I think that the Wall is a prison

Potential Spoilers Below

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.