Presumably, his parents would have given him a name of their own choosing. Jon is about as ordinary a name as you can get, and it is highly unlikely that an emo douche like Rhaegar would have been satisfied with such a name for a child of such great destiny and portent as to justify the abandonment of his parents' duties and families and throwing over the kingdom into civil war.
Cannoli
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
Bets on what Jon Snow's real first name is?
- 27/06/2016 06:18:47 PM
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*NM*
Actually, aside from Caesar or other names based on the real world, I can't think of many
- 28/06/2016 11:54:33 AM
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Margaery, Shae, Aeron, virtually every Targaryen, Petyr Baelish... *NM*
- 28/06/2016 08:49:35 PM
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Margaery, Shae & Aeron (& Petyr) are alternate spellings of real names, Margery, Shea, Aaron, Peter
- 30/06/2016 03:02:29 AM
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So what? Martin overuses the "ae" like a lot of other fantasy authors. *NM*
- 30/06/2016 04:17:49 PM
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Did Lyanna like Rhaegar? I can't remember their story.
- 28/06/2016 01:29:17 PM
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There are hints that she did not.
- 28/06/2016 01:56:25 PM
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If we accept a "medieval" mindset, the age of consent was likely 12. *NM*
- 28/06/2016 08:42:57 PM
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There is no age of consent in such a mindset, I was referring to the age of majority.
- 30/06/2016 02:59:51 AM
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You can't have this both ways
- 30/06/2016 05:46:03 PM
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I'm not trying to, I'm only arguing on the basis of what the books have said.
- 01/07/2016 11:25:38 AM
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Why would his first name change?
- 05/07/2016 05:03:00 AM
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"Real" name, not new name.
- 05/07/2016 11:45:14 AM
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didn't his dad die before he was born and his mother right after that? *NM*
- 20/07/2016 08:25:02 PM
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