The Old Powers are Waking Part 1:
Who is the Three-Eyed Crow?

Theories and analysis of A Song of Ice and Fire text evidence and quotes from George RR Martin.

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25 COMMENTS

  1. I loved your video. The information is brilliantly put together. Feels like such a really possibility they way you have laid it all out.

    Three Eye Crow Question Dodging with a question.
    Reason – He does not know the answer
    Reason – He does not want to give the answer

  2. The three-eyed crow is Lyanna Stark who has the same sort of powers as Bran and faked her death – she is a greenseer. She is working with Rhaegar who is disguised as Jaqen (GRRM's own version of Aragorn) and eventually the two will take the throne – this will be the person who takes everything Cersei holds most dear. Rhaegar will ride the hidden dragon Morning and use the sword Dawn. Lyanna will use Dark Sister because, well, she's the original Stark lady bad-ass, the proto-Arya.

    Note that the crow's gender is never referred to in the chapter in AGOT where it appears…

    GRRM will cleverly use these secrets to reference this passage in the Lord of the Rings. When things are at their absolute darkest Rhaegar and Lyanna will return.

    "And in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the city, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of war nor of wizardry, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn."

  3. The interesting thing about this is that under normal circumstances when a person sleeps the first four hours it is the deepest that they will sleep until they wake. This is because it's the restorative part of the process. After that the body goes inbetween a steadily lighter sleeping state and an awake one, with the last few hours in particular being reserved for dreaming. Although Bran had obviously been in a fall (meaning he was not able to go between sleeping and waking), the fact that he is dreaming at all suggests that the body had done most of the restorative work ready for Bran to wake from his coma. If the crow hadn't turned up at all, Bran very likely would have woken up a short time later anyway.

    The Crow is indeed a tricksy bird…

  4. This might be nothing, the Night's Watch are known as crows. It's become mostly men who chose to fly/take the black rather than die/whatever other crazy punishment they did in Medieval times.

  5. Can I ask, cuz I'm genuinely curious and would appreciate any answers for this theory I've concocted. There are a number of other dreamers who'd failed to fly and been impaled upon impact and, obviously, died.
    Either the crow is manipulating Bran by creating this vision of the "dead dreamers" to scare Bran into opening his third eye and fly. Or those dreamers are real and the crow has tried for countless times to do what it did with Bran. I don't see a grey area for these possibilities.
    If the first is true that only strengthens the theory that the crow is actually a malevolent being bent to use Bran for evil.
    If the second is true it also strengthens the basis of the crow being malevolent, not only in manipulation but in that it has tried omce for every dreamers corpse to make a pawn like it did with Bran; killing each of them. But if this second one is right that also shows that Bran is somehow special: that his Stark blood, his Wargdom, makes him especially suited for the tasks the crow would use him for…I would luv an answer for which one could be right. Discuss at ur leassure.

  6. How about he wasnt falling through space but he was in a dream and you can dream however the fuck you want with no reference to the real structure of the world? I mean cmon do you seriously think George RR Martin, a fantasy writer, sits down and imagine his character falling though space? I think not.

  7. We see Martin to be a person extremely resourceful in histories of the world. He is likely to pick up the most interesting and suitable instances from all over the world, like Scotland and India. As per Indian mythology, the identity of the Destroyer God from the Trinity of creation, sustenance and destruction has been defined as being three-eyed, i.e. Lord Shiva. It is known that whenever he opened his third eye, he brought destruction to the world of men. Maybe that is exactly what Bran is destined to do in the series. He's new with his powers, very young to be owning such massive power and honestly doesn't have a lot of wisdom either.

  8. As many of us and more have said, you certainly have many interesting ideas. Here's a few possibilities for you to cogitate upon:

    According to "Subterranean fiction" from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subterranean_fiction
    Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was originally titled Alice's Adventures Under Ground, which, to me means that GRRM may well be looking at the Weirwood trees as acting as portals to a giant underground transportation system similar to the London Tube as well as to being a means to "transmit" ideas and powers such as mind teleportation, warging and/or skin changing from one area in the world to another. A Black Hole in the earth, if you will.

    This would explain how the Many Faced Man could appear where needed to carry out his assassination duties and Varys' fast trip to Dorne as well as the 3EC, Blackraven, & Bran's apparent abilities to enter others' minds over great distances through their dreams. Thus could LF be putting ideas in Joffrey, Lysa & Catelyn's minds from far away where he is so that his "hands are clean". He could be doing the same thing with Ramsay Bolton giving himthe ideas to subject Theon and then Sansa to his way and later to lead the Bolton men to defeat Stannis.

    Then you talk of Bran, albeit unknowingly, to violate the code of ethics of skin changers put forth by Haggon; however, this alleged code of ethics is never more than Haggon's ideas with no support from any other source. He was charged with bringing Lump or Varamyr Sixskins in line with an accepted lifestyle by Lump's father for having killed his younger brother, Bump. Additionally, to break a code of ethics, it must be a knowing, conscious decision to break a code whereas Bran was acting on his hunger and self-defense impulses when he killed a man when warged into his Direwolf and into Hodor when under attack. Clearly a Direwolf would kill and eat other men and use every means at hand for defense. These are hardly the type of your typical ethics rules but rather rules to govern unruly children who murdered their own baby brother.

    LF is the King of Chaos, which is the best way to defeat the many powerful families in Westeros in preparation for the Others in the coming of Winter. This is what Bloodraven is warning Bran about, but Bran could only see his fear of being another dreamer impaled upon the Blue-White Ice Spires in his dream, which caused him to open his 3rd eye and enter the Other's Black Hole, i.e. his Demonization or maybe even his Spaghettiification. See: https://youtu.be/3pAnRKD4raY.

    I'm sure you can amplify this theme and make it more poetic and, as always, thank you for your efforts as they are always entertaining.

  9. Love y'alls channel. Always gets the theory juices flowing. While Bran warging into the Mad King isn't a new idea, this video makes me wonder if he did it to try and stop Aerys from burning Rickard and Brandon, but in fact he actually caused it. I try to stay away from GoT hype till a month away. I've got some catching up to do.

  10. Hi there. Great video, again 🙂
    So, like almost everyone else I thought the 3 eyed crow was Bloodraven. But you(ve convinved me that it's not, and that it's most probably evil. That got me thinking about this popular theory that Mance sent the Catspaw to kill Bran. I thought it was possible, but I never found a plausible motive to explain why he'd try to kill Bran. Well, if Mance is truly Arthur, and if he's in league with Melisandre, then it could be that Mel somehow (glass candle, maybe?) knew that the 3 eyed crow was trying to take control of Bran, and then convinced Mance that they should not let it happen (a powerful warg with Stark blood would obviously be a great asset for the Great Other).
    What do you guys think?

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