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Game of Thrones: Melisandre told Jon Snow to kill Daenerys Targaryen in resurrection shock
GAME OF THRONES saw Jon Snow turn on his aunt - and lover - Daenerys Targaryen in the final season after he knew the devastation she could cause as ruler. However, was he instructed to murder her?
Game of Thrones: Writer says Daenerys was 'broken' by betrayal
Daenerys Targaryen (played by Emilia Clarke) was slain by Jon Snow (Kit Harington) after he became fearful about what she could do after seeing her burn down King’s Landing.
Knowing thousands of other innocents could die at her hand, he made the fateful decision to end her life on the HBO series.
He plunged a dagger into her heart as the pair shared a final kiss on Game of Thrones.
However, could it be that Jon was instructed to kill his Queen and that he didn’t do it completely of his own accord?
One fan has theorised that there is evidence in the source material that hints at Daenerys’ inevitable fate
And Melisandre (Carice van Houten) is drawn into the theory as the Red Priestess had a vision of Jon that could suggest she knew he would be the one to finish Daenerys.
Redditor Endcity23 wrote: “Now we know Mel alludes to Jon as a ‘half seen shadow’ and while Dany thinks about her future lover, she sees his face as a ‘shifting shadow’.”
The fan went on to point out a part of the text as they wrote: ”’The flames crackled softly, and in their crackling, Melisandre heard the whispered name Jon Snow. His long face floated before her, limned in tongues of red and orange, appearing and disappearing again, a shadow half-seen behind a fluttering curtain.
"Sometimes Dany would close her eyes and dream of him, but it was never Jorah Mormont she dreamed of; her lover was always younger and more comely, though his face remained a shifting shadow’.”
They go on to note: “In other instances in the books where ‘Shifting shadows’ are used, it always reeks of blood and betrayal. Twice referring to the cold, hard Kings of winter and Once to the Iron throne.”