Winter is here, and the night is long. Before dawn, the strange ghost army will arrive under Winterfell. Inside the city walls, people who are still alive can't sleep through the night. They waited in their own way, not so much waiting for a big battle, as waiting to reveal the face of death. The lingering fear does not originate from ghosts and night kings, but from what they represent-death multiplies death, until there is no more living in the world.
Compared with the raging tension surrounding other people, Bran has no waves in his heart and no sorrows and joys on his face, even when he meets his enemy, James, who once pushed him down the tower, under the tree of heart and accepts the latter’s apology. , I just said: "If you didn't do that then, you will still be the same, and I will still be Brandon Stark."
"Aren't you now?"
"No."
2 Concentration Bran and James meet again.
Who is Bran? The alien, the three-eyed crow, and the green prophet are the key figures in the final season of Game of Thrones. George Martin took great pains to shape the character. It can be said that since the name Bran Stark (Bran Stark) appeared on the stage, it indicates that the character will carry a unique mission and experience unexpected possibilities.
Bran once asked the Three-Eyed Crow: "Can my legs stand up again?" The answer was: "You will never be able to walk, but you can fly." This kind of flight is very likely to be used. The gesture of the crow. As the largest species of corvidae in nature, the raven (raven) has a black body, a thick beak, a low and rough sound, and a fond of carrion. Bran fell down the high wall of Winterfell, and he began to see this kind of bird frequently in his dreams, which also began a turning point in his fate.
In the world of Quanyou, the raven serves as the communication messenger between the bachelors and the castles-"Black wings bring black news." In the real world of Old English and Nordic, the raven is seen as a hawk The beast of war with the same name as the wolf heralds the arrival of the massacre. In the Middle Ages, the English regarded the raven as the earliest sailing god. In Celtic culture, it was also called the raven god, and the name of the raven god was Bran. It is said that in an era when there is no communication and backward maps, sailors will release ravens to detect land distance and future weather when sailing, so ravens are considered to be well informed and observant.
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and the name Bran, whether in Old Welsh, Cornish (Comish), Irish and Scot Gaelic (Scot Gaelic), means raven. Like the death and psychic symbolism of the raven, Bran did grow up in the war of the Five Kings, facing the approaching winter, and seeing sights beyond ordinary human eyes.
Bran can’t walk with his legs, but Westero’s rapid changes can be seen. The tribulations suffered by the wolf brothers and sisters after the separation are no exception, because he is also the only Greenseer on the continent of Westeros. "There is only one alien among a thousand people, and only one green prophet can be born out of a thousand aliens." The green prophet, whose birth ratio is only one in a million, is a wise man with mysterious abilities and can control nature (transformers) ), exploring the past and predicting the future (Green Vision).
Welsh myth "Mabinogion" (Mabinogion) also has a character similar to the Green Prophet, a king named Bran (personally known as "Blessed Bran"). In the myth, the sister of "Blessed Bran" married to Ireland, just like Sansa, who was trapped in King's Landing in "Game of Thrones", was bullied. Therefore, the furious King Bran went to Ireland, but his legs were stabbed by poisoned arrows during the battle, and he lost the ability to walk (see Bran Stark who fell down the walls of Winterfell). So King Bran asked the guards to cut off his head and brought it back to the "White Hill" in London to bury it facing the direction of the battlefield. Although his head is in a different place, Bran’s sight can reach thousands of miles away, and his head can continue to command operations until he leads the fighters all the way back to England.
At the pre-war meeting, Bran described his past with the Night King to everyone.
inIn the cave north of the Great Wall, Bran met the three-eyed crow who had been waiting for him for a long time. The former commander of the night watchman, Blinden Riverwen, was nicknamed "Blood raven" (also a raven). , So Bran who holds the name of the raven becomes the new three-eyed raven seems to be destined. The appearance of the three-eyed crow was horrifying: "A fair-skinned monarch dressed in ebony decorations sits dreamily among the entangled tree roots. A throne made of fish beams surrounds his thin body. Like a mother hugging her child", this is not only reminiscent of Odin, who in Norse mythology hung himself upside down on the cosmic tree Yugatra Hill to sacrifice himself.
In the latest episode of the power game plot, when everyone is discussing the battle plan for the Night King, Bran actively asks Ying to use himself as a bait to lure the Night King to appear. Because-"Endless Dark Night, the Night King wants to erase this world, and I have his memory." Sam added: "Your (Bran) memory does not come from books, your story is not just a simple story, if I am the Night King. If you want to erase the human world, start with you first."
Bran showed everyone the mark the Night King left on him.
Going back to the culture of ravens in the Middle Ages of Europe, they are often regarded as creators, heirs of civilization, or transmitters of fire in many cosmologies of old and new societies. Bran, the raven in the play, is undoubtedly the incarnation of this role.
Odin in Norse mythology travels all over the world and knows all kinds of magic spells. On his shoulders are resting two ravens, named Fujin and Wuni, respectively referring to thoughts and memories. Odin knows the historical origins of giants and mankind, just like Bran who became the Green Prophet in Quan You, he can see the history of Dawn Era, Hero Era, and "Long Night", and can not only understand the rapid changes in the north of the Great Wall, but also look into the boundless future. A more terrifying coincidence is that Odin knew that he and the other gods would perish in the Twilight Battle of the Gods, just as Bran responded to James’s sentence: "How do you know there will be a later?" So winter will come. The whole city greeted the Night King's battle, and it was very likely that there were many ills, and Bran had already seen the end.
Some people even speculate that there is also a connection between Bran and the Night King? Remember that in the first season of Winterfell, when the grandmother told Bran’s story, he revealed that the builder who built the Great Wall of Immortal is called Bran, and the name of the Night King is also called Bran. Even-all Bran are A person. In "Game of Thrones", time exists in a closed loop. In the words of the three-eyed crow: "What has been written has been written, and the ink has been dried." And the history behind Bran's name is too much, so It’s hard not to think about it—for example, in the mythology of North Wales, a king named Bran possesses a magical steam pot. The dead can be reborn if they are put into it, but the resurrected warrior will be permanently speechless, a bit like the Night King. The process of creating ghosts. The
war is coming, how will the grand picture of Quan You unfold in the future? In anticipation and prediction of the next episode, we might as well remember Bran this "treasure boy" again.
Ai Lisi (drama critic)
Beijing News editor Wu Longzhen proofreading Lu Aiying
