hey Collider fans this is John Rocha with a special assist from Katyi Burt on
another Game of Thrones video. This past Sunday's episode of Game of Thrones gave
us all some time with each of the characters at Winterfell as they reunite
put away old grudges and prep for the upcoming battle with the White Walkers
well speaking of the White Walkers before they take out some of our
favorite heroes let's get a quick refresher on these ancient terrifying
mummy like antagonists with their ice zombie army the White Walkers are
leaders of a nice zombie horde known as whites seemingly intent on destroying
the world of men they come from the far north deep beyond the wall and I've been
organized under the rule of the night King the White Walkers were created by
the children of the forest thousands of years ago as a form of protection
against the first men who are cutting their sacred trees and slaughtering
their tribe seems like an extreme reaction but ok the White Walkers were
originally first men themselves before being captured by the children of the
forest to be changed into weapons the children of the forest oppressed
dragonglass daggers into the chests of these first men to create the first
White Walkers eventually the White Walkers rebelled from their lives of
forced war making and decided to make war in their own terms attacking the
Living indiscriminately and becoming the most feared creatures in all of Westeros
creatures like tend to rebel when you try to control them so like this is not
a surprise here ballet I mean have you seen the Blade Runner as I mentioned
earlier the White Walkers are led by the knight King the most recognizable of
this frozen crew although ice dragon Vissarion and the
white Walker dude with the beard is getting to be pretty recognizable to
fans as well the night King was the first of the white walkers he was one of
the first men before he was turned into something else by the children of the
forest he has the power to turn human infants into white walkers as we saw
with caster's sons who were given as sacrifices to the knight king in return
for casters and his broods safety I mean little babies man come on he is
responsible for Danny's dragon Viserion being raised from the dead as well and
wrote him while destroying the wall last season as I said earlier I'm sure
they're probably pretty mad about that enforced slavery thing also they were
created with the singular purpose war using untested magic as the instrument
in other words the children of the forest were just kind of desperately
winging they were playing with fire or in this
case ice and most definitely got burnt now they're getting everyone else burned
too okay that's enough about fire we'll get to beric Dondarrion and his fire
sword in a minute perhaps given their origins the White Walkers are incapable
of wanting anything other than to conquer or maybe they're just really
angry frankly this is the children of the forest fault though it seems like a
low blow to HAARP too much on this point given that most of them are dead
many of the hands the White Walkers themselves here's a lesson for you
scientists maybe don't create things that you can't control just because you
can see AI robots anyways roughly eight thousand years ago during the longest
winter in recorded history it lasted an entire generation the White Walkers
struck Westeros it was not good but eventually the people of Westeros joined
forces and with the help of the children of the forest and the Giants drove the
White Walkers back into the north the wall was built to keep the zombie horde
at bay and the Nights Watch took their first pledge since then
the White Walkers have faded in a fairy tale and most people in the world of men
think they're simply a scary story made up to keep children in check
although this season that has definitely changed so how are the White Walkers
just like us well we know they speak a language called scrub which author
george RR martin describes as sounding like the cracking of ice there was a
white walker ruling class that usually has crown like horns of ice and
sometimes wears black armor Melisandre claims the White Walkers worship a God
called the great other who was basically the Lord of lights enemy hmm I wonder if
that is going to come into play down the road here remember that Melisandre told
Varys that she has to return one last time and that she has to die in this
strange country there is a part yet for her to play here and it may have to do
with beric Dondarrion and his flaming sword battling this great other told you
we'd get to him also remember that brand revealed that
the night king wants to destroy him because he holds all of the history of
man the night King has evidently tried to come for other three-eyed Ravens for
the same reason but now that he has marked Brant it seems clear that the
White Walkers want to destroy any remaining semblance of the living and
their world there was also a theory on reddit growing in acceptance that in
order to kill the nigh King you'll have to kill brand as well the death of the
night King and the three-eyed Raven also fits into the death of magic narrative
that many people are now starting to embrace as the end result of this season
so powers magic or otherwise do these White
Walkers possess well they are super strong and also seem to have some sort
of abilities to manipulate the weather a la x-men's storm maybe that's why your
hair is always so white they usually appear accompanied by a blizzard and
dropping temperatures White Walkers have the ability to freeze anything they
touch as we saw in season two when a white Walker froze Sam sword to the
shattering point perhaps most terrifyingly the White Walkers are able
to reanimate corpses of fallen men or women
cue the Lady Stoneheart storyline from the books that has yet to be seen on the
show and turned them into whites wildlings have taken to burning their
corpses to prevent them from being added to the White Walkers increasingly
massive army that may come into play as well this season the knight King in
particular has demonstrated further power with his aforementioned ability to
turn human infants into White Walkers again babies man he can turn hundreds of
corpses into whites with the raising of his arms can cause fissures in the
ground and mark a person for pursuit as he did with Brant in season six oh and
he can also reanimate dead creatures like dragons and Giants and bears oh my
ok the big question can the White Walkers be killed yeah but it ain't easy
as Sam discovered in a terrifying way White Walkers are vulnerable two blades
made from dragon glass or Valyrian steel see our previous video on the importance
of Valyrian steel Jon Snow uses his Valyrian steel sword Longclaw to take
out a white Walker at the Battle of hardhome in season 5 unfortunately the
art of forging Valyrian steel has been lost which means there are a limited
number of Valyrian swords left in the world but kendry is trying to make up
for that with his abilities to create some damn cool dragon glass weapons
unlike whites it is much harder to burn a white Walker because they are so cold
though there is speculation that Dragon Fire might do the trick the big shortcut
we saw in season 7 episode beyond the wall was that when a white Walker falls
the whites they resurrected lose their mobility mojo so does this mean if the
night King dies all the white walkers die with him or just the ones he
resurrected we shall see soon perhaps final question are the White Walkers
going to kill everyone in Westeros probably so I hope you enjoyed the
moments you got in a night of the Seven Kingdoms with the cast because it just
might be the last weekend with them okay that's our refresher on the White
Walkers night King and everything frozen in between I hope you enjoyed this video
and you're getting emotionally ready this week to handle
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