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Oh yeah, my head canon is absolutely that Bran engineered all of this. Like he could have intervened at several points but none of it would result in him being King so he just passively let shit happen. Or in the instance of Jon/Dany he actively caused it to happen by the Aegon revelation.

Like I'm sure that isn't the case but it's so much better of a narrative to think that Bran was playing the game all along and won. He even told Littlefinger Chaos is a ladder (which I know was just to mimic his own words). But if you look at it as Bran eliminating all his potential rivals by being extremely manipulative. He had Littlefinger taken out, he had the Night King taken out, he got Varys to turn on Dany and get killed, he got Dany taken out by Jon and then he got Jon's right to the throne stripped from him in the process.