Who will resurrect Jon Snow in the TV show

 Potential Spoilers Below

After watching Season 6 episode 1 of The Game of Thrones it has shifted my perspective on who will actually resurrect Jon Snow; at least in the television show.  I have always thought, from reading the books, Melisandre was older than what she appears to be and the show just corroborated that fact.  Again I think if she had the ability to do it she would have done it already.  Why do I think this?

Jon Snow dead but not out!

Melisandre

Melisandre as she really is

First in the Wheel of Time there are characters called Aes Sedai who use what is called the One Power.  An Aes Sedai’s strength in the power is directly proportional to their life span.  This strength was a matter of the sheet raw amount of the One Power that could be drawn.  The longest recorded life spans being 900 years.  Using the power they can use a weave called the Mask of Mirrors, Mirror of Mists or simply Illusion.  Using this weave the individual can alter one’s voice, change one’s appearance to something entirely different to how they actually appear (i.e. taller, shorter, thinner, fatter etc).  A present day female Aes Sedai who had taken the Three Oaths was easy to point out as she took on an ageless appearance.  Basically you couldn’t tell her age from looking at her.  A woman of say 150 may appear to be in her 30’s for all intents and purposes.  The Mask of Mirrors has also been used to affect what a person is saying into making the listener hear something else entirely.  So my question to you does not this sound like the glamor that Melisandre has used on herself?

Aes Sedai

Mask of Mirror
Making an Aes Sedai into a giant

Melisandre's glamor; her necklace

OK so who do I believe will resurrect Jon Snow in the television show?  First I am going to show you a chart on how Aes Sedai are grouped. 

Each Ajah performed a specific task kind of like a specialty.  Melisandre IMO would have most likely chosen the Green Ajah. To me her primary purpose is to ensure that the fight against the Great Other whose name may not be spoken, the Lord of Darkness, the Soul of Ice, the God of Night and Terror is defeated in the Great Battle to come.

Why Aes Sedai generally don’t get married:

The Tower Library was the largest in the known world, containing copies of almost every book that had ever been printed, but this was unsuitable for a novice. Accepted were granted a little leeway—by that time, you knew that you would watch a husband age and die, and your children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, while you changed not at all—but novices were quietly discouraged from thinking about men or love, and kept away from men entirely.

All sisters could heal but not as effectively as the members of the Yellow Ajah.  I believe that someone who fits this Ajah within the world of ASOIAF who is in the vicinity of the Wall is Old Nan.  I believe she has stayed on at Winterfell because she needed to look after Bran in particular but she took care of all the children and she may place a glamor on herself, making herself more agile, and go and resurrect Jon Snow most likely at Melisandre’s behest. 

The Wall

Old Nan looking after Bran

Winterfell

Below are excerpts taken from ASOIAF that has always led me to believe that Old Nan is older than what she actually appears:

“I hate your stupid stories.”

The old woman smiled at him toothlessly. “My stories? No, my little lord, not mine. The stories are, before me and after me, before you too.”

She was a very ugly old woman, Bran thought spitefully; shrunken and wrinkled, almost blind, too weak to climb stairs, with only a few wisps of white hair left to cover a mottled pink scalp. No one really knew how old she was, but his father said she’d been called Old Nan even when he was a boy. She was the oldest person in Winterfell for certain, maybe the oldest person in the Seven Kingdoms. Nan had come to the castle as a wet nurse for a Brandon Stark whose mother had died birthing him. He had been an older brother of Lord Rickard, Bran’s grandfather, or perhaps a younger brother, or a brother to Lord Rickard’s father. Sometimes Old Nan told it one way and sometimes another. In all the stories the little boy died at three of a summer chill, but Old Nan stayed on at Winterfell with her own children. She had lost both her sons to the war when King Robert won the throne, and her grandson was killed on the walls of Pyke during Balon Greyjoy’s rebellion. Her daughters had long ago married and moved away and died. All that was left of her own blood was Hodor, the simpleminded giant who worked in the stables, but Old Nan just lived on and on, doing her needlework and telling her stories.

Old Nan

“I don’t care whose stories they are,” Bran told her, “I hate them.” He didn’t want stories and he didn’t want Old Nan. He wanted his mother and father. He wanted to go running with Summer loping beside him. He wanted to climb the broken tower and feed corn to the crows. He wanted to ride his pony again with his brothers. He wanted it to be the way it had”

The one thing I never understood was Old Nan telling Bran that her stories were “before you too”.  Why did she say that?  For all intents and purposes she is older than Bran so why would she need to say that?  I believe that she knows who Bran actually is (Bran is all the famous Bran's throughout Westerosi History).  Her description is that of an Aes Sedai when it comes to her long life.  Hodor is her great grandson.

Hodor

Did she really smell the red comet. Everyone had their guesses as to what the comet meant but it seemed she got it right. Most likely because she lived when dragons flew the skies.  I believe that she is much older than Melisandre is.

The Red Comet as seen over The Red Waste, The North & Dragonstone

Though Old Nan did not think so, and she’d lived longer than any of them. “Dragons,” she said, lifting her head and sniffing. She was near blind and could not see the comet, yet she claimed she could smell it. “It be dragons, boy,” she insisted. Bran got no princes from Nan, no more than he ever had.

Mother of Dragons

I believe that most, if not all, of the woods witches are women like Melisandre who have lived extremely long lives.

Below are the Ajah's and who I would place in them.

Brown Ajah: Samwell Tarly; Maester Aemon

Sam

Maester Aemon

Green Ajah: Melisandre; Night's Watch; Barristan Selmy

Night's Watch - practice in the yard

Barristan Selmy

Blue Ajah: Stannis; Brienne; Azor Ahai

Stannis

Brienne

Yellow Ajah: Old Nan; Thoros of Myr; Talisa Maegyr; most Maesters

Thoros of Myr

Talisa Maegyr (Rob's wife)

Red Ajah: Cersei

Cersei

White Ajah: Maester Marwyn

Grey Ajah: Varys; Lady Olenna Tyrell

Varys & Lady Olenna Tyrell

Black Ajah: Littlefinger

Littlefinger

Whom would you place in the various Ajah's and why?

Comments encouraged.  Love to hear the idea’s of others.  Most believe that since I present my idea’s as “fact like” I’m not open to change my viewpoints which is far from the truth.  I simply look at the information presented and go from there.  If you can shine a light on another way of thinking that opens the door to debate.