Who is the three eyed crow?

[Pedro Del Mar]

to try and keep any spoilers at bay - when Bran is dreaming shorlty before waking up he speaks to a three eyed crow. Who is this three eyed crow? Anyone have any ideas?

 

[hadd]

Mr Coldhands!

 

[TK-421]

Threads where this crow was beaten to bloody pulp.

Theory: Coldhands=Benjen Stark, Three-eyed Crow = Brynden BloodRaven Rivers

Pure Speculation RE; A Song of Ice and Fire.

About Bran (Spoilers)

Benjen Stark-Coldhand's

Everyone needs a conspiracy theory....

Starks as Wargs [possible spoilers]

Benjen as the Three Eyed Crow?

"promise me, Ned" and "the value of Howland Reed"

Bran and his future???

Who is Coldhands?

Coldhands = Priest of the other

Horn of Winter or a horn of the Children of the Forest?

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

Thank you

 

[The Imp]

Pay no attention to the trail of breadcrumbs in the fine threads that TK listed.

It's Euiron Crow's eye, of course

 

[Boaz]

Euron? He's the one-eyed crow.

The three-eyed crow will be some long lost and ancient Stark like Bran the Builder who's been waiting for five thousand years to teach his ancestor to defeat The Other. Coldhands might be Benjen... you might find that many of the Starks are still undead heroes..... How's this? I just made it up.

 

[Clansman]

It's Ned Stark, of course. Who else could it be?

 

[The Imp]

Euron? He's the one-eyed crow.

The three-eyed crow will be some long lost and ancient Stark like Bran the Builder who's been waiting for five thousand years to teach his ancestor to defeat The Other. Coldhands might be Benjen... you might find that many of the Starks are still undead heroes..... How's this? I just made it up.

He's the one eyed crow, but wouldn't it be interesting if he was using some sort of arcane magic that he might have had access to in his travels to manipulate Bran, taking the shape of a crow in his dreams/visions

I admit it's silly and improbable though

 

[NightStalker]

It's Ned Stark, of course. Who else could it be?

Bran had dreams of the crow before Ned died. I haven't much ideas but I think that Coldhands is Benjen Stark maybe? If he was got by the others then of course he'd have the cold hands and stuff but he has Stark blood and if many of the Stark children are "wargs" maybe he has something keeping him sane.(didn't know the right word for that )

 

[NightStalker]

He's the one eyed crow, but wouldn't it be interesting if he was using some sort of arcane magic that he might have had access to in his travels to manipulate Bran, taking the shape of a crow in his dreams/visions

I admit it's silly and improbable though

But then you wonder why Bran? Euron is no friend to the Starks and thinks Bran is dead, yet even if he knew, what use would he think Bran could be?

 

[The Imp]

But then you wonder why Bran? Euron is no friend to the Starks and thinks Bran is dead, yet even if he knew, what use would he think Bran could be?

As I said, it's a really crackpot theory, only based in the idea that Euron is missing an eye and the crow has an extra one, also that Euron has encountered magic in his travels.

I undertand that the third eye is probably more metaphorical than real, It's the kind of thing that you just kind of humore me about, kind of like the old man yelling at lawn signs or traffic lights.

 

[Bazza]

The three-eyed crow is a representative or symbol of the old gods of the North, sent to Bran in his dream to awaken his "inner-druid" or connection to the more natural world. Its purpose is to guide Bran to his still-to-be-determined destiny that has something to do with the protection of the realm against the Others', or white-walkers', impending winter. It imparts all these worries on him during his dream, opening his eyes to the great responsibility he is about to inherit and pulls him out of its morbid depths in order to show him both the danger the world is about to experience and the reason he must survive in order to stop it.

 

[Boaz]

uh, what he said...

 

[Mesanna]

I see Winter is Coming have dug out some possible images of the Three Eyed Crow from the TV show (OK, OK I know this isn't the TV show's forum!) You can see them here:

http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/02...-work-include-first-image-of-three-eyed-crow/

Maybe I didn't read the passages in the books too carefully, but in my mind I always perceived the third eye as more of a metaphorical thing, than a literal third eye. But I suppose TV has to be more literal than a book (though the article does state that it's not confirmed that these images will definitely be used, they may just be artists' impressions).

 

[Boaz]

I posted in a Bran crackpot theory thread and a Benjen thread this morning... and then I read Bran's chapter at the Nightfort in ASOS during lunch. This morning I commented on Bran's ADWD abilities to communicate over time... to Eddard at Winterfell in the past and Jon in the future. I wondered if Benjen joined the NW, not because of a crime nor a noble calling, but because the three-eyed crow also spoke to him like it did to Bran (and I assume Jojen).

So, while reading about Bran at the Nightfort... a weirwood tree, Coldhands arrival, the Night's King, and moving through the Wall... I noticed how Bran runs an inner monologue as a prayer to the Old Gods. I wondered who the Old Gods are and how they answer prayers. I remembered Osha saying the wind in the weirwoods is the Old Gods' answer.

So... 1) if the three-eyed crow is calling Jojen, Bran, and Benjen and 2) Bran is asking for the Old Gods assistance and 3) Bran can speak through the weirwoods into the past and future (I assume the present as well) and 4) Bran's prayer is answered in the presence of a weirwood tree... then is Bran answering his own prayers? Is Bran calling himself? Is Bran the three-eyed crow? Is Bran an Old God?

Is the First Men's understanding of Old Gods just people like Brynden Rivers and Bran Stark seeing through the weirwoods?

The three-eyed crow will be some long lost and ancient Stark like Bran the Builder who's been waiting for five thousand years to teach his ancestor to defeat The Other. Coldhands might be Benjen... you might find that many of the Starks are still undead heroes..... How's this? I just made it up.

I posted that almost twelve years ago. Does House Stark keep naming their most intriguing characters Brandon because of influence from the weirwoods? How many Brandon Starks have connected to the world wide weirwood? Is the original Brandon the three-eyed crow calling a new Brandon to join him?