The White Death

They swept through cities and kingdoms, riding their dead horses, hunting with their packs of pale spiders big as hounds. Believed by many to be legends, they have returned and have been seen by several sworn brothers of the Night's Watch and countless wildlings, though few living south of the Wall seem to believe they still exist and are a threat. Born of powerful and untested magic, they were created to protect the Children of the Forest from the First Men, who had waged war on them ever since they had arrived from Essos. However, the White Walkers eventually broke free of the Children's control and became the most feared creatures in Westeros, posing a threat to anything living. In the darkness and cold of the Long Night, the White Walkers descended upon Westeros from the Far North, killing all in their path and reanimating the dead as wights to fight in their armies. Eventually, the people of Westeros rallied against them and, in a conflict known as the War for the Dawn, defeated the White Walkers and drove them back into the frozen North. With help from giants and the Children of the Forest, the Wall was raised to bar their return, and the Night's Watch was founded to guard it and the realms of Men should the mysterious threat ever rise again.

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The return of the Walkers was confirmed during the Great Ranging undertaken by Lord Commander. Jeor Mormont, and by an unprecedented attack by the wight army on the wildling settlement of Hardhome.

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Despite pleas for support from the Night's Watch, the rest of the Seven Kingdoms have turned a blind eye to the return of the Walkers, as they remain embroiled in their own civil war, and most do not believe that they exist or ever existed, much like Giants and Children of the Forest. They are taller than humans and have long wispy white hair and also commonly a white beard. They have pale grey- white skin which is sinewy and stretched taut across their frames, giving them a somewhat gaunt, sinewy, and mummified appearance despite their overall bulky size. White Walkers are much stronger than humans and are capable of sending large men reeling back several feet with a single blow. Their most notable trait, however, is their glowing blue eyes.

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Their number is unknown, and they are immediately distinguishable from their cohorts by icy horns around their heads, resembling a crown of ice. All those seen so far all wear black armor of uncertain material. These new White Walkers are apparently led by the Night King, the overall leader and first of the White Walkers.

The Night King possesses the power to make ordinary humans into White Walkers if he can get to them in their infancy, such as he did with Craster's last son by merely touching his cheek which turned his eyes ice blue. The Night King can also resurrect dead people as wights, as seen after the massacre at Hardhome during which he led the army of the dead surrounded by a group of White Walkers. Their arrival is usually accompanied by blizzards and the dropping of temperatures. They can also freeze anything they touch, as one froze Sam's sword to the point that it shattered.

White Walkers also have superhuman strength, as one managed to toss Samwell Tarly several feet away with a single back- handed punch. The White Walkers wield swords and spears made from unique ice crystals. They are actually capable of reviving any dead animals as wights, as a few White Walkers have been seen riding undead horses. They cannot, however, revive a corpse into servitude if the fallen creatures have died by fire. Once the Wights have been risen to serve the White Walkers, their eyes turn an icy blue, similar to the White Walkers' own eyes.

Wights can only be killed by fire or by breaking them apart, and serve the Walkers without question. Whether or not this ability extends to only this White Walker, all of the White Walkers amongst his caste, or all White Walkers in general remains to be seen. Upon being stabbed by dragonglass, a White Walker's body will begin to freeze into ice from the point at which it was stabbed, causing the Walker great pain. Finally, it will begin to fall apart, as its now icy body shatters until there is nothing left but powder. Valyrian steel has much the same effect, but works much more rapidly, shattering White Walkers with a single blow.

Valyrian steel is also capable of parrying White Walker weapons, unlike normal steel, which shatters on contact. According to Will, a renegade from the Night's Watch taken captive near Winterfell, his patrol was attacked by the White Walkers and his comrades Gared and Ser Waymar Royce were killed by them. Prior to this incident, the White Walkers had massacred a tribe of wildlings and left the corpses out as a warning. His story was not believed by Lord Eddard Stark, who executed him as a deserter. The White Walkers showed an ability to animate the corpse of a dead wildling child as a wight. They claim there is something other than the wildlings beyond the Wall and it's been growing in influence for some time. With winter coming they fear this unseen enemy will make its move.

One of them suggests taking a Stark captive for Mance Rayder, the King Beyond the Wall, but the others refuse to return north due to the dangers posed by the White Walkers. She also reveals the Walkers are nocturnal and sleep in the day and hunt at night. When her words are dismissed by Maester Luwin due to the belief the Walkers are long dead, she reveals that they were only sleeping and . Despite this Sam notes that the bodies show no signs of rot and appear in perfect condition. Later that evening one of the bodies reanimates as a wight and attempts to attack the masters. The creature is stopped when Jon discovers the creature's weakness is fire.

A worried Sam notes the weakness of the Night's Watch and if the White Walkers decide to come in force then they are in real trouble. He explains to Jon that the war in the South is of little concern in relation to the threat of the returning White Walkers. Moments later a figure with glowing blue eyes appears and takes the baby away. Then they hear a second blow, the signal for incoming wildlings, and draw their swords for battle. A third hornblast is heard, the signal for White Walkers. The three run to the Night's Watch camp but Samwell is left behind, while a blizzard envelops the entire plateau.

He seeks refuge behind a rock while a White Walker leads a vast horde of Wights. The White Walker finds Sam but for reasons unknown, ignores him, riding past him atop an undead horse and leading the horde for an invasion, emitting a screeching roar. Samwell tries to stop the white walker with his sword, but the walker shatters it and throws him aside. The walker then approaches Gilly, seeming intent on seizing baby that she is holding. Samwell, on the ground, grabs one of the dragonglass daggers that he found at the Fist of the First Men. He attacks the walker from behind, stabbing it in the shoulder.

The walker screeches in pain and quickly begins to freeze, shattering soon after. A White Walker, riding an undead horse, takes the baby to a mysterious place in the far north, and places him on an altar made of ice. Another White Walker with pointed horns on its head approaches, picks up the baby, and touches him on the face below his eye. The baby's eyes turn bright blue, similar to that of the White Walkers. Talking Smack. During the attack, Jon Snow fights one of the White Walkers, discovering their vulnerability to Valyrian steel, and kills it with his sword Longclaw, bringing him to the attention of the Night King.

The Wight army overwhelms the defenders and sends a panic through the settlement, and wildlings try to swim to the ships instead of boarding rowboats. Those that die are resurrected as Wights by the Night King.

He spies Leaf and other Children of the Forest talking amongst themselves, then looking eagerly at a captive bound to the tree. Leaf approaches and forces a Dragonglass dagger into the captive's chest. The captive screams, but does not die, instead becoming the first White Walker. Leaf tries to explain that they were at war with the First Men and were desperate.

Later, Bran is the only one in the cave awake and is anxious to warg back into the Weirwood tree. The Haunting Of Mia Moss. Unfortunately, the Night King is able to see him and grabs his arm, branding him with an icy mark.

He breaks out of the vision with a scream. The Children of the Forest try using magic projectiles and incendiaries to fend the Walkers off, but are overwhelmed.

They light a fire around the entrance which prevents the wights from entering, but the Walkers extinguish a pathway and walk through. The wights end up climbing on top of the Weirwood and dropping through the top of the cave. Meera desperately tries to get Bran out of the vision and attempts to get the frightened Hodor to carry Bran away to no avail. Meera kills the first White Walker that enters, as she fights alongside the remaining Children of the Forest to try to fend off the wights until Bran wakes up.

Wights begin to swarm the cave, killing all of the Children of the Forest except for Leaf, as Meera starts yelling at Bran to warg into Hodor. Hodor in the cave puts Bran's body on a sled and starts hauling him towards the exit at the back of the cave with Leaf and Meera, as Bran's direwolf Summer is killed attacking the wights.

As the wights are closing in on them, Leaf sacrifices herself, using magic to cause a huge explosion, buying the other three a significant amount of time. While the Three- Eyed Raven and Bran are still sharing a vision, the Night King kills the Three- Eyed Raven, and his figure within Bran's vision blows away as ashes and rags. They weren't fully revealed until the Season 2 finale, only quick shots mostly in the shadows in the premiere episode of Season 1. Freeze- frame shots of this display an early working- model design for the White Walkers, but given that it only flashed on- screen for a fraction of a second, this may never have been intended as their final appearance.