"There wouldn't be a fool in all of Westeros who'd say differently," Ned agrees with an emphatic nod. The fact of his wolf lineage is how Ned was so easily able to sell the myth of having had an affair so early in his marriage. Had he returned with a child with silver hair or violet eyes or skin as pale as cream, he'd never had been able to convince the others that he'd been Jon's father. "You were meant to be a Northerner."