#WHITE WALKERS GAME OF THRONES HOW TO#
Swords made of Valyrian steel (which are forged with dragon fire, according to legend) can kill them.īut given that dragons were extinct for thousands of years and the Valyrian Freehold is no more, there's a finite amount of Valyrian steel and people who know how to work with it. But White Walkers seem to be able to walk through it unscathed. We know what won't work: Regular steel swords won't kill either White Walkers or Wights.įire does work on wights, who are very flammable. It's not clear why or when that happened. But along the way, the White Walkers turned on both the Children of the Forest and the First Men. So they kidnapped one and plunged a dagger made of dragonglass into his heart, creating the very first White Walker, a race intended to protect them from the First Men. But the indigenous people (a magical group known as the Children of the Forest, who look like little Jolly Green Giants) saw them as a threat. He was one of the First Men, the original group of human settlers in Westeros thousands of years ago. Other White Walkers in armor appear to be his generals and have been seen leading packs of wights. The Night King, who wears armor and an ice crown.
Benjen Stark, uncle to the Stark children, said a White Walker tried to turn him by stabbing him with dragonglass. It's not clear if the other White Walkers have this same power, but it appears the ones in armor might be capable of creating wights. We know the Night King can resurrect thousands of dead people at once just by raising his arms. (Which makes us wonder, is there a Hogwart's for White Walkers?) But we don't know what happens to them between their infancy and adulthood. Remember Craster, the nasty wilding who let the Night's Watch crash at his place in exchange for not asking questions about where all his sons went? He left them in the woods as sacrifices to the White Walkers, who picked them up and took them to the Night King (more about him later), who converted the babies with the touch of his finger, turning their eyes ice-blue. Male infants are turned into White Walkers. They also behave like stereotypical zombies, either trudging slowly through the snow or descending on their victims in droves (for instance, Hodor).Īny dead creature can be turned into a wight: We've seen wight horses, wight giants and as of the penultimate episode of Season 7, polar bears and dragons. Wights tend to look like skeletons or zombies, with the latter often possessing the trademark blue eyes. They are often on horses, carry ice spears and sometimes wear armor. Many look like aging hippies with long white hear and beards.
White Walkers have the tell-tale ice-blue eyes and look like people with no skin, just muscle. How can I tell White Walkers from wights? Their other name, the army of the dead, is a helpful way of understanding the distinction: The White Walkers are the officers and the wights are foot soldiers. The White Walkers are actually two groups: White Walkers proper and wights. More: Want exclusive 'Game of Thrones' content delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our 'Game of Thrones' newsletter (See, we just saved you a weekend of binge-watching and Googling.)
But what are they, where did they come from and what do they want? And why are some of them skeletons and others zombies? Much has been made of the threat posed by White Walkers, the undead villains of Game of Thrones.
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