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But as Ned saw, Baratheon genes trump everything including Lannister genes every time that they’ve mated with each other so that wouldn’t fly with him. Every Baratheon has had dark hair and Ned had a book on it proving it.

The Night Watch deserter never talked about the White Walkers in the books. That’s show-only. He just says nothing most of the time because he’s still in shock. So Ned didn’t hear squat about the White Walkers in the books from him.

Bran was always going to be the endgame king. GRRM created ASOIAF when he imagined Bran finding the direwolves in the snow and decided that this kid would be king eventually. Every other element is then just a growth of Bran’s story.

Her TWOW chapter is molding her into a Marge-type figure not Cersei.

Bran doesn’t need heirs. He’s going to near-immortal. A literal God-king. Plus magic powers Bran’s one man dynasty. The Eternal King. GRRM: But people don’t think through the consequences. They have these very powerful wizards but yet they still have kings and lords who are… why wouldn’t the wizards rule the world? I mean, power gravitates to it, you know.

I think they wanted you to think that at the beginning or you'd feel like following Daenerys was a waste of time. They knew from the beginning that Daenerys wasn't getting the throne. That wasn't their idea. It was GRRM's. Benioff and Weiss just didn't do the legwork for it just like they didn't do the legwork for Stannis to burn Shireen but even that was less abrupt than Daenerys torching everyone after she had won.

Bran didn’t get his body snatched. It’s not Bran’s mentor using his body. It’s literally just Bran with the memories of the world overshadowing his own memories. Isaac explained it but it’s in the show as well. He’s not Bran in the same way that Lady Stoneheart isn’t Catelyn Stark. If you add or subtract memories, that person is no longer the same person.

Bran would bring weirwoods back to the South. He could hook himself up to one there. He could even have a weirwood throne. Or he could go take someone else’s body if he wanted as he’s the first one in history able to successfully usurp a body It’s even foreshadowed that the winner will have a dynasty that lasts for 1,000 years

We’d have to see how it plays out. Bran is still seems to be calling the shots though. Tyrion seems to handle the minutiae And Tyrion is limited by his mortal lifespan while Bran is not. Tyrion even mentions that Bran knowing their history better than anyone else will be useful as Lord of Winterfell. Bran rules, Tyrion helps

Tbh, I think the way it is now, the story is really about Bran ascending to godhood and kingship while everyone kills each other for the throne. He’s the central character but you’re not supposed to realize that until the end Jon and Dany are just a more hardcore version of Robb and Ned Stark.

He's got an over thousand year lifespan. House Targaryen went through several succession crises in less than 1/3 of the time. Bran's heirs would presumably be Sansa's line of Starks. -------- But most of this endgame will only make sense in the books where Bran's mentor was the Former Hand of the King who used to rule Westeros as this all seeing spymaster. His mentor was an archutilitarian that did good through a lot of bad methods. He was an effective ruler though. The way GRRM seems to have set it up is that Westeros will turn into a peaceful and prosperous police state in the hands of a benevolent God-King. Seems evil but it's way better than living under a feudal monarchy.

The books are foreshadowing a god-king Preston Jacobs had this to say about Dany, Jon and Bran using another story that involved a human becoming a god and providing a solution in one of GRRM's stories. "The question is what is good in the long term and what will last. Now many people read Ice and Fire and hope for Jon and Dany to sit on the Iron throne at the end but that is not a lasting answer. The problems facing Westeros are incredibly complicated and I would say they too require a god-like intervention. This would point us more toward an ending involving Bran or the weirwood net." Looks like Preston Jacobs actually got it.

GRRM has an interesting fascination with humans becoming gods in his stories. That said, GRRM is really just replicating what the Targaryens had with their dragons with Bran and his powers. The dragons were what kept people in line for the Targaryens. Bran's powers are Hobbes' Leviathan that keeps the people in line. Yezenirl's Weirwood Leviathan got pretty close to King Bran and only didn't go that far because he admittedly wasn't sure if GRRM was bold enough to park Bran on the throne. This is what he said: So there is this book by the 16th century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes called ‘Leviathan’. As one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory, Leviathan is at its most basic level an attempt at answering the grand old sociopolitical question; “What holds society together?” What holds people together? Why aren’t we all killing each other right now? Now in the book, Hobbes, having lived through a bunch of civil wars himself, asserts that humankind’s ‘state of nature’ is one of all-out war, of every man for themselves. All against all. He posits that while small communities can function, larger societies cannot exist peacefully unless mankind relinquishes a degree of control or self-governance to a Leviathan. In mythology, a Leviathan (Hebrew for ‘whale’), is a large sea monster or dragon, a demon often associated with envy. But in this metaphor it’s any sovereign power which promises security from the chaos of all-out war in exchange for submission to its will. Hobbes characterizes the Leviathan as the ‘killer of the children of pride.’ And the children of pride are all of the other smaller factions who think they can be leviathans by establish control themselves, and consequently end up killing one another and creating all out chaos in the process. Of course Hobbes does not consider the children of pride an anomaly, but an inevitability of mankind’s natural desire for power. Essentially the leviathan is a big fish in a small pond that makes all the other fish stop fighting, and though that sounds like a big bully, once that big fish is gone everyone starts killing each other, trying to take its place. It’s like a big game of King of the Castle…. with sea monsters. ....... Once Bloodraven and the Children of the Forest set up a friendly regime to stabilize Westeros, complete with a Philosopher’s Throne to reflect the Greenseer, Bran will effectively be able to....oversee the realm, and maintain fail safe control over the most powerful weapons in the realm. When spring comes, power would ultimately reside with a boy taught to transcend the petty pride and violence of mankind and use his sight to see all sides of a conflict and truly act for the greater good. Effectively, a god on earth. Not literally the one from the stories of the fabled Great Empire of the Dawn, but rather a reflection of that ideal of a society at it’s highest, ruled by a god. But we need to dispense with the idealistic utopian version of this and see this arrangement realistically. What makes for the “right” decision, or the “ideal” society is subjective and imperfect and has been discussed and debated by philosophers and societies for ages. What we really need to acknowledge here is the bias. Bloodraven was an absolutist who’s notion of an ideal society was always one where power resided with a central sovereign who looked beyond strict customs or what was popular, and acted for the greater good, and for him this is his best option to deal with the conflicting interests of humanity. In fact it’s rather fitting that all of this is happening now on Brynden River’s watch, as he seems willing to break several of the central customs typically associated with the Old Gods.

Although, he had the least screentime/page time out of the main characters, Bran's the most important one. The Memory of Man, the Three Eyed Raven, the future king of Westeros, a god, the last son of Eddard Stark, the First POV etc.

the game of thrones is over. Bran can see anyone anywhere at anytime. You cannot play the game with Bran there. Littlefinger learned that to his sorrow