6 things that lie ahead for Jon Snow on 'Game of Thrones'

Okay, so obviously, Jon Snow is alive.

While that feeds the international desire for an answer to the character's fate, there's more to life, and most certainly to fate, than opening one's eyes and breathing. One must have purpose.

"Jon's never been afraid of death, and that's made him a strong and honorable person," Kit Harington told Entertainment Weekly of his character's future.

"He realizes something about his life now: He has to live it, because that's all there is. He's been over the line and there's nothing there. And that changes him. It literally puts the fear of God into him. He's seen oblivion and that's got to change somebody in the most fundamental way there is."

Now that Jon Snow is back from the dead, automatically there's a checklist of things that he has to do. After all, "Thrones" fans haven't spent the last 10 months debating, looking for clues, examining the blood splatter, tracking Harington's travel, and making sure his curly locks hadn't been shorn just because they would miss the actor, right?

We didn't think so. It's his story going forward that matters.

Here's a look at what may lie ahead for the resurrected Jon Snow: