WARNING: This text incorporates main spoilers from the Outlander novels and potential future Outlander spoilers
The Droughtlander shall be coming to an finish later this 12 months with the premiere of season seven of . The prolonged collection will include 16 episodes and make it the longest outing up to now. Season seven will see the arrival of a grown-up William Ransom (performed by Charles Vandervaart), who's anticipated to have an enormous function to play within the forthcoming outing.
Does William know Brianna is his sister?
A number of the large questions followers have about William is whether or not he’s conscious () is his actual father.
Additionally, there are query marks over whether or not he is aware of Brianna MacKenzie (Sophie Skelton) is his half-sister.
An Echo within the Bone appears to shed some mild on this with William and Brianna briefly encountering one another in the beginning of the novel.
He's drawn to Brianna whereas his fellow soldier associates make course remarks about her whereas she and Roger (Richard Rankin) are in Wilmington on their method to journey again to the longer term.
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William’s emotions for Brianna appear combined with an attraction to her and eager to be in her presence.
Within the books, Brianna and William first met in A Breath of Snow and Ashes with the twentieth century time traveller conscious he was her brother.
Jamie surveyed the scene from a distance with Lord John Gray (David Berry) by his aspect seeing how moved the Highlander was on the sight of his two kids interacting.
Though Brianna is aware of she has a brother with the TV present that includes a young scene by which Jamie advised his daughter in regards to the existence of William, the identical can’t be mentioned for his son.
William can by no means know the reality about his paternity as a result of it might be his wreck and imply he wasn’t the true Earl of Ellesmere.
If anybody have been to search out out, William would lose his land and titles eternally.
Given William is an honourable man like his organic father and surrogate father, he might even hand over all the pieces if he learnt the reality.
Nonetheless, William later learns extra about Jamie when the 2 males encounter one another once more in An Echo within the Bone.
In reality, William even sees a resemblance between himself and Jamie which leads him to suspect the id of his actual father.
Throughout the touching scene when Jamie revealed to Brianna the reality about William’s existence within the TV collection, he advised her: “I needed you to ken there was extra of your blood on the planet than me and your mom.
“Or possibly you possibly can search for him in books. I imply, he’d been an earl. Is likely to be straightforward to search out.”
Jamie has at all times needed to be a father and with Brianna returning to the previous and William arriving in America from England, he has an opportunity to be close to his kids.
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He described having Brianna in his life as making him “entire” and the identical is more likely to be true of William even when he can’t say it.
By the eighth novel Written in My Personal Coronary heart’s Blood, William is in little question of his true parentage, i.e. Jamie is his father.
This implies he would additionally know the reality about Brianna being his sister and the revelation leaves him struggling an id disaster and reconsidering his land and titles.
Whether or not season seven will handle and embody this revelation early stays to be seen. Both means, season seven shall be delving additional into the dynamics of Jamie and his kids.
Outlander season 7 will air later this 12 months and seasons 1 to six are streaming on Lionsgate+ now