<P> Noting Bran's absence in 2005's A Feast for Crows, James Poniewozik of Time wrote in his review of A Dance with Dragons (2011): </P> <P> Some favorite characters were MIA for eleven long years . ADWD brings them back--bastard warrior Jon Snow, exiled dragon queen Daenerys Targaryen, fugitive dwarf Tyrion Lannister and crippled, mystical Bran Stark, among others--and almost from the get - go that gives it a narrative edge over its companion book . Each, in his or her own way, is dealing with a question of power . </P> <P> In A Game of Thrones (1996), Bran accidentally sees Queen Cersei Lannister and her brother Ser Jaime having sex; whereupon he is pushed from the window by Jaime to keep the incest a secret, but he survives in a coma . While Bran remains unconscious, an attempt is made on his life, and Catelyn delays the assassin long enough for Bran's direwolf, Summer, to kill him . Senseless, Bran dreams of his falling from the tower and of a three - eyed crow that offers to teach him to fly . With the crow's guidance, Bran wakes; but having been crippled by the fall, he is unable to walk . Thereafter he relies on the giant simpleton Hodor, and a harness designed by Tyrion Lannister, to move . When Robb rides south to relieve Ned's arrest in King's Landing, Bran becomes the acting Lord of Winterfell . </P> <P> 1998's A Clash of Kings finds Robb named King in the North, and Bran, as Robb's heir, rules the castle in his brother's absence . When Theon Greyjoy betrays the Starks and captures Winterfell, Bran and Rickon escape, aided by the wildling Osha . To hide his failure, Theon has two other children murdered and proclaims them to be Bran and Rickon . Theon himself is betrayed by Ramsay Snow, the bastard son of Roose Bolton . Having been hiding in the crypts of Winterfell, Bran and his companions emerge to find the castle in ruins . They come upon a mortally wounded Maester Luwin, who advises their traveling party to split . Osha takes Rickon in the direction of White Harbor, while Bran, Hodor, Meera, and Jojen Reed set off north to seek the three - eyed crow . Meanwhile, Bran has slowly accepted the veracity of his dreams, and his ability to psychically inhabit Summer, which makes him a type of skin - changer known as a warg . </P>

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