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Not my mother, Jon thought stubbornly. He knew nothing of his mother; Eddard Stark would not talk of her. Yet he dreamed of her at times, so often that he could almost see her face. In his dreams, she was beautiful, and highborn, and her eyes were kind
Jon Snow: nation building and kings
There is a connection between Jon, two king Daeron Targaryens,, and Dorne. Dorne is Jon’s birthplace and it’s also heavily associated with the two King Daerons that Jon is connected to narratively.
Jon as a child looked up to the Young Dragon, Daeron I, who conquered Dorne at age 14. Jon goes to the Wall and his journey starts at age 14. Daeron is assassinated by the Dornish around the same age Jon was assassinated. Daeron I was also killed in Dorne while Jon was born in Dorne.
“Daeron Targaryen was only fourteen when he conquered Dorne,” Jon said. The Young Dragon was one of his heroes.
“A conquest that lasted a summer,” his uncle pointed out. “Your Boy King lost ten thousand men taking the place, and another fifty trying to hold it. Someone should have told him that war isn’t a game.” He took another sip of wine. “Also,” he said, wiping his mouth, “Daeron Targaryen was only eighteen when he died. Or have you forgotten that part?” JON AGOT
After Jon becomes LC though, his nation building is not connected to the conquering Daeron I that Jon admired as a child. The passage below show Jon has seemingly put away his boyhood dreams of being a conqueror like Daeron I. He’s embraced other callings.
When Jon had been a boy in Winterfell, his hero had been the Young Dragon, the king who had conquered Dorne at the age of fourteen. Despite his bastard birth, or perhaps because of it, Jon Snow had dreamed of leading men to glory just as King Daeron had, of growing up to be a conqueror. Now he was a man grown and the Wall was his, yet all he had were doubts. He could not even seem to conquer those. JON ADWD
At this point, Jon’s nation building has moved away from the Young Dragon’s and it instead mirrors Daeron’s the Good’s nation building.
Daeron the Good is the king who finally brings Dorne into the 7 kingdoms and he doesn’t do it by making war on them like Daeron I did. Daeron the Good marries Dorne: he himself marries a princess of Dorne and he weds his sister Daenerys to Prince Maron Martell. He gives Dorne privileges and allows them
More than a 100 years later, Jon Snow integrates the Wildlings into the 7 kingdoms through lands and the marriage of Alys Karstark to the Magnar of the Thenns. Jon’s integration of the Wildings is the only meaningful addition of a group of people to the 7 Kingdoms since Daeron the Good brought Dorne into the 7 kingdoms. He acts as a nation builder; he acts as a king when he integrates the Wildlings into Westeros.
Daeron the Good’s inclusion of the Dornish earned him a lot of anger from Southron lords who were very xenophobic against the Dornish. They grumbled about Daeron being too influenced by Dorne and giving the Dornish too many gains. Similarly, when Jon integrates the Wildlings, grumblings happen about Jon being “half a Wildling.”
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