Jag undrar om Bran skulle ha haft samma öde utan att ha sin olycka.
Bran började drömma om den treögda kråken medan han var i koma. Det visade sig då
the old Three-eyed Crow is recruiting his own successor and he chose Bran.
Jag vet inte om den tidigare Three Eyed Crow, Brynden, var själv skadad och hur han rekryterades.
Vet vi om det är ett villkor att göra jobbet? Att vara i koma, var det ett villkor att nås genom drömmarna?
Ingen vet svaret på den här frågan än. Men som GRRM säger ska allt förklaras i god tid. Så det här är bara spekulation baserad på kanon bevis.
The Three-eyed Crow är utan tvekan Brynden Rivers, son till King Aegon IV och känd som Bloodraven.
The last greenseer, the singers called him, but in Bran's dreams he was still a three-eyed crow. When Meera Reed had asked him his true name, he made a ghastly sound that might have been a chuckle. "I wore many names when I was quick, but even I once had a mother, and the name she gave me at her breast was Brynden."
ADWD-Bran III
Också:
"But," said Bran, "he heard me."
"He heard a whisper on the wind, a rustling amongst the leaves. You cannot speak to him, try as you might. I know. I have my own ghosts, Bran. A brother that I loved, a brother that I hated, a woman I desired. Through the trees, I see them still, but no word of mine has ever reached them. The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it."
ADWD-Bran III
Detta passar för:
Vi har också sin fysiska framträdande där Bran observerar att han bär födelsemärket Bloodraven hade:
What skin the corpse lord showed was white, save for a bloody blotch that crept up his neck onto his cheek. His white hair was fine and thin as root hair and long enough to brush against the earthen floor. Roots coiled around his legs like wooden serpents
ADWD-Bran II
Han bekände också att han var en bror till Nattens Vakt i samma kapitel:
"Are you the three-eyed crow?" Bran heard himself say. A three-eyed crow should have three eyes. He has only one, and that one red. Bran could feel the eye staring at him, shining like a pool of blood in the torchlight. Where his other eye should have been, a thin white root grew from an empty socket, down his cheek, and into his neck.
"A … crow?" The pale lord's voice was dry. His lips moved slowly, as if they had forgotten how to form words. "Once, aye. Black of garb and black of blood."
Vi vet att Bloodraven måste ha mött två händelser nära dödsfallet:
Han led en kraftig skada på huvudet / ansiktet i duell mot hans halvbror Aegor Rivers aka Bittersteel. Han förlorade sitt öga som ett resultat men överlevde.
He stared so hard that Bloodraven felt it. The king's sorcerer had turned to study him as he went by. He had one eye, and that one red. The other was an empty socket, the gift Bittersteel had given him upon the Redgrass Field.
Dunk & Egg: The Sworn Sword
Han gick förbi bortom väggen, så det är möjligt att han kanske har mött en nära döds erfarenhet där ute på grund av exponering om inget annat.
Bloodraven would rise to become Lord Commander of the Night's Watch in 239 AC, serving until his disappearance during a ranging beyond the Wall in 252 AC.
TWOIAF: Aegon V
Vi har exempel på Jojen också. Treögd kråka kom till honom när han var nästan djupt sjuk. Han kom till Bran när han också var nära död.
Summer raised his head from Bran's lap, and gazed at the mudman with his dark golden eyes.
"When I was little I almost died of greywater fever. That was when the crow came to me."
"He came to me after I fell," Bran blurted. "I was asleep for a long time. He said I had to fly or die, and I woke up, only I was broken and I couldn't fly after all."
ACOK-Bran IV
Om vi observerar mönstret här är två saker vanliga:
Så vid den logiken kan vi konstatera att ja Bran olycka var nödvändigt för hans rekrytering.
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