Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-1399600-20160629121258/@comment-24491781-20160704022205

Arya Baratheon wrote: Eko is Oke wrote: Arya Baratheon wrote: Irritator wrote: If bran reaches winterfell, which is probable , by all laws bran should be the king in the north.

in the books robb legimtized jon because he thought that bran was dead,so sucession only lay with jon snow.

And personnaly i think that jon will allow bran to become king as it is his right. I agree with this. Bran is the rightful King in the North and Lord of Winterfell. Both Sansa and Jon know he is alive and neither of them gave a response to the bannermen trying to proclaim Jon KITN. So it seems like the debate should be between Bran and Jon as head of House Stark, but should lean toward Bran since the line of succession leans in his favor. Just exactly how Jon and Sansa knew that Bran is alive if they didn't talk about him at all this season and neither did anyone else? Ramsay and Rickon knew that Bran was alive but Ramsay saw to that and made sure the Bastard and her sister doesn't know what Rickon knows, and well following Ramsay's execution so died their last piece of knowledge that their brother Bran is still alive. Jon found out that Bran was alive and beyond the Wall from Sam. Sansa found out that Bran was alive from Theon. In her conversation with Jon when he got Ramsay's letter, she used Bran, as well as Arya and Rickon, as reasons they needed to take Winterfell back for their family. So yes, they both know Bran is alive and he legally comes before both of them in the line of succession.

In the show, the line of succession is Bran, Sansa, Arya, and then possibly Jon if the bannermen accept him, which they did.

In the books, the line of succession is Bran, Rickon, Arya, and Jon or Jon, Bran, Rickon, and Arya, depending on how Robb's will is worded. Whether or not Sam told Jon if Bran was alive doesn't register with Jon, because he hasn't seen both Benjen and Bran since season 1 and at this point he "believes" both of them to be dead especially if he was informed that they both were last seen somewhere North of The Wall, something like several years ago...

As for Sansa, Theon only ever told her that HE didn't kill Bran and Rickon but this doesn't mean that she has any reason to believe they are still alive (same for Arya) especially with what happened to Rickon and Shaggydog, I think Sansa has good reason to believe that Bran is dead as well and was presumably to her killed by Boltons, that's what a cynical person would think, otherwise both Sansa and Jon would at least talk about find Bran and bringing him home... but they didn't so there.