Game Of Thrones: Does Jon Snow Return In Fire?

Ever since the Season 5 finale, Game of Thrones fans have been theorizing about what might happen to Jon Snow. He may have died, but is that really the end of his story?

Fans looking for clues believe the preview photos for "Home" offer some.

WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS FOLLOW

Fans closely examining the photos for "Home" noticed that there seems to be a glow on the faces of Alliser Thorne and Dolorous Edd, and that the glow may indicate Jon Snow's resurrection. That's right, we've reached the point where a photo having a light source is enough hope for fans to cling on to.

The reasoning goes that the light looks like it is coming from a fire. Fans speculate that this fire is Jon's own funeral pyre, one that will actually lead to his rebirth rather than his final death.

Why would they believe that? It relates back to the prophecy about the return of the great hero Azor Ahai. Azor Ahai is the hero of the Lord of Light who fought of the darkness with his burning sword, Lightbringer. A prophecy states that, after a long summer, Azor Ahai will return amid salt and smoke to battle R'hllor's enemy, the Other (in the novels, the White Walkers are referred to as the Others).

Melisandre believed Stannis to be Azor Ahai reborn, perhaps drawn to him because he made his home at Dragonstone, a volcanic island. Such a location provides salt from the ocean and smoke from the mountain. However, both readers and some in the universe of Westeros itself doubted her on this, and Stannis' death in Game of Thrones seems to confirm her mistake.

Many believe that Jon is actually the true return of Azor Ahai. Some cite the description of his death as a fulfillment of the prophecy, with Bowen Marsh's tears provided the salt, Jon's own wounds providing the smoke, and the bloody heraldry of Ser Patrek of King's Mountain fulfilling an additional portion of the prophecy that references a bleeding star.

In the books, there's a scene where Melisandre, hoping to see Stannis, looks in her fires and asks to see Azor Ahai. The fires show her Jon instead. Jon himself even has a dream where he battles the White Walkers with a red sword burning in his hands. Another prophecy about the "Prince that was Promised," which some believe to be tied to the return of Azor Ahai, suggests that he will be reborn from the line of Aerys and Rhaella Targaryen. If the theory about Rhaegar being Jon's true father is accurate, then he would be Aerys and Rhaella's grandson.

So some fans are expect to Jon to get up from his own funeral pyre, rested and ready to take on the White Walker army. Will it happen? We'll have to wait and see.

Game of Thrones airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.