Bastards can be legitimized by the king, or a lord can appoint his bastard as heir.

Also, it's not true that bastards have no claim to succession. In the book, Cat's dislike of Jon is explained as her perceiving him as a threat to her children since it's not unheard of for a well-liked bastard to usurp the titles of his less popular half-siblings.

(And before Pinata jumps on me for spoilers, we're well past the point in the story where this would've been explained. It's a minor detail that the TV writers dropped.)

In response to your question, only if you have read the entire series click

So in this case it would be

... I'll allow it ... Obviously succession theme is obvious.

Hence why they're sent out to The Wall to serve and die remotely to not be a threat.

Yes. Also remember

To anybody who has read the entire series or most of it, does that HBO just posted spoil anything past the first book? I looked at it but after seeing the legend was wary about how hard I should look at it since I'm only coming to the end of the first book.

I've gone through the Houses Graphic that I posted, and I swear it doesn't spoilerize anything that isn't/shouldn't be known? But I'll let others chime in as well.

There are a few minor things, such as some of the direwolves have not been explicity named yet in the show, but they are named in the graphic etc.

I don't think so, but there are some characters that aren't in the first book, I believe, so it's sort of a round about spoiler I suppose.

Ok that's fine with me I just saw in the legend that there was a skull to represent like death or cause of death and didn't want to see that if it was something that happened in a later book. Thanks.

Yeah, that will be interesting how all of that turns out for sure.

Didn't we already when he was talking to Jon before they left Winterfell?

Yeah, those appear to be all things that happen prior to the current story, however, I'm not sure if they have all been revealed yet in the show. (sort of the question of how spoilerish learning about past events is I guess)

I believe it is mentioned in the episode

Ok yeah thanks, I couldn't remember. I think a few others haven't specifically been discussed, but still, not that 'spoilery'.

Yeah honestly..I think that graphic would along with the HBO viewer guide are two key pieces to help understand everything. I like the viewers guide because it has pictures..and I like that graphic, because it shows all the different relationships.

And you can tell that all the deaths have happened before the start of GoT, because they don't have Lady's death in it.

Yes they discussed it, maybe on the trip to the wall.

Yeah. I guess the best answer is, if you are the kind of person that didn't want to know a direwolf's name before it was revealed, then you'd want to avoid this. Anyone else would probably be fine looking at it.

Yeah true, I gave the wife a printed out the printed out cheat sheet, and she was thankful to keep a who's who in check. even though she is pretty spot on with everything (She knew who was who, when theon/Jon/Robb confusion has risen up)

Good interview with Brian Cogman, who was the writer/director of the last episode:

http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/05/...gman/#comments

He is termed the 'keeper of the mythos'. I can presume to that means he has to keep track of all the background stuff.

Another strange thing was that he got involved with GoT, because his wife was David's nanny (one of the show creators).

This guy looks like he is in his 30s...so yeah..that is strange.

That means she was the nanny employed by David.

OOOOK lol whew.

I was wondering..I think I've seen Maury Povich do a show about this *My husband is 50 years younger than me* lol

One of the WiCers corrected me as well lol, now I feel stupid heh.