Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-29325269-20160812000609/@comment-27542229-20160812191828

It's incredible that people assume that everyone has read the books - I haven't so I have no idea what this conversation with Leaf was about.

But Bran can't have children. People in the real world in Bran's situation today can't have children without some invasive medical intervention yet you think Bran might be able to have children in a world with medieval level medical knowledge?

In regards to being Robb's heir, he was Robb's heir because Robb did not have any of his children yet. As soon as Robb had children, they would be the heirs. Plus, of course Bran was Robb's heir - he was the next oldest brother and Rickon was only 4 years old. Are they supposed to put a 4 year old in charge - during war time - just because the older brother can't have children at a time when both were too young to have children? So having children is not the deciding factor in who the heir is.

On top of all of this, there is nothing that says Bran cannot be an heir because he cannot father children - there are already well established rules in both this world and real world that deal with this exact situation - it just goes to the next brother. So Rickon would be Bran's heir and then Rickon's children would be the next in line.

With all that said, you based your position that Bran might be able to have children because he was Robb's heir - I think it's incredible you are willing to throw out a lot of well established inheritance rules and, frankly, common sense, to come to the conclusion that Bran can have children just because he was named childless Robb's heir because there was an alternative of a childless, 4-year-old Rickon.

In regards to Bran taking up residence in the weirwood tree in Winterfell, yeah, that is mostly my speculation and probably also a bit of fanwank but I do think it fits in with the direction the show is going. Jon has to find out at some point who his true parents are and the only one that can tell him is Bran (the show has not even confirmed if Howland Reed knows). So Bran is going to make it back to Winterfell to tell Jon about his true parents. I don't know if that is Bran's whole purpose - it would seem like a waste to train Bran up to be the next Three-Eyed Raven only to kill him quickly after he becomes it - but once he gets to Winterfell, where does he go after that? Winterfell has the weirwood tree and this one is heavily defended (though it remains to be seen if Winterfell's defenses can defend against a White Walker army (but given Winterfell's age, my bet is that it has magic defenses just like the Wall)). So Bran, once he gets to Winterfell, will stay there and do his Three-Eyed Raven to help defend against the White Walkers.