Everything From 'Game Of Thrones' Season 6 You Need To Remember Before The Final Season

Spoiler alert: Jon Snow is definitely not illegitimate. He is the legitimate son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, making him the rightful heir to the Iron Throne. Bran is essential in making this discovery, although he doesn't figure it out all by himself. In the season finale, Bran has a vision in which he witnesses Jon Snow's birth. He learns Lyanna Stark is Jon's true mother and Ned Stark was lying when he brought Jon back to Winterfell as his son. 

This has enormous repercussions for the show. It means Daenerys's claim to the Iron Throne is not as strong as she thinks and Jon's name is technically Aegon. It also casts an incestuous shadow over Jon and Dany's relationship. 

Shortly after Jon is resurrected, his sister Sansa arrives at Castle Black and the two reunite. He then receives a message from Ramsay Bolton, who has control over the Stark ancestral home of Winterfell. Ramsay claims to hold their brother Rickon as a prisoner, warning he will be harmed if Sansa is not returned to him. 

Jon attempts to gain allies in his fight against Ramsay, but the majority of the Northern houses refuse his offer. Just before fighting breaks out, Ramsay slays Rickon in front of everyone. With a small army made up of minor houses and a large amount of Free Folk, Jon engages Ramsay at Winterfell. Known as the Battle of the Bastards, Jon only wins because Sansa previously wrote to Petyr Baelish asking for aid. Baelish's Knights of the Vale arrive just in time to secure the victory. 

This fight is a turning point for Jon. The northern lords decide to crown Jon as King in the North, effectively making him one of the most influential people in Westeros. He goes on to represent the North to Queens Cersei and Daenerys, and he uses his position to gain allies in the fight against the White Walkers.

Episode two, "Home," contains one of the most significant scenes in the entirety of the series. After being slain in Season 5, Jon Snow is resurrected by Red Priestess Melisandre. Jon's end allows him to leave the Night's Watch, as he has technically fulfilled his oath of giving his life to the Watch.

Without this moment, Jon would never become King in the North, he wouldn't be able to retake Winterfell from the Boltons, and he couldn't enlist Daenerys aid in the fight against the Others. 

At the beginning of the season, Dany has been captured by a horde of Dothraki. She is sent to live with the Dosh Khaleen, the widowed wives of the former Khals. It's there she invites the living Khals to a meeting where she asks them to bend the knee. They refuse, and Daenerys responds by setting the entire tent aflame.

Every Khal perishes in the ensuing fire, but Daenerys emerges unharmed. The Dothraki bow to her and she becomes the Khaleesi of all the Dothraki. She takes her new army back to Mereen to quell the Sons of the Harpy, and from there takes the Dothraki to Westeros. It's the first time in history the Dothraki have crossed the narrow sea, and they will be instrumental in her fight for the Seven Kingdoms. 

Perhaps the most significant event of the entire season, Daenerys finally sets sail for Westeros in the season finale. With her comes three dragons, a Dothraki horde, and an army of Unsullied warriors; her forces will shake the very foundation of Westerosi history.

With the help of her trusted advisers, Dany will be instrumental in the fight against the Lannisters and the final conflict against the White Walkers. She will make new allies and forge an alliance of ice and fire. Whether she will ever fulfill her dream of sitting on the Iron Throne, we still have to wait and see. 

Cersei's conflict with the High Sparrow is a primary thread throughout the season. She's been released from her confinement after her humiliating walk of atonement, and she's ready to get her revenge. She tries to manipulate her son, King Tommen, into working with her against the High Sparrow, but ultimately fails. Tommen supports the Sparrows and outlaws the practice of trial by combat just before Cersei's trial. She is left with no other recourse than to wipe out the Sparrows once and for all. 

During Queen Margaery's trial at the Sept of Baelor, Cersei ignites a cache of wildfire that takes out the entire building. The High Sparrow and the majority of House Tyrell are offed in the ensuing blaze, eliminating many of Cersei's most powerful enemies.

The move does not come without consequences though. After witnessing the incident from the Red Keep, Tommen ends his life out of grief. Cersei seizes the opportunity to crown herself Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, the first Queen in Westerosi history. This sets her up for a direct conflict with Daenerys, who aims to reclaim her father's throne.