Bran Stark trivia: 94 facts about the GOT character that everyone has a theory about!

Bran Stark is one of the most known characters and maybe the key to a lot of theories about Game of Thrones!

So le’ts find out some trivia and facts about him and his journeyso far!

1. Brandon Stark, typically called Bran, is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of epic fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin
2. And its television adaptation Game of Thrones
3. Introduced in 1996’s A Game of Thrones, Bran is the second son and fourth child of Eddard Stark
4. The honorable lord of Winterfell
5. An ancient fortress in the North of the fictional kingdom of Westeros
6. He subsequently appeared in Martin’s A Clash of Kings (1998) and A Storm of Swords (2000)
7. Bran was one of a few prominent characters that were not included in 2005’s A Feast for Crows
8. But returned in the next novel A Dance with Dragons (2011)
9. Martin told Rolling Stone in 2014 that Bran’s chapter with Jaime and Cersei Lannister is what “hooked” many readers early in the first novel
10. Bran is portrayed by English actor Isaac Hempstead Wright in the HBO television adaptation
11. He was named after his deceased uncle, Brandon
12. Bran receives one of a litter of recovered direwolves given to the Stark children and names him Summer
13. During the King’s visit to Winterfell, Bran accidentally interrupts the Queen, Cersei, having sex with her brother, Jaime
14. Who shoves him from the window
15. While he is unconscious and recovering from his injuries, Summer kills an assassin sent to murder Bran
16. When he awakens Bran cannot recall the events before his fall
17. And finds that he is crippled from the waist down
18. Forced to be carried everywhere by the stableboy Hodor
19. Slowly, he realizes that he has gained the ability to assume Summer’s consciousness
20. Making him a warg or a skinchanger
21. After his older brother, Robb, is crowned King in the North
22. Bran becomes Robb’s heir and the Lord of Winterfell
23. After Theon Greyjoy captures Winterfell
24. Osha helps Bran and his younger brother Rickon go into hiding
25. To cement his claim on Winterfell, Theon has two orphan boys killed and their bodies burned
26. And passes their charred bodies corpses off as Bran and Rickon
27. After Theon’s men betray him and Winterfell is sacked
28. Bran, Rickon, Hodor, Osha and their direwolves head north to find his older brother Jon Snow for safety
29. Bran and his group encounter Jojen and Meera Reed
30. Two siblings who aid them in their quest
31. Jojen shares Bran’s “greensight” and tutors him in his prophetic visions
32. After coming close to the Wall, Osha departs with Rickon for Last Hearth
33. While Bran insists on following his visions beyond the Wall
34. Bran and his group encounter Sam and Gilly
35. Who try to persuade Bran not to venture beyond the Wall
36. But Bran claims it is his destiny and leaves through the gate with Hodor and the Reeds
37. During their travels beyond the Wall, Bran and his group stumble across Craster’s Keep
38. There they are captured and held hostage by the Night’s Watch mutineers led by Karl Tanner
39. Night’s Watch rangers led by Jon eventually attack Craster’s Keep to kill the mutineers
40. But Locke, a new recruit and secret spy for Roose Bolton, attempts to take Bran away and kill him elsewhere
41. Bran wargs into Hodor and kills Locke by snapping his neck
42. And Bran and his group are forced to continue on their journey without alerting Jon
43. Who Jojen claims would stop them
44. Bran’s group eventually reaches the heart tree but are set upon by wights outside the entrance
45. Jojen is killed in the attack
46. But the Children of the Forest destroy the wights
47. They lead Bran and his company into the cave to meet the Three-Eyed Raven
48. The Three-Eyed Raven declares that Bran will not walk again but will fly, instead
49. As part of his training, Bran is shown several visions of the past
50. Including Ned Stark and Howland Reed confronting Ser Arthur Dayne and Ser Gerold Hightower at the Tower of Joy
51. And sees how the Children of the Forest injected one of the First Men with dragonglass in a ritual to create the Night King
52. As a defense against the other First Men
53. However, the Three-Eyed Raven is always quick to withdraw Bran from the visions
54. Warning that he may become trapped in them if he stays too long
55. Growing bored with his slow progress, Bran enters a vision on his own and witnesses the Night King in the present day
56. Who sees Bran and marks him
57. Making the Three-Eyed Raven’s cave vulnerable to the White Walkers’ magic
58. The Three-Eyed Raven enters Bran into another vision of Winterfell’s past to impart all his knowledge
59. But before the transfer is completed the White Walkers attack the cave, killing the Three-Eyed Raven, Summer, and the Children of the Forest
60. Bran, still caught in the vision, wargs into Hodor through the latter’s younger self
61. And he and Meera flee as Hodor carries Bran’s unconscious body out of the cave
62. Meera carries Bran into the forest
63. While Hodor gives his life to hold back the cave door against the army of wights until they overwhelm him
64. Bran witnesses how his warging accidentally linked Hodor’s past and present mind
65. Inducing a brain damaging seizure in young Wylis and causing him to repeat Meera’s command to “hold the door” over and over
66. Until he can only slur the word “Hodor”
67. After the wight army catches up to them again, Bran and Meera are rescued by Bran’s uncle Benjen Stark
68. Who had been killed by the White Walkers several years prior
69. But was revived by the Children
70. Benjen whisks the duo to safety and advises that Bran is now the Three-Eyed Raven
71. And must learn to control his powers before the Night King attacks the Seven Kingdoms
72. Benjen leaves Bran and Meera at the weirwood in the Haunted Forest
73. As the Wall’s magic prevents the dead from passing it
74. Bran touches the weirwood and witnesses the rest of the vision of Ned Stark at the Tower of Joy
75. He discovers that Lyanna Stark died giving birth to Rhaegar Targaryen’s son Aegon
76. Whom Ned found and raised as Jon Snow at Lyanna’s dying request
77. Bran returns to Winterfell, which has been rebuilt and reoccupied by the remaining Starks
78. Jon Snow has traveled to Dragonstone to meet with Daenerys Targaryen
79. After which he is finally reunited at Winterfell with Sansa and Arya
80. Who are both concerned by Bran’s knowledge about their tribulations following Ned’s execution
81. Meera leaves Winterfell to return to Greywater Watch
82. Bran’s indifference to her departure makes her realize that Bran “died” in the Three-Eyed Raven’s cave
83. For that reason, Bran remains aloof to his siblings as well
84. He uses his greenseeing abilities to discover Littlefinger’s betrayal of Ned
85. When Sansa confronts Littlefinger about his treason towards House Stark
86. Bran corroborates the accusations leveled against him
87. And Arya executes Littlefinger at Sansa’s command
88. Samwell Tarly arrives in Winterfell and comes to visit Bran
89. Bran tells Sam his discovery that Jon is the bastard son of Rhaegar and Lyanna
90. But Sam mentions a former High Septon’s record of annulling Rhaegar’s marriage to Elia Martell so that he could marry Lyanna
91. Bran uses greenseeing to confirm that the marriage took place
92. And then revisits the vision of the Tower of Joy
93. Discovering that’s Jon’s real name is Aegon Targaryen
94. Bran declares that Jon is therefore the heir to the Iron Throne