Lord Commander Jon Snow beheads Janos Slynt

To avoid Slynt undermining his authority with his scheming, to separate him from his ally, Alliser Thorne, and in view of his experience, Jon Snow, now Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, decides to give Slynt command of the abandoned way castle Greyguard. Still under the misapprehension that Jon’s youth and inexperience give him licence to do as he pleases, Slynt refuses to follow Jon’s orders, doing so the second time publicly. At this point, Jon, sick of Slynt’s insubordination and knowing either imprisoning Slynt or forcing him to go would only cause further problems, orders that Slynt should be taken to the top of the Wall and hanged, though Slynt remains arrogantly confident that Jon would not go through with the execution, threatening them all with Tywin Lannister’s retribution if Jon harms him, unaware that with Tywin’s death, he is making empty threats. However, Jon ultimately decides to follow the moral code that Eddard Stark had set his sons, and orders his men to fe