Editing Bran Stark (section)

===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Aaron Riley the things I do for love.jpg|thumb|[[Jaime Lannister]] pushes Bran from the [[First Keep]] window, by Aaron Riley © Fantasy Flight Games]]
Bran is among a group of twenty who witness his father, Lord [[Eddard Stark]], dispense the king's justice to [[Gared]], a deserter of the [[Night's Watch]], the first time Bran is allowed to accompany such a group.{{Ref|AGOT|1}} When they find a dead [[direwolf]] and her pups on the way back to [[Winterfell]], Bran passionately protests against killing the pups. Bran and each of the other Stark siblings receives one of the young animals as a pet.{{Ref|AGOT|1}}

During the [[feast in honor of King Robert's visit to Winterfell]], Bran recites the castles of the [[Night's Watch]] in order to his uncle, [[Benjen Stark]].{{ref|ASOS|40}} When Eddard is named [[Hand of the King]], Bran is excited at the prospect of seeing the knights and royalty of [[King's Landing]], yet he is still apprehensive about leaving.{{Ref|AGOT|8}} During the royal visit to Winterfell, Bran fights Prince [[Tommen Baratheon]] in the yard under the supervision of the master-at-arms, Ser [[Rodrik Cassel]], which ends in Bran's victory.{{Ref|AGOT|7}}

When King [[Robert I Baratheon]] and the older men leave on a hunting trip, Bran begins climbing to Winterfell's [[broken tower]] so he can feed the [[crow]]s one last time. When near a window in the [[First Keep]], however, he discovers Queen [[Cersei Lannister]] and her brother, Ser [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]], having sex, although the boy does not understand their actions. Jaime pushes Bran from the window, intending to kill the boy to keep the incestuous love affair a secret,{{Ref|AGOT|8}} but Bran survives and enters a coma.{{Ref|AGOT|9}}

While Bran is comatose in the [[sickroom]], an attempt is made on his life by an unnamed [[catspaw]] with a [[Valyrian steel dagger]]. His mother, [[Catelyn Stark]], delays the assassin long enough for Bran's unnamed direwolf to arrive and tear out his throat.{{Ref|AGOT|14}} In the meantime, Bran has many visions in his coma, including a hazy memory of falling from the tower, a [[three-eyed crow]] that tells him it can teach him to fly, and the [[Land of Always Winter|heart of winter]]. With the crow's guidance, Bran wakes and immediately names his direwolf "[[Summer]]".{{Ref|AGOT|17}}

Crippled by his fall, Bran is confined to a tower chamber where [[Old Nan]] keeps him company. She tells Bran stories of the [[north]] and the [[Long Night]].{{Ref|AGOT|24}} When [[Tyrion Lannister]] stops at Winterfell on his way back from the [[Wall]], he gives schematics for a saddle designed for Bran's crippled form, despite threats from Bran's brother [[Robb Stark|Robb]], acting as Lord of Winterfell, and the direwolves. Bran, however, is overjoyed at the prospect of learning to ride again.{{Ref|AGOT|24}} [[Joseth]] trains [[Dancer]] to obey Bran's commands.{{ref|AGOT|37}} Later, while testing Tyrion's suggestion out on a ride in the [[wolfswood]], Bran is ambushed by a band of [[free folk|wildlings]] and [[Night's Watch]] deserters, but is rescued by Robb, [[Theon Greyjoy]], [[Grey Wind]], and Summer.{{Ref|AGOT|37}}

Afterwards, Bran begins to bond with the sole survivor of that band, [[Osha]], due to their shared faith in the [[old gods]]. When Robb calls the northern banners following Lord Eddard's arrest in [[King's Landing]], Bran witnesses the incident with the [[Jon Umber|Greatjon]], and is the acting Lord of Winterfell when Robb rides south.{{Ref|AGOT|53}}

Later, Bran has a dream of his father in the [[crypt of Winterfell]]. He ventures there with Osha, finding nothing. [[Rickon Stark]] also reveals that he dreamed the same dream last night. Almost immediately after leaving the crypts, Maester Luwin receives a raven-borne message informing Winterfell of Ned's execution by King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]]'s command.{{Ref|AGOT|66}}