re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

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Where are her last known whereabouts?

Leading the Brotherhood somewhere around the forests of the Neck hunting the Freys.

What else is in the Neck?

Greywater Watch.

And who would be at Greywater Watch?

Why Howland Reed of course, the only living person who knows what happened at the Tower of Joy and be able to confirm if Jon is indeed the son of Rhaegar and Lyanna.

Catelyn learns of Jon's identity this way and fraught with guilt over her contempt for Jon, she sets out to reveal to him his true identity.

Who better and more credible to break the news to Jon Snow than Catelyn?

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Would be pretty great.

Catelyn has gone mad, and possibly the ONLY thing that could bring her back from the darkness would be Howland reminding her of her love for Ned.

Finding out that Ned never betrayed their marriage could overcome her with a sense of purpose to help fulfill his promise to Llyanna. With that wall that always separated her from Jon torn down (pun intended), she could actually grow to love him as one of her own now that she believes all of her own children are dead or lost. The two of them could share in their grief for the lost Stark children.

Would be a really nice turn actually.

I still like the idea of the Starks rising from the crypts as a last line of defense from the Others once the Wall falls, but this is a very good theory as well.

Would be great if they could both play out somehow.