The White Walkers are the skeletal soldiers that the Night King commands. They were created by the Children of the Forest thousands of years ago as a way of creating an army that would protect them against the First Men, who were cutting down the forest. But the scary creatures eventually broke free, and became one of the biggest threats in Westeros. On the show, there is a particular White Walker with a horned crown who is identified in supplementary material though not yet on the show as the Night's King.
In the books, the Night's King is a semi-legendary historical figure. He is said to have been the 13th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. He fell in love with a woman "with skin as white as the moon and eyes like blue stars" whose "skin was cold as ice" — i. He set himself up at the now-abandoned Nightfort along the Wall and ruled for years, allegedly committing atrocities that are still spoken of generations later, until he was taken down by an alliance between House Stark and a wildling king.
It's not at all clear whether the character on the show is the same as this legendary figure from the books — after all, one is a White Walker and one was a human — but the connection is certainly suggested. But for the record, there is nothing frivolous about it. The entire fate of humanity may hinge on understanding the Others.
The legends say the Others have not been seen for about 8, years. For context, the earliest surviving specimens of Sumerian writing are less than 5, years old. Consequently, sensible people of Westeros — and not just villains — do not believe they exist. In the first book, Ned Stark tells his wife that "the Others are as dead as the Children of the Forest, gone eight thousand years. Maester Luwin will tell you they never lived at all.
In other words, the conventional wisdom in the North among people who identify with the First Men, support the Night's Watch, and worship the Old Gods is that there are no Others anymore. But among educated, sophisticated people like Maester Luwin, the conventional wisdom is that they never existed at all. The exception to this rule is Stannis Baratheon, whose relationship with the Red Priestess Melisandre and the legend of Azor Ahai leads him to take warnings from the Night's Watch more seriously.
In the books, Azor Ahai is a legendary figure out of the religious pantheon associated with R'hllor deriving from the city of Asshai in Essos. The legend of Azor Ahai does not specifically mention the Others, but does appear to be set in a version of the Long Night. He is said to have lived in a time of great darkness that he fought against with his magical sword, Lightbringer. Followers of R'hllor believe in "the Prince That Was Promised" — essentially a second coming of Azor Ahai who will once again save the world from disaster.
In both the shows and the books, Melisandre claims to believe Stannis Baratheon is the Prince That Was Promised reborn, and also seems to identify this mythology with the Last Hero and the struggle against the Others. One of the scariest abilities White Walkers have, like we mention above, is the power to create creatures known as wights.
Wights are reanimated corpses, like zombies, who are under the control of the White Walkers. The physical condition of the wight depends on what their body looks like when they're turned. So if a body has been dead for months and a White Walker turns it, it's going to be bony and decayed like in the GIF above.
At the end of season five's "Hardhome" episode, the Night's King turns an entire village of Wildlings including this Pitch Perfect star into wights. Since they're all newly dead, they retain their mostly human appearance. The big physical difference is that no matter what color eyes the person had while they were living, all wights have glowing blue eyes to match the White Walkers'. The only way to destroy a wight is to burn it or stab it with dragonglass , which is why Wildlings burn their dead.
These guys are also bad news. There are a small number of White Walkers, and they possess terrifying powers. In the latest showdown, the Night King surrounded Jon and his companions in "Beyond the Wall," and we watched as a flurry of wights were killed by the small group of men.
But one thing that might not be clear to all show-only fans is the difference between the White Walkers and their undead army. White Walkers, also known as Others in the books, are not dead but instead are a sort of magical humanoid life form. On the show, we know they were created from men thanks to a flashback Bran had showing the Children of the Forest making the Night King by plunging a dragonglass dagger into his heart.
The White Walkers definitely have a language, though the showrunners have said we'll never hear the Night King speak. Here's how George R. Martin described them in the prologue of the series' first book, "A Game of Thrones," from a character named Will's point of view:. Tall, it was, and gaunt and hard as old bones, with flesh pale as milk The Other slid forward on silent feet Will saw its eyes; blue, deeper and bluer than any human's eyes, a blue that burned like ice The Other said something in a language that Will did not know; his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking.
So we know several key things.
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