Game Of Thrones fans convinced that Bran Stark is the Night King – but does this moment in the final episode of the series prove it?
EAGLE-EYED Game of Thrones fans claim to have spotted more evidence to support the popular theory that Bran Stark is in fact the Night King.
In Sunday night's season seven finale the leader of the dead army destroyed The Wall in the north using his newly-acquired, blue flame-spouting dragon.
As the ice crumbled, all but wiping out the Night's Watch, his army proceeded to march south.
The thousands of wights under his command appeared to be moving in the shape of a direwolf - the Stark sigil - when viewed from above, leading many to see it as a sign of Bran's rumoured dual identity.
Fan Hareem Sajjad was convinced, sharing a screenshot on Twitter and writing: "Did any1 notice while crossing the wall Night King & army of dead made a Stark sigil! Bran Stark is the NK! #GameOfThrones #GoTS7Finale."
Meanwhile, Reddit user believes that the crippled Stark boy's incredible mental powers and his ability to 'warg' - placing his soul in to the body of a different person or creature - means that he is actually the Night King.
In a detailed post, he states that Bran believes that he can rewrite history, so travels back multiple times only to end up fulfilling his own fate.
He claims that Bran travels back several decades to prepare the Mad King for the White Walkers by whispering that he needs to prepare wildfire under King's Landing.
However, the Mad King is left believing he is hearing voices and instead tries to burn the city in a crazed frenzy.
Bran then travels back even further in time and "succeeds to become Bran the Builder, building the Wall and securing his birth by building Winterfell and creating the words 'There must always be a Stark in Winterfell'."
The theory then claims that the third and final trip to the past takes him to when the Night King was created.
While here, turm0il26 claims that Bran either wargs into the human who becomes the Night King, or tries to kill the Children of the Forest who create the zombie king.
However, he ends up becoming the Night King as he has travelled too far back to leap back in to the present day.
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The turn of events means he is then trapped behind the wall he built in a future life, and is left patiently waiting for himself to be born in thousands of years.
The theory then claims that "he doesn't end his misery by killing his younger self, is that he finally learnt the ink is dry, and he would fail again."
To illustrate his point further, turm0il26 shared three stills from the show that show Bran mimicking the actions of the man who becomes the Night King.
He adds: "You can actually see in the scene where young Bran goes back to the creation of the Night King, that when the children push the dragonglass into his heart, we see Bran tighten his grip on the veins, just as it is himself experiencing the pain.
"Also in the end of the flashback, Bran is laying in the exact same position in the cave, as the human pushed up to the tree is."
The Children of the Forest also tell Bran that HE is responsible for the White Walkers in another scene.
He asks Leaf: "It was you? You made the White Walkers?"
Leaf tells him: "We were at war. We were being slaughtered. Our sacred trees cut down. We needed to defend ourselves."
When Bran asks, "from who?", she replies: "From you."
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