game of thrones beyond the wall night king

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If there were Targaryens around then – even under another name – they’d be in Valyria, not Westeros. As we’ll explain below, the Night King came from the First Men. It’s seemingly based on the notion that he was once fire and became ice, and is capable of riding a dragon – something that only Targaryens can do, hence Jon Snow’s ability to take to the skies.īeyond that, though, the Night King being Dany’s undead father is rather difficult to believe, not least because of his origin story. Was the Night King Aerys Targaryen, the Mad King?Īn addendum to the above: did the Night King survive dragonfire because he’s actually Aerys Targaryen, the father of Daenerys? It’s one of the more crackpot theories, but it has had more sticking power than Ser Davos. Dany – along with the rest of us – should have seen it coming. When Daenerys’s dragons battered the wights with fire, the Night King confidently marched through the flames before sending his icy javelin at poor, unsuspecting Viserion.

But it’s worth noting that we’ve seen the Night King survive dragonfire before, when Jon et al captured a wight beyond the wall. The jury’s still out, although fans are trying to piece together evidence from George RR Martin’s books and other show-based Easter eggs. When Arya managed to stab the Night King with Valyrian steel (specifically in his gut, where the Children of the Forest attacked him with dragonglass during his creation), she shattered him into thousands of icy shards, causing instant death among the seemingly infinite zombies that were rapidly over-running Winterfell.īut even though the Night King is dead, and has taken with him the increasingly ridiculous theories that were piling up like sacrificial zombies on pyres of Dragonglass, questions still remain… He turned them all,” Dondarrion urged Jon Snow.Īs it turns out, Jon Snow did not know nothing: that fairly tempting theory proved to be correct, as The Long Night, the third episode of season eight, showed. In the tradition of penultimate Game of Thrones episodes, Sunday night’s Beyond the Wall devoted a huge chunk of its running time to an epic battle that unfolded in tense, violent fashion. Regenerating resistance leader-turned-wight hunter Beric Dondarrion was quick to take things a step further, speculating that if the Night King himself were to be eliminated, all of his creations – the entire army of the dead and possibly the Walkers too – would disappear too. “Kill him. Kill one of the icy villains, it transpired, and all of the wights created by that particular Walker will instantly drop dead. In Beyond The Wall, the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones season 7, viewers were given an exciting new revelation about the deadly White Walkers.

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Warning: this piece contains full spoilers for Game of Thrones, seasons 1 to 8