Monday, April 29, 2019

Did the Night King just Keyser Soze everybody?


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. 

I always thought that ASOIAF would have to address the Varymyr Sixskins prologue chapter in A Dance with Dragons.  He was a powerful warg that tried to warg into a woman named Thistle as he was injured and dying.  His plan was to warg her and live out the rest of his life within her.  He assumed that his warging abilities would perish with his body but he would live.  She fought back first by screaming defiantly forcing him out and then by biting her tongue off and spitting it out.  He was never able to warg her.  I thought in the end the books series would show Bran more powerful and he would warg the Night King himself.  Well what if the opposite occurred and Bran was warged and taken over from the first time he was marked.  Bloodraven told Bran the following:

Slipping into Summer’s skin had become as easy for him as slipping on a pair of breeches once had been, before his back was broken. Changing his own skin for a raven’s night-black feathers had been harder, but not as hard as he had feared, not with these ravens. “A wild stallion will buck and kick when a man tries to mount him, and try to bite the hand that slips the bit between his teeth,” Lord Brynden said, “but a horse that has known one rider will accept another. Young or old, these birds have all been ridden. Choose one now, and fly.”

So, I ask again could Bran have been warged by the Night King from that first day.  I don't even know if Bran knew what was going on.  Either that or he could do nothing about it.

Was Bran saddled and bridled from this moment on?

Was he no longer Bran from this moment?


Was this the reason that Meera told Bran "You died in that cave"?  Before this Bran was worried about his family but after he was marked he lost all interest, coincidence?  Bran told us numerous times he wasn't Bran Stark.  Was that him trying to reach out for help?









































Bingo



Was it the Night King or Bran who gave Arya the dagger



Was it the Night King and not Bran who actually came up with the plan that he passed to Jon and crew in the war room?  A plan that hinges on the Night King taking the bait and that Jaime points out "If that true, he'll never expose himself."




Can you say leash





And that's exactly what he did.  Wait.









Why wouldn't they listen to Jaime?


Yes because Bran has become his favorite dog



The Night King seems to have all the same abilities as Bran only he seems to be better.  He used Jon and crew as bait and waited on Dany to arrive so that he could steal a dragon in order to pass through the Wall


He had to have seen Arya and Brienne sparring and Arya using her switch hands move?



Remember when Bran warged the ravens and flew from Winterfell to the Wall to beyond the Wall to the Night King.  I used to think that this was Bran trying to spy on the Night King. 



What if it was something else entirely?  What if it was the Night King teaching his dog to come.  He made Bran come all the way to him to test his obedience and level of control.  Remember during the Battle for Winterfell?  Well Bran went into his warg at 32:57 into the show and didn't come out until 1:10:00 right when the Night King arrived to supposedly kill him.  Did the warg ensure that Bran stayed put?  Otherwise this made no sense at all.











At 32:57 Bran just went away








The Birds flew behind the Night King and weren't repelled.  Why?

Did he allow Bran to watch what he was doing


At 1:10:00 he came back just in time to see the Night King make it to him

Is this Night King for "Good Boy"
Bottom line I don't think any of it was coincidence.  I think everything went according to plan; the Night King's plan.  How is it that the Night King seems to be 2 steps ahead of everyone falls into such an obvious trap?  In the movie The Usual Suspects remember Verbal's line: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist."  What if the Night King Keyser Soze'd all of us?  He knew Jon was approaching him after Dany tried to burn him with dragon fire; most likely through the eyes of the dead all around him.  So how is it he missed a girl running across the battlefield coming straight towards him.  I don't think he did.  You let her kill you and everyone see's exactly what they expect to see if the Night King dies.  In the meanwhile you remain hidden, in your second life, right in plain sight, inside Bran Stark, much like Verbal.


If this is true, I wouldn’t expect to see a hint of it until the last episode.  We will see Bran go into the weirwoods and his eyes will turn blue with stars in them like that of the Night King.  To me that would mean the Night King actually won.  Game over man!


Below is how this all ties back to the Wheel of Time


In the Wheel of time this is called Compulsion.  It is the art of subjugating another person’s will through the use of the One Power.
  
The hero in the story was Rand al’Thor and he had just woken up after being injured only to find something the reader didn’t expect:


He reached to his side and felt no wounds there. No wounds. For the first time in a long while, there was no pain. He almost didn’t know what to make of it.

Then he looked down and saw that the hand prodding his side was his own left hand. He laughed, holding it up before him. A mirror, he thought. I need a mirror.

He found one beyond the next partition of the tent. Apparently, he’d been left completely alone. He held up the candle, looking into the small mirror.  Moridin’s face looked back at him.

Rand touched his face, feeling it. In his right eye hung a single saa, black, shaped like the dragon’s fang. It didn’t move.


He basically warged Moridin; his version of the Night King.  This is why I say we will know if this is true when we see Bran warg or his eyes start looking like that of the Night King.


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.