Post by armstark on Jun 14, 2016 18:49:32 GMT
The catalyst event of the series is when Jaime pushes Bran out of the window. The plot is driven by that single event for most of AGoT and beyond. It is where our story really begins and I think it might be where it ends as well.
So lets go back to AGoT Bran II: Bran is climbing to his favorite spot: atop the broken tower to give the crows his seed. A place no one ever goes but him because it is only accessible by climbing. Of course Jaime Lannister stops him before he can make it there and cripples him so that he might never climb (there) again.
The only way he can ever go back to his favorite spot is by flying. (Not)Coincidentally this is also the only thing Bloodraven promises him:
You can read Bran's story as a fairy tale: Our young hero sets out on an adventure to get to the top of the tower but is thwarted by the golden knight. He does not give up though and goes on a quest to learn how to fly, so he might get to the top of the tower another way. He must endure many hardships and loses some friends on the way but finally he finds someone who can teach him and now he has learned how to fly. (to be continued)
So what is so significant about that tower? How does it relate to our real story and not just the fairy tale version? I think it is the tower of the Night's King, the other Brandon Stark.
In the mummer's version of our story the Night's King has a brooch or sigil and the best explanation for it I have seen is this:
imgur.com/a/JgOwb#oj1MNj4
A tower over the skull of a crow.
Think about it, if the Night's King really was a Stark might there not be some place in Winterfell that belonged to him, where he was at home? Of course it would have to be in the old section of the castle like the broken tower.
Why did no Stark ever repair the tower? Supposedly it was struck by lightning some 140 years ago:
I find it rather odd that the Starks have a broken tower. Do you think there is such a thing at Highgarden? At Casterly Rock or even Horn Hill? I doubt it. 140 years and a dozen Lord Starks and nobody ever thought about rebuilding it? Or at least removing it?
Why???
They are still waiting.
Might this be the same tower?
Sorry for the incoherence. This is a work in progress. So what do you think?
So lets go back to AGoT Bran II: Bran is climbing to his favorite spot: atop the broken tower to give the crows his seed. A place no one ever goes but him because it is only accessible by climbing. Of course Jaime Lannister stops him before he can make it there and cripples him so that he might never climb (there) again.
The only way he can ever go back to his favorite spot is by flying. (Not)Coincidentally this is also the only thing Bloodraven promises him:
"You will never walk again, Bran," the pale lips promised, "but you will fly."
You can read Bran's story as a fairy tale: Our young hero sets out on an adventure to get to the top of the tower but is thwarted by the golden knight. He does not give up though and goes on a quest to learn how to fly, so he might get to the top of the tower another way. He must endure many hardships and loses some friends on the way but finally he finds someone who can teach him and now he has learned how to fly. (to be continued)
So what is so significant about that tower? How does it relate to our real story and not just the fairy tale version? I think it is the tower of the Night's King, the other Brandon Stark.
In the mummer's version of our story the Night's King has a brooch or sigil and the best explanation for it I have seen is this:
imgur.com/a/JgOwb#oj1MNj4
A tower over the skull of a crow.
Think about it, if the Night's King really was a Stark might there not be some place in Winterfell that belonged to him, where he was at home? Of course it would have to be in the old section of the castle like the broken tower.
Why did no Stark ever repair the tower? Supposedly it was struck by lightning some 140 years ago:
His favorite haunt was the broken tower. Once it had been a watchtower, the tallest in Winterfell. A long time ago, a hundred years before even his father had been born, a lightning strike had set it afire. The top third of the structure had collapsed inward, and the tower had never been rebuilt. Sometimes his father sent ratters into the base of the tower, to clean out the nests they always found among the jumble of fallen stones and charred and rotten beams. But no one ever got up to the jagged top of the structure now except for Bran and the crows.
Why???
Somewhere off in the distance, a wolf was howling. Crows circled the broken tower, waiting for corn.
They are still waiting.
When Lord Stark returned from the battle and his mother saw Bael's head upon his spear, she threw herself from a tower in her grief. Her son did not long outlive her.
Might this be the same tower?
Sorry for the incoherence. This is a work in progress. So what do you think?