26:30 Bloodraven being the "last greenseer" can be true in a different way. Instead of the final person in the position of greenseer, it could mean that he is simply the most recent. When we talk of last night or last year we never assume that there never will be another. It just means that we're talking about the most recent. As soon as another person joins the ranks of greenseer (Bran) then they will become the last greenseer.
I actually get excited when you post. It's so hard to find someone with new theories/ideas after all these years. Hurry up and drop that Others video though😂😂
I think the most likely way it happened is that there were several different people building things that all got merged into one character. Bran Stark built Winterfell. His son, also called Bran, built the wall. His son, Bran, built Storms End. That sort of thing.
Yeah, that's always been my thoughts about Bran the Builder. George is an American. It's pretty easy to see what he's doing here. It feels quite familiar.
32:30 in elden ring the wolves are also called “shadows of the empyrean” because they are only given to people who can ascend to godhood like queen marika’s step daughter ranni. Ranni refuses to become a god because it would deprive her of her free will, which makes me wonder if Bran would do the same thing. Bran has a wolf and he is offered eternal life by becoming the three eyes raven.
The more I learn about how magic operates here, the more I wonder if Martin still likes his creation. It kind of seems like he's essentially saying that in order to get anything cool, you need really powerful magic, which is really just blood magic, which requires all manner of nastiness. He's a 'gardener', so perhaps he just took a while to realize how bleak his seeds turned out to be. Might explain why Winds is taking so long.
Bran The Builder was real, but he was part human, part COTF, and part GreenMan. The grandson of Garth The Green, and the grandfather of Brandon The Breaker.
Can I say I love your theories? I got really into the books Andre seeing the show, and I agree on pretty much all of your takes, especially on old Nan. And the weirwoods. Keep up the good work and I look forward to watching many more of your videos.
all Brandon Starks are reincarnations of each other until they reach Bran in the books - he is all of them, lived their lives and learned and lost yet can live
Loved this. It made me think of something that is probably well trodden territory and only mildly interesting but none the less: Your idea of Bran the Builder merely siteing the construction of Storm's End after the successive failures of previous castles put me in mind of a snippet from some version of Arthurian legend. As I seem to recall, one of the early feats by which Merlin gains notoriety is by helping a duke or something re-site a castle after 2 or three failed attempts that end in wall colapse. He tells the duke and his architect that there is an underground stream or something and shows them the signs. It then occurs that Bran the Builder fills a very similar role in Westeros as Merlin in medieval folklore as the guy who for centuries was said to have built everything big or unexplainable like Stonehenge, etc.
Mind you I don't think this observation suggests any indication about whether B the B was "real" in any sense. It's the nature of the genre to be inspired by folklore and myth. He could fill that role of Merlin in Westerosi folklore *and* he could have actually done those things.
Bran the Builder, like most legendary founders, embodies a theory of rule. Starks don't literally trace their ancestry directly to him, they draw a line between their current dominance and his legendary feats. He may have been one man, or several men across several centuries, or someone just assumed to have existed, to tie all the myths and legends together. Like with any myth, the part that is consistently re-told is the important part. Bran the Builder's relationship with his parents isn't important to us, but the fact that he descends from legendary genocidal warrior Brandon of the Bloody Blade is important to some. I would say that is evidence that he was party to the Pact, at least symbolically. As we know, the Pact was made by people who did not have written language, so wouldn't have been signed per se. And I don't believe the First Men would have been unified enough to send a continent's worth of leaders and delegates to a magic island, then independently agree to abide by the terms reached there. Considering that the terms are kind of one-sided (Men get sovereignty basically everywhere they can manage, Children of the Forest get to live wherever they can hide, Giants get utterly shafted. They might as well have given mermaids permission to live under the sea. So maybe Bran the Builder wasn't a guy who brokered peace and designed megastructures, but his legend represents a shift from absolute genocidal conquest toward a new First Men culture of building walls around trees. The right of kings would come less from feats of killing everyone in the way, more from inheritance, dynasty, tradition, history. The whole Stark mystique of being a steadfast presence in Winterfell. Personally, I see Bran the Builder and the other Age of Heroes figures as the faces on the trees. If they have faces, they might as well have names. Which sort of fits with the idea that the trees built the Wall. If they can raise seven hundred feet of ice around and between themselves, they may be able to support massive thick walls and a drum tower, or even eight hundred feet of Hightower.
I don't want to think of it as a full theory at this point. It's more something I suspect. Bran is Brandon the Builder. In some way his spirit trapped in the past, warging into either the living or the dead to interact with the world as necessary. To that point he's perhaps still moving in the world. This would give the ambiguity a bit more substance. A Builder that could cross centuries yet still make you wonder if he was the same person because he would have been working through different bodies. What I'd also like to see explored is the logical implications of the Last Hero not having a name. This is a feature that fits better in a lineage of CotF as they didn't have names as the First Men did. In a weird way it implies Brandon may have originally been a CotF. It may make sense to simply backfill the line of kings with the name Brandon once a First Men name was used by a later descendant. It could also fit with the line "the world Men had lost" if this figure was a CotF. It also makes me wonder why "Builder" would be an epithet of note. From the CotF perspective building would be weird, but not from a First Men perspective. First Men were "giants" from the CotF perspective even if the name applies more to what it does at this point in time. CotF skinchanging First Men would also fit the legends from a certain perspective. I've always been fascinated by the fact there are no explicitly CotF framed legends. No figures that would be CotF figures interacting with the First Men. It's made me wonder to what extent it's possible these tales were adopted and retold as First Men perspective legends. Later set down by Septons and Maesters that rationalized them as First Men figures because no explicitly CotF legends exist. Another way, a Maester might argue that CotF didn't build so the myth must have been about a First Man. So if one did it wouldn't fit their concept of the CotF. Would CotF simply refuse on principle to adopt successful technology and strategy used by First Men? If an outlier existed how would either group contextualize that person?
George “he’s some caveman who’s myth and legend got overblown and exaggerated” This guy “well we can start by disregarding that completely” I love asoif UA-cam 😂
Sometimes, I feel the real question isn’t whether Bran is real, but whether he’s the “good guy.” I believe the Three-Eyed Raven is actually Bran the Builder, who has been living successive second lives by inhabiting the bodies of the Children of the Forest, specifically those who are greenseers. At some point, however, he became trapped in his cave, as shown in the series. The Night King and his army of the dead surrounded the cave, ensuring no one could leave. This might explain why the Three-Eyed Raven orchestrated Bloodraven’s arrival at the cave, much like he later manipulated events to guide Bran there. To avoid a Varamyr Sixskins scenario, where the host body resists the skinchanger, the host must either be mentally vulnerable-like Hodor-or willingly allow the invasion. I think the entire time Bran spent in the cave, the Three-Eyed Raven was grooming him as a new host, preparing to transfer from Bloodraven’s body into Bran’s. In fact, from the show, I believe that Bloodraven who still had a tiny bit of autonomy because he was much older and stronger when he was inhabited by the 3 Eyed Raven/Bran the Builder actually tried to warn Bran of becoming lost in the visions. Not enough is said about Max von Sydow's performance because what I picked up was an internal conflict. After Bran leaves the cave, I believe it’s no longer truly Bran in control but the Three-Eyed Raven-aka Bran the Builder-now occupying his body. This version of Bran is manipulative, self-centered, and entirely lacking empathy. He displays cruelty, as seen in his treatment of Meera and Sansa. The most significant example of his manipulative nature comes when he maneuvers events to make himself king. He sets off a chain reaction that leads Jon to kill Daenerys and then surrounds himself with a council of corrupt or incompetent advisors. If Jon is the successor to the Night King, his actions must reflect that role-yet he doesn’t suddenly become a villain. This contrast suggests a deeper motive for the Night King. Bran had a lot of the tendencies of the 3 Eyed Raven/Bran the Builder as he was a bit cruel to Hodor. He need Hodor was frightened when he skin changed into him but he did it anyway. I think the Night King wasn’t seeking destruction for its own sake but was trying to stop Bran from becoming the “Stallion Who Mounts the World.” This could be tied to a pact the Night King made with the Children of the Forest-an agreement to prevent Bran’s ultimate ascension and the dangerous power he represents.
Winterfell itself could be the actual weirwood World Tree, and that the Starks perhaps are the reason all this went to hell when they corrupted the Heart of the World Tree, the literal ground zero of this whole thing. You pointed out in another video where Bran looked out into the Heart of Winter, and freaked out because he saw what it *was*, and that could be because he was looking back at Winterfell itself, not necessarily the Wall.
Assuming Bran the Builder is still alive, I think it would be interesting if the whole reason guest right and kin slaying are so severely important in the north is because Bran the Builder established it as a safeguard, knowing that eventually someone in his line-a la young Bran-would find him and put an end to everything he’s built.
If you want a building from our Earth that may be 8k years old, you should check the Cappadocian underground cities. My guess is that the original Winterfell was an underground city that had a round, cylindrical tower within its Godswoods.
ASoIaF Theorist, a small channel, has a great series of videos on how the history of Westeros is strange & on the Aldals already being there during the Long Night. It's a good listen.
Perhaps Bran the Builder is the “Brandon”, we see tied up to the Weirwood having his throat slit, in “our” Bran’s last Weirwood vision in A Dance with Dragons? And this “Brandon” is also “Coldhands”, whom seems to cover up his throat for some reason.
Hey Michael, long time subscriber, second time commenter. Love the videos, alll that good stuff, keep at it man. One thing that popped out to me just now listening is your hypothesis that the warding could be related to the roots. This strikes me as odd as we speculate that the roots run all across Westeros, essentially building the Weirwood net, right? Correct me if I have some part of that wrong, but I would take this as meaning if the roots were the basis of the protection, that would seem to a casual listening that the protection extends everywhere. I'm probably missing something here, feel free to correct anything. Thanks again man. --Ryan
Can Marika from the Elden ring be the Night’s King’s corpse queen, in the story, and she is at the Heart of Winter. She’s the one given birth to the ice shadows we saw in the AGoT prologue
What if main story Bran is Bran the Builder? Since he is a man (boy) in a cave. Using the weirwood magic to kickstart and end the song of ice and fire...
“Hold the Door” should have meant that Hodor (Bran) takes up Bloodraven’s sword and holds the door with it. Why else would that sword be in the North and why would Bran do so much sword fighting practice as Hodor?
While your ER analysis isn't perfect, Marika was 100% orchestrating her death. Dialogue from the blacksmith at the Roundtable (game's hub zone) confirms she commissioned from him a weapon that could kill gods, which the Elden Beast is
This feels similar to the god emperor in the Dune books who transformed into a worm. Except Bran becomes one with a tree, as he like the god emperor will guide humanity after the bloodshed. As the whites may be defeated and if the Blackfyre and Targaryen war maybe their last civil war if Aegon and Daenerys die and John is the “last” Targaryen. Thus, kind of like in Dune a bloody war leads to the Starks who ironically like the Atredis who also had their founder be kind of immortal to lead. As people finally move on from the past “breaking the cycle”
What makes it hard to tell is GRRMs description that bran the builder stories are comparable to like Noah’s Ark, which to me sounds like a subtle hint that no it ain’t real or highly highly misunderstood. Or that’s just GRRM throwing us a red herring…
Is that an AI generated image you're using for Brandon there? If not you forgot to give credit to the artist. It really looks like AI, but giving you the benefit of the doubt here because it seems like you respect art.
"Let me know in the comments" mid-video is so distracting, lol. I can be listening along, and when I hear that, I think the video is over. Whole 12 minutes left!
these are megaprojects in a primitive world. the most likely thing is that bran the builder built house stark as something of an architecture firm, and house stark built or deaigned a lot of these things over a really long time.
i definitely dont think bran the builder is a greenseer, especially if he was there for the pact. at the time if the pact, the first men were anti-greenseer, and they would have started getting magic after, probably many generations later including some interbreeding with the children of the forest. the current starks seem to have married into their warg/green magic
in GoT history and lore about Winterfell, Roose Bolton says the same basically. First men built ring fort around hot spring that kept them warm during the winter. Generation after generation they added more and more until PUFF you got Winterfell. Hell, I think oldest part of current winterfell is from andal age
"So, whether it was really Brandon the Builder or whether it was just some random guy..."
My brain: "Brandom guy"
26:30 Bloodraven being the "last greenseer" can be true in a different way. Instead of the final person in the position of greenseer, it could mean that he is simply the most recent.
When we talk of last night or last year we never assume that there never will be another. It just means that we're talking about the most recent. As soon as another person joins the ranks of greenseer (Bran) then they will become the last greenseer.
No, because last, in this context, means there is already a new one. Like in your exemple we call last year last year because we are in the new one.
@@FlorianMarkok so replace “will be” with “is” and you’re good
As we know Bran the Builder is currently in Bloodraven's cave. His name is Jojen.
This can be proven because Old Nan calls him little grandfather. The only character old enough to be Old Nans grandfather is clearly Bran The Builder
The grey sheep won’t tell you this
Wait what jojen is bran reincarnated? Need a video on this
I actually get excited when you post. It's so hard to find someone with new theories/ideas after all these years. Hurry up and drop that Others video though😂😂
I think the most likely way it happened is that there were several different people building things that all got merged into one character.
Bran Stark built Winterfell. His son, also called Bran, built the wall. His son, Bran, built Storms End. That sort of thing.
🤯 brad the builder is strapped to tree in the winterfell basement
Yeah, that's always been my thoughts about Bran the Builder. George is an American. It's pretty easy to see what he's doing here. It feels quite familiar.
32:30 in elden ring the wolves are also called “shadows of the empyrean” because they are only given to people who can ascend to godhood like queen marika’s step daughter ranni. Ranni refuses to become a god because it would deprive her of her free will, which makes me wonder if Bran would do the same thing. Bran has a wolf and he is offered eternal life by becoming the three eyes raven.
The more I learn about how magic operates here, the more I wonder if Martin still likes his creation. It kind of seems like he's essentially saying that in order to get anything cool, you need really powerful magic, which is really just blood magic, which requires all manner of nastiness. He's a 'gardener', so perhaps he just took a while to realize how bleak his seeds turned out to be. Might explain why Winds is taking so long.
Let’s go!!! It’s a great day any time you release a theory video. :)
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Bran The Builder was real, but he was part human, part COTF, and part GreenMan.
The grandson of Garth The Green, and the grandfather of Brandon The Breaker.
Can I say I love your theories? I got really into the books Andre seeing the show, and I agree on pretty much all of your takes, especially on old Nan. And the weirwoods. Keep up the good work and I look forward to watching many more of your videos.
"And I'm gonna make my own way in the world! With blackjack and *stories*...and you know what, forget the blackjack!" GREAT Fururama reference! Hahaha
all Brandon Starks are reincarnations of each other until they reach Bran in the books - he is all of them, lived their lives and learned and lost yet can live
this is my insomnia talking
Loved this. It made me think of something that is probably well trodden territory and only mildly interesting but none the less: Your idea of Bran the Builder merely siteing the construction of Storm's End after the successive failures of previous castles put me in mind of a snippet from some version of Arthurian legend. As I seem to recall, one of the early feats by which Merlin gains notoriety is by helping a duke or something re-site a castle after 2 or three failed attempts that end in wall colapse. He tells the duke and his architect that there is an underground stream or something and shows them the signs.
It then occurs that Bran the Builder fills a very similar role in Westeros as Merlin in medieval folklore as the guy who for centuries was said to have built everything big or unexplainable like Stonehenge, etc.
I never heard that Merlin build Stonehenge.
Mind you I don't think this observation suggests any indication about whether B the B was "real" in any sense. It's the nature of the genre to be inspired by folklore and myth. He could fill that role of Merlin in Westerosi folklore *and* he could have actually done those things.
I cant wait for your video about the others. Good job as always, man.
The most likely scenario is that Bran the builder is an amalgamation of several early Stark kings and their siblings and children.
Bran the Builder, like most legendary founders, embodies a theory of rule. Starks don't literally trace their ancestry directly to him, they draw a line between their current dominance and his legendary feats. He may have been one man, or several men across several centuries, or someone just assumed to have existed, to tie all the myths and legends together.
Like with any myth, the part that is consistently re-told is the important part. Bran the Builder's relationship with his parents isn't important to us, but the fact that he descends from legendary genocidal warrior Brandon of the Bloody Blade is important to some. I would say that is evidence that he was party to the Pact, at least symbolically.
As we know, the Pact was made by people who did not have written language, so wouldn't have been signed per se. And I don't believe the First Men would have been unified enough to send a continent's worth of leaders and delegates to a magic island, then independently agree to abide by the terms reached there. Considering that the terms are kind of one-sided (Men get sovereignty basically everywhere they can manage, Children of the Forest get to live wherever they can hide, Giants get utterly shafted. They might as well have given mermaids permission to live under the sea.
So maybe Bran the Builder wasn't a guy who brokered peace and designed megastructures, but his legend represents a shift from absolute genocidal conquest toward a new First Men culture of building walls around trees. The right of kings would come less from feats of killing everyone in the way, more from inheritance, dynasty, tradition, history. The whole Stark mystique of being a steadfast presence in Winterfell.
Personally, I see Bran the Builder and the other Age of Heroes figures as the faces on the trees. If they have faces, they might as well have names. Which sort of fits with the idea that the trees built the Wall. If they can raise seven hundred feet of ice around and between themselves, they may be able to support massive thick walls and a drum tower, or even eight hundred feet of Hightower.
If he won’t write proto history we will never know if the Last Heroes were sacrificed to the trees to grow the wall.
I don't want to think of it as a full theory at this point. It's more something I suspect. Bran is Brandon the Builder. In some way his spirit trapped in the past, warging into either the living or the dead to interact with the world as necessary. To that point he's perhaps still moving in the world. This would give the ambiguity a bit more substance. A Builder that could cross centuries yet still make you wonder if he was the same person because he would have been working through different bodies.
What I'd also like to see explored is the logical implications of the Last Hero not having a name. This is a feature that fits better in a lineage of CotF as they didn't have names as the First Men did. In a weird way it implies Brandon may have originally been a CotF. It may make sense to simply backfill the line of kings with the name Brandon once a First Men name was used by a later descendant. It could also fit with the line "the world Men had lost" if this figure was a CotF. It also makes me wonder why "Builder" would be an epithet of note. From the CotF perspective building would be weird, but not from a First Men perspective. First Men were "giants" from the CotF perspective even if the name applies more to what it does at this point in time. CotF skinchanging First Men would also fit the legends from a certain perspective. I've always been fascinated by the fact there are no explicitly CotF framed legends. No figures that would be CotF figures interacting with the First Men. It's made me wonder to what extent it's possible these tales were adopted and retold as First Men perspective legends. Later set down by Septons and Maesters that rationalized them as First Men figures because no explicitly CotF legends exist. Another way, a Maester might argue that CotF didn't build so the myth must have been about a First Man. So if one did it wouldn't fit their concept of the CotF. Would CotF simply refuse on principle to adopt successful technology and strategy used by First Men? If an outlier existed how would either group contextualize that person?
George “he’s some caveman who’s myth and legend got overblown and exaggerated”
This guy “well we can start by disregarding that completely”
I love asoif UA-cam 😂
Sometimes, I feel the real question isn’t whether Bran is real, but whether he’s the “good guy.” I believe the Three-Eyed Raven is actually Bran the Builder, who has been living successive second lives by inhabiting the bodies of the Children of the Forest, specifically those who are greenseers. At some point, however, he became trapped in his cave, as shown in the series. The Night King and his army of the dead surrounded the cave, ensuring no one could leave. This might explain why the Three-Eyed Raven orchestrated Bloodraven’s arrival at the cave, much like he later manipulated events to guide Bran there.
To avoid a Varamyr Sixskins scenario, where the host body resists the skinchanger, the host must either be mentally vulnerable-like Hodor-or willingly allow the invasion. I think the entire time Bran spent in the cave, the Three-Eyed Raven was grooming him as a new host, preparing to transfer from Bloodraven’s body into Bran’s.
In fact, from the show, I believe that Bloodraven who still had a tiny bit of autonomy because he was much older and stronger when he was inhabited by the 3 Eyed Raven/Bran the Builder actually tried to warn Bran of becoming lost in the visions. Not enough is said about Max von Sydow's performance because what I picked up was an internal conflict.
After Bran leaves the cave, I believe it’s no longer truly Bran in control but the Three-Eyed Raven-aka Bran the Builder-now occupying his body. This version of Bran is manipulative, self-centered, and entirely lacking empathy. He displays cruelty, as seen in his treatment of Meera and Sansa. The most significant example of his manipulative nature comes when he maneuvers events to make himself king. He sets off a chain reaction that leads Jon to kill Daenerys and then surrounds himself with a council of corrupt or incompetent advisors.
If Jon is the successor to the Night King, his actions must reflect that role-yet he doesn’t suddenly become a villain. This contrast suggests a deeper motive for the Night King. Bran had a lot of the tendencies of the 3 Eyed Raven/Bran the Builder as he was a bit cruel to Hodor. He need Hodor was frightened when he skin changed into him but he did it anyway.
I think the Night King wasn’t seeking destruction for its own sake but was trying to stop Bran from becoming the “Stallion Who Mounts the World.” This could be tied to a pact the Night King made with the Children of the Forest-an agreement to prevent Bran’s ultimate ascension and the dangerous power he represents.
Winterfell itself could be the actual weirwood World Tree, and that the Starks perhaps are the reason all this went to hell when they corrupted the Heart of the World Tree, the literal ground zero of this whole thing. You pointed out in another video where Bran looked out into the Heart of Winter, and freaked out because he saw what it *was*, and that could be because he was looking back at Winterfell itself, not necessarily the Wall.
Sneak attack WKUK deserves a thumbs up.
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Assuming Bran the Builder is still alive, I think it would be interesting if the whole reason guest right and kin slaying are so severely important in the north is because Bran the Builder established it as a safeguard, knowing that eventually someone in his line-a la young Bran-would find him and put an end to everything he’s built.
Thanks for the mention about spoilers for Elden Ring. Working on the game now. Granted some things have been already spoiled by the internet
*Bran read the inscription on the ancient tomb*
Someone Randomguy, Lord of Winterfell and King in the North.
If you want a building from our Earth that may be 8k years old, you should check the Cappadocian underground cities.
My guess is that the original Winterfell was an underground city that had a round, cylindrical tower within its Godswoods.
I turned into a vampire waiting for Winds of Winter.
I suck up every video about ASOIAF.
ASoIaF Theorist, a small channel, has a great series of videos on how the history of Westeros is strange & on the Aldals already being there during the Long Night.
It's a good listen.
Perhaps Bran the Builder is the “Brandon”, we see tied up to the Weirwood having his throat slit, in “our” Bran’s last Weirwood vision in A Dance with Dragons?
And this “Brandon” is also “Coldhands”, whom seems to cover up his throat for some reason.
Hey Michael, long time subscriber, second time commenter. Love the videos, alll that good stuff, keep at it man. One thing that popped out to me just now listening is your hypothesis that the warding could be related to the roots. This strikes me as odd as we speculate that the roots run all across Westeros, essentially building the Weirwood net, right? Correct me if I have some part of that wrong, but I would take this as meaning if the roots were the basis of the protection, that would seem to a casual listening that the protection extends everywhere. I'm probably missing something here, feel free to correct anything. Thanks again man. --Ryan
Can Marika from the Elden ring be the Night’s King’s corpse queen, in the story, and she is at the Heart of Winter. She’s the one given birth to the ice shadows we saw in the AGoT prologue
Lenin is probably the last person I'd expect to hear a reference to in an ASOIAF video
Michael is awesome
quoting Lenin in the middle of a GoT video is not what I was expecting LMAO
Great video as always, Mike.
Do you have plans on doing more livestreams with DML?
What if main story Bran is Bran the Builder? Since he is a man (boy) in a cave. Using the weirwood magic to kickstart and end the song of ice and fire...
Bran the Builder is a greyseer that can see through stone and ice
Bran was so stinkin cute as a kid. Puberty makes weirdos of us all
“Hold the Door” should have meant that Hodor (Bran) takes up Bloodraven’s sword and holds the door with it. Why else would that sword be in the North and why would Bran do so much sword fighting practice as Hodor?
While your ER analysis isn't perfect, Marika was 100% orchestrating her death. Dialogue from the blacksmith at the Roundtable (game's hub zone) confirms she commissioned from him a weapon that could kill gods, which the Elden Beast is
This feels similar to the god emperor in the Dune books who transformed into a worm. Except Bran becomes one with a tree, as he like the god emperor will guide humanity after the bloodshed. As the whites may be defeated and if the Blackfyre and Targaryen war maybe their last civil war if Aegon and Daenerys die and John is the “last” Targaryen. Thus, kind of like in Dune a bloody war leads to the Starks who ironically like the Atredis who also had their founder be kind of immortal to lead. As people finally move on from the past “breaking the cycle”
What makes it hard to tell is GRRMs description that bran the builder stories are comparable to like Noah’s Ark, which to me sounds like a subtle hint that no it ain’t real or highly highly misunderstood. Or that’s just GRRM throwing us a red herring…
Love it
We know a fair bit about Akhenaten, who lived over 3000 years ago, soooo
Love this, but wasn't Brandon of the Bloody Blade the founder of the Starks? Not really a major facet of the video, but still
Your audio is messed up. Only works in one headphone
He raised castles, or he razed castles?
Also draft Craig Mazin to fiinsh Winds.
First and gay
First, gay, and not Italian
last and straight
@@illiteratethug3305 not first but gay
Really last, and Italian.
First half centaur
Is that an AI generated image you're using for Brandon there? If not you forgot to give credit to the artist.
It really looks like AI, but giving you the benefit of the doubt here because it seems like you respect art.
13:26 I reverse image search it and didn't find anything. So either very obscure, or ai.
"Let me know in the comments" mid-video is so distracting, lol. I can be listening along, and when I hear that, I think the video is over. Whole 12 minutes left!
Have not watched. But I can say for sure that bran is a fictional character as in fact not real
these are megaprojects in a primitive world.
the most likely thing is that bran the builder built house stark as something of an architecture firm, and house stark built or deaigned a lot of these things over a really long time.
i definitely dont think bran the builder is a greenseer, especially if he was there for the pact. at the time if the pact, the first men were anti-greenseer, and they would have started getting magic after, probably many generations later including some interbreeding with the children of the forest.
the current starks seem to have married into their warg/green magic
i could see him being alive as a white walker though
in GoT history and lore about Winterfell, Roose Bolton says the same basically. First men built ring fort around hot spring that kept them warm during the winter. Generation after generation they added more and more until PUFF you got Winterfell. Hell, I think oldest part of current winterfell is from andal age
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