White Walker

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White Walker is a humanoid creature of the HBO Game of Thrones series, and the George RR Martin series A Song of Ice and Fire where it is based. Particularly referred to as the Others in the novel, White Walkers is a supernatural threat to mankind dwelling north of The Wall in Westeros. The Verge named them among "the most iconic creatures on show". White Walker is also featured in merchandising events.

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Description

Martin introduced the others in the prologue of A Game of Thrones (1996), describing them as "Tall... and thin and hard like an old bone, with pale flesh like milk" with eyes "deeper and deeper blue than a human eye, a blue that burns like ice ". Accompanied by intense cold, they wear armor that "looks discolored on the move," and uses a thin crystal sword capable of destroying steel. Others move silently, and they speak their own language; Martin wrote that their voices were "like ice cracks in a winter lake". In A Storm of Swords (2000), they prove to be vulnerable to weapons made of dragonglass (obsidian), as Samwell Tarly kills one in this way:

[T] armor The other one ran at his feet in the creek as pale blue blood hissed and steamed around a black dragonglass dagger in his throat... where his fingers touched their obsidian smoking... Others shrunk and wrinkled, dissolved. In the twenty heartbeats the flesh has disappeared, spinning in a fine white mist. Underneath was a bone like milkglass, pale and shiny, and they melted too. Finally the only dragonglass dagger left, circled with steam... Grenn bent to pick it up and toss it back immediately. "Mother, it's cold."

In A Dance with Dragons (2011), Sam unveils the fragment of ancient records indicating that Others are also vulnerable to something called "dragonsteel", which he and Jon Snow have been another term for the Valyrian steel.

Beings who were killed by Others soon resurrected as citizens: living corpses with pale skin, black hands and blue eyes that shone alike. Dragonglass has no effect on them. Wights may be physically injured, but even fragmented parts remain animated, so they must be destroyed by fire. Humans living in the north behind The Wall - called "wildlings" by the inhabitants of Westeros - burn their dead so they do not become wights.

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Novel

In 2012, Chris Lackner wrote in Dose , "Enthusiastic novel fans look forward to the last two series of the seven-part series, in particular, they want to learn more about the White Walkers - or The Others - a mysterious, undead race who seem determined to destroy mankind. "

Backstory

In the 2014 novel and companion book The World of Ice & amp; Fire, Martin determined that, thousands of years before the events of the Ice and Fire series, there was an agreement between the Children of the Forest (a creature like the elf) and the First Man (human). This is attenuated by the appearance of the Other, an inhuman and evil species that causes a one-generations and winter night that lasts for decades. After the Other was pushed back, the First Children and People lifted The Wall, a great barrier of rocks, ice and magic from one coast to the north of Westeros to another, to block out the other.

Game of Thrones

As A Game of Thrones (1996) begins, common beliefs throughout Westeros are that the Other is a legend to scare the children, or else "go eight thousand years". But others have reappeared, and gained strength and attraction beyond the Wall. In Prolog, a party from Night's Watch is dealing with a group of Others, who killed Ser Waymar Royce. Rebounded as a sign, he then killed Will ranger. Outside the Wall, Jon Snow and Night's Watch found the bodies of their two brothers fallen. Brought back to Castle Black, the dead rose and killed some of their lives before they were destroyed.

Blade Swords

Sam Tarly kills a Others with dragonglass dragons in the A Storm of Swords (2000). His former friend, Small Paul, was killed and revived as a conqueror. The undead Paul was unaffected by dragonglass but Sam was able to drop it with fire. Bran Stark reminisces the story of King Night, a Stark and 13th Nightmare Commander who has been tempted by a White Walker Woman. The Night's King and the King enslaved the Watch brothers until Starks and Wildlings joined to defeat him.

Winter Wind

Martin said in 2012 that readers will see more and more in his upcoming novel The Winds of Winter . He noted in another 2012 interview, "[We will learn more about their history], of course, but I do not know about the culture... I do not know if they have a culture".

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TV Adjustment

The White Walkers portrayed in HBO's Game of Thrones differ slightly in appearance from their literary counterparts, but Aaron Souppouris of The Verge named them among "the most visual creatures that iconic on show ". In the TV series, the main White Walker has been described by Ross Mullan. Their visible leaders are Night King, played by Richard Brake and Vladimir Furdik, who first appeared in the episode "Oathkeeper". In "Hardhome", Valyrian's effectiveness against White Walker is evident when Jon destroys one piece with a longclaw sword blow. Unlike in the novel, the TV series has determined that its citizens can be destroyed by dragonglass.

In season 6 episode of "The Door" (May 2016), Bran Stark experiences the vision of the creation of Night King by Leaf, one of the Children of the Forest, by stabbing a human prisoner in the chest with a dragonglass drag knife. The leaf explains to Bran who does not believe that the Children fought with the First Man.

Merchandising

In 2012, Funko released the figure of White Walker as part of their POP! The television channel, which is a 4.5-inch vinyl figure in the Japanese super-deformation style. The company then produced a miniature Mystery Mini Blind Box from the stylish White Walker. Dark Horse released a 9-inch bust statue of White Walker in 2013, and then a 9-inch sculpture statue. In 2014, Funko released a 6.5-inch Walkerulated White Walker action (with spear accessory) as part of their HBO-licensed Legacy collection, featuring "some of the most popular characters of the series". Dark Horse produces bust King of the Night in March 2016, followed by an 8-inch Night King figure by Dark Horse Deluxe by the end of 2016. Funko also released POP "Night King"! imagine the same year.

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See also

• Themes at A Song of Ice and Fire

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References

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External links

• Landau, Neil (December 4, 2013). "Determine Mythology". Roadmap TV Showrunner: 21 Navigation Tips for Screenwriters to Create and Maintain Hit TV Serial . Press CRC. p.Ã, 229. ISBNÃ, 978-1-134-62132-3.

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