We already knew that if you kill a White Walker, all of the wights that White Walker "sired" would die.
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Earlier, after Jon had killed a White Walker, a large group of wights that the White Walker had apparently reanimated suddenly collapsed.
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Dragonglass — which seems to be a magical cure-all — can create a White Walker, kill a White Walker, kill a wight and prevent someone from becoming a wight.
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Jon and his company won't [go] get a White Walker.
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The White Walker is killed by Jon's Valyrian steel sword.
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This week, readers were confused about the White Walker babies.
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Johnnie Walker White Walker Blended Scotch Whisky, available on Drizly, from $39.99In case you missed it, Drizly is selling "Game of Thrones" alcohol, and the staff pick is this White Walker-inspired blended scotch whiskey.
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Benjen is not alive, but he's not a White Walker either.
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Sam, Gilly, and little Sam shockingly survived the White Walker horde.
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Johnnie Walker White Walker whisky — £33 (list price £34) See Details
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That's how the first White Walker, the Night King, was created.
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What are you doing to prepare for the white walker army?
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There's a good chance Arya won't survive the White Walker attack.
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But really, why didn't the showrunners use White Walker Benjen more?
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Nothing that could stand against the White Walker onslaught, that's for sure.
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White Walker believers, like Jon Snow, know there's no time to waste.
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Unfortunately, killing a White Walker has proved to be no easy task.
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He may come back as a White Walker, maybe he got away.
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A White Walker and one of the Children of the Forest, Leaf.
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This mask is even better than the official White Walker mask in my opinion, because it sort of looks like the props coordinator in charge of the White Walker masks left this one on top of a griddle.
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If you still want to be a White Walker for Halloween, and I'm sure you do, you have another option: This off-brand White Walker mask available on eBay, which you can return within 30 days of your purchase!
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Are the crypts a safe place to be during the White Walker battle?
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Urban Decay x Game of Thrones Vice Lipstick in White Walker, $19; ulta.
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Yet humanity is ignoring the White Walker threat in favor of internal squabbling.
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Price: $26.32 Johnny Walker White Walker is an all-time great brand partnership.
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Or perhaps dragonbone is also a material that can kill a White Walker?
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Hodor comes back from the dead as a super friendly White Walker. 49.
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The Night King appears to be the first White Walker and their leader.
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He got stabbed by a White Walker, but he's feeling much better now.
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Hodor: Killed by wights while Bran and Meera escaped a White Walker attack.
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We know he was a First Man and the first-ever White Walker.
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Every wight and White Walker got dusted (hi Thanos) with a single blade thrust.
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Some White Walker blasphemy For now, we can only turn to legend for answers.
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So, they capture him and use his body to create the first White Walker.
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By observing that killing one White Walker also killed every other wight he sired.
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The two rule Westeros together as man and white walker - our promised bittersweet ending.
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We know who to call if there's ever a North American White Walker invasion!
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Is Game Of Thrones going to end in some kind of White Walker apocalypse?
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Mullan played the long-haired White Walker in four episodes of Game of Thrones.
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When a White Walker entered a burning hut, he walked right through the flames.
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There was some debate among fans whether Viserion was a wight dragon (a zombie-like mindless dead creature completely controlled by its master), or a White Walker dragon (a living, autonomous being transformed into a White Walker — like Craster's baby in Season 4).
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Syrio Forel, Ser Davos Seaworth, Pypar, Ser Meryn Trant, a White Walker, Qhono and more.
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Maybe the White Walker army is even marching towards Jon in the vision Bran has.
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A dragonstone knife in his heart is what turned him from human to White Walker.
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Earlier this summer, Snapchat unveiled a White Walker filter that was released earlier this summer.
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Remember that rad moment at Hardhome when Jon totes owned that White Walker with Longclaw?
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Season 1003 offered our first glimpse at the White Walker threat in its full capacity.
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Visitors may even spot a White Walker, which we thought never went beyond the Wall.
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If that's the case, was the woman a White Walker and did she change him?
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It could also be the catalyst that makes Daenerys take the White Walker threat seriously.
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He doesn't die but he does turn into a White Walker; the very first one.
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But like a White Walker army breaking through the Wall, winter came to him anyway.
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Bran saw the creation of the Night King, or the first White Walker, or whatever.
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But still others believe that, actually, the Starks might be immune to White Walker magic.
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" #GameOfThrones â€" Dust Buursma (@DustyBuurd) August 53, 2017 Someone needs to find out how the white walker just randomly had access to fucking massive metal chains fuming â€" Wez Jackson (@Wezjackson95) August 21, 2017 Someone jokingly suggested a White Walker Home Depot: NIGHT KING: Get the chainsWHITE WALKER WHO HAS BEEN STOCKPILING ENORMOUS CHAINS FOR 10,000 YEARS: Yessssss â€" Paul Tassi (@PaulTassi) August 21, 2017 Where'd they get chains from, White Walker Home Depot?
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Who will explain why he and his White Walker army organized their victims in Targaryen sigils?
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It's all fun and games until a White Walker wins the Iron Throne on a technicality.
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Oh, only to then have his carcass dragged out and touched inappropriately by a White Walker.
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Of course, the biggest flaw in Cersei's plan is that the White Walker army is coming.
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Defeating the White Walker army will require cooperation from every house in every corner of Westeros.
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Hopefully, she's not the only one who gets a new White Walker-fighting weapon this season.
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All of them, 100,000 strong, with hundreds of WHITE WALKER officer corps on their dead horses.
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The latest Game of Thrones episode left us with a lot of White Walker-based questions.
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He was saved from becoming a White Walker or wight, but he's not exactly human, either.
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And he knows that a shard of dragonglass to the heart will kill a White Walker.
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"Run!" he shouted once he saw the full, dragon-assisted scale of the White Walker force.
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Stab a White Walker with a knife made of dragonglass and they literally fall to pieces.
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The powerful White Walker was able to touch Bran, marking him with an icy palm print.
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He was one of the few avengers to trek beyond the wall and capture a White Walker.
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Cue the suspenseful music, because the Night King and his White Walker army have officially invaded Westeros.
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But being turned into a White Walker, something we haven't seen happen yet, would be rather interesting.
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That is a genuine look of FEAR in those cold, dead White Walker eyes Or did it?
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Daenerys's dragon, Viserion, who was tragically killed and then turned into a White Walker in the episode.
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One indisputably major reveal is that dragonglass, basically White Walker kryptonite, was also used to birth them.
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Cersei Lannister seems content to betray everyone up north to the White Walker threat and then... profit?
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Meera kills a bunch of them (+50) and also manages to slay a White Walker for +25.
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Wolves were brought to the set, White Walker prosthetics were designed, and the Iron Throne was built.
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He's an old commander of the Night's Watch who disappeared and set up with a White Walker.
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He's more interested in humanity ending their in-fighting to band together and defeat the White Walker threat.
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She refused to pledge support to the White Walker war, so Jaime left her and King's Landing behind.
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Actually, I think Bran and Sansa's frigid reunion would be enough to make even a White Walker shiver.
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It has long been theorized that these scattered relics will prove decisive in the coming white walker battle.
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Sam uses a makeshift knife to slay the White Walker who comes after Gilly and her baby boy.
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No blood was spilled, and we didn't even see a White Walker until the end of the episode.
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Carbon Fee and Dividend is the dragonglass that can slay the White Walker otherwise known as climate change.
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After the anti-climatic battle of last week's "The Long Night," the White Walker threat is officially gone.
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As Polygon noted, the White Walker symbol can be seen in several scenes, usually after the White Walkers attacked.
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After the last Season 7 video tease someone even analysed the reflections in the eye of a White Walker.
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The Night King: The icy silent villain and leader of the White Walker army whose motive is still unclear.
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Others speculate she'll be the new Night's Queen, a female White Walker from the legend of the Night King.
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Is "staying around in a half-dead form that's sort of White Walker and sort of not" a win?
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Rather, when her "blood and soul and strength" entered the sword, the process turned her into a White Walker.
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In order to defend themselves, the Children created the first White Walker as a weapon against the First Men.
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The White Walker threat is extinguished, the bodies have been counted, and attention is now turning to the south.
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The other major anti-White Walker material, dragonglass, is far more plentiful, but also not nearly as battle-ready.
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First of all, thank you to everyone on twitter clarifying the difference between a White Walker and a Wight.
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He was attacked by a White Walker and left to die so he can turn into one of them.
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And yet what would likely be even more disappointing is the White Walker threat simply dissipating into the snow.
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Obviously the perfect Halloween costume for the year of 2016 is a White Walker from HBO's Game of Thrones.
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Or is there just a little White Walker nursery in the Land of Always Winter filled with forever-babes?
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He also discovered that the White Walker kryptonite known as dragonglass can be made from the obsidian deposits at Dragonstone.
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There are a few major questions here: how close does a White Walker need to be to resurrect a corpse?
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Here are the six steps any aspiring hero should follow when setting off to kill a wight or White Walker.
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It's implied, like in most vampire lore, killing one White Walker also kills all of the wights he has sired.
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The only thing that could make the experience any better would be a bottle of Johnnie Walker's White Walker whisky.
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The choice is yours obviously, but the White Walker develops in complexity as it slowly warms to room temperature, apparently.
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They ambush them, accidentally alert the entire White Walker army, then get herded into the middle of an ice lake.
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"The White Walker army will not be the only issue our characters have to face in season 8," Nutter said.
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One other thing of note is that this White Walker hive mind is similar to how the weirwood trees work.
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We saw this back in season four, when he seemed to turn a living human baby into a White Walker.
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They also did a song literally called "White Walker" for the second volume of the Catch the Throne mixtape series.
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Sansa has openly resented her, even after Dany paused her own aspirations in order to join the White Walker fight.
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It might be because he's not great at describing his own White Walker experiences or using other witnesses to corroborate.
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White Walker babies Let's end where we began: We know the White Walkers are going to be important this season.
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In a recent interview with Deadline's Mike Fleming Jr., Benioff and Weiss revealed more about the mysterious chief White Walker.
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This speculation derives from the fact that if you kill a White Walker, all of the wights they "sired" die.
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"Anyone else think Jon Snow spent the last week drawing those White Walker cave paintings to woo Dany?" one user writes.
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This would make Nissa Nissa the same corpse bride that seduced the Night's King, rather than just a random White Walker.
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As per Sunday night's episode of Game of Thrones, there are seven men on a mission to collect a white walker.
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The Battle at Hardhome showed us exactly how dangerous the White Walker army is, with its nearly endless possibility for growth.
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This is what the White Walker threat embodied: challenges that are bigger than you, or any one of your favorite heroes.
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The King in the North's traditional cloak receives a stylish update that can help you tackle white walker weather all year.
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As TVLine pointed out, we've already seen the Night King turn a baby into a white walker with just one finger.
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Both are now available globally, and come after the massive success of the White Walker by Johnnie Walker, released in 2018.
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Wights: a reanimated corpse of a recently deceased human or animal that has been brought back to life by a White Walker.
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As this scene is filmed in Game of Thrones, there are many parallels between the first White Walker and Bran's seating patterns.
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Jon not only built a dominant anti-White Walker coalition but laid the groundwork for a permanent alliance with Westeros's greatest power.
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It already has a White Walker edition of its Johnnie Walker whisky, which it encourages fans to serve directly from the freezer.
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Up until now, we were lead to believe that there was a finite (and dwindling) number of White Walker-destroying Valyrian weapons.
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Ygritte's mantra, "You know nothing, Jon Snow," definitely didn't just refer to the ways of wildings or the growing White Walker army.
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In the middle of season 7's penultimate episode, Jon slices a White Walker in half with his Valyrian steel sword, Longclaw.
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The premise: What if Jon Snow ended up as an incest-promoting Cersei Lannister, or a White Walker covered in shaving cream?
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What if gambling Dothraki lives up front was part of a larger plan to weaken Dany in a post-White Walker world?
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Certainly, he is still angry about being turned into a White Walker, as shown by his constant use of the spiral pattern.
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They punch through the plastic wrap on their boxes, just like the White Walker version of Justin Timberlake did many moons ago.
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According to the seller, the jaw moves when you talk — a major feature that the official White Walker mask does not offer.
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And as the resident climate reporter I've gotta bring this up: The White Walker/global warming metaphors are getting out of control.
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Sam Tarly got his rightful recognition as an accidental badass, slayer of a White Walker, bedder of women, stealer of library books.
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Storywise, Dany and Sansa need to work together to defeat the oncoming White Walker invasion that arrived at the Wall last season.
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With Cersei being the hardest to convince, he comes up with a silly idea to steal a White Walker from beyond the wall.
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He was last seen guarding the wall separating the civilized from the White Walker menace when an ice dragon ripped that shit apart.
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Aside from the battlefield, in the face of an impending White Walker attack, the crypts are just about the worst place to be.
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But the spiral was also present in Bran's vision of when the first white walker was created by the Children of the Forest.
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He couldn't care less about the petty inter-Westeros dealings, since he knows first hand what a danger the White Walker army is.
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Winter may be coming and the White Walker invasion may be well underway, but getting a good education is important too, you guys.
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There's also animated ice shown advancing past the wall and into Westeros, much like the White Walker army is attempting in the show.
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If he doesn't survive next week's White Walker battle at Eastwatch, there will be no one left to revive a dead Jon Snow.
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For this and other reasons, we're banking on giant undead spiders making an appearance in the big White Walker battle in Season 8.
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They just need to heal him of the White Walker curse placed on him by the Children of the Forest so long ago.
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Just look at the shot above of a White Walker making literal flames go out with his mere presence during the Hardhome battle.
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Betting on ANYONE to survive on HBO's hit show is about as wise as using a fork to fight a White Walker, though.
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As if the battle of Winterfell isn't already poised to rip our hearts out repeatedly as faves succumb to the White Walker onslaught.
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But more to the point, I hope the Living win because now that it's arrived, I find the White Walker storyline kinda boring.
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GoT's resident teddy bear turned White Walker-slaying badass Samwell Tarly finally reached the Citadel and has begun studying to become a maester.
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As we all know by now, dragonglass and Valyrian steel are going to be humanity's best hope at withstanding the White Walker invasion.
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White Walker Art Installations "Always the artists," Mance Rayder grumbles when he finds disassembled horse corpses at the First of the First Men.
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White Walker invasion aside, the events of Sunday night's episode of "Game of Thrones" must have come as a relief for Jaime, then.
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By last season's end, she was traveling north on a rescue mission to save Jorah Mormont, Jon Snow, and the White Walker kidnapping posse.
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Their conversation was interrupted by the arrival of the White Walker army, but it's clear that damage has been done to the pair's connection.
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If you do happen to bump into everyone's favourite White Walker-slayer, best take the old-school route and just ask for an autograph.
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The finale episode revealed that Cersei is in cahoots with Euron — even though Euron skipped town as soon as he saw that white walker.
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If the Night King pulls some kind of a White Walker DDoS attack on him, will the entire history of Westeros get blacked out?
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While we know Sam killed his own White Walker with an obsidian blade, that may not be the only thing Dragonglass is good for.
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Find out if the traditional ways of killing a White Walker or wight — including fire and dragonglass — will actually work on the Night King.
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By all rights, she should have ended this season atop the Iron Throne and ready to confront the White Walker threat in the North.
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If you recall back in season seven, we learned that killing a White Walker also results in the death of every wight it reanimated.
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The White Walker, a blend from two single malt scotches from Cardhu and Clynelish distilleries in northern Scotland, is meant to be served cold.
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On the show, there is a particular White Walker with a horned crown who is identified in the latest episode as the Night's King.
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The Game of Thrones version of The Avengers has assembled, and their mission is to get a White Walker Did you catch all that?
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They could always turn up to stem the tide of the white walker army, or remain hidden for the rest of the epic tale.
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Despite the fact that we haven't seen a female White Walker yet, a union between a human and a Walker is certainly not unprecedented.
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And this is the guy who the source is comparing to a White Walker: "Get ready for Bannon the barbarian," another source told Axios.
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Catch up on your TV. All over Winterfell, people gathered for a final bit of human tenderness before next week's big White Walker clash.
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This was tremendously lucky for Sam, since he later discovers that dragonglass is one of the few things that can kill a White Walker.
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Back in season three, though, Sam stabbed a White Walker with a dagger made of the relatively brittle dragonglass — and the Walker swiftly disintegrated.
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There are six different styles that represent facets of the show: Night's Watch, House Lannister, House Stark, White Walker, and two shoes for House Targaryen.
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While the Crypts are certainly more protected than the open battlefield, they're definitely vulnerable to a White Walker attack — one of the most uncomfortable sort.
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The Night King has come for Bran, with six of his White Walker lieutenants, and he's not looking particularly worried about Theon, Bran's last guard.
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Jon's Valyrian steel sword, however, is able to shatter one White Walker into a zillion pieces to everyone's surprise, most notably the shattered White Walker's.
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Since the Night King created his entire army, logic would lead us to believe his death with result in every White Walker and wight's death.
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At the end of season seven, Daenerys and Jon were on their way to the North to help defend it against the White Walker attack.
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Believe it or not, there's actually a lot of evidence to suggest she'll turn into a White Walker, in both the books and the show.
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She has firsthand knowledge of the White Walker threat, and yet she's focused on using that information to double-cross Jon Snow and Danaerys Targaryen.
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Samwell quickly discovers that there's a lot of White Walker-killing dragonglass at Dragonstone castle (appropriately enough) and plans to send a message to Jon.
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So when it comes to pure numbers, the Night King can comfortably win by just sending his White Walker generals and established army to Winterfell.
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You have the option of sleeping under the ever-watchful stare of a White Walker or under the direwolf sigil known for the Stark family.
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Then, in episode 3, Benjen heads north on a solo scouting mission, mainly to find out if there's any truth to the White Walker rumblings.
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The White Walker assault on the Three-Eyed Raven's tree cave claims Summer, the Three-Eyed Raven, Leaf and, most disturbing and heartbreaking, Wylis/Hodor.
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The long-promised winter has arrived, and Jon has generally been the only warrior who has given the White Walker problem the attention it deserved.
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Will he use his new clout to confront the White Walker threat, possibly with intel from his buddy Samwell Tarly, last seen at the Citadel?
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She might make it a while, but she looks to be the show's final non–White Walker villain, and she'll be a doozy of one.
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When Jon shatters the White Walker leading a gang of wights, all but one (a stray they took on, no doubt), fall lifeless to the ground.
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The White Walker immediately dies, shattering into countless pieces of ice, as do the wights fighting with him, who in turn break down into black brittle.
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Gendry is also the only living person who knows how to smelt Valyrian steel, the weapon that kills White Walkers and (most likely) White Walker dragons.
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I would be more forgiving if the plan was to capture a White Walker, because no one has seen one of those south of The Wall.
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Appropriately, it is during this conversation that Jon uses Jorah's dad's sword to kill a White Walker (+15), which causes five wights to spontaneously explode (+50).
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Jon is determined to convince everybody and their mother that the White Walker army is real, so he spearheads the world's dumbest expedition to catch one.
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And the blue eyes Arya would shut forever were the Night King's, along with every other wight and White Walker, all of whom stemmed from him.
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One astute fan whipped out a map to show one advantage Jon Snow and company have over their icy foes: Team White Walker is really slow.
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Another detail you might have missed is that the White Walker army formed the Stark sigil over a sheet of ice in the season seven finale.
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Paths from all across Westeros are crossing as most of your faves prepare to stage a last-ditch effort to push back the White Walker threat.
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At the end of those five minutes, a white walker decapitated a man and turned a child into an ice zombie, and the rest is history.
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He raised wights after the battle of Hardhome without touching them in season five and changed a live baby into a White Walker in season four.
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She's also sitting on an entire mountain of Dragonglass, which we've already theorized could be the secret ingredient to making more White Walker-obliterating Valyrian steel.
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As part of a segment for Jimmy Kimmel Live, Harington "auditioned" for the roles of Cersei, Arya, Ygritte, Hodor, Daenerys, a White Walker, and... Harry Potter.
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David J. Peterson, creator of the Dothraki and Valyrian tongues heard on the show, has talked before about the cut White Walker language he named Skroth.
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It sure sounds like the most reasonable thing to do, for the sake of the very fine people on both sides of this White Walker conflict.
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Benjen tells Bran and Meera that he was killed by a White Walker, but brought back by the Children of the Forest and their magical dragonglass.
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Maybe it's an indication that the White Walker return is simply part of the universe's natural cycle, and potentially even tied to Planetos' strange seasonal patterns.
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It's not hard to read the meaning behind winds of White Walker winter coming for the Stark kids in the place where they will be buried.
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He also understands how important Jaime is to defeating the Night King, and a dead Jaime Lannister isn't good to anyone but the White Walker army.
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The last he was spotted him, he got into a spat with Cersei over her fake-promise of helping in the fight against the white walker horde.
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Since time apparently isn't a concept in Westeros, just seconds later Jon pleads with the Free Folk for help on their quest to capture a White Walker.
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After all, you can't die at 80 with a belly full of wine and a [redacted's] [redacted] around your [redacted] if a White Walker gets you first.
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Mattel is set to get a lift from the scheduled release of play-sets based on the White Walker battle from HBO's hit show "Game of Thrones".
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She's kicked back ruling the White Walker–free North, probably supervising some building projects and getting Brienne of Tarth drunk enough to admit Jaime Lannister ain't shit.
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The Battle of Hardhome arguably saved Season 5 from irrelevance, at last revealing what that nebulous White Walker threat was capable of, in all its unending horror.
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The season 5 finale aired on June 14, 2015, and by now, the whole "Is Jon Snow dead?" question really feels like beating a dead white walker.
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A more interesting possibility is that the old warhorn that Sam found among the White Walker–killing dragonglass back in season two can bring down the Wall.
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But the fact that throne claims are your first concern portends some real conflict even after the White Walker war, assuming you both make it out alive.
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Among his many exploits, Sam Tarly killed a White Walker, and then a Thenn, and then stole several books from the restricted section of the Citadel library.
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Unlike previous White Walker confrontations, this was a true song of ice and fire, complete with frozen wastes, dragon fury, undead hordes, flaming swords and breathtaking outerwear.
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Because if his followers are basically just using White Walker magic and repackaging it as a righteous religion, why do we implicitly trust them and their prophecies?
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I'd say the White Walker generals could make important calls despite the weather but, they seemed ultimately useless, especially since the Night King had so much control.
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The two seemed to have bonded over the stresses of ruling, and have now banded together to fight one common enemy — the White Walker and wight army.
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But far from sinking quietly into the frozen lake, the dragon was pulled out by a horde of wights, given the magic White Walker touch, and turned zombie.
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She dubbed it the "Game of Thrones facial," due to the fact that for 45 minutes of the treatment, you're stuck, immobile, looking like a damn White Walker.
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Here are 10 White Walker/wight lessons we — and the members of the happy hunting party — learned about our Northern friends in "Beyond the Wall": Bear on fire.
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OK, we already knew this one from the battle of Hardhome in Season 5 (above), where Jon Snow's desperate battle with a White Walker ends with a crash.
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Yet I'm guessing he's in a lot of trouble, at least until the White Walker threat becomes more generally known and petty political squabbles fall by the wayside.
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And that's by far the most important, mostly because her dragons and cache of dragonglass represent the only chance humanity has at fending off the White Walker threat.
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Oh, and he gifts the Valyrian steel dagger to Arya, which almost definitely means she's going to have to fight and kill a White Walker sometime this season.
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Now tasked with the responsibility of saving the world from an incoming White Walker invasion, Jon Snow has turned to Daenerys and her fire-breathing dragons for help.
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If the zombie army destroys the forces assembled at Winterfell, a weakened King's Landing then becomes one of the next targets for a newly strengthened White Walker army.
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No matter how far you travel or how cool you remain under the pressures of Cersei Lannister and a White Walker invasion, can you ever escape your past?
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But what it did do very well was shine bright light into Dieter's pale blue eyes and make him look like a White Walker from Game of Thrones.
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Or maybe, as we suggested earlier, that will only reveal that there's another, older OG White Walker who is not the leader we know as the Night King.
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We're not sure physically how, but Tormund and Beric are confirmed to have survived the White Walker attack on the Wall from the final scene in Season 7.
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Now that Leslie's off the show, though, she's in the same camp as the rest of us, dodging spoilers for Season 8 like they're an undead white walker.
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If Kit Harington's Jon Snow can come back to life, perhaps Nairn might return to Westeros one day, too – though let's pray it's not as a White Walker.
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Forget waving a scarf or a sign — if you really want to impress people during a soccer game, why not break out a 20 ft tall White Walker?
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But looking down the barrel of Game of Thrones' final season, it's fascinating to consider what might've been — from a drunken Jon Snow to a White Walker language.
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They showed up as a few of the reanimated wights in the White Walker army near the episode's close (picture above, spoilerrific video of the relevant scene here).
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He went north of the Wall with just seven men and barely any equipment, hoping to catch a White Walker to prove to Cersei how dangerous they are.
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Indeed, Benjen's sudden reappearance to help Bran indicates that he has indeed been engaged in some top-secret anti–White Walker activities with the late Three-Eyed Raven.
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Arya even told Jon in the fourth episode that she respected that he bent the knee to Dany in order to get her support in the White Walker war.
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The Children formed that very spiral shape and surrounded a man bound to a Weirwood tree and stabbed him with Dragonglass to turn him into the first White Walker.
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Now, Westeros faces an existential threat — and that threat is officially marching South in the form of a massive White Walker and wight army led by the Night King.
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As Williams pointed out, however, Arya is accepting death for the first time ahead of the White Walker battle, which means brand new feelings are coming to the surface.
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We didn't want to be the one to say it, but we knew Jon Snow's plan to bring a White Walker back to Westeros was not going to work.
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Through Sam's eyes, we finally saw the scale of the White Walker army heading to the wall, even if it would take another five full seasons to get there.
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Now we know an important new law of physics: if you kill a White Walker, you also kill any wights it "turned" from normal dead bodies into militant zombies.
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The hashtag #GameofThrones is used every week to make a little White Walker guy show up next to everyone's complaints about how weird the zombie dragon show has gotten.
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The show appears to be saving all its White Walker appearances in 2017 until the last few episodes, which does not suggest a happy ending to the penultimate season.
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Game of Thrones began with people finding White Walker carnage in the North – dozens of dead bodies, with the dismembered limbs arranged in a crude and curious circular formation.
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The episode also provided some vital revelations about the vulnerabilities of the wights, who can apparently be destroyed, vampire style, if you kill the White Walker who made them.
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The White Walker army launched an attack on Hardhome at the end of the fifth season and grew in number after reviving those who were killed, but what for?
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In this theoretical scenario, the grand Winterfell plan to bait the Night King is doomed to fail because the White Walker leader won't even make it to the battle.
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I'm talking, of course, about Jon Snow's White Walker-hunters/The Magnificent Seven/loose-end characters who desperately need some kind of quick resolution to tie up their storylines.
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He lands himself in the same location, but a beautiful spring has given way to winter, and he discovers the White Walker army behind him, including its four leaders.
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I made a bit of a joke to David [Benioff, one of the creators] about how he could be a White Walker now that he's been eaten by dogs.
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The trailer ends with Davos drawing a sword over Jon's body, which the Night's Watch may be planning to burn in order to avoid Jon becoming a White Walker.
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By the time the third fourth month of winter comes around, our mouths have deteriorated into a splitting, peeling mess — the dryness level vacillating somewhere between sandpaper and White Walker.
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I know 'GoT' sort of ended the whole White Walker storyline but this was my theory from the beginning of the season and I'm not giving up on it yet.
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You'll be able to try the headset out in three of AT&T's flagship stores, where you can face off against a White Walker in a Game of Thrones demo.
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He even goes through with a ridiculous plan to capture a White Walker and bring it to King's Landing to show Cersei and the rest of the crew what's up.
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I've tried some interesting facials in the past, including an enzyme oxygen facial that made me look like a White Walker, but this had to be one of my favorites.
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Yes, it seems Viserion is now also a White Walker (White Flyer?) after being skewered by the Night King's ice javelin and that leads us to a lot of questions.
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Northern Scotland faces "fierce and long winters, which then impacts the liquid that went into the White Walker," said Dan Sanborn, senior vice president of culture and partnerships at Diageo.
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Before the White Walker threat could even become the fully realized central conflict of Game of Thrones, the show ditched that more uncharted territory to return to its comfort zone.
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In the books, Beric is already long-dead: he now has no other purpose in the show except to add to the body count in Jon Snow's White Walker quest.
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There are two shoe styles designed for women — House Targaryen and House Lannister — and four unisex shoe styles — a dragon-inspired House Targaryen, Night's Watch, House Stark, and White Walker.
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Game of Thrones gave us a lot to love in "Beyond the Wall," from white walker battle to dragon fire to some semblance of sexual tension between Jon and Daenerys.
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The moment when Dany and her advisers doubt Jon's White Walker story, however, was a bit of an antidote to that—it was a sort of wink at the audience.
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It's not for nothing the widely-circulated "Black People's Guide to Game of Thrones," published online at The Root, compares the White Walker invasion to the rise of white supremacy.
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But shortly after the two arrived there and Jon began his training, Benjen departed on a ranging north of the Wall, to investigate rumors of wildling and White Walker activity.
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It was a kicky sequence that included an important revelation — killing a White Walker also takes out anything he'd resurrected — and conveniently left over a wight for bagging and tagging.
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In the scene where Craster's last son is sacrificed as a "gift to the gods," a White Walker takes him to what we can assume is The Lands of Always Winter.
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There's little chance of any major character dying in the premiere, simply because everyone's pretty far away from each other, and no one's engaging with the White Walker army just yet.
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And what better way to bring any simmering, competitive tension between the two men to a boil than by sending them north of the Wall on a White Walker suicide mission?
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We already know that before the Night King was the Night King, he was a normal human who was transformed into the first White Walker by the Children of the Forest.
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That said, while I gently applaud the Night King's strength and gumption, I do so from the comfort of Earth, where there is no threat of an incoming White Walker army.
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Liquor giant Diageo has a special Johnnie Walker Blended Scotch Whisky called The White Walker by Johnnie Walker (out Monday, $36) and a collection of single malt scotches, coming in November.
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Elaria Sand is raining down poisonous kisses in the southern kingdom of Dorne, while Ramsay Bolton is on the brink of murdering every wildling, crow, and white walker in the north.
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It's possible they're in or heading to the Lands of Always Winter, the White Walker stronghold we saw back in Season 214 where they transformed Craster's baby into one of them.
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In addition to Gregor, Whyte has played a White Walker in Season 1, Dongo the Giant in Seasons 3 and 4, and Wun-Wun the Giant in Seasons 5 and 6.
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The White Walker threat that loomed in the background at the time made us assume that it was snow coating the throne room, meaning that winter would come for King's Landing.
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Meera's prominent role in the most recent episode, in which she kills a White Walker with a dragonglass spear, has led a three-year-old theory to return to the fore.
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The gag is, they are way too young to read this delightfully raunchy memoir that begins with an explicit description of how Wong's "White Walker" hands made guys' penises go soft.
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Some are even speculating that the Night King intentionally let Bran get away, and/or that Benjen is a half-White Walker spy sent to herd Bran over to the Wall.
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Jon Snow later found out that another substance, Valyrian steel, can also kill a White Walker — but since the Valyrians were all wiped out centuries ago, this material is extremely rare.
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We already know what it takes to make a white walker Many fans believe that Azor Ahai didn't actually kill his beloved wife to create the "weapon" that brought back the dawn.
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The disadvantage to this is that it seems that a Walker and its wights are linked: kill the White Walker who resurrected the dead, and you kill the corpses it raised, too.
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Andrew Beveridge, a math professor at Macalester College, says the White Walker spiral goes in the opposite direction of a golden spiral, but it's "pretty darn close" to a clockwise golden spiral.
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Beric Dondarrion (Richard Dormer) came to a similar conclusion in season 7 of Game Of Thrones after realizing that killing a White Walker led to the death of all of his wights.
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I know it's not a White Walker, because we all realize they dissipate when struck with dragon glass (and boy, is that a weird thing to be able to say with authority).
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In a season six flashback, a dragonglass dagger is plunged into the heart of one of the First Men by the Children of the Forest, which turns him into a White Walker.
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If you wore an official HBO White Walker mask it would be safe to assume that 9 million Americans (at least) would not have to ask you what you were dressed as.
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"Game of Thrones" fans are reaching for answers to questions laid out as far back as season two, when we first saw the Night King turn a baby into a White Walker.
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He tells himself that the likely casualties, every one of them another soul who can't kill a White Walker, is worth it if he can just get those damn Boltons off his back.
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Indeed, he was the first White Walker in existence, and if the show is going to delve into Westeros's backstory, it seems possible that the Night King will make some sort of appearance.
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In order to level out the playing field for the Last War, the entire White Walker threat was reduced to a simple device to thin out Daenerys' army so Cersei wouldn't get steamrolled.
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But last night, we also learned how to stop the zombie army, and that includes the undead Viserion: Kill a White Walker, and the undead that it raised will crumble along with it.
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Are there other, even fiercer dragons left in Valyria, who could turn the tide in favor of the humans when they clash with the Night King, his White Walker army, and ice dragon?
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Despite Tyrion's best efforts at dissuading her, she's hell-bent on flying all three of her dragons north of the Wall to visit Jon and help him out with his White Walker problem.
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It turns out it is, but first things first: while battling the small group of the undead, Jon discovers that taking out a White Walker instantly destroys the other undead creatures it's turned.
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We left Cersei in Season 7 with her armies in shambles, the imminent threat of a white walker marching closer to the city, and her golden right-handed man (pun intended) headed North.
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One of the most divisive episodes of Game of Thrones ever saw the union of several of our favorite characters ambling north of The Wall, Magnificent Seven-like, to find a White Walker.
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But finally, when Cersei and Jaime find themselves on opposite sides of how to deal with the White Walker threat, we finally see the siblings' cycle of loving abuse come to an end.
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Presumably, the new king or queen (or dare we suggest White Walker) who usurps the throne from Cersei would order this kind of redesign knowing that it's a telling break from Westerosi traditions.
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The Citadel, with its Maesterdome of a library holding untold White Walker-defeating secrets, was quite something to behold, even if its male-only policy is exceedingly out of step with recent developments.
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Alex: One of the things I find strangest about the show as it races toward the endgame is that Jon Snow is seemingly the only person taking the White Walker threat really seriously.
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She's already dropped excitable hints on social media about Game of Thrones Season 7, and now she's taken to expressing her glee by trolling her fellow co-stars with creative, White Walker-themed memes.
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I hope I don't get this right, but I have an image of a White Walker sitting on the throne, the Night King, with his leg over the arm sucking on a Cuban cigar.
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In the context of the scene, it's a quick way out of a pinch — but as Jon and Jorah discuss later, it's a detail that could become key in defeating the White Walker army.
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After he spots the symbol, he sees one of the Children of the Forest, Leaf, stabbing one of the First Men with dragonglass, turning him into the first White Walker, aka the Night King.
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Maybe you're not advanced enough to attempt some of the more inventive costumes (we're looking at you, epic White Walker), but at the very least, it will give a novice something to aspire to.
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The Dragonpit sequence (expertly staged by Jeremy Podeswa) features more of our main characters together than ever before as the various warring factions attempt a truce in the face of a White Walker invasion.
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It is not clear whether or not Otzi will rise from the dead and attack the camera crew like a Game Of Thrones White Walker during the program, but all signs point to "no."
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The White Walker army will try to rush through the tunnel and, in their haste, not even realize it is merely a clever mural on the side of the wall made by yours truly.
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With the upcoming winter to get through first, Johnnie Walker and HBO have introduced the Johnnie Walker White Walker Blended Scotch Whisky to keep us warm and to keep our GoT cravings at bay.
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According to everyone's favourite White Walker-slayer, the costume was for a "bad taste" themed party — and the idea for it came from Harington's fiancée and former Game of Thrones co-star, Rose Leslie.
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It was time for the healing to begin, and also the refocusing, as the show pivoted from the White Walker clash we've been hearing about for awhile to the final one in King's Landing.
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But once I was caught up with the rest of the planet and ready to watch the third episode of this final season (the notoriously underlit White Walker massacre), where did that leave me?
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But Bran's quip also suggested a theme for the episode, as people gathered all over Winterfell for a final bit of human tenderness before the terrible White Walker horns echoed across the wintry waste.
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Mortlach Six Kingdoms whisky has dropped to £66.99, the popular Johnnie Walker White Walker whisky has been discounted to £26.99, and you can pick up a bottle of Oban Night's Watch whisky for £35.99.
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Meanwhile, there's a cluster of important characters — Sansa, Arya, Bran, Sam, and Gilly — currently at Winterfell, which is further north than White Harbor and a likely target for the next big White Walker attack.
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And all that paled next to what happened in the Senate, where a dying old warhorse served cold revenge on the president, killing his White Walker-like healthcare legislation with the Senatorial equivalent of dragonglass.
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That's a little disappointing: Jon previously made out the White Walker threat to be the serious danger to Daenerys, but it now seems that she was correct when she said Cersei was the real enemy.
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He told Bran that after being killed by wights he was brought back by the Children of the Forest, who pierced his heart with dragonglass (similar to how they created the first White Walker ever).
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And on the other side, as we estimated in our army counts last year, the White Walker army potentially contains every man, woman and child who ever died in the North and beyond the wall.
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So if the killing of a White Walker dispels its magic over wights, might the killing of the Night King dispel his magic over all the other White Walkers (and therefore all their own wights)?
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Watch it again, you can actually hear him scream 'GOOOOO – GO – GO.' Ten seconds later…you can see the hair of a White Walker flying up when Arya sprints past the group of White Walkers.
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Back in 2011, we couldn't know that the White Walker threat teased in Season 1's very first opening scene would take six years more to become finally realized in the Season 7's finale.
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What we see in "Game of Thrones" is the true history of Westeros, as opposed to what might be written up later by the maesters of the Citadel (if they survive a White Walker invasion).
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Gendry is already going down this road as part of the frankly seemingly crazy plan to capture a wight or White Walker and take it to King's Landing as a proof-of-concept for Cersei.
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Until... Season 7: Gendry Returned To Game Of Thrones The audience hadn't seen Gendry either since season 3, but he showed up in season 7 and joined Jon Snow's side against the impending White Walker army.
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If the various kings and queens of Westeros don't realize they already have the capabilities to kill Viserion, "Beyond The Wall" shows a secondary clear path to ending the White Walker threat: killing the Night King.
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But Etsy shops like Froodies Hoodies accept custom orders, not only ensuring a perfect fit but also giving them lots of experience recreating your favorite Game of Thrones dragon (even of the undead White Walker variety).
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The theory: George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books mention the legend of the Night's Queen, a lady White Walker who ruled the lands above and below the wall alongside the Night King.
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Diageo said Scotch growth in the period was driven by Johnnie Walker, helped by the launch of "White Walker by Johnnie Walker" inspired by HBO's global hit "Game of Thrones", which recruited new consumers into scotch.
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Both the dragons and the White Walkers appear tied to the irregular weather patterns in the world, with the dragons being associated with longer summers, and White Walker activity bringing cold, long nights along with them.
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Fans were specifically focused on the meaning of the final shot that show Cersei breathing out a cloud of cold air before zooming in on the eye of the most important White Walker, the Night King.
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What happened to the leader of the one House who could maybe have organized the buffer zone that blocks North from South, that could have been the last line of defense for a White Walker attack?
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There's no evidence in either the books or show of female White Walker, aside from the legend of the Night's King and his Corpse Queen (but we'll get back to that in Seasons 4 and 5).
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The development is also a welcome heightening of the White Walker threat at a point in Game of Thrones' run when our heroes have escaped the army of the dead unscathed a few too many times.
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Namely: What if Arya brushes off the skills she learned from the Faceless Men and puts them to good use — by stealing the face of a White Walker in order to get to the Night King?
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Sure, Jon can broker peace with the wildlings and shatter a White Walker or two, but does he really want to organize trade with the Summer Isles and deal with a court of backstabbing nobles (too soon)?
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Way down south in King's Landing, fresh plots are a-brewing as Cersei Lannister prepares to double-cross her would-be allies in the White Walker fight, with Euron Greyjoy and his Iron Fleet at her side.
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And don't dwell on how Theon's bloodlust forced Bran and Rickon to flee, hunted and homeless, leading directly to Rickon's murder at the hands of Ramsay Bolton and Bran's years of vulnerable wandering in White Walker territory.
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Of course that's how they're going to respond with so few episodes left, but the lack of a definitive "yes, they're finished" does at least suggest there's more story to be told on the White Walker front.
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In this last week before the big White Walker clash and the presumable carnage and loss of beloved characters it will entail, it was a reminder that the things we do for love can be heroic, too.
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Those shows included "Castle Black," a moody, "Riverdale"-style drama about the forbidden romance between Jon Snow (Harington) and a female white walker (Heidi Gardner); an animated series in the style of MTV's "Daria," called — what else?
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Most of them will be unified as a result of, okay, the White Walker problem is real, but then there'll be a couple of people where they're more active targeting each other versus the Night King's forces.
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With the date announcement freshly dripping water onto the floor, HBO released a quick teaser: "Sigils," which contains a lot of artistic footage and concept art before zooming out to reveal the eye of a White Walker.
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After last week's White Walker battle, the most recent episode of Game of Thrones felt like a bit of a snooze fest, with the exception of a couple of scenes that were just downright devastating — poor, sweet Missandei.
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While viewers might have believed they had seen the last of the Children during the destructive White Walker battle in season 6's "The Door," it seems the supernatural beings will continue to have an affect on Thrones.
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As you know, Jon and his "suicide squad," which included The Hound, Tormund, Jorah, Beric, Thoros, and Gendry, all went beyond the wall to capture a White Walker to bring to Cersei as proof of the impending danger.
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After joining in an "unholy union" with a "corpse Queen" (AKA what sounds suspiciously like having sex with a White Walker), he declared himself King, and subjected the Watch to a reign of terror that included human sacrifices.
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They're ready for battle, with a plan that involves having the main force keep the White Walker army at bay while a smaller crew baits the Night King and tries to cut off the head of the snake.
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From the situation with Arya and Sansa to the inevitable White Walker invasion, here are the things I think are most likely to happen in the Season 7 finale... These two can't stay mad at each other forever.
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But don't wait until season 8 returns April 14 to snag yourself a pair because these sneakers are selling out fast (the icy blue White Walker sneakers and charcoal grey House Stark sneakers are already out of stock!).
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I've long been Team White Walker, and if this show does anything productive for society, I hope it's to make people realize the importance of tackling long-term existential threats early, before they grow too strong to defeat.
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We used to see as just mindless zombies in thrall to their White Walker masters, just a slave army, and then we get a glimpse that they might actually know or understand what is happening here. Yes. Exactly.
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Turns out, this very mountain appeared another vision as well, this time, Bran's during one of his jaunts with the Three-Eyed Raven in season 6 when he watched the Children of the Forest create the first White Walker.
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So the best way to think about Jon's mission is through the lens of environmental diplomacy: He needed to convince the world's leading powers to abandon the internecine struggle over the throne and refocus on the White Walker threat.
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For those who need a refresher on why Valyrian steel matters so much, it's the super-rare material used to make Valyrian swords, AKA the only weapons that don't shatter into a million pieces when fighting a White Walker.
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It's not at all clear whether the character on the show is the same as this legendary figure from the books — after all, one is a White Walker and one was a human — but the connection is certainly suggested.
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In the same episode, "Beyond the Wall," we learned that White Walkers and wights seem to operate under a classic rule from vampire lore: If you kill a White Walker, you also kill all the undead wights he resurrected.
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Between that name and the fact that the show will be set thousands of years before Game of Thrones, it stands to reason that it will follow the original White Walker invasion that inspired the construction of the Wall.
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Then they'll have air superiority plus a strong defensive position, and the greater numbers of the Dead will be somewhat counteracted by the fact that every dragon-fire blast that kills a White Walker brings down all his wights.
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He hasn't been around for awhile but clearly retained his flair for slick set pieces, like the bear attack and the wight capture, in which Jon dispatched a White Walker and saw his skeleton platoon topple like undead dominoes.
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They'll come in four designs each featuring an embossment emblematic of one of the Great Houses: a dragon for the Targaryens, a wolf for the Starks, a lion for the Lannisters, and and a fourth design depicting a White Walker.
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The third episode of the show's final season will center the Battle of Winterfell, the fight where the forces of the living and two dragons take on the White Walker army and the Night King (who has his own zombie dragon).
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The White Walker problem, according to the letter, is even more urgent than it was last week or the week before, when Jon was already running around trying to convince everyone that it was as urgent as it could possibly be.
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Fairfield's job is at its most challenging during the climactic sequences, like season 5's battle at Hardhome, which pitted Jon Snow and the Wildlings against a White Walker army for the first time and involved every sound person on staff.
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In that vision, Bran sees a man stabbed in the chest by a dragonglass dagger right next to a weirwood tree, creating the Night King, the original White Walker who would birth all of the other White Walkers and wights.
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Before we go down that path though, note that George R. R. Martin has explicitly stated the legend of the Night's King from the books is different than the main White Walker they call the Night King on the show.
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Last night Bran saw that the Night's King was a fabled First Man until the Children of the Forest pinned him to their Weirwood tree, stabbed his heart with an obsidian dagger, and turned him into the first White Walker.
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Earlier this month, the network unveiled a tiny glimpse of the upcoming season in a commercial for the network that showed an alliance between Sansa and Daenerys — a partnership that needs to be forged to quell the upcoming White Walker invasion.
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"This sequel is so dirty it makes the first parody embarrassed by its lack of hardcore dragon sex, people disguised as dildos, white walker masturbation, royal penetration, giant-genital'd Wildings, and magical step-relative banging," WoodRocket wrote in a press release.
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Back in King's Landing, not even Cersei seems to be into it anymore, having finally driven Jaime away with her wily plotting with Euron to bring in the Golden Company to help her capitalize on Team Targaryen's White Walker detour.
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And here, right where we were standing, was where one of the rangers was killed by a White Walker, which slaughter we were watching unfold on Robbie's tablet, allowing us to witness two realities at once, the real and the fictional.
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Then it did a really bad job of raising any new stakes, particularly with this suicide mission that has no clear purpose — aside from the vague promise of capturing a White Walker to take it south like Westeros' worst traveling freak show attraction.
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Alex Abad-Santos: The big thing that happened in season seven, beneath the cover of the Lannister army slaughter and the big White Walker rescue, was that Game of Thrones condensed its action into two locations and streamlined its roster of characters.
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Thanks to Bran's simultaneously casting into the past (greensight) and warging into Hodor's body in the present, Hodor's entire life was reduced to one mission: Holding the cave door to allow Bran and Meera Reed (Ellie Kendrick) to escape a White Walker attack.
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The Night King of the show is the first White Walker, created by the Children of the Forest — the original inhabitants of Westeros, who lived there before the First Men came over and settled the land — out of a captive First Man.
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Hopefully the wight they bagged will do the trick.) We might gasp audibly every time a White Walker steps foot onscreen (and we have been, since the first episode of Season 1), but what goes on beyond the Wall is blessedly not real.
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The segment also previewed snippets of Castle Black, a "sexy, moody drama about forbidden love" between Harington's Jon Snow and a white walker; Arya, a cartoon about everyone's "favorite angsty assassin"; plus crossovers like Cersei and the City, No Ballers, The Marvelous Mrs.
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Jaime's going to step in front of a sword that was meant for Brienne, or fall at the end of a valiant, successful assault on a White Walker heavy, or even take a crossbow bolt in the back (looking at you, Bronn).
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This one feels a little more far-fetched, given that Thrones seemed to have ended the White Walker storyline in the third episode when Maisie Williams' Arya Stark out-tricked the Night King and plunged a Valyrian steel dagger into his heart.
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Also, all we've heard in the run-up to the final season is about the 55 nights of shooting and the unprecedented scale of the White Walker clash, and according to HBO, the longest episode of the season is actually the third one.
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HBO is already hard at work on a prequel set during the original White Walker uprising hundreds of years before the events of the original series, and now, it looks like even more Westeros history will be headed to the small screen.
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While you crushed the couch and watched a White Walker battle, I crushed the kitchen and pitted culinary master Ina Garten's best brownie recipe against Gordon Ramsay's, in an epic event I will hereafter refer to as Game of Brownies (or GoB, in shorthand).
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In the end, one captive wight wasn't worth what they lost to get it, but this sequence's crucial information — that killing a White Walker disintegrates all the undead it's already turned — might be worth any sacrifice, because it's likely the key to winning the war.
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While that decision leads to the death of Littlefinger, which, good riddance, it's true that if Cersei was gone Jon Snow wouldn't have gone on a mission to capture a white walker, which likely means the Night King wouldn't have been able to get Viserion.
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Any details are in full-on spoiler territory, but obviously there are significant revelations about the growing White Walker threat and about what the battle lines are going to look like — and how they've been redrawn — as we wheel into the final stretch of episodes.
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Daenerys would probably have to listen a lot more closely to the White Walker spiel if she considered herself responsible for the Northmen's safety, and it's not like Jon even has an army with him that she can demand he ship off to King's Landing.
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The 22016-year-old Hall of Famer (did we mention he is EIGHTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD?) took the field in a purple polo shirt, looking more ready to hit a South Florida beach than endure temperatures cold enough to make a White Walker shiver.
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But Jon Snow and company also came to an important realization in "Beyond the Wall" that could well be setup for the eventual climax of the series: They noticed that if a White Walker dies, all of the corpses it reanimated collapse as well.
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As we saw last season, the Children created the Night King (that White Walker with the rad wintry crown horns popping out of his head) by capturing one of the First Men and inserting dragonglass into him with a ritual on a weirwood tree.
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You see the similarity here, with this episode's reveal that Benjen himself was killed by the White Walkers and reanimated via the Children of the Forest's dragonglass-aided magic as … not quite a wight, not quite a White Walker, but something that's not straightforwardly alive.
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Not only did the tiny search party stumble upon a separated group of wights sooner rather than later, but they discovered that killing one White Walker probably kills every wight that it turned — in a moment that fortuitously still left them a single wight to capture.
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White Walker polar bears are nightmare fuel, but Giant Ice Spiders wouldn't even let you fall asleep Also the show randomly introduced that undead polar bear in Season 7, which we saw all the way back in book one of A Song of Ice and Fire series.
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While the live dragons on the show have only been seen to answer to those with Targaryen blood, once the undead Viserion was brought back, he would have been a servant to the Night King, just like every other wight, White Walker, and zombie polar bear.
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This is the anti-White Walker dream team Westeros needs, folks: with Sam able to unearth the Night King's secrets and Bran to verify them vision-style, Jon and Daenerys will have the greatest and most useful source of information in all of the Seven Kingdoms.
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"The Night King was the first White Walker, and he and the other White Walkers were meant to defend the Children of the Forest from the rest of the First Men, who were invading Westeros at that time," Riley McAtee of the Ringer noted in June 2018.
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While Daenerys versus Cersei (versus Jon Snow?) is packed with more personal drama than the White Walker war — for all the Night King's power, he wasn't exactly much for character motivations or even dialogue — the current stakes feel anticlimactic, far lower than the Battle of Winterfell.
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As the show enters endgame territory, the stakes for the action are rising — Daenerys can now kill hundreds of men with just a word to her dragon, the White Walker army is nearing the Wall, and the final face-off for the Iron Throne is approaching.
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Anyway, Bran sends a raven to the Citadel, where a roomful of old white guys agree they could write to every army in Westeros and solve the White Walker problem right this second, but they don't particularly want to, because the whole thing might be a prank.
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The writers don't lay out the process that lets Arya sneak past the other White Walkers to make her way to the Night King, but it's possible that she used her Faceless Men magic to disguise herself as a White Walker, the way she assumed Frey's face.
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This began happening as he fled the White Walker attack itself and seems to have been kicked into an even higher gear as of the final episode of season six, when Bran touched a weirwood tree near the Wall and had a vision of Jon Snow's birth.
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One last thing about the White Walker invasion that could amount to nothing, but I'm going to mention it anyway: Did you notice how Meera, Bran's protector, dispatched that swordsman in a similar fashion to how Jon Snow dispatched that swordsman's twin last season at Hardhome?
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That would be Daenerys, who lost not only her most trusted confidante this week but also her dragon Rhaegal, who had survived having his wing tattered in the White Walker battle only to get shot out of the sky, thanks to the Euron fleet's exceptional marksmanship.
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How Ann Dowd crafted two of TV's most disturbing characters without losing herself in the process A State Department science envoy resigns in a letter that spells out IMPEACH 27 things that didn't make sense about Game of Thrones' White Walker battle in "Beyond the Wall"
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Somewhat hard to reconcile the metaphor for climate change with Cersei totally ignoring the White Walker threat and suffering zero negative consequences for that Besides numbers, Cersei could also have more wildfire, not counting the stores she used to blow up the Sept of Baelor in season 6.
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By extension, it was natural to assume — as voiced by Beric Dondarrion during season seven's big White Walker confrontation in "Beyond the Wall" — that if you kill the Night King, all the White Walkers he sired would also die, causing all the wights they sired to die too.
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"Game of Thrones" seems to be about the evolution from a bloody, top-down monarchy-by-force to a more democratic way forward as humanity bands together to confront the White Walker threat, standing in for catastrophic climate change or some other Global Crisis to Be Named Later.
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And by extension, it is natural to assume — as voiced by Beric Dondarrion during season seven's big White Walker confrontation scene in "Beyond the Wall" — that if you kill the Night King, all the White Walkers he sired will also die, causing all the wights they sired to die.
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Before we get into what happened last night in the space of 71 minutes of prestige cable, some housekeeping: if you consult the rules of Game of Game of Thrones, you'll see that killing a White Walker nets you 15 points, but there is no point allocation for killing a wight.
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We're hoping Gilly uses Heartsbane to take down a White Walker coming to reclaim baby Sam Sam the Slayer's give-no-fucks moment of stealing his father's precious ancestral Valyrian sword — which he tried to keep out of Sam's seemingly unworthy hands by sending him to the Wall — was perfection.
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" As for her character nudging Arya Stark onto the path that leads to the destruction of the Night King — and every wight and White Walker he created — van Houten said it was "the last thing on earth" that she needed to do, "so it's quite loaded in a way for her.
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Valyrian steel is one of the few things that can kill a White Walker, and when Arya stabbed the Night King with it — after Bran first conveniently lured him into a weirwood forest similar to the one where the Night King was created centuries earlier — he immediately shattered into pieces.
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In celebration of the hit HBO show's seventh season, which premieres on Sunday, producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss passed Jimmy Kimmel Live some of Harington's "never-before-seen" audition tapes — featuring the actor doing his best take on Daenerys Targaryen, Cersei Lannister, Arya Stark, Ygritte, Hodor and a White Walker.
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White Walker symbols In case you needed a clue that this story wasn't JUST about games and thrones, after all, the very first scene of Season 1, Episode 1 ends with a very cryptic arrangement of dead bodies, executed by the very murder snowmen we've come to know and fear.
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The luckiest bastard in all of Westeros has yet another harrowing experience beyond the Wall, but his ridiculous mission at least reveals that killing a White Walker might also shatter any corpses they reanimated — which sure could come in handy if the Night King really is responsible for reanimating an entire army.
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Hulu announced something major that would even melt the cold, black heart of a White Walker: The service will now offer an HBO streaming add-on for subscribers, just in time for you to gather all of your Stark/Lannister/Targaryen diehards for the July 16 premiere of Game of Thrones' seventh season.
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Some fans think that Dany is a good candidate to follow in the footsteps of a mythical figure from George R. R. Martin's books known as the "Night's Queen," a female White Walker who could rule over the frosty world of eternal winter alongside the Night King, should the White Walkers win.
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Two of the remaining four Great Houses are united around the King in the North, whose name is Snow—and who, now that winter has at last come, will presumably be eager to align with anyone packing Dany's kind of White Walker-melting firepower (especially if that person also happens to be his aunt).
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Jon Snow discovers the bodies of men of the Night's Watch laid out in the same pattern in Season 3 (they'd been murdered by White Walkers), and a similar pattern features in Bran's Season 6 vision of the Children of the Forest (the one where they appear to be creating the first ever White Walker).
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Alongside a rag tag band of fan favorites making surprise appearances in the episode, like the Hound and Robert Baratheon's bastard son, Gendry, they have embarked on a journey beyond the Wall to retrieve a captive White Walker to bring as their "show, don't tell," briefcase-technique element for their next negotiation with Queen Cersei.
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Aside from the frankly hilarious implication that there's an ice nursery filled with White Walker toddlers learning how to read and wight somewhere north of the wall, there's also the reality that Craster's sons have been amplifying the ranks of White Walkers for decades — how many of the current White Walkers are Baby Sam's brother-cousins?
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We all know that the penultimate episode of every season is when the dragon dung hits the fan, and with only seven episodes in Season 7, the sixth installment promises to be a showstopper, as Jon and his allies venture North of the Wall to capture a White Walker and blow this whole conspiracy wide open.
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So as Game of Thrones fans eagerly anticipate the Westeros-versus-White Walker Great War, I wanted to dig into how useful dragons really are, whether any other Game of Thrones weapons more closely resemble a weapon of mass destruction, and what advantages the Night King has over his opponents, despite having only one dragon to their two.
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In the meantime, Tyrion has a plan: Jorah and Jon will, I am not kidding, go get a White Walker or wight and bring it to King's Landing to show to Cersei as proof that she should just lay off and let them deal with the Could Not Possibly Be More Urgent Until It's A Little More Urgent Next Week zombie issue.
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In the story, the Night's King was a lord commander of the Night's Watch who fell in love with a female White Walker, went dark, and declared himself "king" over the Night's Watch, instigating horrifying human sacrifices for over a decade in service of the White Walkers until he was finally deposed by the joint efforts of the Free Folk and House Stark.
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" Season 8 doesn't have a premiere date yet — although we used a highly unscientific method to predict that it'll air in 2019 — and Momoa seemed to confirm that we shouldn't expect the final six installments to appear in 2018: "Seeing [Jon Snow and his companions] on that [frozen lake] island, white walkers all around, and the dragon turns into a white walker… You're just like: What?
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In Season 4, Episode 4, one of Craster's sons (Craster is an abusive, incestuous wildling who made a pact to give up his sons to the White Walkers) is picked up by the Night King's men and taken to the mysterious, icy world of the Land of Always Winter, where he is given an extreme baby makeover and turned into an itty-bitty White Walker.
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In his time there so far, he has: unearthed a cure for Ser Jorah Mormont's case of greyscale, a disease thought to be terminal and permanent; determined that Dragonstone has a deposit of White Walker-killing obsidian/dragonglass and instructed Jon Snow to go mine there; and stumbled upon a document detailing that Rhaegar Targaryen had annulled his marriage to Elia Martell and was married to another woman.
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That said, the viewers are pretty savvy, and they've been predicting Gendry's return for some time, either because of a theory that he's the Prince Who Was Promised (because he's a blacksmith who might be able to reforge Azor Azai's legendary White Walker-slaying sword), or because of a theory that Gendry represents the Smith, one of the seven gods of Westeros, in an earthly version of the heavenly pantheon.
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Led by Allister Thorne (whom we all know would've become Lord Commander of the Night's Watch if Jon Snow weren't so obviously cooler), it's likely that they want to seize and burn Jon Snow's body in order to prevent him either (a) rising as a White Walker (a common occurrence at the top edge of the world), or (b) being resurrected through the power of king's blood by offscreen-but-on-deck sorceress Melisandre.
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