Editing Bran Stark (section)

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
[[File:Three eyed crow Marc Simonetti.jpg|300px|thumb|Bran meets the [[three-eyed crow]], by Marc Simonetti ©]]

Bran, [[Meera Reed|Meera]], [[Jojen Reed|Jojen]], [[Hodor]], and [[Coldhands]] continue their journey through the [[haunted forest]] in search of the [[three-eyed crow]]. Bran begins to become infatuated with Meera, while Jojen grows thin and weak. The journey is long and cold, and they suffer on the brink of starvation. The group is briefly left by Coldhands, who returns after killing [[mutiny at Craster's Keep|oathbreakers]] of the [[Night's Watch]]. To try and sate his hunger, Bran feasts on the flesh of the deserters while inside [[Summer]].{{Ref|ADWD|4}}. Returning to his own skin, Bran eats meat which Coldhands claims to be pig.{{Ref|ADWD|4}}

As they continue north, Coldhands' elk collapses and is butchered by the ranger and Meera for meat. Despite promising himself he would rather go hungry than feast on a friend, Bran eats the meat twice; once in his own skin, and once in Summer's. The steaks sustain the group for seven days.{{Ref|ADWD|13}}

In the depths of the haunted forest, the group is ambushed by [[wights]] outside the [[cave of the three-eyed crow]], and Bran enters Hodor's mind to fight off the wights. Inside they meet one of the [[children of the forest]], [[Leaf]], who reveals she saved them by burning the wights. However, the cave is warded against [[white walkers]] and wights, so Coldhands cannot accompany them inside. Leaf takes them deeper into the cave, underneath [[weirwood]] roots and across a floor of bones, until they reach a skeletal body sitting on a throne made of roots - the three-eyed crow, the last [[greenseer]]. The pale lord tells Bran that the boy will not walk again, but he will fly.{{Ref|ADWD|13}}

The three-eyed crow, whom Bran learns was named [[Brynden Rivers|Brynden]],{{Ref|ADWD|34}} begins to teach Bran about [[greensight]] and [[skinchanger|skinchanging]]. Bran is fed [[weirwood paste]], which awakens his greenseeing gifts. He then enters the weirwood roots around them and sees his father, [[Eddard Stark|Eddard]], through [[Winterfell godswood|Winterfell's heart tree]] in the past. Grief-stricken, Bran tries to speak to Ned, but all that is heard is a whisper on the wind. Brynden explains that Bran can learn from the past through the weirwoods, but it is impossible to change it.{{Ref|ADWD|34}}

Bran continues to enter Hodor to explore the deeper parts of the cave, with the stableboy no longer resisting and the Reeds unaware. When the crow sends him to rest, Bran dreams through the [[heart tree]] in the [[godswood of Winterfell]] and sees flashes of the past as far back as the old [[King in the North|Kings of Winter]]:{{Ref|ADWD|34}}
* His [[Eddard Stark|young father]] praying with a bowed head "…let them grow up close as brothers, with only love between them, and let [[Catelyn Stark|my lady wife]] find it in her heart to forgive.";<ref group="N">Likely shortly after his return from [[Robert's Rebellion]], referring to [[Robb Stark]] and [[Jon Snow]].</ref>
* A girl and a younger boy play fighting with branches;<ref group="N">Theorized to be Bran's uncle [[Benjen Stark]] and late aunt [[Lyanna Stark]]; Bran finds her similar to his sister [[Arya Stark|Arya]], who is said to remind people of a young Lyanna as per ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'', [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 22|Chapter 22]].</ref>
* A pregnant woman coming out of the black pool praying for a son to avenge her;
* A slender girl on her toes kissing a [[knight]] as tall as Hodor;<ref group="N">Theorized to be [[Duncan the Tall]] kissing a young woman, possibly a young [[Old Nan]], at Winterfell, foreshadowing a future [[Dunk and Egg]] story with the working title ''[[The She-Wolves of Winterfell]]''.</ref>
* A pale, dark-eyed youth cutting three branches from the weirwood and shaping them into arrows;<ref group="N">Theorized to be [[Brandon Snow]] preparing arrows to kill the three [[dragons]] of [[Aegon the Conqueror]].</ref>
* Other lords of Winterfell: tall, hard, stern men in fur and chain mail; 
* A bearded man forcing a captive down on his knees, and a white-haired woman killing the captive with a bronze sickle.

A mutilated Theon is brought back to Winterfell by [[Roose Bolton|Roose]] and [[Ramsay Snow|Ramsay Bolton]]. After Ramsay weds "[[Jeyne Poole|Arya Stark]]" before the castle's [[heart tree]], Theon thinks he hears a voice whisper his name.{{Ref|ADWD|37}} Later, Theon thinks he sees Bran's face in the weirwood and hears the boy's name spoken by the tree.{{Ref|ADWD|46}}