Revisiting the Redacted Text in the Original Outline

If interested: Original Outline (article/copy of the original outline)

Years ago, the sleuths of reddit were able to take the redacted text and come up with the following image:

By the end of A Game of Thrones,------------------------------------- ---------------------------------g--------------- onto the iron throne with a bit----------------premature death, Bran sits free.--Yet his seat is hardly a comfortable one. In the North, Jon Snow is his bitter enemy. Beyond the narrow sea, Daenerys Stormborn prepares her invasion and on the far side of the Wall, the others are watching with cold dead eyes and gathering their strength.

While this can't be 100% confirmed its still a great piece of information and even though this is an extremely old outline, it can still lead to help with theory formulation, etc.

Note: This is post is NOT about anything new from a letter by letter analysis of the image. Just some thoughts on how context and other confirmed events can help fill in the blanks. So if that's what you were expecting, please stop reading, downvote, whatever you feel like doing.

As you can see there is a large section that is incomplete (and obviously what has been discovered isn't 100% or canon, etc.) That said I thought it would be fun to use the context that we have to try and fill in the blanks (note: I plan on doing this same exercise with a few other "classified" pieces of information in the series).

If interested: Changes to GRRM's Original Outline

Recently, I went through the outline and discovered that if you follow the logic of the outline that Jaime Lannister was likely originally responsible for the death of Joffrey & Sansa's child and at least one other potential person in line for the throne (Some Thoughts on Jaime Lannister in the Original Outline). With this in mind and looking at the below passage:

By the end of A Game of Thrones,------------------------------------- ---------------------------------g--------------- onto the iron throne with a bit----------------premature death

If the reddit sleuths are correct we can assume this passage mentions someone new claiming the throne with another character's premature death. We should then compare to the rest of the outline/early events in AGOT:

Ned will discover what happened to his friend Jon Arryn, but before he can act on his knowledge King Robert will have an unfortunate accident, and the throne will pass to his sullen and brutal son Joffrey, still a minor.

and:

Tyrion Lannister will continue to travel, to plot, and to play the game of thrones, finally removing his nephew Joffrey in disgust at the boy king's brutality.

and:

Jaime Lannister will follow Joffrey on the throne of the Seven Kingdoms, by the simple expedient of killing everyone ahead of him in the line of succession

and we then must note that the scope of the series was much, much smaller back then with AGOT expecting to be with GRRM stating:

I see all three volumes as big books, running about 700 to 800 manuscript pages

So lets take a look at options for who is on the Iron Throne and who had a "premature death":

Iron Throne

• Joffrey Baratheon - Robert's death led to Joffrey on the Iron Throne
• Jaime Lannister - Killed those in front of him in line for the Throne
• Bran Stark - Ends up on the throne on the show and it would fit with the rest of the passage:

Bran sits free.--Yet his seat is hardly a comfortable one.

• Someone Else - Jaime killed at least one other character who was "in line for the throne"

Premature Death

While no guarantee that the premature death and the "onto the Iron Throne" are linked, it seems quite likely so we get this cast of characters as potential for the premature death:

• Robert Baratheon
• Joffrey Baratheon
• Joffrey/Sansa's Child
• Jaime Lannister
• Other Character

Then if we look at the rest of the redacted text (while remembering that the trilogy was supposed to be about: Book I: War for the Iron Throne, Book II: Dany's Invasion, Book III: Battle for the Dawn):

Bran sits free.--Yet his seat is hardly a comfortable one. In the North, Jon Snow is his bitter enemy. Beyond the narrow sea, Daenerys Stormborn prepares her invasion and on the far side of the Wall, the others are watching with cold dead eyes and gathering their strength.

But that's the second book ... 

If interested: Bran Vs. Jon: Bitter Enemies

While GRRM may have ended up changing that plotline it is worth noting that if AGOT ends with most of the war for the Iron Throne over the position from a timing standpoint we would be in with these deaths (iirc after expanding the scope he hoped to end AGOT with the Red Wedding, which ultimately didn't even make it until the later portions of ASOS).

Some Thoughts

• We are obviously trusting an image that is blurry and analysis on said image to have been done correct. That is no guarantee.
• I love the idea of it being Bran already there and it fits structurally, but from a logistical standpoint it doesn't fit that well
• In contrast Jaime fits well logistically but doesn't fit as well structurally
• If you enjoy posts about the original outline, I speculated that Coldhands and Lady Stoneheart had the same character origin: Cold Hands and a Stone Heart
• I will probably do something similar with the Asha fragment and the Victarion fragment (if we can even call it that lol). If you can't tell, I am running out of things to post about. George pls..

TLDR: How other information from the original outline, the series/show might help us look at the unknown portion of the redacted text and reach some potential conclusions.