ASOIAF 101: Bran's Final Vision

What did Bran see in his vision in the books? Game of thrones the show has far-passed the books in most aspects. And in doing so, the show has skipped over or changed a lot of stuff. But I found a passage from book 5,“A Dance with Dragons”, that is worth a revisit in case it has been awhile since you’ve read the books. In this video, we are going to go over the 7 visions that Bran has in his Final Weirwood dream. Let me say up front that I don’t have all the answers, but I genuinely think that everyone SHOULD know about these visions, particularly, the last one. The 7th one. ADWD, Bran III - "A Dance With Dragons" by George R. R. Martin Subscribe to this Channel: https://goo.gl/bkvygs ◑ Game of Thrones: https://goo.gl/U7wEce ◑ Westworld: https://goo.gl/h1CGk3 ◑ The Witcher (NETFLIX): https://goo.gl/Y912cg ◑ Altered Carbon: https://goo.gl/P3Tcou ◑ Stormlight Archive: https://goo.gl/uLQyrN Executive Producer: Frank and Pez of "Way off Topic Radio" (wayofftopicwithfrank.podbean.com) Co-Executive Producers: Oliver Haney and fluffernutter Each vision gets older and older: • “The tree itself was shrinking, growing smaller with each vision, whilst the lesser trees dwindled into saplings and vanished, only to be replaced by other trees that would dwindle and vanish in their turn.” Vision 1: “…but then somehow he was back at Winterfell again, in the godswood looking down upon his father. Lord Eddard seemed much younger this time. His hair was brown, with no hint of grey in it, his head bowed. ‘…let them grow up close as brothers, with only love between them,’ he prayed, ‘and let my lady wife find it in her heart to forgive…’” Vision 2: “Now two children danced across the godswood, hooting at one another as they dueled with broken branches. The girl was the older and taller of the two. Arya! Bran thought eagerly, as he watched her leap up onto a rock and cut at the boy. But that couldn’t be right. If the girl was Arya, the boy was Bran himself, and he had never worn his hair so long. And Arya never beat me playing swords, the way that girl is beating him. She slashed the boy across his thigh, so hard that his leg went out from under him and he fell in the pool and began to splash and shout. ‘You be quiet, stupid,’ the girl said, tossing her own branch aside. ‘It’s just water. Do you want Old Nan to hear and run tell Father?’ She knelt and pulled her brother from the pool, but before she got him out again, the two of them were gone.’” Vision 3: “…a woman heavy with child emerged naked and dripping from the black pool, knelt before the trees, and begged the old gods for a son who would avenge her.” Vision 4: “Then there came a brown-haired girl slender as a sear who stood on the tips of her toes to kiss the lips of a young knight as tall as Hodor.” Vision 5: “A dark-eyed youth, pale and fierce, sliced three branches off the weirwood and shaped them into arrows.” Vision 6: “And now the lords Bran glimpsed were tall and hard, stern men in fur and chain mail. Some wore faces he remembered from the statues in the crypts, but they were gone before he could put a name to them.” Vision 7: “Then as he watched, a bearded man forced a captive down onto his knees before the heart tree. A white-haired woman stepped toward them through a drift of dark red leaves, a bronze sickle in her hand. ‘No,’ said Bran, ‘no, don’t,’ but they could not hear him, no more than his father had. The woman grabbed the captive by the hair, hooked the sickle round his throat, and slashed. And through the mist of centuries the broken boy could only watch as the man’s feet drummed against the earth…but as his life flowed out of him in a red tide, Brandon Stark could taste the blood.” Oxygen Garden by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/divider/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/