However, this old dude has a pretty detailed backstory in the “Song of Ice and Fire” novels as well as some ancillary materials like the “World of Ice and Fire” reference book and the tie-in novella “The Mystery Knight,” and I’m gonna go through some of that with you now.

Bran also saw a younger Hodor, who was able to say things other than “Hodor”!īut we didn’t otherwise get much in the way of info on who the Three-Eyed Raven, played by Max von Sydow, really is. Bran saw his father, uncle Benjen, and aunt Lyanna - whose kidnapping by Prince Rhaegar Targaryen would spark Robert’s Rebellion and the overthrow of the Targaryen dynasty in Westeros. Sunday night we got a look at what kind of things the Three-Eyed Raven can do, as he guided Bran through a vision of Winterfell decades before. The prodigal son Bran Stark is back on this week’s episode of “Game of Thrones,” and he’s got a new friend: an old man who’s been living in a tree north of the Wall with the last surviving Children of the Forest. (Spoiler alert: This post contains spoilers for the episode of “Game of Thrones,” as well as what might be considered book spoilers.)

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