WARNING: Spoilers ahead for season six of "Game of Thrones."
Season six of "Game of Thrones" was a wild ride for Jon Snow. When the season picked up, Jon was still dead after being stabbed by his brothers of the Night’s Watch at the end of season five.
But during Sunday’s finale, Jon Snow was not only alive and well at Winterfell, but also declared King in the North by the other Northern houses.
And while "Game of Thrones" fans were pumped to see the Stark sigil back at Winterfell, they will probably see a new change in the coming season — a brand new banner in honor of Jon Snow.
In Westeros, bastards who take up their house banners must reverse the colors of their true born family’s sigil. This custom is meant to "break" the sigil as well as signal the man's bastard status, acknowledging that they’re in an uneasy legal state between full nobleman and simple commoner.
Some bastard houses become quite famous, like House Blackfyre, the cadet branch of House Targaryen. While House Targaryen’s colors are a red three-headed dragon against a black background, the House Blackfyre sigil in a black three-headed dragon against a red background.
Meanwhile, House Stark's sigil is a gray direwolf on a white background, which means Jon Snow's new banners will show a white wolf on a gray background. This was even hinted at when Lord Wyman Manderly declared Jon Snow the "White Wolf."
That king crowning scene was emotional for fans for a few reasons: Not only because of Jon’s reversal in fortune and finally receiving the acceptance as a true son of Ned Stark that he had always craved, but it also echoed his brother Robb’s crowning as King in the North back in season one.
When Robb Stark was crowned King in the North, his men called him the Young Wolf. Now in season six, when Manderly declared Jon Snow the King in the North, he referred to Jon as the "White Wolf." This nickname alludes to Jon’s new sigil at the King in the North — a reversal of House Stark’s banner.
The fact that he already owns a snowy white direwolf is really just a foreshadowed cherry on top.
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