Bastards in Game of Thrones were given different surnames based on the region they were born in, such as Snow in the North and Sand in Dorne. Bastards faced discrimination and lacked inheritance rights throughout the Seven Kingdoms, leading many to join the Night's Watch for a sense of purpose. House of the Dragon, the prequel series to Game of Thrones, will explore the consequences of being a bastard and the division it can cause within noble families like the Targaryens.

Bastards born in the North carried the surname of "Snow" in Game of Thrones, and the reason for the Got bastard names stems from a system put in place throughout Westeros. Kit Harington's character, Jon Snow, was the most prominent person from the HBO series to hold that last name and though Jon was later revealed to be a Targaryen, he was originally thought to be the illegitimate...