asoiaf & got characters // pt. XVII - Jon Snow
“He was who he was; Jon Snow, bastard and oathbreaker, motherless, friendless, and damned. For the rest of his life –however long that might be– he would be condemned to be an outsider, the silent man standing in the shadows who dares not speak his true name. […] He was no true Stark, had never been one… but he could die like one. Let them say that Eddard Stark had fathered four sons, not three. […] It was this young man Jon Snow who took the Wall and held it, against all the fury of the north. Jon Snow was Lord Mormont’s own steward and squire. He was chosen for that duty because the Lord Commander saw much promise in him.”