 2 survivor of the pure bloodline Targaryen were smuggled across the sea.

The throne fell to Robert as Robert's lineage can be traced back to the Targaryen (his grandmother was a Targaryen).

Ned and few others went to a tower that kept Lyanna who was guarded by a bunch of Kings Guard. She was already dying when they found her. When he return home ..

I tot in Book1, one of Ned's chapter already reveal who's Jon's actual mother?

Wow, nice revelation there. never read the book, so this info really good to me.

just re-read that chapter, Cat's Chapter actually
yeah.. there's no saying of who's Jon actual mother is... Ashara Dayne just a speculation by the soldiers.

but since Ned is

That's right, Ashara was just a rumor amongst the soldiers and maids. The truth about Jon may still be known, Howland Reed was a very close friend of Ned and may know the truth. He was also there with Ned at the tower and is also the only sole survivor that knows what took place in that tower.

can some1 provide some spoilers?

Major spoiler ALERT!!

Thanks a lot, that clears my head a lot.


You have a very interesting theory about Jon's mother.
That makes sense as Jon looks like Ned too.
And Ned could never tell anyone that who is his mother.

From what I remember,



Seems like the fans of the series can't wait to see what happens next and demanding some spoilers.

Awesome ep7. waited 1 whole week to watchthe "real" version lol. Did they really get a real deer to be skinned by Tywern? . Love Khal Drogo's speech. Such power & awe inspiring.

IMO, one of the best opening music of all series, except BSG, still the best IMO

can't wait for the official OST

This post has been edited by greyshadow: May 31 2011, 01:40 PM

Hmm? I thought it's pretty obviously implied from the books

Heh. Maybe i misinterpreted it.

Oh no, Jeoffrey Bieber's already sat in the iron throne!

he'll warm the iron throne for at least another season

If only Season 2 covers the whole book of Book 2.
A lot of things happened in Book 2.

damn episode 7 is freaking awesome!!!!!

2 more episodes till end of S01
another long year wait for S02

just hope they gonna make at least 20 episodes for S02
but knowing HBO's style... we'll only get half of it

This post has been edited by jason991: Jun 7 2011, 05:40 PM