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Brandon "Bran" Stark is one of the main protagonists of the novel series A Song of Ice and Fire and its television adaption, Game of Thrones.
He is the second youngest of the Stark children. Originally having been a curious and wandering adventure-seeker, Bran's life changes after he becomes crippled following being pushed from a high tower by Jaime Lannister after he spies on him and Cersei while he is climbing. Following this, he discovers that he is a skinchanger, someone who could enter the body of an animal or person, and a greenseer, someone who could see the past, present and future in prophetic dreams known as green dreams. Upon discovering this, he embarks on a journey with his stableboy and giant friend, Hodor, and his two friends, Meera and Jojen Reed, to find Brynden "Bloodraven" Rivers, one of the Great Bastards of Aegon V and the last greenseer who is known as the three-eyed crow, and to evolve his abilities and become a greenseer himself.
Bran is currently nine years old in the novels.
He is portrayed by Isaac Hempstead-Wright, who also voiced Eggs in The Boxtrolls.
Storylines
A Game of Thrones
Bran accidentally sees Queen Cersei Lannister and her twin brother Ser Jaime having sex in the abandoned First Keep; whereupon he is pushed from a window by Jaime to keep the incestuous affair a secret, but he survives in a coma. While Bran remains unconscious, a fire is set at Winterfell's library as a distraction while an attempt is made on his life. Catelyn, who has remained with Bran while Robb takes care of the fire, is able to delay the assassin long enough for Bran's direwolf, Summer, to kill him. Senseless, Bran dreams of his falling from the tower and of a three-eyed crow that offers to teach him to fly. With the crow's guidance, Bran awakes; but having been crippled by the fall, he is unable to walk.
Thereafter Bran relies on the giant simpleton Hodor to move around, and a harness designed by Tyrion Lannister to ride a horse, whom Bran names Dancer. When Robb rides south to relieve Ned's arrest in King's Landing, Bran nominally becomes the acting Lord of Winterfell, although due to his young age he is not put in charge of the castle and the North, and instead Ser Rodrik Cassel is given rule as Castellan of Winterfell, with Maester Luwin by his side as a co-ruler. After his father's execution in the south, Bran's older brother Robb is crowned King in the North, ruling both the North and the Riverlands, and Bran becomes his heir.
A Clash of Kings
Bran continues being tutored by his brother's regents, Ser Rodrik and Maester Luwin, attending the Harvest Feast with the northern lords and meeting the Crannogmen sibling Meera and Jojen Reed, children of Lord Howland Reed. Jojen claims to have been sent by the three-eyed crow to guide Bran and help him understand the power and visions of greensight. At the same time, Bran and Rickon are also joined by their mother's new wards, Little Walder and Big Walder Frey, who befriend Rickon but develop a hostile relationship with Bran.
When Theon Greyjoy betrays the Starks and captures Winterfell, Bran, Rickon, the Reeds and Hodor escape, aided by the wildling Osha. To hide his failure, Theon has his servant Reek (real name Ramsay Snow) murder two other children of a miller and proclaims them to be Bran and Rickon, after their heads are flayed and dipped in tar. Having been hiding in the crypts of Winterfell, Bran and his companions eventually emerge to find the castle in ruins, after a brief siege at Winterfell, where the Northmen and the Ironborn fought each other in bloody battle. In the godswood, they come upon a mortally wounded Maester Luwin, who advises their traveling party to split. Osha takes Rickon in the direction of White Harbor, accompanied by the direwolf Shaggydog, while Bran, Hodor, Meera, and Jojen Reed set off north to seek the three-eyed crow, accompanied by the direwolf Summer.
Unbeknownst to the group, the young twelve-year-old Ironborn Wex Pyke, Theon's squire, the sole survivor of the Sack of Winterfell, was listening to their conversation with Luwin while hiding atop the heart tree, thus becoming the sole person aware that Bran and his brother are still alive, and their whereabouts. Meanwhile, Bran has slowly accepted the veracity of his dreams, and his ability to psychically inhabit Summer, which makes him a type of skinchanger known as a warg.
A Storm of Swords
At the Nightfort, a castle of the Wall, Bran and his group encounter Samwell Tarly and Gilly, who try to persuade Bran not to venture beyond the Wall, but Bran claims it is his destiny and leaves through the Nightfort's magic gate with Hodor and the Reeds.
TV adaptation
Brandon "Bran" Stark is the second son and fourth child of Eddard and Catelyn Stark. He was named after his deceased uncle, Brandon.
Season 1
Bran receives one of a litter of recovered direwolves given to the Stark children and names him Summer. During the King's visit to Winterfell, Bran accidentally interrupts the Queen, Cersei, having sex with her brother, Jaime, who shoves him from the window. While he is unconscious and recovering from his injuries, Summer kills an assassin sent to murder Bran. When he awakens Bran cannot recall the events before his fall and finds that he is crippled from the waist down, forced to be carried everywhere by the stableboy Hodor. Slowly, he realizes that he has gained the ability to assume Summer's consciousness, making him a warg or a skinchanger. After his older brother, Robb, is crowned King in the North, Bran becomes Robb's heir and the Lord of Winterfell.
Season 2
After Theon Greyjoy captures Winterfell, Osha helps Bran and his younger brother Rickon go into hiding. To cement his claim on Winterfell, Theon has two orphan boys killed and their bodies burned, and passes their charred corpses off as Bran and Rickon. After Theon's men betray him and Winterfell is sacked, Bran, Rickon, Hodor, Osha and their direwolves head north to find Bran's older half-brother Jon Snow for safety.
Season 3
Bran and his group encounter Jojen and Meera Reed, two Crannogmen siblings who aid them in their quest. Jojen shares Bran's greensight and tutors him in his prophetic visions. After coming close to the Wall, Osha departs with Rickon for Last Hearth (to keep him safe) while Bran insists on following his visions beyond the Wall. Bran and his group encounter Samwell Tarly and Gilly, who try to persuade Bran not to venture beyond the Wall, but Bran claims it is his destiny and leaves through the Nightfort's gate with Hodor and the Reeds.
Season 4
During their travels beyond the Wall, Bran and his group stumble across Craster's Keep, where they are captured and held by Night's Watch mutineers, led by Karl Tanner. Night's Watchmen led by Jon eventually converge on Craster's Keep, but Locke, an agent of Roose Bolton, pretending to be a new Watch recruit, finds Bran first and takes him hostage. Bran wargs into Hodor and snaps Locke's neck. The group then continues on without telling Jon, who Jojen claims would stop them. Bran eventually reaches cave of the Last Greenseer, but is set upon by wights outside the entrance. Jojen is killed in the attack, but the Children of the Forest lead Bran and his company safely into a magic cave, to meet the Three-Eyed Raven. The Three-Eyed Raven declares that Bran will not walk again but will fly, instead.
Personality
In the books and show, Bran was originally a curious and wandering child who liked to go adventuring. He was shown to be quite naive and innocent. He was also shown to be quite brave for his age, as he would climb the highest towers in Winterfell without falling, going as far as to sleeping on one of the towers in order to hide from his parents.
After he becomes crippled when Jaime Lannister pushes him from a tower, Bran's personality changed. While he was still curious about the world, he became melancholy over having lost his ability to walk.
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