King Bran 1: The Greenseer Kings of Ancient Westeros

Yes, Bran WILL be King in the books, but he will be a greenseer king. Take a walk through everything we know about greenseers, wargs, skinchangers, and what they've done with their power in Westeros to get an idea of what "Bran the God King" really means.
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[@GretchenLovesBooks]

Excellent content as always! I know it's a lot of work putting in all those images, but it's well worth the effort. Spectacular visuals (better than the show, as I can actually see them!) and spectacular analysis, though also a bit of a potentially tragic, or at least a bit dangerous position for Bran to be in. A warg king is no child's play (all the puns intended). If Bran is a warg king in the books, there's a level of perverted wish fulfillment, methinks. We all love a good fantasy story where the crippled boy with a magical destiny grows up to be king (who has the best story?), but what does that actually mean for what the child has to sacrifice and suffer in order to make it so? Is it *good* for the child to have such a heavy burden on them? Is it good for the realm to have a ruler who had to give up a piece of their humanity to become the kind of god king they wanted? That's at least a part of what we should think about too. A good story in the abstract, but actually rather dark and sad when you see what it cost.

[@elisebrodeur-jacobs5215]

Every video put out by LmL is excellent. Hes my favorite creator on youtube

[@thisguy8106]

Bran The Bystander First of His Name..

[@made-line7627]

Haha! Yes

[@rowell669]

That's an excellent name!

[@cmsmith1031]

@Festina_Lente ... what?

[@SpiralSine6]

The Bysitter more like it

[@soxpeewee]

Bran the B*tchy ("Are we there yet?") or Bran the Babysatt (poor Hodor) or Bran the Backstabber (RIP Jojen)

[@luciferangelica]

i found it a little jarring to hear tyrion announce that a good story was the most important element in the fitness of a ruler when it had never been mentioned as a theme by anyone, and indeed as a concept seems more at home in hollywoo than westeros, but then, there's a starbucks in winterfell, so wtf do I know?

[@JohnCena-ew1mf]

It was baaically Dumb & Dumber fellating themselves since they were the "storytellers".

[@peepindis]

"And then they all enjoyed lemon cakes. Theee End."

[@Jon-pw2ik]

Same here, but if you think about it it's right in a way, maybe not exactly just bwcause he himself has a good story, but really when it comes to Brans abilities, taking into account the person wasn't already or hasnt become a total psychopath due to the change, his abilities would be amazing for a good king. He could see what's happening everywhere, into the past to see the truth of things and what does/doesn't work, and so many other reasons. Then obviously seeing into the future has it's own self evident benefits lol. But if it's a shit person...Yeah, surveillance state to the max plus a Minority Report deal thrown in too....That would be not good most likely lol

[@TruckieLooks4Aliens]

Esp when he just said he can’t be Lord of anything bc he’s the 3 eyed Raven

[@Varatil]

Hollywoo ❤

[@tammichenard1024]

I will never tire of that picture of GRRM giving the middle finger.

[@timshift2395]

Time to smoke some Mary Jane and sink into my couch for 50 minutes.

[@joeyrozic1100]

My man.

[@skepticalrebekah]

Remember that awkward stare Drogon gave Jon and Dany after their little ride on the dragons? Bran must have thought she was so beautiful, too.

[@melissaisloud7404]

“Darkness will make you strong.” It reminds me of the “Death Is Your Gift” prophecy from BUFFY.

[@devoleno]

It's so true. Bran is talking to Sineya....Rasta Slayer

[@Commanber]

That would then mean that "Darkness will make you strong" be a misunderstood prophecy at first. Just as "Death is your gift" is first misunderstood by Buffy to mean she must kill Dawn while in truth it meant her sacrificing herself. (Spoiler alert I guess for a 20 year old series)

[@gaslone79]

Bran the Broken is how Bran thinks of himself in the books. Also it reminds me of Viking names like Harald Bluetooth or Ivar the Boneless so I don't mind the name.

[@miketrujillo3677]

Harald Bluetooth vs Ivar Blackberry

[@rationalroundhead6739]

@@miketrujillo3677 Bluetooth, the company, is named after Harald.

[@miketrujillo3677]

@@rationalroundhead6739 y

[@rationalroundhead6739]

@@miketrujillo3677 It was a placeholder name. Harald Bluetooth united scandinavia, so when a bunch of Scandinavian techies way back when wanted to unite a bunch of tech companies into one big developer, they codenamed the plan "Bluetooth" until they could think of a better name. They couldn't.

[@casey9439]

If Euron is a Storm God archetype and Theon is a Drowned God archetype, does the history foreshadow Theon defeating Euron?

[@DavidLightbringer]

That would make sense, wouldn’t it

[@made-line7627]

Love this

[@yensid4294]

👍👍 I definitely got Odin/Fisher King symbolism from Bran's story arc as depicted on the show but too bad they didn't do it better or with more depth.

[@TheCbot88]

i want to see jon and bran share jon's body simultaniously kicking ass with longclaw (great name for a worg, since he can reach far with his beasts, etc.) and bran doing all kinds of worging, greenseeing, possibly, partially, guiding jon's actions, who knows, i know martin is going to go nuts and i can't wait.

[@whitleypurnell5613]

Great video! Further evidence: in Arya IV she recalls Robb and Jon organizing a prank. Jon covers himself in flour and tries to scare everyone in the crypts by acting like a spirit. Bran begins sobbing and wraps himself around around Robb's leg, but Arya stands her ground and punches jon (or as she says "the spirit") and then chastises him for 'scaring the baby'.

[@jimmymcjimface2607]

It's foreshadowing for shit cuz GRRM has said multiple times that he's a "cultivator" and just let's the story happen. Stop listening to these hacks. We got fooled already

[@Jon-pw2ik]

@@jimmymcjimface2607 You talkin about this guy? This guy ain't no hack...if you are talkin about him you either haven't watched anything of his or didn't listen or perhaps just cannot comprehend anything. Because this guy absolutely digs into exactly George's methods of cultivating to a T. Literally all he's does is find and correlate all the different archetypes and themes and ways he does this

[@stars-and-clouds]

@@Jon-pw2ik completely agree. David really understands the hidden meanings and gems behind Martin's work. I feel like people think just bc Martin writes in a 'gardener' style, he just let's shit happen and watches as it grows and that makes the book. It doesn't work like that. The asoiaf books are so meticulously written with foreshadowing, symbolism, parallels, metaphors in uncountable places, it is astounding. The commenter really doesn't seem to understand the depth of this world

[@tylerdurden3722]

@@stars-and-clouds Martin himself described that, that's exactly how he writes. Because he finds the architect writing style boring. He wants to be surprised by his own work. E.g. Originally, there were no dragons in his story. The Targaryans were pyromancers in the original idea he was beginning to put on paper. Of course, his work is loosely based on real world history and myths, and put together in a mostly logical and coherent way...but vagueness is intentionally added especially when it comes to past and mythical elements. Westeros is mostly based on Britain. England was once made up of 7 kingdoms, before it was unified into one kingdom, England. The Celts are the inspiration for the First men, weirwood trees etc are inspired by druids and their tree worship. Bran the Blessed was a realworld mythilogical person who could see the future, and his name means Raven. The Wall is Hadrian's Wall that seperated the Picts, who are the wildlings. The war between the Starks and Lanisters is inspired by the War of the Roses (a white rose vs a Red rose). House of York against the House of Lancaster, where virtually all the males on both sides got wiped out, a mentally unstable king is involved. Robert baratheon is inspired by Henry VIII, the wild card who became king. Aegon the Conquerer is based on William the conquerer. The Ironborn are the Viking presence in Britain. The Andals are the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. Harren is based on Harold. Etc. By looking at that, one can deduce Martin's style. He follows the real world inspiration very loosly. He cherry picks certain things, jumbles things up. He merges and swaps things from different time periods. Characters are created from elements of multiple real characters, and single characters become elements of multiple other characters. Most of the elements of the inspiration isn't added. It's intentionally made as unpredictable as possible. Predicting is possible, but only to a degree. The mythical elements are even less predictable, by design. In order to deduce the original structure of the basic world, you have to imagine the plot without dragons, and who knows what else. Such changes and additions happened several times, and continues to happen. To me it seems, the mythical aspect of his original idea was based on people with strangely colored eyes, that represented the potential for various types magical abilities, depending on eye color, all of which have a dark side and sinister past. Dragons and many other elements got woven into whatever the original idea was, altering the original idea as he goes along.

[@shayannn6385]

I realy like song of ice and fire books but only after the Varamyr sixskin prologue that i realize how genius and crazy george actually is ....i wish one day hbo make movie only about that chapter...........great stuff Mr lml❤

[@applewagon253]

Shayan nn I remember the first time I read that prologue and kept having to go back like wait... is this really happening? Things got crazy dark and magic right then.

[@shawnfreemasonog]

The what prologue?

[@SupportGamin2024]

I hated bran being king in the show,hopefully the books make him better.

[@joshswilling1189]

Bran can see past present and future. This powers are like paul'sn dune having other memory and prescience

[@DavidLightbringer]

well bis ability to see the future is uncertain as of now but yeah, def a god emperor in the making

[@mobydickii8407]

25:25 he might be the one to bring Jon back to life. Also the Kings of Winter in the crypts of Winterfell.

[@rnp2726]

YES LML. a part of me wants to wait and save up a few so I have a solid LML playlist but I know it's futile. I'll be listening in the next five seconds til it's over all too quickly waiting for another awesome video. A vicious cycle 😩😩😩

[@DarthWyllet]

I saw this video and thought it was a dream long forgotten from the trees.

[@DavidLightbringer]

well played ser...

[@DarthWyllet]

@@DavidLightbringer In the words of Brienne of Tarth I am no Ser. Seriously though, the fact that you replied to my comment made me jump up and down and tell tell everyone in my house one of my favourite youtubers replied to me. It really made my night. Thank you for that.

[@turkturkleton2671]

1:07 I definitely didn't think Brian would be king but I always thought that he was kind of the main character not Daenerys or Jon Snow. Like it was his story and he would have the greatest impact on the epilogue and world after. So I don't think he's a literal king but I did think he would stop the Others. It wasn't shocking and kind of pleasantly surprising that one thing in the show ending made me happy, but I don't think anybody really predicted that he would be king of Westeros

[@lazerbeam134]

My theory is that Jon and Danaerys are being set up as the champions of the Lord of Light and Bran will represent the Old Gods that Melisandre has implied are merely facets of the Great Other. That will put Jon in opposition with his brother but also make him conflicted with Dany. There is also the other Targaryen floating around to muck things up. Wouldn't it be wild if the Others ended up serving Bran? lol

[@anticensorshipsociety1063]

Euron Crow's Eye will figure in somewhere. Perhaps he and Bran actually align or perhaps they battle with their respective magic..

[@SupportGamin2024]

Imagine this having bran as both the three eyed raven,the night king and the greenseer king all combined.

[@tulkas42o22]

Damn right!!! Bring us some light homie. We miss and love you brah!!!👍 when i hear the intro I know its on!!! Come back soon. I think its time. Real talk

[@AJBouc]

Yaaas! I'll watch this tonight. Does a "King Bran" ending line up with a Hero's Journey for Bran's story?

[@Rose_Macabre]

Delicious food for thought. I agree, Arya, through Nymeria, is definitely going to bring some doom, leading her wolf pack into battle.

[@borisdorofeev5602]

A watchtower in the middle of a lake with a greenseer in it? Sort of reminds me of the Gods Eye. Watch=eye, the greenseer Bran represents the green men. George already told us that we would get to see the Gods eye and it's likely Bran whose perspective we will see it from. If he goes with Meera then it will be yet another Reed visiting the Gods Eye.

[@DavidLightbringer]

100%. It seems like an obvious Isle of Faces parallel with everything that happens there, and with the crannogmen present and all that. Can't wait to see those green men!

[@GG89x]

Hi LmL, good to see you back :)

[@maesmydog6691]

Man DUDE! I have gotten so much new insights and I am even at minute 15 in the video. It would explain perfectly why Brynden "Bloodraven" Strom also had Greenseer abilitys, given his mother was a Blackwood of Ravenhill, who are one of the very, very few Houses in the South worshipping the Old Gods. Probably Tytos Blackwood and his kin are skinchangers, connected to the Ravens! What a blow!

[@justarandomgirlvx3578]

it is Rivers not Strom XD are you a German potato like me? Haha

[@Cameron-mx9jq]

As thought provoking and fascinating as always. Great stuff dude.

[@in_vas_por8810]

Lml, you are a creator and we love you for sharing your creations with us! Good to see you again friend!!!

[@ocandro]

I love your new video format even more than the classic ones. Btw, I have to be responsible for half of your views, because I always listen to them before falling asleep and often wake up at the end of a whole playlist and start over next night from the point I lost. As for the topic - some points people ignore: 1 The eye colour rule refers to Children, not men, I do think the Stark kids' wolves have eye colours of dead CotF residing in their bodies, unless it's a hide clue - see 6. 2 The percentage of greenseers has to be a current state of affairs - the gene probably disappeared for whatever reason, cause I find it unlikely thy CotF population was ever big enough to warrant these high numbers of greenseers, perhaps the wars caused it, perhaps the magic getting weaker in he world, perhaps disproportions between sexes. 3 The skinhanching and greenseeing (and Dragonlord?) genes have to come from mothers in my opinion - Varamyrs children are one of many many proofs. 4 Greenseers are said to control all *living creatures*, if I recall correctly - so humans, humanoids, animals and magical beings such as dragons, I don't think it includes wights, because I think Others' powers are twisted, corrupted, reversed weirwood magic, though this is just my feeling, it would fit the yin-yany vibe of the books. I wonder however if skinchanging a dragon would be lethal or at least traumatic, since they are alive, magical fire, the the for skinchanging White Walkers. 5 Aside from true greenseers, there are so many... seers in our story - Jojen, Ghost, Dany, Mel, Quaithe, tho girl from Ariannes WoW chapter, so perhaps we shouldn't be too concerned with Bloodravens lecture. 6 Three Eyed Crow is another force, outside of weirwoods and Children, we need to take into consideration - Bran doesn't have any greenseer traits, until the trickster manipulates him into opening the 3rd eye, his powers later peak through trauma, darkness and possibly Jojens sacrifice - maybe Bran is more made, than born a greenseer? Maybe powers on both sides - 3EC and CotF wanted to give powers to someone of Stark bloodline? 7 I suspect Jon can be the second, if not the frst Stark warg actually - considering how powerful he seems to Varamyr, despite having least warging experience apart from Sansa, plus he has that boost of Targaryen, Blackwood and Dayne blood from his father.Lets see what happens after the ultimate trauma, darkness and warging experience of dying. 8 Lastly - I love that you pointed Ancient Bran also being wed to the weirwood, I keep thinking about the seeds In the paste and the tree literally passing through Bloodravens body, sucking his blood and life force and it's a disturbing thought.

[@made-line7627]

I can't remember, who is the girl in the WOW Arianne chapter?

[@alexcavoli6191]

Love the random ELP album Tarkus reference.

[@therunningman_]

KZbin is recommending old vids! I love going back and re-watching.

[@JoeyWhisperz]

Actually George didn't spare us the mating wolf and wolf member in the beginning of a dance with dragons he said "old one eye I slips in me when I'm the bitch" or something around Long those lines when I heard that on the audiobook I was like what the fuck "old one eye" LMAOso blood Raven probably broke all the abomination's when he is a warg

[@coling8992]

Can't be said enough how glad to see a video by LML! Very happy to see you back!

[@gagstersps3]

I was wondering about some possible foreshadowing in the show. When Dany is in the house of the undying, she walks into a ruined throne room, she walks towards the iron throne, but never sits on it, instead there is snow on the throne. But of course when she finally enters the throne room, there's no snow only ash from the city she's just burned. In your videos you have provided a lot of links between ash and weirwoods, Yggdrasil being an ash tree and so fourth. Is it possible that the scene from house of the undying is foreshadowing Three eyed crow Bran, as a representative for the weirwoods, on the Iron throne, with King Jon Snow being a red herring?

[@SoilToSoul]

I just don't understand how you only have 13k subs! Excellent man, you are a natural speaker, share your knowledge well, and put so much worthy time and effort into these videos, and so much more. I love ancient astronomical symbolism and all things on the esoteric side, and your knowledge of meteors and other such phenomenon make me think of a million questions to ask you if I ever had the chance to have a discussion with you lol. Keep it up, and here's to the next 13k subscribers, at least! 👍🏻

[@TruckieLooks4Aliens]

Yup, it’s been 3 years and I need to see these videos to make sure it wasn’t a dream

[@Bbychaos_]

Yes! Finally watching now. Thanks again LmL for your thorough analysis as always!

[@dalegribble4308]

The bell was un clicked for me. Glad this showed up anyway. Hey LML idk if you’ll see this but I was reading a couple works by GI Gurdjeff and Rudolph Steiner and their stuff was utterly filled with things that reminded me of George’s writing and your interpretations. Check out the book “meetings with remarkable men” and tell me George hasn’t read it. Thanks !

[@natesmith2408]

"i CaNt Be LoRd Of AnYtHiNg." *becomes king*

[@Devoted2Mariah]

Even though Bran is my favorite, I love the jokes y’all make LMAO.

[@kimberlyporter9555]

I'm beginningto think that the reason the others stirred is because Bran was tricked into releasing the Night's King from the crypts of Winterfell. He was trapped there somehow. Maybe that winged snake one of the wolves saw in the sky is somehow related to the Night's King.

[@mobydickii8407]

The "winged snake", sounds like Caraxes type of dragon.

[@lo3769]

Awesome episode, as usual! Thank you 😁

[@alexcavoli6191]

Bran probably needs to have eaten the Jojen paste to do it without a weirwood tree. The Weirwood is necessary but it can be eaten for mobile power.

[@danishtasteele9272]

All the work you have done for the series is so unique and eye opening. You have reveled many secrets and an overall understanding of ASOIAF, but I think more than that, you have discovered a way (Georges way rather) that each characters arc is laid out. And now that the story makes more sense we can guess at the many paths of the future ( when expectations are subverted it will be because their are so many options).

[@tombennettband1485]

1000 points for Tarkus reference.

[@blackeyedlily]

Fantastic content, as usual! And good to hear from you as well. Hope all is going well! I look forward to more in this series.

[@TheAstroWitchLux]

Very detailed analysis and fun to watch, thanks LML!

[@jacobquirk7557]

Happy to see another video. Keep up the great work, LML

[@Nanu.Nalata]

In other words, The Night King. A Green-seer, Warg King who animates corpses to go into battle. 😬

[@kellymorrison3281]

Thank you! This is what we all needed.

[@ARVETDEG]

Love your intro song. Reminds me of the first Conan the Barbarian movie with Arnold as they sound kind of similar. With this I'm not saying your intro is bad or anything, but quite the contrary. It's a very damn fine song. Great job!

[@mauralee9987]

Enjoying these videos on Bran very much! Thank you LML!

[@chrisbatista4481]

Love the latest videos! Your points are clearer and I’m no longer confused when trying to follow along like I was in your earlier content. True sign that you’re becoming a master of your craft!

[@m0fr001]

Just found your channel! This is awesome! Thanks!

[@codyjames715]

finally. been waiting for new content!

[@jarfly4542]

I just found your content it's great idk how just now KZbin decided to show me your stuff

[@ntobekososibo2042]

Sick Thumbnail, LmL. Now to watch the video..

[@Varatil]

I've long toyed with a theory/observation about the parallels of Bran and Arya. "Growing up as a middle child of Ned Stark, I loved stories, esp morbid ones. I wanted to be a knight, but when I told people they'd just grimace and glance awkwardly at my legs. But the kid of the hand of the king gets a few strings pulled. So now I'm gonna get Dancer training, and fight like they do in the East. Aw shit, bye Dancer. Guess now I'm headed north with some guys who've got links to my dad, his past, and secret children of the throne. Along the way I'll cross paths with Sam Tarly, pass through a dark Weirwood door, and surrender my identity to some creepy 'face' people." They seem to be unfolding of one story. Like George set out to include all this in Arya's story, realized TFM & WWnet was too much for one character, and spun Bran off to go hard into old magic. I'm sure you've already covered this. But my favorite implication (beyond being a neat is observation) is how the ellision of Faceless Men and Greenseer/Three Eyed Crow threads fits nicely with Euron. The Crow's Eye, ascendant through Faceless Man killing, is like the most nefarious employment of both in the whole story.

[@threeeyedgoddess7635]

LML your new format is excellent, content outstanding!

[@applewagon253]

Excellent video. Thanks dude

[@lomiification]

It would have been awesome if bran had the skin changer eyes while Tyrion was talking

[@igc8906]

When they talk of greenseers having green OR blood red eyes, could this be alluding to figures like blood raven and even John Snow, with his wolf being albino? There has to be a deeper reason for Ghost's albinism, perhaps it's as a parallel for greensight

[@MrScottie301]

One of your best man!

[@renaeadams7868]

Just found ur vid. Thanks very much. I appreciate ur time & understanding in a wonderful narration voice. I wish ur greatest ahead with the Fantastic narration voice! Keep up the great work. Have a Peachy Magical Mango Terrific day☺️

[@daddydawn1653]

Loved this video man

[@Vidacaangel1318]

Your videos are bad ass much love, your the best so far at the game of thrones theorys

[@darkbornelines4587]

man, this is so awesome

[@moiraferreira]

Thnx David

[@daladams]

i wonder if Bran will be able to warg into one of Dany's dragons? that would be insaaaaaane!

[@johnnycamine]

loved the video, fascinating stuff. Game of thrones is so badass, i love it so much

[@andreasnordengen7191]

awesome video, boss

[@thealchemiz1134]

Love the voice made for narrating this episode!

[@michaeltavizon8333]

rewatch binge!!!

[@katem3553]

Hey LML! It's nice to see a video from you, it's been ages!

[@DavidLightbringer]

Naw, I put 2 out last month! Battle of WF and God Kings and Abominations. But yeah, I'm back on a regular schedule :)

[@katem3553]

@@DavidLightbringer well I never got notifications for those! Will check them out. Thanks.

[@DavidLightbringer]

@@katem3553 hey good news for you then! You've got 2 more videos to watch :)

[@Csizzorhandz]

i love this thank you

[@girlnettles]

21:13 "Once called Lump" ahahahhahahaha, the shade! ahahahha

[@iamjohnrobot]

15 minute random friday cardio -> 49:07 minutes when new LML drops!

[@DavidLightbringer]

hey now! Didn't know I was a secret weight loss guru!

[@Varatil]

41:26 I'm so sure this is prints/prince pun. Wolf!Bran hears men talking about prinz, noting there are prints of the wolf. Once again eliding Bran's wolfishness and princeliness. George has to have been craving an opportunity to do that homophone play from the second ge introduced wolf princes, right?

[@fenyx6573]

I find it interesting that he made a point to show that her "little grey cousins" were afraid to eat human flesh. Was Arya interpreting an aversion to a taboo as 'fear'? Who were her little grey cousins? Am I thinking on it too much? lol

[@jomckellan]

Her direwolf leads a monstrous wolfpack in the riverlands.

[@uncletomcobley6950]

Woo!

[@rubysultra]

Any thoughts on the significance of Stone.....lady Stone Heart, Dragon Stone, Black Oily Stone. It seems like Bran(Green) brings nature back to life where Ice(Death) brings and end to life and that is green. I feel like Stone and Fire have some relationship ....any thoughts? Was there a song of stone and fire that brought the doom of Valyria.....possibly like the second moon effecting death and nature on the surface......could there be something below that effects stone and fire? Valyria was stone and the fire consumed it.....could death also be fire when required?

[@bhagyasankar2070]

the black stone under THE tower in hightower which has so much mysteries surrounding it & it similarities to the ones in iron islands. Then there is the setup of a fight between euron greyjoy & leyton hightower surrounding oldtown in the book. Sansa taking the bastard name of 'Stone' might be another farfetched link

[@jorilysmatos69]

All Stark children are skin changers so Bran can awaken their power and help them hone it. All could use it in the war for the Dawn, not just Bran and Arya. Then let see who's messing with them, when they get together they're going to be unstoppable.

[@bryanhamstra4045]

Do you think bloodraven could control ghost or summer? I believe bloodraven is controlling mormonts raven and I think he may have controlled the female direwolf that gave birth to the 6 wolf pups or the old gods controlled her so the kids could find them I'm just wondering if ghost was being controlled by bloodraven when he dug up the horn and dragon glass

[@fmradio2099]

Shame we didn’t get to see Bran doing some psychic warfare against the Night King breaking out parts of the army of the dead. Or just some other astral plane Xmen type stuff.

[@danishtasteele9272]

Thank you.lml

[@rianbeegles3349]

Yes QUEEN ARYA!!! Agree with everything except the emphasis on the amount of killing Arya is going to do as I believe once she interacts, possibly gives the gift of mercy to Lady Stoneheart, Arya isn't going to have a taste for vengeance anymore. She'll serve justice and mercy though and still fight for survival, but I think her vengeance/list will be gone by then. I also believe that the point of her HoBaW arc isn't about her actually becoming an assassin or Faceless Man, but about honing the skills she only began to learn from Syrio. So no I don't believe she'll be an actual assassin.

[@DavidLightbringer]

It's possible I wasn't clear on that point because it was a bit of an aside, but no I don't think she will actually be a "faceless man," but one who has learned their skills and then gone off and done their own thing. I also think (and hope) there will be some progress from carrying out revenge to letting go of hate and anger for Arya, but we will have to see. Either way, she will be leading that wolfpack by the end, I think.

[@rianbeegles3349]

@@DavidLightbringer Thank you for clearing that up! I completely agree with Arya leading the wolfpack. It's one of the things I'm most excited about reading in the coming books, especially since it wasn't touched upon in the show. :)

[@ocandro]

Maybe Lady Stoneheart will have a redemption arc, giving kiss of life to another person - some people say to Jon, but he would have to be stored in Ice cells to be worth resurrecting before she'd get there.

[@rianbeegles3349]

@@ocandro If LS is even capable of redemption I think it would only come about if she witnesses another one of her kids die - probably would be Arya - and she ends up sacrificing her revenge by giving said kid the kiss of life. I'm not convinced though that LS is even capable of redemption. I also think her giving up her life for Jon to be resurrected is far fetched. It just doesn't work for me. I also believe her story for now is sticking to the Riverlands where she can get the most revenge. I do also believe she'll be the one to kill the Frey's, not Arya. So unless Jon is in the ice cells for months upon months and LS just miraculously gains sanity then I'd say it's going to be Melisandre and possibly Bran doing the resurrecting.

[@jjsyphor8288]

his powers have so much potential if used correctly. - 1 If he could somehow warg into a person permanently, he could be immortal and just switch bodies every time. He'd have to master warging to the highest degree but it's possible. - 2 There has to be a way for him to reforge or rebuild his body, with all the magic in the world, there has to be. It might be painful but it'd be worth it. soldiers

[@DavidLightbringer]

Number one is bolt-on theory. Ever heard of that? Look it up if not.

[@Amanda-cd6dm]

What's even more disturbing is when I died my legs wouldn't work my arms worked fine but my legs would not work

[@soxpeewee]

Wut?

[@TiroX517]

So how do you think the Others tie into all this exactly? Isn't there also plenty of foreshadowing they might be related or at the very least heavily connected to the Starks? Loved the video!

[@DavidLightbringer]

Did you happen to watch the Abominations and Godkings video I did with Quinn from Ideas of Ice and Fire? We talked about this a fair amount, and I'm also going to get to this topic in a couple of videos from now. I also talked about the basics of the 3-way Starks - Others - weirwoods connection that exists in End of Ice and Fire 4: The Battle of Winterfell video. Cheers and thanks for watching!

[@TiroX517]

Pretty sure I watched those but there seem to be so many possible connections and symbolic ties between basically the entire history of the North and the children and the others that I find it very hard to sort of keep an overlaying "canon" theory in my head it would seem haha. Especially when all of it is of course still mostly theory. I should go rewatch those videos!

[@h4hashir]

Tyrion- Bran the broken. Bran- really? Tyrion- Does that offend u cripple? Bran- yeah I saw the Jon episode u don’t need to do the same thing with me.

[@Justice4ALL.120]

it did not make sense that no one objected to Sanza being queen of the north while they do not get to be queens or kings of their territories

[@QuintRepler]

I wonder if the Faceless Men have a Weirwood tree deep in their temple. If Bran is supposed to be the ultimate weapon of the Old Gods/Weirwoods, a greenseer who can rule the Iron throne and train a new green seer over the course of a century and a half to succeed him, in response to the First Men and Andals, and the Faceless Men worship a Many-Faced God (like thousands of trees with faces) and are possibly implicated in the Doom of Valyria as the first Faceless Men were slaves of the Freehold "who had been given the Gift", as Jaqen also alludes to the slavers being given the gift as well (gift of death). Perhaps the Faceless Men were acting on the behalf of the Weirwoods as well, who foresaw Fire and Blood dealing the final blow to the Weirwoods after the First Men and Andal invasions. Or perhaps the Weirwoods of Essos (if any existed) were wiped out by the Valyrians. This would also provide a reason as to why Jaqen was in a prison train, as perhaps he had some insight he would end up at Harrenhal which is where the Isle of Faces is located (funny name huh), as well as being a fortress made of weirwood and dead bodies.

[@Trustworthy_McLegitimate]

the "Arya thing" seems to be a nod to the fact that Northeners seems to look alike. Lyanna, Arya, Alys Karstark, and they even had Jeyne Pool masquerade as Arya. ... or, mayhaps its the Northerners having some of the genetics Children of the Forests that make them look alike.

[@hypocycloidiaspora]

Loving that ELP Tarkus reference, and liked the music at the end... who is the composer? It's familiar, but I can't think of where it's from.

[@Henbot]

I can see why it happens because in fantasy the sort of Demi god wiseman/woman never becomes the ruler. Or hasn’t in the stuff I read or watched, they help a younger prince become ruler. Like Gandalf helps Aragorn instead of Gandalf taking the throne

[@Devoted2Mariah]

I think I can help, Jon was supposed to be king. Thanks to Ned basically hanging him out to dry, he ended up at the nights watch, and gets killed. Since Jon has died, he cannot become king. It may kill him permanently. I believe Bran, and Bloodraven we’re trying to save Jon. Just my take on why Bran installed himself as king. He sends Jon up north to do whatever he wants.

[@made-line7627]

@@Devoted2Mariah Why would Jon die if he became King? What do you mean? And why is it that he can't become King just because he's died before?

[@Methus3lah]

I honestly think that Arya will skinchange a horse at some point. “Arya Horseface” could’ve been foreshadowing.

[@Paul_W_222]

Varamyr's POV intrigued and disgusted me. What he did to Haggon in particular was just sad and unnecessarily cruel. The guy raised him and tried to teach him to be a decent person and he killed him and knowingly used his power for evil. According to Varamyr he cried when he died- I wonder if it was because he realized he raised a monster. But being ripped from his second life is the icing on the cake. That's COLD. In the harsh world they live in, I think it's pretty damn realistic. Some people are good, some people are evil. Same thing applies to skinchangers. We know Bran is super powerful but I wonder if Jon or even Rickon could ever be able to be as powerful of a skinchanger as Varamyr (I don't have a source but I feel like they could be stronger than Varamyr). If they could, they'd probably be like the warrior-king skinchangers you described. Very cool to think about. Awesome video man!

[@DavidLightbringer]

Varamyr has experience but probably less strength than Bran for sure. Anyone who’s watched sports knows experience CAN beat talent

[@Paul_W_222]

@@DavidLightbringer I guess that makes Bloodraven the Tom Brady of skinchangers. He has experience and talent, and one might even compare his deflated footballs to bloodraven's weirwood arrows.

[@anthonywritesfantasy]

Awesome video! Halfway through now, so maybe you'll answer this but - Is there a reason Bran doesn't/can't warg the Night King?

[@DavidLightbringer]

I can think of a couple... First of all it's hard to do that to anyone, and it's made clear Hodor is more susceptible to Bran because of his 'simple' (broken or traumatized) mind. NK is some kind of ancient wizard, so not an easy target. Secondly, his physiology is totally alien to humans, being a being made of ice. Probably Bran can't be inside the mind / body of a dragon either, too hot

[@thunderclap7154]

Imaginative take on the Stark ancestry, I never applied the implications to Arya before! I had a theory about 2 months ago regarding the Marsh Kings www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/c7fvkh/spoilers_main_thenns_transplanted/? Also think the Varamyr prologue gives clues of what might of happened to Benjen. I can’t remember if I mentioned that one before?

[@zanzedcloud6216]

i loved arya and bran in the early series,not so much now