Brynden Rivers
Bloodraven: a legitimized bastard of King Aegon the Unworthy and a Blackwood mother ÔÇö albino, red-marked, and a sorcerer if the smallfolk are believed. Master of whisperers and, under King Aerys, Hand: a thousand eyes, and one. It was his weirwood arrow that ended Daemon Blackfyre at Redgrass Field.
A soul of House Targaryen, born at King's Landing.
The fuller tale
How it ends for them
The chronicle records no death for this soul ÔÇö they are living when the tale leaves them, or their ending is a page the maesters have yet to turn.
Their chapters, book by book
Where the page and the screen part
Bloodraven does not appear in the events of The Hedge Knight and so has not yet been cast or featured in the showÔÇÖs aired first season ÔÇö his significant page time belongs to The Mystery Knight, material no confirmed season has adapted as of this writing. His outsized reputation in the books rests on comparatively few direct scenes and a great deal of implication, which will make him an intriguing casting challenge whenever the production reaches that novella; viewers of the original Game of Thrones series will already recognize the older incarnation of this character by another name entirely, giving any future casting an unusual amount of built-in anticipation.
Their journey
Where the two tellings send them to the same place the road runs whole; where they part, the screen keeps the left and the books the right.