Dany's throne was always my favorite one, visually. The slanted angled rocks. Hell yeah, way better than swords and shit.
I'm just trying to imagine the scene from season 1 with Ned on the throne but now it's Bran. "Tallest man I've ever seen, saw him take the head off a horse with a single swing of his sword!" Littlefinger: Sound like anyone we know? Bran: Yeah Petyr it's the Mountain I already knew but thanks.
Has there been anything established about Bran’s longevity? Does his status as the 3ER mean anything by itself, or did the previous ones live so long because they were plugged into the tree?
But he does need that to keep going beyond a normal lifetime? I’m just trying to figure out how he could take any kind of role as king at the cost of his entire purpose. Unless they decide the new throne room IS a random tree somewhere......
I can't quite figure out how they're gonna do this next week. I guess 79 minutes is a long time to just deal with the direct aftermath and fallout at King's Landing and nothing else.
Hmmmm....I don't exactly remember. In the books, Bloodraven is the 3ER and had been around for like 125 years or something like that total. He was pretty old in Westerosi terms before he disappeared beyond the wall, but not so old as to think the magic itself was helping him stay alive. So I don't think there's a definitive answer on whether it's the magic itself or he has to be attached to the tree to live that long. I think, emphasis on think because this could just be headcanon, I think somewhere in the world it is mentioned that he looks exceptionally young/youthful throughout his life at court.
motherfucker you don't think magic was helping a 125 year old man living in a year round blizzard in a cave?
Got it, so it’s kind of up in the air that whatever they happen to say wouldn’t necessarily be for or against the current canon. Although I do have issues with Bran being a leader, quotes about “true kings shouldn’t want to rule” aside. His true intentions or feelings about humanity and the present/future have been so hard to get a clear handle on. He would at least be someone who you couldn’t try to trick or backstab, but I don’t know if I buy him actually caring enough to make any decisions himself, more just being a tool for the others in charge if he agrees.
lol yeah but the question is, is the magic of the tree/children of the forest what's keeping him alive, or was the magic of being a Greeenseer/3ER what was doing it regardless. I think he's in his 60s or 70s when he disappears beyond the wall, so not quite old enough to say yeah Bran can live for hundreds of years without a tree to be attached to.
He'd just be really good at the whole settling court disputes and such type of thing. "The Boltons came into Hornwood lands unprovoked! Please punish them!" *Bran white eyes for 10 seconds* "Actually Lord Hornwood you definitely killed three of his sheep first so."
I still really want there to be no single ruler or throne at all, but I hope no matter what happens they do have him involved more because his superpower can be as OP as it needs to once the audience isn’t entering into it.
From a pure ruling standpoint he definitely would be the "best" at it. But he obviously does not want it in the least bit so he'd have to basically just be kind of a puppet ruler where someone actually does all the King-stuff but then just turns and asks Bran what to do lol. That is basically what Bloodraven was before he became the actual 3ER...he was the King's Hand and everyone said he basically ran the kingdoms because he was a sorcerer who knew things no man could possibly know.
Yeah if it ends as democracy or at least some sort of republican-aristocracy situation where the lords act as representatives of the lands they rule and vote on things, it would def make sense to have Bran be a part of that. I mean, what else is he gonna do at this point? lol
“I already watched all the porn that has ever existed, so sure, I’ll come help rule the world forever.”
I think they just cut it down for simplicity's sake unfortunately. One of the many storylines sacrificed for the sake of simplicity and time. Though you don't even really hear TOO much about that in the actual ASOIAF series, you get a lot of that info from the World of Ice and Fire and the Dunk N Egg short stories. Fire & Blood 2 will definitely have a lot of that too, since he was a super important part of the Blackfyre Rebellions and dealing with them. In the books, that season we got where BRan and Hordor and Meera weren't there is basically just Bran sitting around in the cave learning some things. They gave him the Luke Skywalker before ROTJ treatment because it DOES get a little boring at times unless you're really into some of the lore haha. But also they kinda just mention that he's Bryden Rivers aka Bloodraven, IIRC they don't get too much into his backstory.
Queen Sansa Queen Yara King Tyrion King Bronn King Gendry King Unnamed Dorneish Lad That Somehow Only Existed Two Days Ago King....Robyn King..........Edmure this fell apart on me. give it all to Sansa.