Why Bran Is The Night King In The Books 😢

Did you know in the books Bran might be the Night King? This short uses evidence from A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons and The Winds of Winter.

A Game of Thrones theory explained, prepare for The Winds of Winter release date with a theory video of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series and something to think about while waiting for HBO's House of the Dragon Season 2.

[Fiercetits]

The show did us dirty by not giving us Jon Snow vs the night king after 7 seasons of hinting at it

[WungusBill-lfiu]

Raising the dead is pretty similar to warging if you ignore the enormous differences

[pigpig]

I think it's more likely that Bran would go back to become Bran the Builder. Not only did he build the wall, but he was present in other major events, such as during the construction of Storm's End, during which he is described as being a young boy, who somehow knew exactly how the castle needed to be built.

I've always thought him being Bran the Builder might be too obvious to be true, but the young boy part has me at least partially convinced

[vvreno]

Literally any theory I see online is better than the ending we got. 💔

[flesruoYkcuFoGuoY]

There is no Night King in the books, there is a god called the Great Other, who is not a real being. Then there is the Night's King, a former lord commander who took an Other as a wife.

[just.do.something]

I really thought when the Night King reached Bran he was going to bow and bend the knee for a Game of Thrones twist.

[RosygreyglassesS]

Rumor is Bran also time traveled into Jaime Lanister and pushed himself out of the window.

[sasavuckovic]

Cant wait for season 8 to come out and see Jon fighting the Night King...

[mrm]

Bran warging into the Mad King (to stop the Night King) is a much better theory.

[tjjordan]

The Tower of Joy scene always confuses me because no clear reason was given why the Three-Eyed-Raven was showing Bran this, when he didn’t intend for him to see what was inside after the battle. It was clearly done because they wanted to set up for the R+L=J reveal later but they never built up to it properly.

The way how it should have been done was to have Bran speak of that event and wish to visit it but the Three-Eyed-Raven refuses, reasoning that it wasn’t part of the training. But Bran secretly visits and before he sees what’s inside the Tower, the Three-Eyed-Raven stops him.

[BricksAndSparrows]

“Raising the dead and warging is kind of similar”. Please elaborate…

[alanmt]

In the DwD, Bran’s time travelling was more of a visions of the past through Weirwood eyes. He wasn’t really able to interact with Ned or anyone else. Ned kinda heard a whisper but it wasn’t an interaction per se

[pmpwtlt]

Bran is actually ned from a alternate realm where he hatched from a duck egg theory

[LazAustin]

At this rate, I guess we'll never know for sure smh

[synivy]

The white walkers in the books…are actually more elven in appearance and known only as “the others” they also have personality some are laughing before killing members of the nights watch lol

[jjohnson]

Well that's not what White Walkers are in the books. They weren't made, they're a different race of beings from the Lands of Always Winter.

[jack-squared]

I’ve always thought the mad king yelling “burn them all” was actually Bran warging into him, and the mad king was actually seeing visions of white walkers, thus yelling “burn them all” … I’m high, did that make sense?

[ebcbr]

Martin left too many possibilities open to ever wrap it up.

[IvanGeorgiev---]

He can be Bran the builder and Night King all together. That was my guess during the show. Just before they stab him with the dagger to make him NK, he can go in time to build the Wall + the castles.

[alexanderandrew]

Was somewhat expecting Bran to become a new night king after he was marked