Game of Thrones season 7 episode 6: The major foreshadowing surrounding Jon and Daenerys's future together

The penultimate episode of Game of Thrones’ seventh season was a wild ride, featuring numerous deaths beyond The Wall and tensions growing in Westeros.

** Spoilers for ‘Beyond The Wall’ ahead **

One of the more intimate scenes came at the episode’s end, when Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen gazed into each others’ eyes and held hands.

Most fans are expecting the pair — who are related, Dany being Jon’s aunt — to likely get together during the finale.

Episode six saw a hefty amount of precious screen time being spent discussing children, Tyrion having a conversation with Dany about heirs, and Jorah commenting on Jon’s future children.

As pointed out by Vanity Fair, Mirri Maz Duur, the character who causes Dany to have a miscarriage and Khal Drogo to fall into a coma, explicitly details how she cannot have children.

“When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east,” she says during season one. In the books, she continues: “When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child. Then he will return, and not before.”

Come the episode’s boat scene and Dany tells Jon how she believes she cannot have children: “The dragons are my children. They are the only children I will ever have. Do you understand?”

Now, Jon himself has barely thought about children — there are too many White Walkers to defeat in the meantime — but that’s twice in one episode he’s been confronted about kids, and twice Dany has spoken about not being able to conceive. Having children is now on both of their minds, which seems like some heavy foreshadowing.

Fans have speculated the pair may have a child for some time, all thanks to the books. In them, Rhaegar Targaryen’s love for Lyanna Stark was represented by a blue rose.

During a tournament, the Prince presents Ned’s sister a single blue rose after defeating someone in combat, a symbol of his favour. Later, when Ned dreams of Lyanna’s death and Jon’s birth, the Stark comments on the room smelling like roses. Jon is supposedly the rose, given from Rhagar to Lyanna.

Come Dany’s vision at the House of the Undying, and the blue rose makes another appearance: “a blue flower growing from a chink in a wall of ice, filling the air with sweetness”.Jon, of course, is at The Wall.

While no blue rose appeared on The Wall during her vision on the show, we did see her leave behind Khal Drogo and her unborn child for her greater purpose. Perhaps that purpose is now having a Prince that was Promised with Jon Snow?

For those confused about Jon’s parentage, here’s a breakdown of how Rhaegar and Lyanna met, along with why last week’s episode contained a major bombshell regarding their relationship.