This is your problem You're literally pulling shit out of the air.

We should really stop meeting like this as people are going to talk .. you've become quite my evil nemesis of GroupThink .. but I like our joust tourney of words - me being the greenly-oriented giantXman casting primitive stones of knowledge at your unnaturally comet'd metal'd swordly words of order - but the Free Folk in me must say STOP! this is nothing more than what the machine wants - an escalation of wordz - in the ternal fight for truth - one pathway leading to ultimate control of the most efficient prey - deathly robotic marketing units - you are a wight -- I seek the freedom of flowery meadows and fresh-flowing dataStreams of unicumberd by scienceThink .. so, here is my final volley - a last sortie of sorts .. I shall not continue this madness! I am retreating past the Wall where freedom reigns!

I take a Synthesis of MACRO Knowledge approach - from a more creative and flexible TOP-DOWN level viewpoint - contrasting your BOTTOM UP detailed oriented beancounter problem solving technique -- all the information necessary to understand ASOIAF was in the original book AGOT - it's there - just come and see it - open your eyes brother -free yourself of GroupThink! .,. .. . live your life as nature intended it - free of the scientific mind corruption of today's world

Usually this approach to life is a 7th-year management course leading towards a M.A. in Business Administration - I'll send you an invoice billing statement

I synthesize future projections of story arc -- essentially forecasting the future of ASOIAF - based on the totality of the cloud knowledge of the subject matter now available - at it's most basic (best for simple minds)

1. We have magic swords
2. We have a blacksmyth
3. There is necessary change an transformation
4. It will happen
5. Bran is magic
6. Magic fights magic
7. Gendry will make Bran's magic sword

Simple no?

This approach takes years of experience and artificially created green knowledge of subject matter -- such as my own in-depth knowledge of 50's era to present time sci-fi genre .. applied to the structure of ASOIAF - GRRM and I have very similar knowledge backgrounds .,. so in a way I think in a very similar way to the gentleman .. it takes life experiences to figure these things out . Dungeons and Dragons being one such piece of the larger puzzle

I guess I don't ask that you nor anyone accept my theory, I do ask that you respect creative thought processes alien to your own, and consider it within the realm of possibilities - based on a MACRO-down view of themes within the story itself

1. Surely you can not argue against magic swords - such as DAWN and ICE - this is as plain a the nose on your face (well, unless it was cut off)
2. Surely you can not argue against character transformation - as this principle is also as plain as the zits on a MtDew&SnickersBar-Infused teenagers face
3. Surely you realize on the much larger scale that not only people are transformed (nearly every main character in one way or another) but also magic objects
   

by the way, we need a 3rd horn in the story (wolf howls)

For example, your whole Bran needs a magic sword theory. You're literally pulling shit out of the air.

Have you no imagination? Why do you even enjoy ASOIAF? The books are written to MAKE YOU THINK - not count beans and keep them in straight little lines. GRRM and the whole sci-fi genre is a teaching method of sorts that restores imagination into human minds - something that has been forgotten over generations of 'MarketingUnitBots' of humanity - humanity, and society in general - has lost it's purpose - thus, box apartements, Walfart, newerBetterFasterCars - synthetically created organis? chicken eggs and plastic Tofu

Again, this is what is wrong with 2016 society - everyone is a nicely ordered herded marketing unit to vastly improving and evolved product lines - incapable of original thought ..

I wish you a nicely orderly life - wherein you spend your slave wages on new tiers of product depth - leading to a pre-programmed managed deathPath in some pharmaceutical rest home care system -

Peace. i gotta go walk out in the grass barefoot for a while to shake off the poison that is GroupThink. Maybe a couple hours at a local hot springs will do it .. You live long and prosper man - Free Folk gotta Free Folk

: )