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 Three-eyed crow, by Darek Zabrocki © Fantasy Flight Games. | |
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A three-eyed crow appears to Bran Stark in dreams. It is known by the children of the forest as the last greenseer.[2] In the television adaptation Game of Thrones it is known as the three-eyed raven.
Appearance and Character
[edit]In the dreams of Bran Stark, the crow speaks with a high and thin voice and has an extra eye. It is fond of corn.[3]
History
[edit]When Jojen Reed nearly died from greywater fever when he was little, he was visited by a three-eyed crow in his green dreams.[4]
Recent Events
[edit]A Game of Thrones
[edit]When Bran Stark is in a coma after his fall, a crow appears in his dreams and tells Bran it can teach him to fly. Bran realizes it has three eyes. The crow guides him out of his coma.[3]
Bran later tells Maester Luwin of another dream he had, in which the crow brought him down to the crypts of Winterfell and Bran spoke with his sad father, Lord Eddard Stark. Bran had the dream before finding out that Eddard has been executed in King's Landing.[5]
A Clash of Kings
[edit]While bannermen arrive at Winterfell for the harvest feast, Bran dreams of a weirwood with deep red eyes and a twisted wooden mouth, with the three-eyed crow in its branches.[6]
Jojen Reed tells Bran that he dreamed of a winged wolf bound in stone chains, with a three-eyed crow trying to peck through them. Jojen reveals the crow has visited him in dreams since he was a child, and that it can be found beyond the Wall.[4]
A Storm of Swords
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Bran and his companions—Hodor, Jojen, and Jojen's sister Meera—decide to travel north beyond the Wall to find the three-eyed crow, of whom the boy still dreams.[7]
A Dance with Dragons
[edit]With the assistance of Coldhands, Bran, Hodor, and the Reeds reach the cave of the three-eyed crow in the haunted forest. The three-eyed crow is revealed to be not an actual bird, but a man who says he was once a lord called Brynden.[1] He is a pale, skeletal man in rotted, black clothing in a weirwood throne of tangled roots. His skin is white, aside from a red blotch on his neck and cheek. Brynden has fine, white hair long enough to reach the earthen floor. He is missing one eye, while the other is red. Weirwood roots surround the man and grow through his body, including his leg and his empty eye socket. His voice is slow and dry, as if he had forgotten how to speak.[1] Bran is disappointed that the crow cannot heal his crippled legs, but Brynden promises he will teach Bran how to fly instead.[2]
Brynden teaches Bran about greenseeing and skinchanging.[1] He later decides it is time for Bran to take the next step and has Leaf give Bran a bowl of weirwood paste, made from seeds of weirwood, to eat in order to awaken his greenseer gifts. When Bran sees his father, Eddard, through the heart tree in the godswood of Winterfell, Brynden tells Bran that he is haunted by his own ghosts, a brother that he loved, a brother that he hated, and a woman that he desired, but he knows from experience that the past cannot be changed.[1]
Quotes by the three-eyed crow
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Bran: I can't fly. I can't, I can't ...
Crow: How do you know? Have you ever tried?[3]—Bran Stark and the three-eyed crow in Bran's dream
You will never walk again, Bran, but you will fly.[2]
—Three-eyed crow to Bran Stark
Never fear the darkness, Bran. The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.[1]
—Three-eyed crow to Bran Stark
Quotes about the three-eyed crow
[edit]Bran looked at the crow on his shoulder, and the crow looked back. It had three eyes, and the third eye was full of a terrible knowledge.[3]
—dream of Bran Stark
Bran: I want to learn magic. The crow promised that I would fly.
Luwin: I can teach you history, healing, herblore. I can teach you the speech of ravens, and how to build a castle, and the way a sailor steers his ship by the stars. I can teach you to measure the days and mark the seasons, and at the Citadel in Oldtown they can teach you a thousand things more. But, Bran, no man can teach you magic.[8]—Bran Stark and Luwin
Jojen: You are the winged wolf, Bran. I wasn't sure when we first came, but now I am. The crow sent us here to break your chains.
Bran: Is the crow at Greywater?
Jojen: No. The crow is in the north.[4]—Jojen Reed and Bran Stark
Bran still feared the three-eyed crow who haunted his dreams sometimes, pecking endlessly at the skin between his eyes and telling him to fly.[7]
—thoughts of Bran Stark
A face took shape within the hearth. Stannis? she thought, for just a moment ... but no, these were not his features. A wooden face, corpse white. Was this the enemy? A thousand red eyes floated in the rising flames. He sees me. Beside him, a boy with a wolf's face threw back his head and howled.[10]
—thoughts of Melisandre
Most of him has gone into the tree ... He has lived beyond his mortal span, and yet he lingers. For us, for you, for the realms of men. Only a little strength remains in his flesh. He has a thousand eyes and one, but there is much to watch. One day you will know.[1]
—Leaf to Bran Stark
See Also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 34, Bran III.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 13, Bran II.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 17, Bran III.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 28, Bran IV.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 66, Bran VII.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 16, Bran II.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 9, Bran I.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 53, Bran VI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 4, Bran I.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 31, Melisandre I.