In what episode will Bran Stark start walking? Who is the Night King? Game of Thrones fans are sure they found an important clue in the final episode

Over the course of seven seasons, we've watched Game of Thrones characters go from bad to good, from good to villain, and to die and come back to life. They fell in love and betrayed their lovers, traveled throughout Westeros and beyond, and trained. But no one has changed as much as Bran Stark: the little boy who loved to climb the walls of Winterfell became the Three-Eyed Raven. And now in front of him, in full view, is the entire history of Westeros. Despite his capabilities, Bran Stark does not interfere in any way with events, and his inaction raises many questions among fans.

Why does he reveal important information when he does (see the scene with Sam Tarly and the revelation of the secret of Jon Snow's birth)? Why is he acting so strange? What does he know and at what point will he find out? And, the most exciting question: what if he is the Night King? Esquire I spoke with the actor who played the role, Isaac Hemstead-Wright, and tried to find out the answers.

Why is Bran so weird?

We have showrunners (David Benioff and Dan Weiss. - Esquire) there was a conversation about what Bran would be like after the entire history of mankind was downloaded into his brain. They wanted him to be something like Doctor Manhattan from the Watchmen comics. We came up with the idea that Bran would be able to exist simultaneously in different time spaces and access any event at any time. But at the same time, we didn't want the character to become boring and uninteresting; it was necessary to preserve a share of mysticism and a bit of Bran himself. It was cool, I read the whole script and played Bran like he knew everything that was going to happen at the end. So when he looks at the dagger, he thinks, “Oh, this dagger will kill Littlefinger.” The difficulty was that sometimes it could seem boring, and it was important not to let the hero become completely boring.

About the conversation with Sam Tarly in the final episode

In this scene, on the contrary, Bran learns something new, and this is not a case where he cannot be surprised. He might have thought, "Oh, this is an interesting discovery in the history of Westeros - cool." Because when Bran returned to Winterfell, everything seemed boring to him. He has already surpassed the most unrivaled genius; he knows literally the entire history of the universe. He sits like this and thinks: “Oh, well, I have nothing to do here. We have a great war looming here, and I’m just sitting here.” So the arrival of Sam, who knows some things and can teach them, is a joyful event for Bran.

Why doesn't Bran reveal the information?

I don't think Bran is keeping the information to himself. He is still not the Three-Eyed Raven, who sat on a tree for a thousand years and went through the entire history of the world. He just has a Kindle library in his head with all the information, but he hasn't had time to go through it. The previous Raven had an eternity to See Everything and remember it forever. Bran still needs time. There's a moment in Sam's scene where he asks, "Are you sure? Let me take a look and make sure.”

Same thing with Littlefinger. It wasn't like he didn't tell his sisters anything. He just needed time to think before they came to him and asked him what was going on. And he was like, “Oh my God, look!” Bran is still a teenager and has a lot to learn. He needs time.

Is the Bran we love still with us?

This line explains it all: “I remember what it was like to be Brandon Stark, but I remember so much more.” He is now more focused on the fact that the end of the world is approaching and he needs to act. I think Bran understands that Meera Reed has fulfilled her purpose, which was to bring him to Winterfell. He’s not cold, like, “That’s it, get out of here, I don’t need you anymore.” It's more like, "Thank you, but now I need to pay attention to more important things."

Is Bran the Night King?

This theory has been blowing up on social media for the past few weeks. Some people post collages of me and the Night King and are like “yes, that’s definitely him, one hundred percent!” But it seems to me that we are not very similar. The coolest thing about the final season is that all the theories will end and everyone will get answers. Personally, I think the Night King story is a bit far-fetched, but I could say the same about the Hodor theory. But when I saw it on paper, I thought: “It can’t be!” But this is Game of Thrones, so anything is possible. I would like to be the Night King. Wouldn't it be cool to say, "Yeah, it was this all along I" But I don’t know - I doubt it.

About the role of the Three-Eyed Raven

I played myself for most of the series. Bran is like me, only in more unusual circumstances - like in the cave when he has visions. This time I got to develop a completely new character and it was really fun. In each scene, I imagined and thought about what was happening in a different place. Because that's really what's happening with Bran: he has a whole tangle of events in his head.

Brandon Stark, commonly referred to simply as Bran, is a fictional character from the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series by American writer George R. R. Martin and the Game of Thrones series. Thrones") based on this cycle.

Martin told Rolling Stone in 2014 that the storyline surrounding Bran, Jaime and Cersei Lannister hooked many readers early in the first novel.

Appearing in the first novel in 1996, A Game of Thrones, Bran appears as the son of Ned Stark, Lord Emeritus of Winterfell, an ancient fortress located in the north of the fictional kingdom of Westeros. Subsequently, Bran participates in the events of the novel “A Clash of Kings” in 1998 and “A Storm of Swords” in 2000.

The character became one of the few famous fantasy characters who was not included in Martin's fourth novel, A Feast for Crows. However, Bran appeared in the next film, A Dance with Dragons, in 2011.

In the series, the role of Bran Stark was played by Isaac Hempstead Wright.

The second son of Eddard "Ned" Stark and his wife Catelyn is seven years old in Game of Thrones. He has five siblings: Robb, Sansa, Rickon, Arya and Jon Snow (bastard). Bran is constantly accompanied by his “direwolf” Leto.

Bran has the thick brown hair and deep blue eyes of House Tully, one of the great houses of the Seven Kingdoms. According to Martin, Bran is a submissive and practical, sweet and sensitive boy, beloved by everyone in Winterfell. This hero loved climbing and the process of exploring the walls and ramparts of the castle.

His dreams of becoming a knight were shattered when a treacherous attempt to take his life resulted in him falling from a tower and leaving him a paralyzed cripple. However, Bran came to terms with his limitations and discovered his supernatural abilities. He became a “tree seer” (“seeing through the greenery”), that is, he received the gift of seeing prophetic dreams.

Bran established a "werewolf bond" with his direwolf, into which he learned to transfer his mind. Those with such abilities are called wargs. By showing his growing maturity, Bran proves that he has special value despite his status as a "broken boy" - one who cannot walk.

The youngest in the entire series of novels, Bran embodied the image of the young hero as conceived by Martin. Journalist Mikal Gilmore noted in 2014 that the moment in Game of Thrones when Jaime Lannister pushes Bran off the tower simply "grabs you by the throat."

Martin commented on this in an interview: "Millions of people have told me that this was the moment that hooked them. They said to me, 'Well, these aren't the same stories we've read hundreds of times before.'" Bran is the first a hero whose fate you want to follow."

"When people look back at the events of the past, they begin to think that Bran is the main character of the whole story. He is the young King Arthur. You follow what happens to this boy, and then - bam! You just don't expect what could happen to him like that. So much for success [laughs]."

In 2000, Martin called Bran the most difficult character for him in the A Song of Ice and Fire series. The writer stated: "First of all, Bran is the youngest of all the main characters, and children are difficult to write about. I think the younger you are, the more difficult it is for you. Also, Bran is the character most deeply involved in magic, and I "I try to be very careful about dealing with magic, sorcery and anything supernatural in these novels. So I have to be careful not to go too far. All of this makes the chapters involving Bran difficult to write."

Booklist's 1999 review gave Bran "featured character" status, while Publishers Weekly's review said, "It's interesting to watch Martin's characters mature and mature, especially the Stark children at the center of the book." ".

According to the plot of the 1996 novel Game of Thrones, Bran accidentally witnesses the intercourse of Queen Cersei Lannister and her brother Jaime. The latter throws the boy from a high wall in order to keep the vicious relationship a secret. Bran survives, but falls into a coma.

While unconscious, Bran is subjected to another attempt on his life, but Catelyn holds off the killer long enough for Bran's direwolf to deal with him.

The boy dreams of himself falling from a tower and of a three-eyed crow urging him to “fly.” Thanks to the guidance of a crow that reveals the future and the past, Bran emerges from his coma, returns to reality, and realizes that he will never be able to walk again. He is assigned a servant, the giant simpleton Hodor, who carries Bran on himself.

When Robb Stark travels south to free Ned, who is detained in King's Landing, Bran becomes Lord of Winterfell.

In the 1998 novel A Clash of Kings, Robb becomes King in the North, and Bran, as Robb's successor, rules the castle due to his brother's absence. When Theon Greyjoy betrays the Starks and takes Winterfell, Bran and Rickon flee for their lives, receiving help from a wildling named Osha.

To cover up his failure, Theon kills two children whom he passes off as Bran and Rickon. The fugitives find the mortally wounded Maester Luwin, after which they split up: Osha takes Rickon to White Harbor, and Bran, Hodor, Meera and Jojen Reed go north to search for the three-eyed crow.

Bran gradually accepts his fate, in which there is no place for chivalry, and his ability to “possess” the body of the direwolf Leto.

In the 2000 novel A Storm of Swords, Bran, Hodor, Meera and Jojen are actually busy searching for the crow.

Finally, in 2011's A Dance with Dragons, the four heroes are guided by Coldhand, a mysterious inhabitant of the Lands Beyond the Wall. Bran and his companions find themselves at the Cave of the Three-Eyed Crow, where they are met with a torch by Leaflet, a representative of the mysterious race of Children of the Forest.

The three-eyed crow turns out to be an ancient telepathic tree-seer who offers Bran training in clairvoyance.

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Despite his limited time on the series, Bran has always been at the center of much speculation and wild Game of Thrones theories. But rest assured, the last theory is one of the most interesting.

What if Bran Stark is actually the Night King? What if everything that ever happened in Westeros was Bran's fault?

Even if you hate Ned Stark's son, this theory, which has actually been popular for a while, is pretty wild, isn't it? Let's start by collecting all the evidence.

In Season 6, if you remember, "The Three-Eyed Raven" taught Bran how to hone his ability to freely move through time - past, present - at will.

Bran also has the ability to absorb people's consciousness, as he did with Hodor. According to some fans, these two abilities make Bran even more powerful for the Three-Eyed Raven.

However, the Three-Eyed Raven quickly warned Bran that "the past is already written" and "the ink is dry." He also warned Bran that the more time you spend inside someone else's body, the harder it is to leave.

Now, if you remember the episode "Tower of Joy" in Season 6, it seems pretty obvious that Bran can influence the past as well as observe it. The Three-Eyed Raven was of course nervous in the flashback when Bran shouted "father", as if he knew what the consequences of the boy's actions might be.

Other evidence, both in the books and on the show, indicates that the Mad King Iris Targaryen became one after Bran tried to warn him about the White Walkers.

"Burn them all" is the Mad King's final order, which Bran may have dictated to him when warning him about the White Walkers.

Other theories about Bran and time travel suggest that he may actually be one of the legendary Brandons he heard about in Old Nan's stories (Brandon the Builder, who built both the wall and Winterfell, Brandon the Reaver, etc. ).

In a nutshell, according to these theories, Bran continues to travel back and forth in time to set things right and destroy the White Walkers once and for all.

But the most important piece in the puzzle is when Bran has an idea of ​​how the Night King was born.

Thousands of years before the actual events of Game of Thrones, the children of the forest were at war with the First Men, who nearly destroyed their sacred weirwood trees.

In desperation, they captured one of the First Men and performed a ritual on a tree, driving dragon glass into his chest. This is how the first White Walker, the Night King, was created.

As many commentators have noted, Bran's real body in the Three-Eyed Raven's cave shudders and clenches its fists. It's like he's in pain. It's as if HE is in the body of the Night King.

Bran reached the man, trying to convince them not to go through the process that would create the White Walkers. But since the "ink is dry", it means that he cannot change the past during the journey, only fulfill it.

From this point on, Bran is stuck in the past and becomes the Night King, while future Bran continues to move through time in a desperate attempt to warn people about the Long Night.

The theory explains how the Night King is always in the right place at the right time.

This theory also refers to Jon Snow being the prince who was promised who will eventually have to kill his little brother Bran (The Night King couldn't have killed Jon Snow in Hardhome, could he?), giving us a bittersweet ending .

Not often, but sometimes, traders of all sorts of crap break through to us.
And when the security dog ​​is sleeping somewhere, and the guard is apparently in an embrace with the dog, and the people at the base are busy with business.
They rarely bring goodness... I'm not talking about the admin panel now. For example, a couple of times there was a skidding of some knives, I obviously don’t care about them, but my eloquent peppers, it seems, shod the man at an unprecedented discount. The man left empty-handed, the valiant collegiate spent a couple of days selling goods at exorbitant prices at the local market, Altra increased vigilance during admission to work using a breathalyzer.

Today a fairy came to visit us. The sweetest creature, like a welcoming yasha, and just as unclouded, deceived by the as ancient as Altrin ass sign “Women’s Happiness.” This was once the name of the warehouse of the grocery store of the same name, which closed during the era due to restrictions on the sale of booze.

Contrary to hopes, the fairy stood and stared at the crowd of men for a long time. Both altrine, in the most Jen sense of the word, and neighbors. The promised happiness melted before the fairy’s eyes.

What about "Women's Happiness"? - the fairy timidly asked when two mechanics, swearing tenderly in spring, dragged past a body part.

There’s a choice all around,” the mechanics answered, but, of course, not in those words.

“I have products from company A,” the fairy said, having lost all optimism. Apparently, she was still too young and unpromising, because it’s Friday, the middle of the month, many people have a salary, and a man who brings cosmetic items to his wife automatically receives +100 points to karma.

But drivers, mechanics and other riffraff are well trained to drive, repair, swear and suck fuel, and have little understanding of the intricacies of marketing. But Altra discovered the potential chaos from the height of the second tier of the cart and gave a loud shout that blocked the engines and generators.

The fairy was dumb for some time, assessing the prospects for selling her junk. Altra was also dumb, wondering whether she should get off now or they would sort it out without her. There’s no crime, it’s just that, as they say, there’s nothing for outsiders to do on the territory (because it’s a no-brainer, to put it simply).

Come down, I’ll show you some cosmetics,” the fairy finally decided. - Uh...

In general, this was understandable. Altra in a work suit, covered in oil and some other crap unknown to the uninitiated person, what a sight. Whether it is possible to wash her, like Snape, is not too clear.

What will you please? - Altra asked languidly, because she would be most satisfied with the option “fuck you, this is a closed area.”

“I have perfumes, shadows and other stuff you need,” the fairy listed her source of income. - If you like it, you can share it too!

In winter and summer, walk around offices, get wet, freeze, sell junk, walk the hell out regularly? - Altra clarified. - I am for honest and conscientious work, and not for all this.

But you are a woman,” the fairy made a killer argument. It probably worked.

For now.

People were already crowded around. Work, as you know, usually doesn’t run into the forest, but you can skip the local Armageddon.

“Ah,” the hopeless Altra waved her hand with the key clutched in it. - This is temporary. A couple of months, and the hormones will bring me into proper shape.

The fairy blinked her eyes.

Yes,” Altra admitted honestly. - The whole office chipped in for the doctors.

And why? Why is this? - the fairy asked desperately, still not catching up with the joke. The people were silent and kept serious cabbage soup.

Once upon a time, I also went here and sold all sorts of obscenities,” Altra admitted. Trying my best not to laugh. - But then they caught me, dragged me into the back room and...

“And,” the fairy responded, looking around in search of escape routes. - AND?

And they chipped in for the doctors...

Someone in the back rows could not stand it and bent over and fell to the ground. He was immediately prescribed a prophylactic pesdul to prevent spoiling the raspberries.

It says here - do not enter! Dangerous! - Altra continued tragically, and her view of the cart was epic, almost like a tank. - Very dangerous!

The mechanics were sobbing on each other's shoulders. From the outside it might seem that they repent of what they did. Someone opened the wide gate.

Run, silly, run!

Bran Stark is the Night King. There is a fan theory that claims this is exactly the case and here's why: Bran reveals that he is the new three-eyed raven, he has the ability to see the past and influence someone's future. We all saw what happened to Hodor as a child and what led to his death. Some believe that Bran deliberately possessed the young Hodor so that he would become a fool. And in the future he fulfilled his goal, that is, he held the door in front of the dead so that Bran could escape.

There is a theory that Bran influenced the course of history at least three times in the past. He first went back in time to finish off the White Walkers for the first time. Fans think that it was Bran who whispered to the Mad King Aerys Targaryen to stock up on wildfire. However, Bran's constant voices in Aerys's head drove the latter crazy. This explains the Mad King's love of burning everyone with wild fire.

Second theory. Bran could travel back in time and inhabit his ancestor Bran the Builder, who became famous in Westeros for building the wall. Even Bran's uncle Benjamin Stark said that the wall consists not only of ice, but also of ancient spells. So this could not have happened without the magical power that Bran possesses.

The third theory says that it is quite possible that Bran possessed this man, whom the children of the forest later turned into the Night King. Many believe that Bran wanted to prevent the transformation in this way. However, he became a hostage in the body of the Night King, I think everyone knows that Bran in his visions has a very close connection with the Night King. The former three-eyed raven said that Bran would never walk again, but would be able to fly with the help of ravens. And perhaps also on a dead dragon. Also, the clothes of Bran and the Night King are very similar.

Here's another thing to think about: at the end of the seventh season, after the dragon breaks through the wall, the dead make their way into Westeros in a very familiar form when viewed from above. As for me, it very much resembles the head of a direwolf, which is the coat of arms of the House of Stark.