poorquentyn:

Hey fam, couple more interesting things to note from the infodump that brought us the news about Euron and Dragonbinder the other day, though neither really qualify as “news.” I don’t have the WOIAF app so I didn’t know this (many of y’all probably did!) but apparently it confirms that, yes, Robb legitimized Jon and named him his heir in his will. I addressed the theory that he changed his mind to Arya a li’l while back, and I know Preston Jacobs has the idea that it was actually Catelyn *rolls eyes so hard they spin off into the atmosphere* but yeah, this is canon. I’m still not quite sold on Jon as the next King in the North because Stannis is still right there, Ramsay doesn’t have Rickon in his power like in the show, and not only do the clans know Bran is alive, but they won’t be alone after he speaks to Stannis and Theon from the weirwood at the crofters’ village. But we shall see!

The other bit (and again, this is probably old news for those of y’all more studious than I am) is this quote from GRRM’s Notablog from 2007…

Ah, if only the Tyrion in the books could fly, what mischief he will… ah… could… ah, never mind.

…which leaves me more convinced than ever that Tyrion is indeed the third dragonrider for endgame alongside Dany and Jon.

TBH, I’m less interested in whether Jon ever becomes King in the North (looking at you, Season 6) than the way in which Robb’s will complicates the political storyline in the North by setting up a conflict between Wyman’s pro-Rickon faction (which may or may not be backed by Stannis, or at least by Davos representing Stannis, depending on when Stannis gets (heh) snowed-in to Winterfell), Sansa backed by the Vale, and then Jon Snow and (the Mormonts, Glovers, and whoever else witnessed Robb’s will). 

Because unlike in Season 6, there are legitimate positives and negatives to all three candidates:

• Rickon: Ned Stark’s legitimate son, has direwolf to prove identity, supported by the Manderlys and possibly by Stannis.  On the other hand, a child ruler, likely to make the Manderlys overly-mighty and possibly seen as a pawn of Stannis as well. 
• Sansa: Ned Stark’s legitimate daughter, backed by the Vale. On the other hand, backed by a foreign power at a time when Northern nationalism is running high, a woman in a country which has never had a ruling queen in eight thousand years, has marital connections to the Lannisters, and identity will be somewhat in question.
• Jon Snow: oldest living son of Ned Stark, Robb Stark’s chosen heir, grown adult male with battefield experience, has direwolf to prove identity, possibly the messiah (or just a naughty boy?). On the other hand, possibly seen as deserter from the Night’s Watch, anti-wildling backlash, and anti-bastard backlash. 

Hence plenty of room for machinations by the Northern lords and tensions between the re-uniting siblings that can be resolved for dramatic payoff.