Bran Stark

For other characters with the same name, see Brandon Stark (disambiguation) "Brandon Stark (disambiguation)") . Bran favors his mother Catelyn in appearance, having the thick auburn hair and deep blue eyes of the Tullys .[[8]]( [[9]]( Bran is a sweet and thoughtful boy, well-loved by everyone at Winterfell . He has a fascination with climbing and exploring along the walls and ramparts of the castle. Catelyn once jested that Bran could climb before he could walk, however, his climbing often distresses her.[[10]]( Like his siblings, Bran is also dutiful and tough-minded, but also possesses a propensity for adventure and excitement; he yearns to see far off places one day and dreams of becoming a knight .[[3]]( His half-brother Jon Snow fondly thinks to himself that Bran was always "stubborn and curious", and in like manner constantly wanted to join in the play of the older boys, believing himself an adult at seven.[[11]]( Bran owns grey breeches and a white doublet, the sleeves and collar of which are trimmed with vair.[[12]]( [[6]]( When riding, he wears a dark grey woolen surcoat with silver buttons, as well as fur-lined boots and gloves.[[13]]( Bran clasps his fur-trimmed cloak with a heavy silver pin,[[13]]( but the boy's favorite clasp[[14]]( is a wolf 's-head brooch of silver and polished jet which makes him look lordly .[[6]]( Bran enjoys exploring the castle, as he believes it allows him to know its secrets. Since he was a babe, Bran often climbed the walls of Winterfell, scaring Catelyn to death. Once, she pleaded for him to stop, and extracted a promise for him to do so, which he kept for barely a fortnight. When Bran, wracked with guilt, confessed this to Eddard, he ordered his son to the Winterfell godswood to cleanse himself, where Bran was eventually found asleep in the tallest sentinel tree . Ned then accepted his climbing, but told him to try to not let his lady mother see him.[[17]]( Lady Stark then turned to others in the castle: first, Maester Luwin, who once made a boy out of pottery and threw it from Winterfell's walls to show Bran what would happen if the boy were to fall while climbing, then, to Old Nan , who told him a story of a boy who climbed too high, was struck by lightning and had his eyes eaten by crows , and finally the castle guards, who chased Bran from tower to tower in an attempt to haul him down. Each attempt was fruitless, and Bran continued his climbing.[[17]]( The boy enjoys swinging from the gargoyles of the First Keep and feeding corn to the crows atop the broken tower .[[17]]( 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.[[20]]( 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.[[20]]( 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 crows one last time. When near a window in the First Keep , however, he discovers Queen Cersei Lannister and her brother, Ser 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,[[17]]( but Bran survives and enters a coma.[[1]]( 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.[[9]]( 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 heart of winter . With the crow's guidance, Bran wakes and immediately names