*chills* the writing and art are so good, and the actress who plays Ygritte makes a fantastic storyteller. looking forward to more of these on the DVD!
George R.R. Martin has said in interviews that the Night King 'is a legendary figure, akin to Lann the Clever and Brandon the Builder, And no more likely to have survived to the present day than they have.” Meaning that the Night King we are seeing now is not necessary the Night King that was fought against in the ancient battles. Rather he Night King is a title not a person and when they fall another will step up and take his place.
Spartiatai300 It's hard to say for certain until the last book probably, Many think that at least one motivation is that they can only make new white walkers by turning humans, they can't have kids, and they aren't actually immortal so if they just stayed north they would eventually go extinct. That's one of the more popular theories.
The Thrones books are a perfect example of when keeping it real goes wrong. The blood, sex, deception, puzzles, and overall detail GRM puts into the books is beyond comparable. If you watch the show and love it, please do your self a favor and read the books. Every chapter is like watching a diffrent episode on HBO.
"Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls".
"Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain of who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you." -Littlefinger
She grew UP in Scotland. She now has an English accent, and in this show, she does a Northern English accent. Source? I'm British. We tend to know the various accents that exist around here, and there are a LOT of them.
That was Aegon V (Aemon's younger brother, one of the protags in the Dunk and Egg series; which, by the way, if you haven't read those and are a huge ASOIAF fan you should go and do that right now..) He died in the burning wreckage of Summerhall trying to hatch dragon eggs. The immune to fire thing is obviously a very rare trait, probably not just to Targs, but to all those of Old Valyria. There was another targ who drank wildfire thinking it would turn him into a dragon.. Didn't end well.
i love it when people act like they sound NOTHING alike. they are different but considering its a northern accent, the Scottish and northern accent is going to sound alike in some aspects since they're near each other. Its understandable if someone unfamiliar were to hear Scottish and not think it's English. I wouldn't mock a British person if they couldn't hear the difference between a Brooklyn, Rhode Island or a New York accent...To an outsider, they sound the same and understandably so.
I love the creative choice they had with this. "We need somebody to give a history of the Night's Watch... I GOT IT. Somebody with an anti-Night's Watch ideology! Genius! Genius! Genius!"
Same here! I like watching the show/movie first and then read the books so I won't get confused with the characters. I remember faces better than names. In the books of asoiaf there are so many characters and I get them mixed up all the time and I have to go on wiki to look them up while avoiding spoilers. Its like there are new characters introduced each chapter!
People in Westeros seem to keep good track of geneologies and family traits. John Snow has clear Stark traits visible in his face, and if he shows any affinity with dragons, that would pretty much prove that he has some Targaryen blood, as well.
The way that the Wildlings are always kicked beyond the Wall makes me think of things interesting... We don't really know much about the history of the Wildlings, save that they are direct descendants of the First Men without exposure to the Andal invaders. We know that when the Wall was built the Wildlings were already on the other side, rather than booted there after the Wall was built. And given that the Night's King was only the 13th Lord Commander of the Wall, the events that took place here didn't happen all that long after the Winter of the White Walkers...so why did they keep booting them over the other side, especially since that all of this likely happened even before the Andals showed up. My theory; the Wildlings were damned, or descended from those damned; people who sided with the White Walkers rather than fought them with the Children of the Forest. When you survive a winter that's lasted for an age, and it suddenly gets warm again, you don't just decide to stay in the coldest place on the whole continent. It's probably likely that either the White Walkers took captives north when they retreated, who later escaped when they went back to sleep, or they were cultists who served the White Walkers as gods that the Starks banished to the north, with the modern Wildlings being their distant descendants.
+Halcyon Industries (KerianH) nice try, and good theory, but I've got "The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones" by Martin himself, and that's not true. The wildlings were given the offer to cross over the wall before it was built, but they declined (knowing that one day the White Walkers could/would return) and decided they'd rather rule themselves versus fighting with the other lords of the North. The Starks didn't come to real prominence until a few generations before Aegon the Conqueror showed up, and everyone was claiming themselves kings of something. And from what little we DO know of the White Walkers, they don't make allies--only more soldiers. Every time the wildings were "booted" (as you described it) they were turned back across the wall because they wouldn't bow to anyone--not because they were cultists. Hell, CANNIBALS receive treatment better than that. No living thing prayed to the White Walkers (Craster's just a dick), they were death itself. But really, for someone who doesn't know the lore like you said, you had a really interesting theory.
dangercats77 Well yeah, it was an idea though. And it was one that made sense. The whole 'Stark' thing revolved around Brandon Stark's construction of the Wall and the mention somewhere in the story that Old Nan hinted that the Night's King might have been a Stark as well..although that could have just as easily been the wiki. Only Martin and his published books on the subject have any real say in the matter. Speaking of, I hope he gets the next book done soon. Some of us want to know if a certain Snow is going to come back to life or not, and are hoping that his actor in the show quitting after the season ended was a big joke...hoping against hope anyway.
Halcyon Industries no one knows for sure if Brandon "the Builder" Stark was the one who built the wall or not, seeing as how Martin wouldn't throw us for a loop for nothing and then never resolve it, and as for Old Nan's stories, it isn't known WHO the Night's King belonged to except that he was of noble lineage before joining the Night's Watch. and yes, I'm curious about a certain Lord Snow myself and he's hoping that he'll have it finished either at the end of this year or very early next year
dangercats77 *nods* I've always been rooting for the Night's Watch. Despite hte current corruption within them, they seem to be the only group that knows what's really going on besides Stannis and his croneys. Meanwhile the Seven Kingdoms make fun of them and over the sea Daenerys is busy making noble and/or terrible decisions over in Essos so we'll never really know for certain if she'll make it to the Iron Throne in time to do much good or not.
Halcyon Industries well the North knows what's going on, especially Winterfell, but yeah, outside of the North it's a pretty mute point that you bring your worst to the Night's Watch just to get rid of everyone. It's a shame it was already an order in decline when Aegon the Conqueror showed up, or I'd be like "WHAT IN THE SEVEN HELLS HAPPENED?!"
I doubt it, because a Child of the Forest said that "they [the Others] killed him long ago". Benjen's death is very recent, especially to a Child of the Forest who lives for hundreds of years.
Now, this video is about a Commander (highest position) in the Nights watch venturing north of the wall and finding a woman with "clear blue eyes" - sounds awefully familiar to how the white walkers are described. She took her back to the wall (the men of the night's watch cannot take wives or have children) but he didnt care. So he crowned himself "Night's King". The Walker he brought home probably corrupted him horribly, and he was a tyrant ruling over the nights watch.
Just read here that it's chapter 56 .. I think it's when Bran and the Reed's are heading north and are staying in one of the Nights Watches abandoned castles, they are telling each other stories and that comes up
That was my theory as well, but Leaf mentions about him "They killed him long ago". Benjen has only been gone a few years, which seems somewhat at odds with what Leaf says
"We know how you thin...k. We know where you're wea...k. You can watch for us from your wall if you li....ke." Something so sexy about those hard K sounds.
She was born there. She, the actress, has a Southern English accent. You tend to get it when you... y'know... live in ENGLAND for the majority of your life. Believe me, in Britain, we know the difference between a Scottish and English accent. And there are a lot of accents in both countries.
Considering that this is a history of the Night's Watch as told from the perspective of the Wildlings, it makes perfect sense that Ygritte would be narrating it.
during the Age of Heroes. The Night's King was the 13th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch and their have been 998 as of present Game of Thrones. So yeah it happen way before the series timeline.
Ryan, if you are saying that they were talking about Benjen Stark as the king beyond the wall who knows how the crows think you're wrong: both because he's not king beyond the wall and because Mance Rayder (who is) was once a brother of the nights watch before he turned his cloak and became a wildling
dangercats77 I think the common consensus is that the Ice Dragon does indeed take place in Westeros. In fact, I've seen a lot of speculation that the ice cold pool that the ice dragon leaves at the end of the story is the same cold still pool at the Winterfell godswood.
dangercats77 It could be , especially since she becomes a summer child at the end....but it IS connected....The long winter...The Kings Road.... Dragons....I mean come on....it just is.
what this girl says is that now the free folk (the people north of the wall) have rallied to a new king who knows what the Night's Watch thinks - because he was once one of them. And now they plan on marching on the wall :) and hopefully getting south of the wall!
Long ago, one of commanders of the Night's Watch fell in love with a female Other (aka White Walker) and married her. They ruled together as the Night's King and Queen for a dozen years and sacrificed children to the Others.
SPOLIER SPOILER He definitely is still alive. If you don't know who I'm talking about, just ignore this. I re-read the book, and certain chapters a few times. In Bran's 1st chapter, he mentions the bite of cold he gets when he wargs into Summer. And when ____ get's stabbed a 4th time, he doesn't feel the blade, "only the cold." Meaning he's already warged..
