Why Bran isn't in the Crypts with Jon, Sansa & Arya

Potential Spoilers Below

So why wasn’t Bran in the teaser?  I think it is because he has done what I believe he will eventually do.  He will go back in time physically to learn all he can learn to give him enough time to fight the threat that he perceives in the White Walkers.  Remember what Maester Luwin said concerning Ned Stark when they got word that he had died.

Click here:  Do you doubt that Bran is the “Heart of Winterfell”?

“Maester Luwin stared at the black bird as if it were a scorpion with feathers. He rose, slow as a sleepwalker, and moved to the window. When he whistled, the raven hopped onto his bandaged forearm. There was dried blood on its wings. “A hawk,” Luwin murmured, “perhaps an owl. Poor thing, a wonder it got through.” He took the letter from its leg.

Bran found himself shivering as the maester unrolled the paper. “What is it?” he said, holding his brother all the harder.

“You know what it is, boy,” Osha said, not unkindly. She put her hand on his head.

Maester Luwin looked up at them numbly, a small grey man with blood on the sleeve of his grey wool robe and tears in his bright grey eyes. “My lords,” he said to the sons, in a voice gone hoarse and shrunken, “we … we shall need to find a stonecarver who knew his likeness well …”

The Stark children played in the crypts and there is no way that they could have missed this.  I believe that the preview is showing us that this is deeper within the crypts than anyone has been in a long time.  I don’t believe that anyone is doing any upkeep as shown in the preview.  With that said I believe it was Bran who did something similar to a glass candle and showed a stonecarver, in the distant past, in a waking dream of sorts his cousin and sisters as they are on the day that they discover it letting them know he is the 3-eyed crow beyond a shadow of a doubt.  Who would know their likenesses more than someone who could peer in on them every day of his what I believe his extremely long life.  He will have told them something cryptic before he goes back and when they see their own statues, they will know that what he has said is 100 percent the truth.

Click here: The Glass Candles are burning. What does it mean?

  

Just like the 3-eyed crow that tutored Bran his Weirwood tree took on his likeness at the time he resided in the tree itself.  The same I think can be said of Bran and how he looks now showing us how long he has truly lived.

  

Bran is an old god and he has been conversing with himself even though his younger self didn’t know so at first.  I think he does now.  Remember what took place right before Bran first awoke from his coma like state and what took place concerning the Weirword tree.

  

He saw Winterfell as the eagles see it, the tall towers looking squat and stubby from above, the castle walls just lines in the dirt. He saw Maester Luwin on his balcony, studying the sky through a polished bronze tube and frowning as he made notes in a book. He saw his brother Robb, taller and stronger than he remembered him, practicing swordplay in the yard with real steel in his hand. He saw Hodor, the simple giant from the stables, carrying an anvil to Mikken’s forge, hefting it onto his shoulder as easily as another man might heft a bale of hay. At the heart of the godswood, the great white weirwood brooded over its reflection in the black pool, its leaves rustling in a chill wind. When it felt Bran watching, it lifted its eyes from the still waters and stared back at him knowingly.

  

Everything has turned on it head in the final season and with that said I don’t see the statues as death statues but as monuments to life.  They are the line in the sand to save their very world as Bran see’s it.  I don’t believe that either of the 3 will die at least for a very long time.  I think Sansa will go on to become Queen, Arya will rule Winterfell and Jon who could have been king will replace Bran and become the next 3-eyed crow to guard against any threats to the future.  GRRM could mix things up with Sansa and Arya and switch up their roles just to throw in a twist where Sansa leads forces in the war to come and Arya becoming Queen; pretty much the way she herself said it.

They will get to do what they wanted all along and bring the rest of the world around to their way of thinking instead of the other way around.  Like I keep saying everything is getting turned upside down.

Click here:  Jon Snow replaces Bran

Click here:  Sansa becomes Queen

Click here:  Arya rules Winterfell

Comments encouraged.  Love to hear the ideas 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 the Wall fell

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It fell because it is a tieback to The Wheel of Time and the Domination Band.  Rand the Dragon Reborn was collared with it and was under the control of Semirhage.  She thought she had everything under control when he was able to free himself using the True Power and the following ensued:

The Domination Band

Rand al'Thor (The Dragon Reborn)

Semirhage

Semirhage looked utterly shocked. “But . . . that’s impossible . . .” she said. “I felt nothing. You can’t—” She looked up, staring at him with wide eyes. “The True Power. Why have you betrayed me, Great Lord? Why?”

Representation of the Great Lord

Rand raised a hand and, filled with the power he did not understand, wove a single weave. A bar of pure white light, a cleansing fire, burst from his hand and struck Semirhage in the chest. She flashed and vanished, leaving a faint afterimage to Rand’s vision. Her bracelet dropped to the floor.

An Aes Sedai using Balefire

Elza ran toward the door. She vanished before another bar of light, her entire figure becoming light for a moment. Her bracelet dropped to the floor, as well, the women who had held them burned completely from the Pattern.

In The Game of Thrones instead of the Domination Band they have something called Dragonbinder.  It is a horn that Euron retrieves from Valyria.  With the horn he tells the ironmen that he can bind dragons to his will.  They don’t cover everything in the TV show but is this a hint that the Night’s King will get his hands on this horn and bind the Dragon(s) to his will?  If you are a book reader you may remember what one of the glyphs on horn reads: “Here it says, ‘No mortal man shall sound me and live.’ ”  The Night King from the TV show is definitely no longer a mortal man.  The rest of the conversation goes on like this:

Dragonbinder

Euron

The Night's King

Bitterly Victarion brooded on the treachery of brothers. Euron’s gifts are always poisoned. “The Crow’s Eye swore this horn would bind dragons to my will. But how will that serve me if the price is death?”

Victarion

“Your brother did not sound the horn himself. Nor must you.” Moqorro pointed to the band of steel. “Here. ‘Blood for fire, fire for blood.’ Who blows the hellhorn matters not. The dragons will come to the horn’s master. You must claim the horn. With blood.”

Moqorro

Was the trap set by the Night King to get a dragon the answer to the riddle “Blood for fire, fire for blood?”  By taking the dragons blood and blowing Dragonbinder did he bind the dragon to himself?

Now to get back to my point was not the Ice Dragon’s fire reminiscent of Balefire (i.e. a bar of pure white light, a cleansing fire)?    You can read my entire theory about how Dragonbinder is an homage to the Domination Band here: My Theory

A bar of pure white light; a cleansing fire?

I suggest that the Ice Dragon's fire is an homage to Balefire; a bar of pure white light; a cleansing fire.

Comments encouraged.  Love to hear the ideas 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.