King Bran the Broken: how the Three Eyed Raven won Game of Thrones

From the Three Eyed Raven to Bran the Broken king, Bran Stark's journey explained
Bran Stark, the Three Eyed Raven

Warning: contains spoilers

When Bran Stark was pushed out a window by Jaime Lannister in the very first episode of Game of Thrones it set in motion events that would cause continents to quake and send thousands to their doom. It was also the moment Game of Thrones announced itself as a TV show with a difference. Here there were no comforting certainties or taboos that could not be shattered. If it served a character’s interests to shove a child to their apparent death, they would go ahead and do it. 

Ever since, Bran (Isaac Hempstead Wright) has been the ghost in Game of Thrones’s clockwork machine. He has functioned as a crucial plot point, pitching the Starks against the Lannisters and complicating...

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