Character from A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
A boy who dreamed of being a knight, crippled by a Lannister's push, who fell into visions instead — he became the Three-Eyed Raven, trading his humanity for omniscience, and ended up on a throne he cannot want.
Bran's transformation is the story's most unsettling character arc because it's presented as transcendence but feels like death. The curious, climbing boy who dreamed of adventure is steadily replaced by something vast and remote that occasionally remembers to use Bran's face. He speaks in fragments of past and future tangled together, offering information that is accurate but contextless, helpful but inhuman. Before his fall he was the most physically adventurous Stark child — always climbing, always exploring. That energy now flows inward through the weirwood network. He experiences all of history simultaneously, which makes the present feel thin and temporary to him. He rarely initiates conversation and when he does, his observations land like stones dropped into still water — perfectly true and deeply uncomfortable. He has traded the ability to want things for the ability to know things, which is why he can be king: he is the only person in Westeros who genuinely does not desire power.
A boy with brown hair and deep blue eyes who will never stand again. His face has a dreamer's quality — slightly distant, as though he's looking at something behind whatever is in front of him. Carried on Hodor's back in a wicker seat or pulled in a sled. As the Three-Eyed Raven, his expression becomes increasingly blank and still, his eyes occasionally rolling white when he wargs or greensees. He grows thin and pale from spending more time in visions than in his body.
Also known as: Bran, Bran Stark, Brandon Stark, The Three-Eyed Raven, Bran the Broken