Jon Snow (Knight Of The Laughing Tree)

Master Of Whispers (To Robb Stark)

The Knight Of The Laughing Tree

The Unbroken

Bane Of The Ironborn (With Ramsay Bolton)

House Tully (By oath, When Squired to Brynden Tully)

Elia Martell (Step-Mother/Legal Mother, Deceased)

Rhaenys Targaryen (Half-Sister, Deceased)

Aegon Targaryen (Half-Brother, Deceased)

Eddard Stark (Uncle/Adopted Father, Deceased)

Robb Stark (Cousin/Adopted Brother)

Sansa Stark (Cousin/Adopted Sister)

Bran Stark (Cousing/Adopted Brother)

Arya Stark (Cousin/Adopted Sister)

Rickon Stark (Cousin/Adopted Brother)

Daenerys Targaryen (Aunt/Lover)

**Ser Jon Snow**, born **Aemon Targaryen**, is the son of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen, the late Prince of Dragonstone. From infancy, Jon is presented as the bastard son of Lord Eddard Stark, Lyanna's brother, and raised alongside Eddard's lawful children at Winterfell. Jon's true parentage is kept secret from everyone, including Jon himself, in order to protect him from those that sought the complete annihilation of House Targaryen.

This story plays with the idea of Jon being sent south to squire to Brynden Tully at Catelyn's urging, with him spending his teenage years between Riverrun and The Eyrie, occasionally spending time under Jon Arryn's tutelage as well. In this story Jon discovers his true heritage from Lord Arryn, who is depicted as having been aware of his parentage from the beginning, leading to Jon, after being knighted, to take his mother's moniker of "The Knight of The Laughing Tree" in her honor, becoming a famed tourney knight travelling Westeros while secretly using the events to gather allies, with the intention of overthrowing Joffrey when he takes the throne. Before this can happen, however, Euron Greyjoy begins a campaign that becomes know as "The Crow's Eye" raids, with Jon finding himself becoming centrally involved in the conflict, along with the friends he's made along the way, Gendry Waters and a sane Ramsay Snow.

## Abilities

**High-Level Intellect/Master Tactician/Master Investigator:** Highly intelligent from a young age, Jon grew up to be a very thoughtful, focused, and observant man, honing these qualities to his advantage as he got older, becoming very capable investigator, quickly noticing the similiaraties between Cersei's children and Ser Jaime as well as the increasingly odd behavior of Lysa Tully before her husband's death. Through his squiring to both Brynden Tully and occasionally Jon Arryn, Jon became a very capable strategist, efficiently outsmarting Euron Greyjoy numerous times during the Crow's Eye Raids on the Crownlands and the Stormlands as well as match Tywin, Kevan And Jaime Lannister's wits on the battlefield numerous times during the War of the Five Kings, later forcing Tywin out of Harrenhal, his main command base.

* **Expert Negotiator:** During his time squired to Brynden Tully at Riverrun, Jon was schooled in diplomacy by Lord Hoster, often shadowing him during his dealings with many of the Riverland houses. Jon later gained greater teaching from Jon Arryn, to whom he'd been loaned out to while Brynden was preoccupied. Jon apparently became a skilled diplomat, as he was able to talk Balon Greyjoy out of retaliation against the crown in his brother Euron's honor, as well as soundly negotiate the alliance between the Stark forces and House Frey, effectively deflecting Lord Walder's attempts to arrange marriages of his issue to Robb and Arya, seemingly without seriously offending Walder.
* **Expert Tracker:** Through his extensive hunting experience, Jon is a skilled tracker, which he later applied when hunting down Euron Greyjoy during the Crow's Eye Raids.
* **Master Spy:** During his time in the Red Keep, Jon shadowed Varys, observing a great deal of his tactics and methods of network, which Jon later applied himself as spymaster for Robb.
* **Multilingual:** Through his travel in Westeros and Essos, Jon is well learned in a number of languages, showing fluency in Dothraki, some dialects of Ghiscari and High Valyrian, as well as some degree of understanding of some of the varieties of Low Valyrian and The Old Tongue of the First Men.

**Master hand-to-hand combatant:** Wrestling and brawling with his brothers and Theon from a young age, Jon was already a skilled unarmed fighter before leaving Winterfell. After repeated conflict with the Ironborn, Jon has become an incredibly skilled unarmed combatant.

* **Master Swordsman**: Trained from childhood by Rodrik Cassel, Jon showed himself to be a natural swordsman, easily defeating his brother Robb and Theon Greyjoy as a teenager. Through squiring to Brynden Tully Jon became an excellent swordfighter, and his repeated conflict with the Ironborn tempering his skill to such a degree that he was able to fight and later kill the extremely skilled Euron Greyjoy in single combat during the battle of Duskendale, a feat for which Jon earned great recognition. Jon Later shows his prowess during the battle of the Whispering Wood when faced against Jaime Lannister, who he is eventually able to outmatch following a fierce duel.
* **Expert Archer**: Taught to a competent level with a bow as a child, Jon's archery skills improved through many hunts alongside Brynden Tully and later Robert Baratheon, becoming a highly skilled bowman, as shown during The Crow's Eye Raids when he was able to accurately fire a Wildfyre coated arrow at the mast of *The Silence*, causing great damage to the ship and effectively forcing Euron aground, eventually leading to the battle of Duskendale.
* **Master Knife-fighter/Thrower:** Jon is shown to be skilled with knives, and carries a paired set on him as secondary weapons, which later saves his life during the battle of the Harrenhal, when Gregor Clegane is able to disarm Jon of his sword, he is able to fall back on his knives to defend himself, resulting in him defeating and killing the monstrous knight.

* **Expert Axe-fighter:** When escaping his imprisonment in the Ironborn-Occupied Whispers, Jon takes an axe off of a warrior and proceeds to cut his way through the Ironborn with great skill, showing high prowess with the weapon.

**Indomitable Will/High Pain Tolerance/Expert Survivor:** A man of Incredible conviction, Jon was able to endure weeks of torture at the hands of the Ironborn during his imprisonment in the Whispers, even later able to escape with help of Ramsay Snow.

**Expert of Stealth/Infiltration:** Jon has shown many times to be capable of subterfuge and stealth, such as being able to sneak in to the Red Keep and escape with Sansa, as well as infiltrate Harrenhal before the siege and rescue Arya.