GoT (don't come in if your worried about spoilers obv)

[uh-oh]

word i must've never understood the theory then, i thought people were saying BRAN was doing it. like BRAN went back in time and visited the mad king and whispered the madness to him, bran went back and did the brandon the builder shit, etc. etc.

but it makes much more sense that there is an ancient warg who has evaded death through the millennia by just taking over a new person every hundred or so years. so that same ancient "spirit" for lack of a better word couldve done everything, and bran is just his new vessel

i like that MUCH more than bran just somehow gaining knowledge from the trees or whatever

because it brings a new player into the game entirely

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Originally Posted by uh-oh

word i must've never understood the theory then, i thought people were saying BRAN was doing it. like BRAN went back in time and visited the mad king and whispered the madness to him, bran went back and did the brandon the builder shit, etc. etc.

but it makes much more sense that there is an ancient warg who has evaded death through the millennia by just taking over a new person every hundred or so years. so that same ancient "spirit" for lack of a better word couldve done everything, and bran is just his new vessel

i like that MUCH more than bran just somehow gaining knowledge from the trees or whatever

because it brings a new player into the game entirely

It's basically GOTs deus ex machina