She retorts that he is a 'sweet summer child' who knows nothing about fear, and tells him that fear is for the winter and for the Long Night, a winter season thousands of years ago that lasted a generation, in which those who didn't freeze to death had to face the White Walkers, who ventured south for the first time and swept through Westeros.

She offers to tell him the story of Duncan the Tall and Bran replies that he hates her stories -he prefers the scary ones. Īfter Catelyn leaves for King's Landing, Old Nan sits by Bran’s bedside to watch him. Bran awakens with no memory of what happened some weeks later, at the same moment as his father is forced to kill Sansa's direwolf, Lady. Summer then stands guard at the end of Bran's bed. Catelyn struggles with the man until Summer arrives and rips out the would-be assassin's throat. While he is unconscious an assassin attempts to kill him. īran survives the fall, but is left comatose, forcing Ned to leave him in Winterfell. To keep his silence, Jaime pushes him out of the tower window. While climbing a decrepit tower, he catches the king's wife, Queen Cersei, and her twin brother, Jaime, engaged in sexual intercourse. Jaime pushes Bran after discovering him and Cersei.ĭuring Robert's visit, Bran goes exploring. King Robert Baratheon's party arrives at Winterfell, and Ned agrees to act as the Hand of the King and accompany Robert back to King's Landing, and to take Bran, Sansa and Arya with him. Bran eventually settles on naming his direwolf Summer. The Starks find a litter of direwolf pups and Ned reluctantly agrees to let his children adopt them because they are the symbol of their House. Bran is considered old enough to see some of the uglier sides of life, and his father takes him to see a deserter from the Night's Watch being executed.

Game of Thrones: Season 1 īran practices archery under his brothers' guidance.īran is being trained by his father, brothers and the castle's staff in leadership and combat. Bran dreams of being a knight of the Kingsguard, and his favorite hobby is climbing the walls of Winterfell, using its old rooftops and passageways to get around.

He is only called 'Brandon' by his mother when he has done something wrong. Bran was named for Ned's elder brother, Brandon, who was brutally executed by the Mad King along with Bran's paternal grandfather Rickard Stark. He has an older brother Robb, a younger brother Rickon, two older sisters Sansa and Arya, and an older 'bastard half-brother', Jon Snow, who is actually Bran's first cousin by his aunt Lyanna Stark. Bran is the fourth child and second son of Lady Catelyn and Lord Ned Stark of Winterfell.

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