What happened to Hodor while Brandon was having the vision with the Three Eyed Raven? [duplicate]

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In S06E05 ("The Door") of Game of Thrones, what happened to Hodor while Brandon was having a vision with the Three Eyed Raven?

How did Hodor get mad or abnormal in the first place?



Best Answer

Wikipedia explains this quite well:

The Three-Eyed Raven begins transferring knowledge to Bran as the army of wights arrives. While in a vision of Winterfell, Bran hears the cries of Meera Reed who is trying to save Bran's body while the Children hold back the wights. The Three-Eyed Raven advises Bran to listen to her, and Bran splits his consciousness by both remaining in the vision of the past and simultaneously warging into Hodor in the present. The Night King enters the cave and kills the Three-Eyed Raven. As Bran, Meera and Hodor make their escape, Leaf, and Bran's direwolf, Summer, sacrifice themselves to hold back the wights. Hodor closes the hideout's door behind them, keeping the wights inside while Meera escapes with Bran. Meera repeatedly orders Hodor to "hold the door" shut while they flee, which results in the Wights tearing him apart.

In the vision, Bran becomes overwhelmed by the split consciousness and unintentionally wargs into a younger version of Hodor in the vision, then known as Wylis, forging a connection between the past and present. With Bran's consciousness inside his head, Wylis suffers a seizure while hearing the echoes of Meera's orders and he begins to yell the words "hold the door" over and over, until they slur together and "Hodor" is all that's left that he can say.

So, up until the time that the vision/time-trip took place Wylis was "normal" but the event ripped his mind until "Hodor" was all he could say and that became his name.




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Did Bran make Hodor the way he is?

Bran actually caused it, unwittingly. He also set Hodor on his lifelong path to that moment in the present, where he died saving Bran and Meera. He wasn't changing the past, but rather causing it. This is always how Hodor became Hodor.

What was the point of Bran being the Three-Eyed Raven?

As Bran (well, really the Three-Eyed Raven) reveals, the role of the Three-Eyed Raven is to be the world's living, breathing memory.

Did Hodor know what was going to happen?

It's possible that Hodor did not know he was going to die that day. As we know, Bran's creative time-loop warging caused serious psychological damage to Hodor. So much so that his only word became "hodor," a shortened version of "hold the door," which was to become his purpose in life.

Did the 3 eyed Raven warg into Bran?

A warg is someone who can travel into the minds of animals and see things from their perspectives and control their actions. Bran develops this ability with help from the Three-Eyed Raven. Who is the Three-Eyed Raven? In the literal sense, it's a raven with three eyes that frequently appeared to Bran in his dreams.



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