The Game of Thrones season 6 spoilers are, without a doubt, the most difficult spoilers to predict for the highest-rated series in HBO history. The reason is obvious, there are no books. And although Winds of Winter is scheduled to release before Game of Thrones season 6, book fans have for the first time lost their omniscience over the plot points on the TV show. GRRM is a helluva writer, though, and there are plenty of hints scattered across the Game of Thrones print and TV series that could give fans some insight for Game of Thrones season 6 spoilers. iDigi has already covered Jon Snow’s death/not death, Melisandre’s visions and Daenerys’ visit to the House of the Undying. But there’s one fan theory circulating that we could see emerge as a MAJOR plot point for Game of Thrones season 6.

Is Tyrion actually a Targaryen?

GoT Season 6 Tyrion Spoiler: The ‘Mad King’ Was Mad For Joanna Lannister

The Mad King Aerys Targaryen was mad for one woman in particular, Joanna Lannister, Tyrion’s mother. The Tyrion as Targaryen theory takes root in a few select passages where GRRM hints at the attraction that existed between the Mad King and Lady Lannister. In A Dance with Dragons Barristan Selmy tells Daenerys that her father “took liberties” during the bedding ritual (remember in the Red Wedding when they passed the couple around and ripped off their clothes before the stabbings stabbed and there was stabbiness? One of those).

Aerys’ wife, Queen Rhaella, soon sent Joanna back to Casterly Rock amid rumors of infidelity. On the surface, it appears that this would make a stronger case for Jamie and Cersei being Targaryens, but Tywin’s attitude toward his eldest children hardly reflects a man who doubts their parentage. The word ‘liberties’ leaves a lot of room for NSFW interpretation. I’ll leave that for the fan fic writers to sort out, as far as Game of Thrones season 6 spoilers are concerned it’s the timeline that matters. This incident does not match up with Tyrion’s birth.

But there is one that does.

According to the Game of Thrones timeline, in the year 272 A.C. Joanna Lannister returned to King’s Landing for a feast celebrating the 10th anniversary of Aerys’ coronation. At the event, Aerys makes a crude remark about Joanna’s boobs and Tywin loses his shit and tries to resign as Hand. It doesn’t happen.

What else happens at that time remains unknown. Any big tourney is going to need to take place in decent weather, particularly when everyone’s got to travel by horseback. Meaning Joanna and Aerys were in the same place and at the same time around summer/fall 272. Add nine months to that and you’re well into 273, Tyrion’s birth year.

GoT Season 6 Tyrion Spoiler: Tywin Disowned Him With His Dying Breath

The relationship between Tyrion and Tywin was, at best, a contentious one. On the surface, it appeared that Tywin hated Tyrion for not only causing the death of his beloved wife, Joanna, but for having the audacity to be born a dwarf.

Time and again fans saw Tywin belittle Tyrion and, to our delight, Tyrion stand up to his father with some of the finest smart-assery this side of the Rhoyne. Regardless, there’s no denying Tywin harbored a special resentment for Tyrion. And this vitriol lends credence to the Tyrion Targaryen theory.

Most fans remember when Tywin told Tyrion “you’re no son of mine” after Tyrion shot him with a crossbow. Is it possible he meant it as more than a condemnation?

In Game of Thrones season 3, Tywin tells Tyrion that he “has no way of proving” Tyrion is not his son. It feels as though if he could have proven it, he would have. Perhaps he never truly accepted it himself until Tyrion killed him. Before Tyrion shoots him he says “you’re my son” as though that bond prevented the act. Kinslaying is one of the huge taboos in Westeros, a land that is rather light on horrific taboos. Tyrion acting out this insane crime could have served as the final push Tywin needed to realize the blood in Tyrion comes from the deranged Mad King and not a stoic, pragmatic Lannister. The arrow in his belly was the final proof he needed, unable to accept that a true Lannister could ever commit this atrocity.

However, the death of Tywin Lannister isn’t the kinslaying that gives us this Game of Thrones season 6 spoiler. It’s the death of his mother, which may have been part of the most important prophecy in all of Game of Thrones.

GoT Season 6 Tyrion Spoiler: The Three-Headed Dragon

It’s easy to forget about some of the visions and dreams thrown at us in Game of Thrones, particularly when sudden character deaths overshadow everything. But the prophecies can be important and perhaps none are as important as the prophecy of the three-headed dragon.

During her visit to the House Of The Undying Daenerys is told that “the dragon will have three heads.” She, obviously, is one of them. But who are the other two? Vanity Fair points out that the HBO show may have given us this Game of Thrones season 6 spoiler. During her vision, Daenerys walks through a Dothraki tent (her), the Wall (Jon) and a throne room (Tyrion).

How else are Jon and Tyrion tied to Daenerys? Popular support online goes to Jon Snow by way of the R+L=J theory. It is also said that a dragon “must be born of blood.” If the R+L=J theory is true, then Jon Snow killed his mother (Lyanna Stark) during childbirth. We know that both Daenerys and Tyrion killed their mothers as well. The blood pact deepens when you consider that all three were responsible for the death of the person they loved most. Jon fought Ygritte, Tyrion killed Shae and Daenerys mercy killed Khal Drogo. All three held their beloveds and watched them die.

Tyrion is also an expert on dragons, having been obsessed with them since he was a child. In the books he is even writing a scholarly paper on the subject of dragons. We know, too, that Tyrion had visions of dragons as a child. Dragon dreams are traditionally associated with Targaryens. In the first book of Game of Thrones, Tyrion tells Jon Snow about his dragon dreams and then drops a bomb on Jon.

Jon Snow was staring at him, a look equal parts horror and fascination. Tyrion guffawed. “Don’t look at me that way, bastard. I know your secret. You’ve dreamt the same kind of dreams.”

“No,” Jon Snow said, horrified.

At first glance it seems he’s talking about Jon’s wolf dreams, when he may or may not have been using warg power to control Ghost. But the revelation that both share these kinds of dreams, and the bond that developed between the two in such a short span of time, should not be overlooked.

As far as Game of Thrones season 6 spoilers go, this could be one of the biggest and ranks up there with the fate of Jon Snow. If Tyrion turns out to be a Targaryen and starts riding dragons into battle I don’t think there will be many fans who will complain.

Then again, the Red Wedding proved that Game of Thrones isn’t really about making the fans feel good …