JON Snow proved to be the true hero of Westeros after sacrificing his lover Daenerys Targaryen for the sake of the Seven Kingdoms.
The beloved leader, played by Kit Harington, endured more than most during his tenure on the HBO fantasy drama.
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Between being exiled to The Wall, battling the dreaded White Walkers and being brought back from the dead by Melisandre (Carice van Houten), Jon was well and truly put through the ringer.
However, upon watching back the moments before Jon’s deaths, some fans think there were more forces at work than initially met the eye.
Jon was murdered by Alliser Thorne (Owen Teale) and other members of the Night’s Watch in a sickening out of betrayal.
As he bled out into the snow, the camera zoomed in on his face, before dramatically cutting to the credits.
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One eagle-eyed viewers took to Reddit with a theory that a flicker in Jon’s eye before his final breath signalled some magical abilities.
User Lann_the_Clever1 asked: “Am I the only one who noticed a change in Jon’s eyes when he was lying in the snow at the end?
“I think his dark eyes with large pupils changed to brownish, then small pupils and then changed back again after a few seconds.
“Could he be warging into Ghost?”
Warging is essentially the mental possession of another living being, a skill demonstrated by Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright) in relation to both animal and human targets.
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Fans will know that Jon’s close bond with his direwolf Ghost goes all the way back to season 1.
Could he really have warged into Ghost to keep his spirit alive as death approached?
Perhaps this is what made Melisandre’s subsequent resurrection possible.
While the theory reeived plenty of upvotes and messages, there were some opponents, who claimed that Jon’s eyes would have rolled all the way back if he’d pulled off the worging, much like Bran.
“I’m not so sure about that. We’ve seen time and again multiple characters warg into, and be warged into on the show. The eyes roll back and turn white,” one critic pointed out.
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“I did notice that when he is bleeding out that his pupils dilate. I only noticed this on a rewatch of the episode, which I had not noticed before.
“I think this is the nail in the coffin (pun very much intended) that Jn is dead. Once his heart has stopped he no longer controls the muscles in his eyes thereby causing them to dilate and enlarge.”
When Jon did return from the dead, he wasted little time wreaking revenge on Alliser, sentencing him to death as a mutineer.
The furore comes after author George RR Martin, who wrote the Song of Ice & Fire novels upon which Game of Thrones is based, revealed the horrifying real events that inspired the Red Wedding.
