While "Game of Thrones" Season 6 is currently in production and fans are still waiting for the official release date of George R.R. Martin's latest installment in his book series, "A Song of Ice and Fire," titled "Winds of Winter," on which the TV show is based, numerous spoilers and theories have been surfacing online about the various characters. Though Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and his real fate has always been the favorite topic of many, a new theory has come up regarding one of the Stark boys, Bran Stark.
Bran Stark, played by Isaac Hempstead Wright, was not seen in Season 5 of the show as it temporarily took a break from his story. The character was last seen in Season 4, where he finally met the three-eyed raven and began his training on skinchanging and greensight. Huffington has reported that Bran will be back in Season 6.
Now Mashable reports that a new theory about Bran has come up from a Reddit user, who speculates that there might be just one Bran Stark after all in the books and show, and that the character has only been time traveling and skinchanging all this time.
Fans of the books and the HBO show know that there are various characters named Brandon Stark in the story, which have lived in various times and were only mentioned in the show. There's Bran the Builder, Bran the Shipwright, Bran the Breaker and more. Reddit user named defghijklol theorizes that all such characters may just be Bran Stark after all, the boy we know from the show as Ned Stark's (Sean Bean) son.
The theory could reportedly be referenced in the first book in "A Song of Ice and Fire," where it was stated: "Sometimes Nan would talk to him as if he were Brandon, the baby she had nursed all those years ago, and sometimes she confused him with his uncle Brandon, who was killed by the Mad King before Bran was even born. She had lived so long, Mother had told him once, that all the Brandon Starks had become one person in her head."
There are reportedly other details from the book series that hint such possibility.
While some think that the idea is too far-fetched, many also view the theory as "plausible," but they believe that Bran's ability to time travel doesn't allow him to change the events in the past, which is referred to in the report as "fixed time travel."
Though that's the case, if such theory is true, Bran may indeed be an important character in the books and the show and may be a role player in the future events in Westeros, with all his abilities such as greensight, skinchanging, and as the latest theory suggests, time travel. The report speculates that his abilities may allow him to influence certain events, and if he is reportedly indeed Bran the Builder, "he may be the key to stopping the White Walkers in the present day."
