Inside Game Of Thrones - Season 1 - Episode 14

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Inside Game Of Thrones - Season 1 - Episode 14

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Ser Jaime ignores his sister’s screaming and sighs. “The things I do for love,” he says, and gives Bran a little shove.
And that’s it.


Bran is falling again, but this time there’s nothing to hold on to. The only sound he hears as the hard ground breaks his fall is the sound of his direwolf, still howling.


When Bran wakes up in a bed in Winterfell, the first thing he sees is his direwolf standing on his legs, sunlight from the window shining full on his fur. He’s reminded of a strange dream he had right before waking up, about a strange raven with three eyes, about learning how to fly and about winter fast approaching.Winter is coming,those are the Stark words.

Seeing his direwolf like that, looking every bit like an animal of the rapidly-dwindling summer he has known since he was born, Bran knows the perfect name for the animal.
Summer, to remind him that winter, indeed, is coming.

He’s told he has been asleep for a long while, and that this is the first time since his fall that he’s waking up. And there’s something else.

He cannot feel his legs. Bran lost the use of his legs on the very day he fell.

Bran is told that the Lannisters had tried to kill him when he was asleep, and his mother and brother ask him whether he can remember how he fell off the castle wall. But Bran can’t remember. He doesn’t even recall being pushed. In his mind, he had just missed a crack in the wall and slipped.

The loss of Bran’s legs means no more climbing for him. Ever.


And many of his siblings are gone when he wakes up. Father has left for King’s Landing with the king but without Bran and has taken only Sansa and Arya with him, even though Bran had already been told to say his goodbyes, leaving his brother Robb to hold council meetings as Lord of Winterfell. And Jon is gone, too. His bastard brother has gone North to the Wall to join the Night’s Watch, to protect the seven kingdoms from wildlings.
It’s only Bran, Robb, Rickon and their mother that are left.


And then one day their mother calls them into Bran’s room: Robb, Theon Greyjoy, Ser Rodrik, and Maester Luwin. She mentions about the man who had tried to kill Bran while he was asleep and shows them the dagger that was used to do it, as well as the bandaged deep cuts on her hand that resulted from it. Mother says the man was a tramp, and yet he wielded a fine dagger. Ser Rodrik pronounced it Valyrian steel.

That means that someone had sent the man to kill Bran. Someone wealthy enough to own such a dagger. Only one such family have just recently been at Winterfell, a family whose mere name is like the mention of poison.
The Lannisters.

And father had just followed them South, taking along his two sisters with him. Mother says he needs to be warned of this new development and of the enormity of the danger he’s in.


She and Ser Rodrik are going South to King’s Landing to see to it.

With most of his family seeming to have abandoned, he now spends most of his time in his bed by the window listening to Old Nan— the wet nurse of he and his brothers and their father before them, a woman who had been called Old Nan even when his father was a boy —sit in her chair by the door with her knitting needles goingclick click click,telling her stories of the First Men and giants, of the children of the forest and the Age of Heroes, of the Night King and his Others and the terribly long winter known as the Long Night.
On one such days when Bran is sitting in his bed by the window listening to Old Nan tell her stories and confuse him with his dead uncle Brandon and another Brandon who had been a son of hers, watching from the window the three remaining wolves Grey Wind, Summer and Shaggydog playfully chase his three-year-old baby brother Rickon all around the yard below, Maester Luwin enters with Hodor and tells him that his brother urgently requests his presence in the Great Hall of Winterfell.

Hodor is a seven-foot-tall giant of a man, Old Nan’s grandson, who works in the stables and can lift huge anvils like bales of hay. He is the type of person many people call a half-wit, just a little bit shy of an imbecile. No one knows how he got that name, but Old Nan told him his real name is Wylis, but since, for some reason, the only word he ever knew how to say was “Hodor”, everyone took to calling him by that name.
Hodor picks him up in both hands and carries him down to the Great Hall, where Lord Tyrion of House Lannister— or “the Imp”, as people called him because of his dwarfish stature —is waiting before Robb, who has greeted the little man with a naked blade across his lap, a very obvious sign of hostility. Lord Tyrion accompanied Jon to the Wall and has come to see Bran at Winterfell with a man of the Night’s Watch, Yoren, on their way South to King’s Landing.

He came into the Great Hall of Winterfell to see Lord Robb as a sign of respect, who obviously doesn’t like him very much considering the naked steel, based on what mother has told them about Lannisters. Lord Tyrion, a curious little man with mismatched eyes, asks him how it was he happened to fall, but Bran insists “Ineverfall, never, never, never.”