
Originally Posted by
Anonymoose
Haurchefant needed a quick-but-meaningful backstory and they invoked Jon Snow.

Originally Posted by
RyuRoots
And WHAT backstory? We already knew he was a bastard, and the introduction of the lore for it was just kinda tossed in there with a single word in a minion description. Not sure "meaningful" really applies to anything about "Greystone".
More the other way around - they invoked the Jon-Snow-like background early on in Heavensward (brother's quests) and then later applied a bastard surname that fit the invocation.
It's really hammered home by the item description of the very same minion: What isn't dead (or is recreated in a goldsmith's workshop) can never die. Even that is an A Song of Ice and Fire joke based on a prayer to the Drowned God.

Originally Posted by
Aeron
Let Theon your servant be born again from the sea, as you were. Bless him with salt, bless him with stone, bless him with steel.

Originally Posted by
Theon
What is dead may never die.

Originally Posted by
Aeron
What is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger.
Inb4 more Haurchefant resurrection theories.