Fan Casting Brynden Rivers in A Song of Ice and Fire

Ser Brynden Rivers was the illegitimate son of King Aegon IV Targaryen by his sixth mistress, Lady Melissa Blackwood. Brynden was an albino and thus had milk-white skin, long white hair, and red eyes. On the right side of his face he had a red winestain birthmark that extended from his throat up to his right cheek from which he earned his name Bloodraven, as the birthmark was said to look somewhat like a raven drawn in blood. A shade under six feet tall, Brynden was thin and gaunt with a grim forbidding aspect with sharp, vaguely sinister features.