The next time we see each other, we'll talk about your mother

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The Wheel of Time: Learning the truth of who he was/is

It is within a chamber at the Eye of the World that Rand al’Thor first becomes aware of who he is; the Dragon Reborn.  He then encounters Kari al’Thor; the woman who he had thought to be his birth mother until he learned the truth that he was found in the snow as a baby.  Rand learned the truth of who he was after Tam al’Thor, the man that raised him, had been injured.  While in a fever dream Tam recounted the story of finding Rand as a baby. 

Rand tends to an injured Tam

Tam finds Rand as a baby in the snow during war

“Mother?” he breathed, and she smiled, a hopeless smile. His mother's smile. “No! My mother is dead, and the other two are safe away from here. I deny you!” Egwene and Nynaeve blurred, became wafting mist, dissipated. Kari al'Thor still stood there, her eyes big with fear.

Egwene

“She, at least,” Ba'alzamon said, “is mine to do with as I will.”

Rand shook his head. “I deny you.” He had to force the words out. “She is dead, and safe from you in the Light.”

His mother's lips trembled. Tears trickled down her cheeks; each one burned him like acid. “The Lord of the Grave is stronger than he once was, my son,” she said. “His reach is longer. The Father of Lies has a honeyed tongue for unwary souls. My son. My only, darling son. I would spare you if I could, but he is my master, now, his whim, the law of my existence. I can but obey him, and grovel for his favor. Only you can free me. Please, my son. Please help me. Help me. Help me! PLEASE!”

“The wail ripped out of her as barefaced Fades, pale and eyeless, closed round. Her clothes ripped away in their bloodless hands, hands that wielded pincers and clamps and things that stung and burned and whipped against her naked flesh. Her scream would not end.

Fades

Fades leading Trollocs

Rand's scream echoed hers. The void boiled in his mind. His sword was in his hand. Not the heronmark blade, but a blade of light, a blade of the Light. Even as he raised it, a fiery white bolt shot from the point, as if the blade itself had reached out. It touched the nearest Fade, and blinding candescence filled the chamber, shining through the Halfmen like a candle through paper, burning through them, blinding his eyes to the scene.

From the midst of the brilliance, he heard a whisper. “Thank you, my son. The Light. The blessed Light.”

The Game of Thrones: Learning the truth of who he was/is

As a book reader we learn the truth of Jon’s true identity after Ned Stark had been injured and was given milk of the poppy.  While in a fever dream he recalls the events surround Jon’s birth.  I think honorable Ned will keep to his word even in death.  Anyone who has read my theories knows that I believe once the Horn of Winter is blown the Kings of Winter will rise from the crypts to be led by the Stark in Winterfell; thus the reason why "There must always be a Stark in Winterfell".  Ned however will get a head start and reaffirm what Bran and Sam will tell him about his parentage.  Like Rand's mother Kari who truly wasn't his real mother who he saw in a chamber after finding out he was the Dragon Reborn; Jon will see Ned, who isn't truly his father.  He will tell him of Lyanna and while in the crypts will also discover the sword Dawn that was left for Jon to claim that will become Lightbringer in his hands much like Rand's blade of light; finding out he is also Azor Ahai.

Ned finding his sister Lyanna and baby Jon in the heat of Dorne
They were found in opposing climates.  I truly believe that the reason that Jon's bastard name is Snow is because that is where Rand was found.  Both Rand and Jon were born during war; both of their mothers also died during or shortly after giving birth.

You can take Ned's promises to the bank

The Horn of Winter

Sam and Bran

Bran goes back to reveal that Rhaegar, Jon's father, was married to his mother Lyanna making him not a bastard at all

Ser Arthur Dayne with his sword Dawn
He would have been Azor Ahai had the White Walkers came along during his lifetime.  See my theory on the why of how Jon will become Azor Ahai.

The Wheel of Time: Rand kills Fades

“The flash faded, and he was alone in the chamber with Ba'alzamon. Ba'alzamon's eyes burned like the Pit of Doom, but he shied back from the sword as if it truly were the Light itself. “Fool! You will destroy yourself! You cannot wield it so, not yet! Not until I teach you!”

“It is ended,” Rand said, and he swung the sword at Ba'alzamon's black cord.

Ba'alzamon screamed as the sword fell, screamed till the stone walls trembled, and the endless howl redoubled as the blade of Light severed the cord. The cut ends rebounded apart as if they had been under tension. The end stretching into the nothingness outside began to shrivel as it sprang away; the other whipped back into Ba'alzamon, hurling him against the fireplace. There was silent laughter in the soundless shrieks of the tortured faces. The walls shivered and cracked; the floor heaved, and chunks of stone crashed to the floor from the ceiling.

As all broke apart around him, Rand pointed the sword at Ba'alzamon's heart. “It is ended!”

Light lanced from the blade, coruscating in a shower of fiery sparks like droplets of molten, white metal. Wailing, Ba'alzamon threw up his arms in a vain effort to shield himself. Flames shrieked in his eyes, joining with other flames as the stone ignited, the stone of the cracking walls, the stone of the pitching floor, the stone showering from the ceiling. Rand felt the bright thread attached to him thinning, till only the glow itself remained, but he strained harder, not knowing what he did, or how, only that this had to be ended. It has to be ended!

Fire filled the chamber, a solid flame. He could see Ba'alzamon withering like a leaf, hear him howling, feel the shrieks grating on his bones. The flame became pure, white light, brighter than the sun. Then the last flicker of the thread was gone, and he was falling through endless black and Ba'alzamon's fading howl.

Something struck him with tremendous force, turning him to jelly, and the jelly shook and screamed from the fire raging inside, the hungry cold burning without end.”

The Game of Thrones: Will Jon kill White Walkers?

Will the Night King make it to Winterfell with some of his lieutenants and Jon will take out a large number of White Walkers in a similar fashion as Rand?  Where Rand thought he had killed the Dark One and ended everything he hadn't and it turned out to be just the beginning.  With this being the end Jon Snow may be the one to kill the Night's King or at least a big group of his lieutenants.  This will show and prove to the viewing/reading audience that Jon Snow is indeed Azor Ahai.  But with a promised bittersweet ending Jon will not go on to become king and sit the Iron Throne.  Will the crypts of Winterfell start falling down around him like the chamber did to Rand at the Eye of the World?  Could this be the Night King attacking Winterfell from dragon back after he feels his lieutenants dying in the crypts?

Night King on dragon back
Is he on his way to Winterfell?

Winterfell untouched from dragon fire

White Walkers leading Wights
Similar to Fades leading Trollocs

Representation of the Dark One
In The Game of Thrones this translates to the
  Fist of the First Men

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.