Merrily merrily merrily merrily life is but a dream

Why did everything feel so surreal in the last episode?  Dany didn’t have a smudge on her.  In fact, the ash wouldn’t even touch her clothing.  How did so much ash collect on Drogon?  Why did the ash not fall on Jon or Dany when were together and the ash was falling like snow?  How did Greyworm make it to Dany before Jon when he was busy killing soldiers?  Why did it seem there were more Unsullied after the Battle of Winterfell than before?  Where did all the Dothraki come from?  Where did Jon get Longclaw at the end of the show?  He didn’t have it when he left King’s Landing.  The entire episode seemed like a dream sequence to me.  Did anyone else feel the same? 

Comments encouraged.  Love to hear the idea’s of others.  Most believe that since I present my idea’s as “fact like” I’m not open to change my viewpoints which is far from the truth.  I simply look at the information presented and go from there.  If you can shine a light on another way of thinking that opens the door to debate.

Crows are all liars

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Could the ending be just like The Usual Suspects? Old Nan said "Crows are all liars" I think she is right. I think everything we have been told by the three-eyed crows have mostly been lies; Bran included. The episode that follows the Hodor reveal shows us Bran seeing the events that hadn't happened. He saw Dany over King's Landing and what she would do. He had to know that revealing Jon's secret would be the catalyst for her actions. So why did he do it? I think he has had his eye on the throne since he was touched by the Night King. Remember what the three-eyed crow, Bloodraven from the books, told Bran? He told him “You will never walk again, Bran,” the pale lips promised, “but you will fly.” Again, what if that was also a lie. The Night King can manipulate dead people to jump off cliffs and they simply get up and continue fighting. Medical science would tell you that jumping off a cliff would most likely break your vertebrae like Bran did after being pushed from the tower window. If the Night King is within Bran what would stop him from doing what he did with the dead to Bran and allow himself to get up and walk? Nothing in my opinion. So, what if the last scene that we see of the show is Bran's eyes being that of the Night King's and him getting up from his wheel chair and walking. Just food for thought.

The Usual Suspects ending

Did the Night King just Keyser Soze everybody?

Comments encouraged.  Love to hear the idea’s of others.  Most believe that since I present my idea’s as “fact like” I’m not open to change my viewpoints which is far from the truth.  I simply look at the information presented and go from there.  If you can shine a light on another way of thinking that opens the door to debate.

The Night King's identity revealed

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I keep telling everyone that similarities between The Wheel of Time (TWOT) and A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF) are vast even if there are those out there that say otherwise.

First of all, I may be the only one that thinks this but the Night King is still alive.  I still believe that ASOIAF will end in a similar fashion as TWOT.  I was positive that Bran and Bran the Builder were the same person but after watching the first 5 episodes of season 8 I concede that Bran isn’t in the crypts of Winterfell.  I still believe that someone is down there however.  I just had to see the 180-degree turn that ASOIAF was going to take as it always has to make the story unique.  Bran the Builder has been in the crypts the entire time.  Where Rand al’Thor and Lews Therin were the same person.  Rand heard his own thoughts and believed them to be Lews Therin a separate mind in his head.  Bran on the other hand has the Night King in his head and they are two separate minds.  I believe that Bran the Builder in the Age of Heroes was similar to the Aes Sedai in the Age of Legends.  Aes Sedai in that age could split their weaves and do things that the Aes Sedai of the current age couldn’t even imagine.  In that way I say the three-eyed crows of today are like the Aes Sedai of the current age.  Bran was never able to warg more than one thing at a time.  When did we ever see him warg multiple birds?  He warged Summer and he warged Hodor but never at the same time.  When have we ever heard of any warg doing that?  But the minute that he was touched by the Night King he suddenly had that ability.  We know that the Night King’s touch is control or compulsion and he has the ability to warg multiple dead creatures at the same time.  I believe Bran has the ability but he hadn’t mastered it.  I think that through the Night King’s touch and his compulsion it was the only reason why Bran could do what he could do with the multiple ravens.

So, when the three-eyed crow, that taught Bran, says “It is beautiful beneath the sea, but if you stay to long, you’ll drown”; I think it was referring to Bran the Builder.  The stories say that a small boy put spells into Storm’s End and that boy grew up to be Bran the Builder.  Bran the Builder built the Wall and then built Winterfell.  I think that years after he became the three-eyed crow he got caught up and started exploring the world beyond his home within the Winterfell weirwood.  I think he stayed to long within the man we saw get turned into the Night King.  The COTF saw their opportunity and trapped his mind with their magic inside that man and made him into a creature to hunt down all other three-eyed crows whom they considered their enemies.  Trapped beyond the Wall, separated from his own body, by his own magic he sought a way to return home.  I believe that he still had a connection with the Winterfell weirwood but was powerless to do anything but watch.  That is why when in the books Bran was told by the three-eyed crow to fly or die and he chose flight he saw what he did.  He saw the Winterfell weirwood look up at him knowingly.  The plan was set in motion from that day.  Once Bran was marked, he had an inside man to bring his plan full circle. 

We saw the results.  Bran basically came up with the plan to wait for the three-eyed crow by the weirwood tree.  Did you also notice that no fighting took place there until minutes before the Night King made his arrival?  We know the Night King knew where he was because he was connected to Bran.  We actually saw him on Viserion above Jon, who was perched upon the castle wall above Bran.  If Bran was truly your target and you wanted him dead why not send your army of the dead to that spot?  The answer is he didn’t want this to happen.  He wanted to put on a show to make them all think that they had won.  Bran gave Arya the dagger so in essence the Night King gave it to her.  The Night King has the same power to see events as Bran but only better so he saw Arya and Brienne sparing and her use the same knife hand switch move.  He planned it all and he simply warged Bran freeing himself of the Children of the Forest’s magic by destroying the body that held him prisoner for so long.  But he has lived too long within the Night King’s body and he has become “death incarnate”.  With that said he sets in motion the rest of his plan to unleash death and destruction upon the realm.  I don’t know if you saw it or not but they focused on a lot of hand touches through the first 5 episodes of season 8.  I think that was the Night King’s influence being passed as a form of control.  The same way we saw Bran warg multiple ravens I think the Night King was able to influence multiple people to do his will.  Remember the conversation with Tyrion and Bran when Tyrion said to Bran that knowing their history would come in handy being Lord of Winterfell.  Bran stared at him absently and Tyrion commented with “You don’t want it.”  Then Vary and Tyrion basically boiled it down to maybe the best ruler would be someone who doesn’t want to rule.  Bran aka the Night King set it up perfectly for himself to be nominated King of the Seven Kingdoms after Dany is killed and Tyrion plants the seeds in everyone’s ears.

Bran aka the Night King baited the hook

nibble, nibble

The fish is on the hook now reel him in

Remember what Ned said to Arya back in season 1:

They let you know in season 1 who the Night King was or would be in the end

Well I say Bran will do just that because he will for all intents and purposes be Bran the Builder.  So, in the end the Night King will win.  This is also why the next spinoff will be the Long Night.  They will explore how Bran the Builder became the Night King.  Everyone thinks that the last episode won’t be exciting but unlike the rest of Hollywood they will let the bad guy win for once.  The bad guy normally loses because he monologues to the hero.  The hero breaks free and thwarts his plans.  Well let this be a lesson to all you James Bond villains keep your mouth shut like the Night King and you may just end up ruling the world.

Comments encouraged.  Love to hear the idea’s of others.  Most believe that since I present my idea’s as “fact like” I’m not open to change my viewpoints which is far from the truth.  I simply look at the information presented and go from there.  If you can shine a light on another way of thinking that opens the door to debate.

Did anyone stop to think about…

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I keep telling everyone that similarities between The Wheel of Time (TWOT) and A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF) are vast even if there are those out there that say otherwise. 

Why was the Night King able to warg multiple dead creatures simultaneously?

Why is it that after Bran was touched by the Night King, he can split his warg or more precisely warg multiple things at once?  He wasn’t able to do that before.  But now on multiple occasions we have seen him warg multiple ravens at once.

Why is it that the section of the castle that Bran was sitting didn’t actually get attacked until right before the Night King arrived?  Seems to me that Night King was just protecting his investment or his new body.

I still think that the Night King won.  You guys just don’t know it yet.  How far does his touch go?  The Night King touched Bran.  Sansa touched Bran; so, Bran touched Sansa.  The Night King touched Arya.  Jon touched Bran.  Jon touched Dany.  Sansa touched the Hound.  The Hound touched Arya.  Benioff tells us that the Night King is “Death”.  The Hound tells us we can’t beat “Death”.  Dany delivered “Death” to King’s Landing.  Arya rides off on a “White Horse” which in a symbol of “Death”.  I still think the Night King Keyser Soze’d everybody.  His warg or influence is the thing that is delivering death and destruction.  He allowed everyone to believe that they had won when they are actually just puppets on his strings.  It would seem that the only time that visual marks appear is when you are touched within the “Wolf Dream”.

Did the Night King just Keyser Soze everybody?

Comments encouraged.  Love to hear the idea’s of others.  Most believe that since I present my idea’s as “fact like” I’m not open to change my viewpoints which is far from the truth.  I simply look at the information presented and go from there.  If you can shine a light on another way of thinking that opens the door to debate.

How Bran could go back in time physically

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I keep telling everyone that similarities between The Wheel of Time (TWOT) and A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF) are vast even if there are those out there that say otherwise. 

I had thoughts on how Bran could go back in time physically.  It would be like going into Tel’aran’rhiod in the Flesh in the Wheel of Time.  Bran could enter the Wolf Dream in the flesh and then go back to the time period in question and simply step out.

A dreamwalker enters the dream fully, therefore her injuries are real on waking. For one who is fully in the dream, dreamwalker or not, death there is death here. To enter the dream too completely, though, is to lose touch with the flesh; there is no way back, and the flesh dies. It is said that once there were those who could enter the dream in the flesh, and no longer be in this world at all. This was an evil thing, for they did evil; it must never be attempted, even if you believe it possible for you, for each time you will lose some part of what makes you human.

Looking up at him, Nynaeve tried not to swallow. So cold, that face. “Rand, the Wise Ones say what you’ve done, what you are doing, is dangerous, even evil. They say you lose something of yourself if you come here in the flesh, some part of what makes you human.”

Chewing her lip, she frowned at the shawl sourly. It did not help at all. Just the thought of tearing a hole in the Pattern made her queasy. She had hoped it would be like something she had worked out concerning Tel’aran’rhiod. Not that she ever meant to use it, of course, but she had had all that time on her hands, and the Wise Ones kept grumbling about the Aes Sedai asking how to enter in the flesh. She thought the way would be to create—a similarity seemed the only way to describe it—a similarity between the real world and its reflection in the World of Dreams. That should make a place where it was possible to simply step from one to the other. If Rand’s method of travel had seemed even slightly the same, she would have been willing to try, but this. . . . Saidar did as you wanted as long as you remembered it was infinitely stronger than you and had to be guided gently; try to force the wrong thing, and you were dead or burned out before you could scream.

“Do the Wise Ones know everything?” He brushed past her and stood staring at the colonnade. “I used to think Aes Sedai knew everything. It doesn’t matter. I don’t know how human the Dragon Reborn can afford to be.”

Comments encouraged.  Love to hear the idea’s of others.  Most believe that since I present my idea’s as “fact like” I’m not open to change my viewpoints which is far from the truth.  I simply look at the information presented and go from there.  If you can shine a light on another way of thinking that opens the door to debate.

Why another Wall will be built

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I keep telling everyone that similarities between The Wheel of Time (TWOT) and A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF) are vast even if there are those out there that say otherwise. 

I misinterpreted the meaning of this the first time around.  I think that this is what it actually means.

Rand sighed; he almost thought if he turned his head quickly enough, he would see Alanna’s hand poised over him. “What about the question I posed you last time? Herid? Herid?”

The stout man’s head jerked up. “Oh. Yes. Ah, question. Last time. Tarmon Gai’don. Well, I don’t know what it will be like. Trollocs, I suppose? Dreadlords? Yes. Dreadlords. But I have been thinking. It can’t be the Last Battle. I don’t think it can. Maybe every Age has a Last Battle. Or most of them.” Suddenly he frowned down his nose at the pipe in his teeth, and began rummaging across the table. “I have a tinderbox here somewhere.”

“What do you mean it can’t be the Last Battle?” Rand tried to keep his voice smooth. Herid always came to the point; you just had to prod him toward it.

“What? Yes, exactly the point. It can’t be the Last Battle. Even if the Dragon Reborn seals the Dark One’s prison again as well as the Creator made it. Which I don’t think he can do.” He leaned forward and lowered his voice conspiratorially. “He isn’t the Creator, you know, whatever they say in the streets. Still, it has to be sealed up again by somebody. The Wheel, you see.”

“I don’t see. . . .” Rand trailed off.

“Yes, you do. You’d make a good student.” Snatching his pipe out, Herid drew a circle in the air with the stem. “The Wheel of Time. Ages come and go and come again as the Wheel turns. All the catechism.” Suddenly he stabbed a point on that imaginary wheel. “Here the Dark One’s prison is whole. Here, they drilled a hole in it, and sealed it up again.” He moved the bit of the pipe along the arc he had drawn. “Here we are. The seal’s weakening. But that doesn’t matter, of course.” The pipestem completed the circle. “When the Wheel turns back to here, back to where they drilled the hole in the first place, the Dark One’s prison has to be whole again.”

“Why? Maybe the next time they’ll drill through the patch. Maybe that’s how they could do it the last time—drill into what the Creator made, I mean—maybe they drilled the Bore through a patch and we just don’t know.”

Herid shook his head. For a moment he stared at his pipe, once more realizing it was unlit, and Rand thought he might have to recall him again, but instead Herid blinked and went on. “Someone had to make it sometime. For the first time, that is. Unless you think the Creator made the Dark One’s prison with a hole and patch to begin.” His eyebrows waggled at the suggestion. “No, it was whole in the beginning, and I think it will be whole again when the Third Age comes once more. Hmmm. I wonder if they called it the Third Age?” He hastily dipped a pen and scribbled a note in the margins of an open book. “Umph. No matter now. I’m not saying the Dragon Reborn will be the one to make it whole, not in this Age necessarily anyway, but it must be so before the Third Age comes again, and enough time passed since it was made whole—an Age, at least—that no one remembers the Dark One or his prison. No one remembers. Um. I wonder. . . .” He peered at his notes and scratched his head, then seemed startled to find he used the hand holding the pen. There was a smudge of ink in his hair. “Any Age where seals weaken must remember the Dark One eventually, because they will have to face him and wall him up again.” Sticking his pipe back between his teeth, he tried to make another note without dipping the pen.

             

“Unless the Dark One breaks free,” Rand said quietly. “To break the Wheel of Time, and remake Time and the world in his own image.”

There is that.” Herid shrugged, frowning at the pen. Finally he thought of the inkpot. “I don’t suppose there’s much you or I can do about it. Why don’t you come study here with me? I don’t suppose Tarmon Gai’don will happen tomorrow, and it would be as good a use of your time as—”

“Is there any reason you can think of to break the seals?”

Herid’s eyebrows shot up. “Break the seals? Break the seals? Why would anyone but a madman want to do that? Can they even be broken? I seem to remember reading somewhere they can’t, but I don’t recall now that it said why. What made you think of a thing like that?”

“I don’t know,” Rand sighed. In the back of his head Lews Therin was chanting. Break the seals. Break the seals, and end it. Let me die forever.

This is exactly the scenario playing out in ASOIAF.  We are coming to a point where Jon Snow and crew are about to begin their version of the Last Battle.  Everybody should remember the conversation that Dany had with Tyrion about breaking the Wheel. 

1.       The Dark One’s prison is whole (The Wheel of Time)

-          The Wall is created, to hold the ice god, but not the way we have been told it was (A Song of Ice and Fire)

2.       They drilled a hole in it and sealed it up again

-          A passage is cut within the wall to travel back and forth.  The Black Gate is created to seal

3.       The seal’s weaking and the Dark One starts breaking free

-          The magic that holds the ice god starts weakening and he can exerts his influence upon the world (i.e. resurrecting Beric, Catelyn Stark (Lady Stoneheart), possibly Arya & Jon Snow)

4.       Herid suggests that “When the Wheel turns back to here (step 2) back to where they drilled the hole in the first place the Dark One’s prison has to be whole again.  When the Third Age comes again, and enough time passed since it was made whole – an Age, at least-that no one remembers the Dark One or his prison.  No one remembers.

-          This suggests to me that the essence ice god, will break free and the fire god will be imprisoned this time around.  The Wall will be black this time and will reside outside King’s Landing.

5.       Unless the Dark One breaks free and remakes Time and the world in his own image

-          Unless the fire god which has been jumping around from Bran to Arya and now to Jon Snow remakes the world in his image.  Taking away the memory of mankind and filling it with his own.

6.       Herid suggests that any age where seals weaken must remember the Dark One eventually, because they will have to face him and wall him up again

-          It suggests falling back into a time (step 4) where no one remembers the events of the  Night King and everything repeats itself

7.       Rand suggest breaking the seals and Herid thinks him a madman.

-          This to me is the forging of Lightbringer.  The breaking of the swords are the attempts to kill the Night King. 

a.       Arya stabs the Night King but his touching of Bran was a form of compulsion which doesn’t allow him to resist when he wargs into him.  Bran changed and stopped thinking about his family.  Arya was tempered in water when she was stabbed by the Waif.  She was reborn in water or tempered.  Arya was also touched by the Night King and a form of compulsion was also placed upon her.

b.       The Night King wargs into Arya after Bran tells her and Sansa Jon Snow’s secret of being a Targaryen.  Notice after speaking of family and how it was so important, she rides off with the Hound saying she doesn’t intend on ever coming back.  Arya will run into Jaimie Lannister.  She will kill him to take his face to kill Cersei.  In doing so Jaime, the captured Lion will become the second failed attempt to kill the Night King even though he won’t know it.

c.       Somewhere along the line Arya will touch Jon Snow and a form of compulsion will be placed on him.  After that the Night King will warg Jon Snow where he wanted to be all along.  Jon Snow and Dany will eventually face each other and they will attempt to kill each other.  Jon will kill her and this will be the proverbial sword plunged into the heart of Nissa Nissa.  Dany is fire and so Lightbringer will be formed.

d.       These 3 attempts to kill the Night King will provide the key to unlock the prison that is the Wall and it will fall.  The ice and fire gods will continue their eternal struggle against one another and this time around I believe that a new Wall this one obsidian black will stand outside King’s Landing.  This will bring the wheel to full circle and after thousands of years pass the cycle will continue once again.

Click here to see the promo trailer that I believe shows how the Wall will be rebuilt.  This is most likely how the Wall that we have seen all this time was formed. 

Comments encouraged.  Love to hear the idea’s of others.  Most believe that since I present my idea’s as “fact like” I’m not open to change my viewpoints which is far from the truth.  I simply look at the information presented and go from there.  If you can shine a light on another way of thinking that opens the door to debate.

Is this really the oath of the three-eyed crow?

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"Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come."

―The Night's Watch oath

It seems to me it fits the true purpose of the 3EC.

I think that men probably witness Bran taking this oath thousands of years ago when he went back in time and they initially passed it along in remembrance.  Then it got twisted to what it is today.  It would then be logical to think that since I think that Jon Snow will have to replace Bran as he is now old and dying that he will have to say the words again but this time to become the next 3EC.

Comments encouraged.  Love to hear the idea’s of others.  Most believe that since I present my idea’s as “fact like” I’m not open to change my viewpoints which is far from the truth.  I simply look at the information presented and go from there.  If you can shine a light on another way of thinking that opens the door to debate.

I think that the Wall is a prison

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I keep telling everyone that similarities between The Wheel of Time (TWOT) and A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF) are vast even if there are those out there that say otherwise. 

In the Wheel of Time, it was the Dark One who had been sealed away in his prison for three thousand years.  When he began to break free, he was able to touch the world in ways like bringing back the dead.  He would bring back some people like Ishamael numerous times as he still had a purpose to fulfill.  The Creator on the other hand was supposed to be the benevolent god but he was never seen.  The Creator was always associated with the light whereas the Dark One was associated with everlasting darkness.   Does this sound familiar?  Throughout the series the events within the Wheel of Time have been copied and only at the last minute take a 180-degree turn to make it unique.  What if this is one of them also?  What if the Great Other is Creator of this story and his true appearance is that of ice.  The Lord of Light would then be Dark One and his true appearance is that of fire.  I also believe that the Lord of Light was using a glamor similar to the one Melisandre uses and he was imitating the Great Other or to be more precise the Night King.  That is the reason why I believe that when he was bombarded with dragon fire he just smiled.  I think three-eyed crow is the Great Other and the COTF are the Lord of Light.  But I don’t think that the Lord of Light has actually been the one that is bringing people back from the dead for a purpose.  I think that is the power of the Great Other that is doing that because of the people that he is bringing back and what they are doing for him. 

First the people that were supposedly brought back by the Lord of Light which I believe to be the Great Other; Beric Dondarrion, Lady Stoneheart and Jon Snow.  From the TV show we know that Beric’s purpose was to save Arya so that she could kill the Night King.  Beric gave Catelyn Stark his kiss of life.  Lady Stoneheart will IMO do the same for her daughter at the Battle of Winterfell.  I also think that Arya died and was also brought back by the Great Other.  She was stabbed multiple times by a trained assassin; the Waif.  I think when Arya fell into that water she was also killed and was brought back for a purpose.  I have always wondered how she survived but then the following was said:

Hound: It must have felt good sticking a knife in that horned fucker.

Arya: Felt better than dying.  You’re heading to King’s Landing?

I believe that Arya died in the water and was also brought back by the Great Other.  It seems when your purpose is finished you die; that would indicate that Arya’s purpose isn’t finished yet.  We know that Bran was replacing the three-eyed crow and for that reason alone that is why it seems three members of his family were brought back. 

So now let’s get to the Night King’s touch.  When he touches you, it is a form of control or compulsion.  In the books it is shown that Varamyr Sixskins tried to warg a woman Thistle but because she had her own mind she fought back and he was not able to do so.  It was also revealed that he seemed to think that when he did that, he would lose his abilities of being a warg.  The ability to be a warg or a three-eyed crow seemingly exist within the body or your DNA.  That is the reason that the Night King IMO chose Bran because he could easily go into him and retain his abilities.   

Remember Bran from the cave prior to being touched.  That Bran was all about family and spent most of the time jumping around in the past seeing how they lived.  When the Night King first touched him, he seemed to be himself.  Later he started acting emotionlessly towards everyone.  Meera in a conversation tying to say goodbye told him that he died in that cave.  She remembered the boy who had a crush on her and he was no longer the same.  When he was under the weirwood tree and warged multiple ravens he flew from Winterfell, to the Wall, over the Night King’s army of the dead and then over the Night King himself.  When the Night King looked up Bran’s warg was broken.  I thought at first that because of the touch it meant that they had a connection with each other and it worked both ways and that Bran could do the same to the Night King’s warg.  It turns out that during the Battle of Winterfell and Bran goes into his warg at 32 minutes into the episode and flew right up behind the Night King and just stayed there.  That let me know that Bran was nothing more than an obedient dog doing what his master wanted.  The first time he warged the ravens was at the Night King’s command to let him know he owned Bran entirely.  Also note that Bran came out of his warg at 1 hour and 10 minutes into the episode just in time for the Night King to walk into the godswood.  Bran is the one that gave Arya the dagger that eventually killed him (wink, wink).  Being a three-eyed crow like Bran the Night King would have also been able to see the fight between Arya and Brienne.  During that session Arya used the same switch hand knife move that she used against the Night King.  Bran said it himself I will wait for him in the godswood and that is exactly what he did and nothing more.  Bran basically planned the attack as he devised the strategy of using himself in the godswood under the weirwood tree as bait.  Does anyone think it strange that none of the wights seemed to attack that spot in force like everywhere else until the battle was almost over and the Night King arrived?  That is the spot the Night King wanted him to be so that he could pull off his greatest trick of making everyone think he had been killed.  Cue the lights.  Before he got there, he paved the way to save Jon because he had a purpose for him also.  Those wights should have just swamped him but yet he was able to survive.  The Night King gets to Bran and just stares at him and then he slowly reaches for his sword.  Arya jumps out and he turns at the last moment to touch her.  Not to stop her but to touch her so that he could control her also.  She does the move that he knows that she will do and he wargs into Bran.  In the books Arya seems to be a powerful warg and now it seems that she is also capable of being a three-eyed crow.  When Jon had Bran tell Arya and Sansa his secret of being a Targaryen it is then that I believe that the Night King made his move and warged into Arya. 

Arya was also about family when she arrived at Winterfell.  She told it to Jon when she first saw him.  She reiterated that sentiment again in the godswood when she spoke of herself, Bran, Sansa and Jon.  The next thing we know she is riding out with the Hound for King’s Landing telling him she doesn’t plan on coming back.  I think that after Bran told Sansa and Arya the secret is when the Night King warged into Arya.  Because of his touch he still has a hold on Bran.  We get word from King’s Landing of what has gone down and Jaime gets on his horse and rides back to Cersei.  Well I think along the way he will run into Arya who will kill him.  He will attempt to fight back but, in the end, she will kill him.  She will take his face and use it as a chance to get close to Cersei to kill her.  I think that Arya will meet back up with Jon at some point and she will touch him and the Night King’s compulsion spell so he won’t be able to resist either.  Arya will kill Cersei in the end and she may end up dying in the process somehow as she will fulfill her purpose.  But before Arya dies the Night King will make his transfer to Jon. 

Everybody knows or should have known for years that Dany was crazy as all she does when she doesn’t get her way is to burn people.  She is being driven crazy now that the people will start accepting Jon as the true king once word spreads.  She also feels Cersei is standing in her way of being queen.  Dany goes crazy and goes mad queen.  It will be Jon, who now has the Night King’s essence within him, who will kill her as she tries to kill him as well.  So, what does all this mean?  Well to me it reveals a pattern and one book readers have been searching for signs of since they first heard it.  The forging of Lightbringer.

“Burnt,” said Salladhor Saan, “and be glad of that, my friend. Do you know the tale of the forging of Lightbringer? I shall tell it to you. It was a time when darkness lay heavy on the world. To oppose it, the hero must have a hero’s blade, oh, like none that had ever been. And so for thirty days and thirty nights Azor Ahai labored sleepless in the temple, forging a blade in the sacred fires. Heat and hammer and fold, heat and hammer and fold, oh, yes, until the sword was done. Yet when he plunged it into water to temper the steel it burst asunder.

Arya died IMO when she was stabbed and was brought back to life.  She was the metaphorical blade that was plunged into water and tempered the steel that was first used in an attempt to kill the Night King.  The Night King fled into Bran and was preserved.

“Being a hero, it was not for him to shrug and go in search of excellent grapes such as these, so again he began. The second time it took him fifty days and fifty nights, and this sword seemed even finer than the first. Azor Ahai captured a lion, to temper the blade by plunging it through the beast’s red heart, but once more the steel shattered and split. Great was his woe and great was his sorrow then, for he knew what he must do.

When Arya runs into Jaime and she tried to kill him he will defend himself but not be a match for her.  He will unknowingly try and kill the Night King and Arya will kill him.  This is the metaphorical tempering of the second blade by plunging it into the heart of the lion.

“A hundred days and a hundred nights he labored on the third blade, and as it glowed white-hot in the sacred fires, he summoned his wife. ‘Nissa Nissa,’ he said to her, for that was her name, ‘bare your breast, and know that I love you best of all that is in this world.’ She did this thing, why I cannot say, and Azor Ahai thrust the smoking sword through her living heart. It is said that her cry of anguish and ecstasy left a crack across the face of the moon, but her blood and her soul and her strength and her courage all went into the steel. Such is the tale of the forging of Lightbringer, the Red Sword of Heroes.

When Jon takes on the Night King’s essence he and Dany will be on the verge of trying to kill one another.  Again Dany will unknowing be trying to kill the Night King who resides within Jon Snow.  It’s no mystery that Dany is the essence of fire herself.  Jon Snow will kill her and she will become his Nissa Nissa and the Red Sword of Heroes will be forged.  First however there will be council meetings and Jon will be made King.  I think it will take place similarly to him being elected Lord Commander of the Wall.  At the end of episode 5 Jon Snow will enter and empty throne room and sit upon the Iron Throne.  Fans all over the world will cheer because with all the death and destruction at least the person who everyone wanted on the throne will be placed there.  At the end of the episode the camera will pan to his face and Jon’s eyes will maybe warg or just change.  They will be either Night King blue so that the audience knows that he has the Night King within him or they will be like dancing fire itself; taking on the true nature of the entity that is within him; the Lord of Light.  Either way the viewing audience will know that something is not right.  D&D will probably have to explain what happened to those who aren’t book readers and have gone over every clue beginning to end.

So, what is Lightbringer?  I think it is a key to the Great Other’s prison.  I think that the forging of Lightbringer will bring the Wall down entirely.  I think it is like what archmaester Marwyn said:

“Born amidst salt and smoke, beneath a bleeding star. I know the prophecy.” Marwyn turned his head and spat a gob of red phlegm onto the floor. “Not that I would trust it. Gorghan of Old Ghis once wrote that a prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how good this is . . . and then her teeth snap shut and your moans turn to screams. That is the nature of prophecy, said Gorghan. Prophecy will bite your prick off every time.” He chewed a bit. “Still . . .”

So why do I think that the Wall is a prison?  That is what you see from the Season 8 promo trailer ice and fire.    You see the cold starting in the North and it starts freezing everything in its path.  Then it, the Ice god, starts rushing towards the south.  In King’s Landing you see there is fire scattered throughout, the Fire god.  But as the cold starts picking up intensity you also see the fire burn with extreme intensity and both gods rush head on into each other.  I think when the two forces meet, they engage in a cosmic battle existing outside of time from our perspectives.  The loser is encased within a prison that take the form of a Wall.  The two forces meet right outside the God’s Eye and an obsidian black crystalline structure mixed with white ice intertwine symbolizing their battle.  I believe that this time around the Ice god wins and the newly created Wall standing outside of King’s Landing will be obsidian black and will stretch from coast to coast.

The forging of the blade will bring down the Wall that held the Great Other’s essence and he will be free.  Bran the embodiment of the Great Other will also break free of the compulsion that the Night King held on him and do the impossible and go back in time where he as a boy will place the spells into Storm’s End and grow up to be Brandon the Builder and witness the building of the Wall.  He will lay the first stone for Winterfell and make his home within the Winterfell weirood tree which he likely plants.  From his seat within the weirwood Bran will watch over his family and protect them as much as he can.  He will be the source of the prophecies that will inspire and offer hope for a world that he grew up in from the threat of the Night King.  Among them Azor Ahai and the forging of Lightbringer, Lann the Clever and the Rat Cook.

Jon will awaken from his living nightmare of being the puppet of the fire god as he has not fulfilled his true purpose and he will eventually make his way back to Winterfell.  When he gets there, he will go down into the crypts to find Bran an old man.  Like he told Tyrion “mostly I live in the past”.  He will tell Jon it is nice to see him after such a long time and then ask Jon to stand guard against the time when the prison of the Lord of Light will break and their eternal battle continues.  Jon promises and Bran dies.  Where will Jon make his home, we are only left to ponder as their story ends.  They will return to see how all the provinces ended up.  They will show us how the characters that survived the battle with gods made out in the end.  I don’t think there will be an Iron Throne when all is said and done.  We will end it with little Sam, a man grown now, reading a book to his children and when finished they ask him to read it again.  He tells them to go to be before the snarks and grumpkins come to get them.  He places the book down when we read the cover “A Song of Ice and Fire – by Samwell Tarly”.  They may skip a few thousand years into the future when we see a crack start to form within the Wall as the cycle starts again.

Comments encouraged.  Love to hear the idea’s of others.  Most believe that since I present my idea’s as “fact like” I’m not open to change my viewpoints which is far from the truth.  I simply look at the information presented and go from there.  If you can shine a light on another way of thinking that opens the door to debate.