Assuming it came down to him. I still don't believe that justifies his thing with Lyanna.
Not unless the rape thing below is true, and I didn't see much convincing evidence of that.
My only question regarding that is, how did they get there? IIRC, they were heading south from Winterfell, while Skagos is to the northeast, AND they'd have had to take a boat, which would have been too much of a trail for people who are lying low. I mean, I agree that it fits with Davos' reaction, it simply doesn't fit what we know of their travels afterwards, much less Wex following and observing where they went and making it back to Winterfell to be found by Glover and/or Manderly.

I went into this in more detail in a reply to Nighthawk, but I think that's a bit of a stretch from Selmy's offhand comment about "Stark dishonored her". He could have meant Brandon or Ned, and he could have been working from actual knowledge, or simply repeating the widespread story of Ned siring Jon on her. Catelyn heard it in Winterfell, and Cersei cited it to him in King's Landing. Selmy might very well have been operating on that perception, and even if there was some sexual relationship between either Stark and Ashara, Barristan Selmy would not be the first Kingsguard knight from a marcher house to perceive a Dornish woman dishonored by casual sex and the woman herself to have a very different view of it.

After killing her brother Arthur, presumably at the same time he encountered Lyanna on her deathbed, he brought Dawn back to House Dayne. Wylla had some relationship with that family given that she nursed Edric, so she was probably some woman Ned got to nurse Jon, and in exchange for her discretion, she received a place in the Dayne household. Either she was already a retainer who undertook to nurse the baby for a time, or she might have been some camp follower or common woman Ned used to care for Jon after Lyanna died, and she agreed to be known as his mother to protect him, and stayed at Starfall, as mentioned previously. Hell, he could still be Ashara's son, and Wylla covered for her mistress. I lean towards R+L=J myself, but IDK that anything was really clarified there. Note that Martin threw in the little story of Ned siring Jon on a fisherman's daughter near the Sisters as an example of the unreliability of gossip.
That was the line that did it for me, too.


Descriptions of the early Andals suggest a distinct lack of civilization, and that the maesters are reconstructing history, rather than having witnessed, recorded and published it.
Only if they claimed omniscience. If they didn't come over with the Andals, they sure as heck were not around for the First Men. It's not like anyone else is doing a better job at history, aside from maybe the Night's Watch, if their archives were ever organized. The sacrifices to the heart trees suggest they were relatively secret rites or at the least not something they would easily share with outsiders.

The thing about the maesters that interests me the most are the allegations of Barbrey Dustin and how they dovetail with those of Marwyn's clique that has taken in Sam, and is under observation by the Faceless Men. BTW, is anyone else troubled by the fact that as charming as his students in the Citadel appear to be, the other students of Marwyn are both rather sinister figures, Mirri Maz Dur & Qyburn?

The hatred of life attributed to them by various parties would seem to do it. Though the logistics and whatnot of their actions remain in question. There was the implication that they were originally humans, some of whom coming from the male babies Craster left out for them in exchange for being spared their attentions.

I assume we can also be pretty sure that Lyanna was the Knight of the Laughing Tree, who championed "the little crannogman" presumably Howland Reed?