Game of
thrones thrives on complex characters. Many a times it becomes difficult for
the viewer to decide who the bad guy is. But since season 1, there is one
existence that has always been portrayed as the big bad – Night king and the
white walkers.
Thousands of
years ago, first men came to Westeros from Essos and inhabited it. They began
cutting down trees to form establishments. However, it didn’t go well with the
original inhabitants of Westeros. The children of the forest worshipped these
trees and couldn’t stand by, as the first men mercilessly destroyed them. This
led to an open war between the two species.
As the war
dragged on, children of the forest began losing and realized that they needed a
weapon against their fight with the first men. In their desperations to prevent
the Weirwoods trees and their species from becoming extinct, they created the
first white walker. The aim of this first white walker was to fend of humanity
and save nature. But along the road, something happened and the white walkers
went rogue, destroying everything in their path and bringing the long night
with them. Soon they were unstoppable. Everyone believed the end of the world
is evident.
Then, a hero
emerged. Various legends speak of a hero that rose and defeated the Night king
and the white walkers and brought dawn to the world. There are several accounts
of this hero that differ from each other and after 8000 years later, all that
is left of him and the long night is a myth. No one knows what actually
happened or who this hero was.
But what if
the people who did know what happened and who this hero was left clues about
the truth? The people being the children of the forest and the first men?
In episode 4
of season 7, Jon and Daenerys descended down to the cave below Dragonstone and
saw symbols and drawing made by the children of the forest during or after the
long night. Most people thought that they were random symbols, whose
significance we might see in future or that they were just a way to show Dany
that the children of the forest and the first men fought the white walkers
together. But what if there were some huge hints in this cave that we all
missed at first glance?
1)
The identity of the legendary hero
revealed!?
When we saw Jon showing Dany the drawings of first men and the children
of the forest, we believed it was just random drawings showing how they both
joined hands. But on a closer examination, we found the shocking revelation
that the identity of the hero might have been given away. And it is not what
most people think.
Notice how the leftmost man is holding the weapon which is presumably a dragon
glass dagger in his left hand while the other two are wielding it in their
right?
Now look closely on the right hand of the left most man. See a line
between the hand and the arm? And how the hand itself looks a little weird?
Like a prosthetic hand has been attached to his right arm? Doesn’t it sound a
lot like someone we know? In our previous blog, we showed how there are
numerous hints that can be used to predict that Jamie Lannister is going to be
the prophesied hero and how Azor Ahai actually means “golden hand”
Now think about it. If Azor Ahai was “golden hand” then that would mean he
would have had a fake golden hand originally, right? Well this drawing of the
first men proves just that. This confirms Azor Ahai reborn is in fact going to
be Jamie Lannister. Check out the link to our previous post where we showed how the
prophecy refers to Jamie Lannister. And now this confirms that.
2)
The Night King that we know is not
the original Night King!?
When we looked at the drawing of the white walkers in the cave below Dragonstone,
we were surprised to see how detailed they were. From sunken bodies to blue
eyes to the detailed crown of the Night king. On second glance though, we found
another detail that didn’t made sense at all.
The normal white walkers looked exactly like the ones we have seen. With
some long strands of white hair and short beard and all but the Night King
himself had a shocking difference from the one we have seen.
Notice the unnaturally long beard the Night king has? The Night king we
have seen doesn’t have a single strand of hair on his face. Then why would the
children of the forest, who went into so much detail in their drawings, make
such a stupid mistake?
Because it is not a mistake and the Night king that they fought had a
long beard after all. This would suggest a game changing reveal that the Night
king that is bringing the long night 8000 years later is in fact someone else
and not the same king who led the white walkers 8000 years ago.
This theory is also supported by the fact that in the legend it is said
that the hero defeated the Night king and brought dawn to the world. If the
original Night king hadn’t perished back then, the long night would not have
ended. And it is also curious that the white walkers decided to start showing
up after 8000 years ago. It is also
curious that the white walkers decided to show up around the time when the supposedly
prophesied hero had been born. But what could this mean to the story? Who is
this new night king? And why did he decide to show up now?
Stay tuned so that you wouldn’t miss it when we try to find the answer to
these question in our upcoming blogs.
Original work by - Revealing Identity
Original work by - Revealing Identity
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