Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5308269-20160827232019/@comment-5308269-20160828140044

GoT Dawn wrote: I hear your solid points of the Raven in warning and accident with the Night King has greenseer…

Do you think there’s some evidence already here, Bran to changed the past with Hodor at the Winterfell that caused the speech and hearing Ned at the Towel of Joy? I am just thinking a theory that Bran had already used two times to change the past and requires to stop the Night King and save humanity…They also have referenced the Mad King saying "burn  them all" - do you think Bran to change the past and future...?



I just said there's no evidence for Bran changing the past. Ned did hear his son's call at the Tower of Joy, but Bran's action did nothing to change the course of what happened that day. And as I just explained, Hodor's trauma in the past was ALWAYS going to happen! It was a timeloop. Rather than changing the past, Bran simply ensured that Hodor's time-warged induced trauma would happen. Bran didn't wilfully intend to harm Hodor, but the Three-eyed Raven knew what would happen, and made no serious effort to warn Bran against it.

The claim by the fandom about Bran causing King Aerys II Targaryen's madness. But that is highly speculative. Aerys was the offspring of centuries of familial incest, and there was already a history of mental illness within his own bloodline. If one can blame Bran for sending oblique messages through time to the Mad King, then where does it end with blaming him for every tragedy in Westerosi history?