

His corpse was brought back from beyond the Wall, but that night Othor came back as a wight and tried to kill Mormont. Lord Commander Mormont was attacked on the show and in the novels by a dead member of the Night’s Watch, Othor. What is still not clear though is how close a White Walker has to physically be to make a dead man rise, or if there is a way to delay when it happens. Until the latest episode “Beyond the Wall,” it wasn’t clear if all White Walkers could raise the dead or just the Night King (a character not yet introduced in the novels), but it seems to be a power they all have now that it looks like their “own” wights also die (un-die? re-die?) when they are killed. These zombie-like creatures are known as wights, and they come in all shapes, sizes, and degrees of decomposition. They are gaunt with blue eyes, a trait they share with the reanimated corpses they raise to be soldiers in their army of the dead. The White Walkers (known as the Others in the books) are a pale, icy humanoid species from the furthest reaches north of the Wall, in the Lands of Always Winter. But the two have overlapped on some of the most important matters.
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The White Walkers are one of the few topics where the show has given us way more information than the novels-even though this was only the 11th appearance for them in the TV series-and that was true long before Game of Thrones surpassed the books. So to try and understand the awesome, terrifying powers of the ice-demons from beyond the Wall, as well as what the Night King might really be capable of, we’re looking at everything we know about the White Walkers and their leader, from both the novels and the show (including this most recent, dragon-killing episode).
WHITE WALKERS GAME OF THRONES SERIES
We covered the first Long Night in our History of Thrones series last year, but now we’re really (REALLY) worried about the present. Hmm, I kinda like how creepy I look.We hate to engage in hyperbole, but it might be time to start taking the Night King seriously, because killing a dragon with a magic ice javelin and recruiting it into his army of the dead is what you would call a real (blue) eye opener. Once you open up, your screen will get wintry, your eyes will turn dead-blue, and icy mists puff out from your mouth. (This destroyed my hopes of turning my cat Tango into a White Walker as she wouldn't yawn on command.) If you take a regular selfie with the filter, click on your face to activate (all while the "Game of Thrones" theme music plays) and you'll be told to open your mouth. Once you unlock the filter, the clock is ticking on your hour of use, so don't dawdle at taking those Snaps. To get the special White Walker hidden filter, click this link on your phone. Now the HBO hit is letting Snapchat users turn themselves into these icy undead - but only for an hour. (Let's hope this doesn't really happen to Tyrion Lannister.) " Game of Thrones" recently gave Twitter users emoji to unlock a batch of posters showing its stars transformed by the eerie blue eyes of a White Walker. Always thought I'd be House Stark, but maybe joining the White Walkers has its privileges.
