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Valar Morghulis, friends. You have just entered the Mashable Citadel, where we are Review the thronedissect Game of thrones season by season to prepare the last six episodes beginning April 14th.

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Here are all the best theories of season 6, unanswered questions, unresolved intrigues and forgotten information that we must not forget before the winter for the end of season 8.

1. What matters for the origin of White Walker reveals

Season 6 answered one of the most pressing questions that book readers had been asking for years: where did the White Walkers come from? It's perfectly tragic Game of thrones that they were the product of understandable desperation, the nuclear option for the children of the forest.

When Bran asks Leaf why they did it, she said, "We were at war, we were being slaughtered, our sacred trees were being cut down, we had to defend ourselves … from you. From the man. " There is still a lot of debate about which war she refers to: when did the first men invade, or the Andals? The known timeline aligns with the first, but the official storyboards of the scene suggest the second.

An indisputably major revelation is that dragonglbad, mainly White Walker's kryptonite, have also been used to bring them to life. Dragonglbad has magical uses other than just killing White Walkers. Coldhands (an undead uncle Benjen) confirmed it, claiming that the children had brought him back from the dead with a similar ritual. Could be very helpful in Season 8!

(Season 7 even suggests that dragonglbad has healing properties, which is huge. We will come back to this in the next theoretical synthesis.)

Last thing to note: this scene proves that, contrary to popular belief, White Walkers are not Undead. In the transformation of the King of the Night and Craster's Baby in Season 4, living humans were turned into White Walkers, which extended their lifespan and allowed them to resurrect the dead.

Unlike the monsters resurrected or even the champion of the living, Jon Snow, the White Walkers are living men who have never asked to become monsters.

2. Can Bran influence the past?

Many questions remain as to whether Bran can actually change the trip in the past, or even in time. The short answer is no. But it's complicated.

Bloodraven outright denies this possibility, saying to Bran: "The past is already written, the ink is dry." However, it could have been a deliberate bad intention (watch the video below), or Bloodraven's limits in understanding the level of power never seen before from Bran. When young Ned seems to react when he hears Bran's cry at the Tower of Joy, Bloodraven is a little afraid of Bran's power.

Bran's ability to influence the past was also implicated in Hodor's story, when the young Hodor (Wylis) appeared to see Bran in the back flash and then found himself stuck in a time loop with his future self, to whom Bran was warned in the present (phew).

In the kind of temporal paradox Game of thrones seems to work under, however, that makes do not means Bran's time spent traveling or changing history. In simple terms: Bran was always going to cause Hodor's time loop. So it is not changing the past, just dry the ink that was already written.

It is therefore possible that Bran, in a misguided attempt to prevent Robert's rebellion from occurring, caused it by becoming the voices that drove Mad King Aerys crazy.

But do not take this as an ability to travel back in time, as in theories suggesting that our Bran skin becomes one of many other famous Brandon Starks throughout history, like the one that would have built the wall and Winterfell .

Bran = the king of the night continues to be one of the most popular theories of season 8, but the most serious theorists will tell you that they are bullshit. At most, Bran can leave behind intangible whisperings. He is more difficult to swallow for him than he lives whole lives like other people through the time, even for those (like us) who are all aware of the paper hat theories of. ;aluminum!

There is a much simpler and better documented explanation for Bran's ability to influence the past. And the wild Osha explained it in the first book.

While he is at Godswood in Winterfell, Osha asks if Bran can hear the gods. He says it's just leaves in the wind. "Who do you think is sending the wind if it's not the gods?" Osha answers. "They see you, boy, they're hearing."

There are innumerable examples in the books of characters who hear voices in the wind, almost always near weirwoods. This is probably not even the "gods". These are the children of the forest or other peoples of the past and present who send messages through weirwoods. Bloodraven himself says that maybe the young Ned heard Bran in the vision or maybe heard the wind. Maybe both.

Bran probably ensures that everything goes as planned. He does not tell others what he knows so that they do not change their actions, but provides them with what he needs to complete the end of the match he's seen (for example, give Arya Valyrian's dagger in season 7).

3. Why is the Night King scoring Bran important?

The King of the Night touching Bran in a vision leads to an immediate catastrophe, making Bran traceable and canceling the magical defenses that protected him. But the importance of this moment remains in question.

Before season 7, people thought that the Night King could cross the Wall if Bran crossed it. And it's still true that the mark could mean that Bran is traceable now that White Walkers have crossed the wall, which means no one will be safe around Bran in Season 8.

The moment also counts, as it indicates that the king of the night is a green man, like Bran and the three-eyed crow, since he did not only see Bran, but he did touched while Bran was in astral projection. A popular theory born from this moment is that Bran will have a mental battle with the king of the night in season 8.

Another personal speculation about this moment involves more tin foil hats.

It is possible that the king of the nights seizing Bran in this precise way is intended to recall an important gesture observed several times in the series, including earlier in the same episode between Daenarys and Yara.

As a pink promise (but more hardcore), such arms were used to conclude peace treaties. In a DVD of history and traditions, HBO used exactly the same gesture to represent the pact, the legendary peace treaty established thousands of years ago to end the war between the first men and the children of the forest. Do not buy it? Check out the similarities in the video below:

Remember, the First Men and Kids also teamed up to beat the White Walkers on the first long night.

Most of the time, old customs Game of thrones are not just traditions, but are also related to magic – like how to break the curse inflicts a curse on your whole house (the Freys can testify). It is therefore not an exaggeration to badume that the children of the forest have given this habitual gesture magical failures. You know, maybe if the person breaks the treaty, it will make it traceable and revoke all other spells of protection.

Many think that during the first long night, the White Walkers were not defeated (because, how, how?), But rather terms negotiated with humans and forest children in a pact of peace (read more in our season 2, 4 and 5 roundups). And over the thousands of years that followed, humans, especially the Starks, have forgotten these terms, raped them unwittingly, which led the White Walkers to return.

There is ample evidence in the books that the solution to "defeating" White Walkers lies in a "forgotten truth in Winterfell" (according to Jojen). The phrase "the North remembers" could have even come from a reminder of the Starks' duty to maintain the pact of peace.

The White Walkers are clearly angry. But perhaps that moment between Bran and the king of the night was also an attempt to remind the only person who can see in the past this broken promise.

In the episode of season 7 "Beyond the Wall," Beric even suggests negotiating with the White Walkers who have trapped them and surrounded them with undead. Everyone makes fun of the idea. But would not it be the perfect Game of thrones to twist if the most laughable idea – to make peace with what man perceives as pure evil – ends up being the solution?

4. Will the children of the forest come back or are they now extinct?

First, take a look at our reminder about the children of the forest. Then, let's talk about whether these incredible ancient beings have now officially been extinguished from their own creation.

In our summary of season 3, we briefly explained how they could still hide on the island of faces or on the neck, a mysterious region of the north from where Meera and Jojen originate.

In a DVD of history and traditions, Meera tells the legend of how the children of the forest allied themselves with the first men of this region, creating a hybrid species that is probably at the origin of the northern magic, as the warning and warning. The people of Meera would have been the protectors of the children, keeping them hidden from the men. And Meera is going back to this place right now.

Another way to come back is to go through the woods, which contain all the souls or essences of every child's life in the dead forest. So, Bran could draw directly on that.

But wait, because there is also evidence that the children of the forest could actually be a little diabolical. Or rather, they manipulated engineering people such as Jojen, Bran and Bloodraven to conform to their visions. It's as if the red priests used visions in the fire to influence people.

You can even read Leaf's latest sacrifice in "The Door" as something that was not done by self-sacrifice, but as a calculated risk toward a more ambitious goal. This makes more sense than his death and his eventual disappearance of the entire species in the interest of the humans with whom they fought throughout history.

5. What happened to Bran when he became the three-eyed crow?

Bran would not have been able to further spoil his training of Three Eyed Raven (though it's possible that all of this is part of Bloodraven's plan). And that explains why he's acting like crazy now.

Bloodraven had to rush Bran's upload to Weirwood Dot Net (the network of knowledge and visions accessible through the trees). So, as Bran will tell Sansa later, everything comes to him in fragments. That's also why he has so many loopholes in so-called know and see everything.

Meera was right when she said in Season 7 that the person we knew as Bran Stark had died in this cave. Because it's not just Bran now, but also Bloodraven, and the millions of different consciences preserved in the Weirwood network across time and space.

But remember that Bran can only access the past, present and future that occurred near the trees. Thus, his powers and ability to see events in the south of the country are very limited, as logging trenches were shot down a long time ago.

And it is clear that Bran has not yet fully entered his powers. It is impossible to say what he will be able to do when he will do season 8 (check out our next season's badysis for more speculation).

6. What do the visions of Bran mean?

The brilliant theory of how the Bran visions in Season 6 spell out the end of the game is far too long and complex to reproduce here. But you will not regret checking it in full.

Suffice it to say that these visions do not foreshadow the future when Cersei explodes the month of September in the final of season 6.

TL version; DR is that the motif of the images connects Daenerys with his dragons and destroys lives with the magic of fire, and the White Walkers reborn the Craster's babies and destroys lives with their ice magic. Then, on the contrary, he shows Jaime Lannister putting an end to the destruction of this fire magic by killing the mad king, and Jon Snow destroying this ice magic in Hardhome.

So, in vague terms, that's how it will end. With two unlikely heroes (Jaime and Jon) ending this destructive song of magic fire and ice. Which means that Dany should also make Jaime a Queenslayer.

7. Are the red priests of R & # 39; hllor responsible for the return of the White Walkers?

As mentioned above, the forest children and their bird trunks suffered not one but two devastating invasions. And as discussed in our summary of Season 1, there is good reason to believe that these destroyed woods remain important to White Walkers.

A popular theory that explains why White Walkers are back is this: they saw another wave of invaders now invading Westeros with flaming guns, burning down not only all the debris that they could reach. but also the believers of the ancient gods.

It is true: the red priests, followers of the Lord of the light, might have involuntarily (or even intentionally) launched the very war that their prophecy of Azor Ahai was supposed to prevent.

More than any other explanation of why the White Walkers are back (like dragons, comet, seasons or anything to do with Starks), this event is the most logical in terms of timing. It also has a thematic meaning with George R. R. Martin's perspective on religion, colonialism and the human cost of self-righteous causes.

The evidence demonstrates just how much the violent expansion of religion r? Hllor is closely related to the Andean invasion of Westeros thousands of years ago. The Andals carried out a bloody takeover, eliminating the believers from the ancient gods like the Children of the Forest and replacing them with the Faith of Seven.

This does not mean that White Walkers have some sort of religious mission to preserve their faith in the ancient gods. On the contrary, it would rather act to protect the weirwoods, who clearly seem to be at the center of their magic (see section above on their origins).

The problem is perhaps that the goal of the king of the night (we are talking about here) is in fact Melisandra – who in season 7 said that she should die in Westeros.

8. Sam grabbed a Valyrian sword. Who else is equipped in season 8?

The moment he did not fail to steal the precious Valyrian ancestral sword from his father – that he tried to keep Sam's seemingly unworthy hands free from him by sending him to wall – was perfection.

But as we saw in the season 8 trailer, Heartsbane's grasp was not that much of a throwaway moment. Ser Jorah is seen brandishing him during the Battle of Winterfell. And an EW article even mentions Sam brandishing what looks like Heartsbane at one point.

Valyrian swords are the only weapons except dragonglbad that can kill White Walkers. Unfortunately, there are only a handful of players currently in play. And even if Gendry finds out how to forge more (as we speculated), these few will remain essential. So where are they?

At the present time, we know for certain that in season 8, Jon has Longclaw, Arya has Catspaw's dagger (which Bran gave him in season 7), Brienne has Oath, and Jaime probably has Widow & # 39; s Wail be with her).

As for all the others? Well … it does not look good.

9. What happened to the faceless men and will we see them again?

This is absolutely wild that the Faceless Men, or at least Jaqen, would simply let Arya out of Braavos after killing one of their own, and then apply their old trade secrets willy-nilly around Westeros for personal sales. Big no-no for an Illuminati level badbadin cult!

Some attribute it simply to Jaqen's weak point for Arya and lol Nope. But this is It is true that Jaqen seemed to have a particular interest in recruiting Arya from faceless men. And that probably plays into their larger scheme in some way.

It is currently impossible to understand that a larger plan is being considered for Jaqen and the faceless men. The strongest theory for their strange slip is that men without a face actually are come to Arya and orchestrate a false death for Littlefinger.

But that does not seem at all related to other theories better supported on what the Faceless Men are doing (watch the video above for these).

As Jaqen tells Arya in Season 6, they were created as slaves in the volcanic mines of Valyria and were most likely the cause of Valyria's Fate. They probably know the secrets of blood magic that Valyrians used to tame or create their dragons. They would be a powerful ally of the dawn war.

Again, some people think at this point, faceless men just want money.

10. Has the joy tower also confirmed that Jon is Azor Ahai?

We all know that the flashback of Tower of Joy was the definitive proof of Jon's true identity as a secret love child of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. But some fans speculate with solid evidence that he is also Azor Ahai, the prince who was promised.

All this is due to this prolonged shot on the legendary and bloody sword of Ser Arthur Dayne, who not only calls Dawn, but who would also have been forged from the heart of a fallen star. It's huge because the prophecy Azor Ahai said that the Prince who had been promised will be born after a "red star bleeds". So, Jon is actually born after a star sword bleeds.

Not to mention that, his father, Rhaegar, was obsessed with the prophecy of the Prince who was Promised, thinking at first that he was talking about himself, then seeing later that it would be his child singing a "song of ice and fire ". he ran away with Lyanna, even though he already had a wife and children.

But Jon Snow as Azor Ahai is almost as well perfect. Others think that this could still be interpreted as describing Daenerys, or even Jaime Lannister. Some people think that if we read the prophecy as a metaphor, Jon is actually Lightbringer, Azor Ahai's sword against the darkness.

11. Where the hell is Edmure Tully?

Poor, poor Edmure.

Catelyn 's brother spent embarrbadment at his house, served as a bargaining chip in Robb' s war, to a Frey 's reluctant husband, to the ecstatic husband of a pretty Frey. , to a prisoner of the couple after his red wedding.

Then he disappeared for three seasons and finally returned in season 6 to finally lose his ancestral home from Riverrun to the Lannister, leading to the death of his uncle.

And that's the last time we've seen it. Presumably, he saw the contract he made with Jaime: a quiet and safe life elsewhere in the Riverlands area with his wife, Roslin, and his newborn.

How did this training session go? Did Rosilin survive the mbadive execution of the Freys by Arya via cannibal pies of season 7? Arya did let the women survive because they can no longer bear the name of Frey. But who knows if the manager's promise is still good now that he has left Cersei?

Maybe the Freys are gone, Riverrun is ready to take it again. Maybe Edmure could redeem himself a bit and correct the wrong that he has committed by ensuring a strong strategic importance for the north of the Great War ahead.

Or he could give in again and bring it back to Cersei, like the struggling fish.