Time manipulation magic actually seems somewhat limited in GoT. You can observe the past perfectly, and if you are very powerful you can screw with it a little to set up a loop like with Hodor- but by doing so you also expose yourself to magical risk like the NK.
Observing the future seems all kinds of imperfect. Red priests seem to screw it up all the time, and Jojen, who was the best future seer as far as we can tell, basically ruined his health to do a spotty as fuck job of it. I actually interpret this as meaning the fate isnāt predestined at all, outside of a loop or two hacked together by the most powerful wargs.
Well would anyone listen to them otherwise? If they were crinkly old men, they would be shown the door after their first line. However with these hot priestesses, they put up with what must sound like complete nonsense at least in the beginning, cause theyāre thinking with the head between their legs not on their shoulders. So the priestess hotties stick around, even give some nookie, all the time continuously preaching. Eventually they brainwash the male ruler.
Yea I can actually see the tree dude/raven actually being OG Bran the Builder. He built the wall to keep the First Men safe from the WW, maybe it wasnt too keep the WW out, probably to stop dudes going too far north to fuck around with the children of the forest and keeping recruits away from the NK. Too ensure he job is always completed he kinda messes with the fates to ensure his clone/replacement/whatever makes the trip beyond the wall to take over. He always did say Bran wouldnt walk but fly.
Oh Sam, when will you pick up your dual valkyrian axes and become an engine of destruction? Sam save us all.
But isnt that a trait with the targaryans? one crazy in every generation. Well the whole Bran influencing time/creating infinite loops is going to be complicatedā¦ i can see Brans trademark quote will be:
Doubtful, Aerys the second decent into madness is well documented. It seemed to be born out of jealousy of Tywin wife Joanna Lannister (who he fucked when she was the Queens cupbearer) and ultimately the betrayal of his banner man and being throw into a dungeon and tortured. After Ser Bannister rescued him he truly became mad and only then did people see him talking to himself to the āvoicesā, Why would Bran want to cause instability in the realm when under Aerys the second Westeros prospered?
It might have certainly contributed, but there were a lot of kings who didnāt display any signs of madness, and some who did werenāt the product of incest. For instant Aegon the 5th or the unlikely who was the mad kings grand father although a great king showed madness later in life, he wasnāt the products of incest nor was his parents parents. I donāt think anyone in the realm of Westeros has made the correlation between incest and mental instability (I could be wrong but I just donāt remember anyone suggesting it). I think its just more likely the Mad King went crazy due to a mix of jealousy, religious fandom and the result of being tortured. He was a great king before the throne took its toll out on him.
I think the theory that the mad king fathered Tyrion is more likely than the one of Bran driving Aerys the second mad.
This is all really left intentionally vague by George RR though. The only official history type book we have is The World of Ice and Fire the untold history which was written not in the sense of 1st person accounts but retold by Maester Yandel who at some point tries to gift it to Joffrey but he dies before its finished so it is instead given to Tommen instead. Anything from it could be utter bullshit open to scrutiny.
After going through the entire lineage again it seems the ābestā Targaryen King would have been Daeron the good (subjective I know) who was born of incest however the majority of āgoodā kings were not products of incest.
*ahh even Daeron the good showed signs of being half Martell so ehhā¦
I guess the overall point is we canāt use the real world realities and impose it here, since dragons and giants exist.
