Post by Mojo on Dec 29, 2016 18:50:23 GMT
I started Bran II:
I wanted to highlight another one of Old Nan's insights. It's actually true, and I'd be interested in seeing some magic come to KL if we ever see a future book. Maybe some fire magic. A girl can dream.
What do you guys think? Could this mean Aegon and Dany have a showdown in the next book? I'm guessing if we found out somehow that Dany & Jon were in fact siblings, and Rhaegar was both their father, they would fight each other. She's becoming a crazed egomaniac who feels entitled and he "just wants to do what's right".
Uh...why? Only 2 to protect the entire royal family? I never noticed this before. Why would they leave 5 behind? I guess it's 3 if you count Jaime, who was probably like 2 knights at that time. Never mind.
He raced across the godswood, taking the long way around to avoid the pool where the heart tree grew. The heart tree had always frightened him; trees ought not have eyes, Bran thought, or leaves that looked like hands. His wolf came sprinting at his heels. "You stay here," he told him at the base of the sentinel tree near the armory wall. "Lie down. That's right. Now stay."
The wolf did as he was told. Bran scratched him behind the ears, then turned away, jumped, grabbed a low branch, and pulled himself up. He was halfway up the tree, moving easily from limb to limb, when the wolf got to his feet and began to howl.
Bran looked back down. His wolf fell silent, staring up at him through slitted yellow eyes. A strange chill went through him. He began to climb again. Once more the wolf howled. "Quiet," he yelled. "Sit down. Stay. You're worse than Mother." The howling chased him all the way up the tree, until finally he jumped off onto the armory roof and out of sight.
Our first indication that the wolves are guardians, just like Jon Snow said earlier, but the Stark kids are too stubborn and bone headed to heed them. Don't do it Bran! You will become a tree if you do!!
But, now that I read the next passage, perhaps Bran was always destined to be a tree, as he says the rooftops of WF were like a second home, and apparently he climbed before walking.
Plus, WF is described as a tree. I wonder how many other POVs are shown their eventual fate in the first couple of chapters:
So the treetops/rooftops of WF is like Bran's second home. It will be his second life! :-o
Bran also enjoys being a voyeur as he demonstrates in a few pages... seriously though, this makes me happier about his tree fate because he thinks he wants to be a knight, but you realize he loves to learn and watch. Luwin was right, he should have been a maester, but he was too young and immature to realize it, and he was recovering from physical and psychological trauma. He also learns WF's secrets from observing from up top, he says he knows things Luwin doesn't know about the castle, so I think he'll continue learning things nobody else knows in his ice cave.
Something else that gets repeated here is Bran's bond with the crows. They eat corn out of his hand. Obviously he was the relationship with the 3 eyed crow, but I wonder if this alludes to a future alliance with the NW? I assume he and Jon will start communicating again. Perhaps in dreams again wherever Jon is right now.
His father would be the Hand of the King, and they were going to live in the red castle at King's Landing, the castle the Dragonlords had built. Old Nan said there were ghosts there, and dungeons where terrible things had been done, and dragon heads on the walls. It gave Bran a shiver just to think of it, but he was not afraid
I wanted to highlight another one of Old Nan's insights. It's actually true, and I'd be interested in seeing some magic come to KL if we ever see a future book. Maybe some fire magic. A girl can dream.
Their names were like music to him. Serwyn of the Mirror Shield. Ser Ryam Redwyne. Prince Aemon the Dragonknight. The twins Ser Erryk and Ser Arryk, who had died on one another's swords hundreds of years ago, when brother fought sister in the war the singers called the Dance of the Dragons.
What do you guys think? Could this mean Aegon and Dany have a showdown in the next book? I'm guessing if we found out somehow that Dany & Jon were in fact siblings, and Rhaegar was both their father, they would fight each other. She's becoming a crazed egomaniac who feels entitled and he "just wants to do what's right".
Two of the Kingsguard had come north with King Robert.
Uh...why? Only 2 to protect the entire royal family? I never noticed this before. Why would they leave 5 behind? I guess it's 3 if you count Jaime, who was probably like 2 knights at that time. Never mind.
He raced across the godswood, taking the long way around to avoid the pool where the heart tree grew. The heart tree had always frightened him; trees ought not have eyes, Bran thought, or leaves that looked like hands. His wolf came sprinting at his heels. "You stay here," he told him at the base of the sentinel tree near the armory wall. "Lie down. That's right. Now stay."
The wolf did as he was told. Bran scratched him behind the ears, then turned away, jumped, grabbed a low branch, and pulled himself up. He was halfway up the tree, moving easily from limb to limb, when the wolf got to his feet and began to howl.
Bran looked back down. His wolf fell silent, staring up at him through slitted yellow eyes. A strange chill went through him. He began to climb again. Once more the wolf howled. "Quiet," he yelled. "Sit down. Stay. You're worse than Mother." The howling chased him all the way up the tree, until finally he jumped off onto the armory roof and out of sight.
Our first indication that the wolves are guardians, just like Jon Snow said earlier, but the Stark kids are too stubborn and bone headed to heed them. Don't do it Bran! You will become a tree if you do!!
But, now that I read the next passage, perhaps Bran was always destined to be a tree, as he says the rooftops of WF were like a second home, and apparently he climbed before walking.
Plus, WF is described as a tree. I wonder how many other POVs are shown their eventual fate in the first couple of chapters:
The place had grown over the centuries like some monstrous stone tree, Maester Luwin told him once, and its branches were gnarled and thick and twisted, its roots sunk deep into the earth.
So the treetops/rooftops of WF is like Bran's second home. It will be his second life! :-o
Bran could see all of Winterfell in a glance. He liked the way it looked, spread out beneath him, only birds wheeling over his head while all the life of the castle went on below. Bran could perch for hours among the shapeless, rain-worn gargoyles that brooded over the First Keep, watching it all: the men drilling with wood and steel in the yard, the cooks tending their vegetables in the glass garden, restless dogs running back and forth in the kennels, the silence of the godswood, the girls gossiping beside the washing well. It made him feel like he was lord of the castle, in a way even Robb would never know.
Bran also enjoys being a voyeur as he demonstrates in a few pages... seriously though, this makes me happier about his tree fate because he thinks he wants to be a knight, but you realize he loves to learn and watch. Luwin was right, he should have been a maester, but he was too young and immature to realize it, and he was recovering from physical and psychological trauma. He also learns WF's secrets from observing from up top, he says he knows things Luwin doesn't know about the castle, so I think he'll continue learning things nobody else knows in his ice cave.
Something else that gets repeated here is Bran's bond with the crows. They eat corn out of his hand. Obviously he was the relationship with the 3 eyed crow, but I wonder if this alludes to a future alliance with the NW? I assume he and Jon will start communicating again. Perhaps in dreams again wherever Jon is right now.
