Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-86.181.99.232-20160817015330

'''Does Bran still bear the brand of the Night's King? Will he dismantle the protection of the Wall? Could Benjen, really, not have entered Castle Black? Will the Night's King be able to walk through the gate of the Wall?'''

This season, we have seen Bran be marked by the Night's King (S6:E5) allowing the dead and the white walkers to breach the protective enchantments of the Children of the Forest around the weirwood tree that lie beyond the wall.

We also saw the brief return of Benjen Stark as a semi-whitewalker (S6:E10). In this brief scene, Benjen mentioned that the Wall was protected by enchantments that prevented the dead from entering.

However, Benjen was only half dead and assuming that Bran still bears the brand of the Night's King on his arm, if Bran were to enter Castle Black through the Wall, would he dismantle the protective spells that guard it. If so, would this not have allowed Benjen to pass through?

The theory that the Starks' blood is related to the magic at the wall also leads some assume that the Starks could potentially invite whitewalkers throught the wall. If this were true and were to feature in the show, would this not also have allowed Benjen to pass through the wall either independently or alongside Bran?

Finally, if the Knight's King's mark is still active and Bran carries it through the Wall, would this not almost certainly mean that the dead could follow as they did at the weirwood tree beyond the Wall? 