This is something that I certainly didn’t pick up on the first time around, “trees ought not have eyes”. These sorts of things make one do a double take even if it’s likely just a plot excuse to get Bran climbing right?Īnyway, the next point here is that Bran has always been frightened of the Weirwood. But on a repeat read I have to wonder if there isn’t something slightly more sinister going on… the sudden change in mood along with the otherwise completely in context “wasn’t his pony anymore” are easy to write off as nothing, but looking back now that we know there is a grizzled old greenseer out there, who can see through the eyes of trees and animals it deserves note. It is perfectly reasonable that at this point he was feeling upset about leaving and so ran off to be by himself. The first paragraph is mostly a reminder of something I had overlooked on my first read, Bran had every intention of saying goodbye to his friends in Winterfell since he was supposed to be going south the next day. Ok, so above you have some selected quotes from the chapter leading up to Bran’s fall. Crows circled the broken tower, waiting for corn. Somewhere off in the distance, a wolf was howling. Screaming, Bran went backward out the window into empty air. He was halfway up the tree, moving easily from limb to limb, when the wolf got to his feet and began to howl. Bran scratched him behind the ears, then turned away, jumped, grabbed a low branch, and pulled himself up. "You stay here," he told him at the base of the sentinel tree near the armory wall.
The heart tree had always frightened him trees ought not have eyes, Bran thought, or leaves that looked like hands. He raced across the godswood, taking the long way around to avoid the pool where the heart tree grew. That was the end of his farewells. Instead Bran spent the morning alone in the godswood, trying to teach his wolf to fetch a stick, and failing. He turned and ran off before Hodor and the other stableboys could see the tears in his eyes. He had gone to the stable first, and seen his pony there in its stall, except it wasn't his pony anymore, he was getting a real horse and leaving the pony behind, and all of a sudden Bran just wanted to sit down and cry. The obvious place to start, while perhaps not the beginning, is with Bran’s fall…īut it was no good. I’m going to try and work my way through the quotes and thought process that led me to this conclusion.
BR is not the altruistic “for the greater good”, just working from the shadows and willing to do whatever is necessary, character I thought he was on my first read. The Three Eyed Crow (3eC), contrary to popular opinion, is not Blood Raven (BR) at all.
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