White walkers - a separate race, inventedGeorge R. R. Martin in his book The Song of Ice and Flame. They lived in the north of Westeros behind the Great Wall. Until a certain time, people believed that these were the living dead, and in fact they are fictional fairy tale characters.
Who is it?
White walkers whose photo confirms someresemblance to man, are a separate likeness of the human race. Race refers to the humanoid, which is more than once confirmed in the book and in its screened version of the series.
The similarity is only superficial.In fact, they are somewhat higher than their prototypes (people), the skin on the face and the whole body is very light with a bluish tinge, and the hair is white. Separately, it should be said about the eyes - in the dark they glow blue.
Separately, it should be said about the magicalthe abilities that the white walkers possessed. The ability to make warriors out of dead people allowed them to quickly increase their ranks. That is why people had a custom to burn the corpses of the dead.
“Winter is close,” such a phrase was often exchanged.heroes of the book, without even thinking about its real meaning. "Dead people" are able to appear only with the arrival of cold and in the dark, and winter in the kingdom lasts a very long time.
Origin (according to the author)
George Martin explained their origins to suchway: "White walkers are sidami. According to the Celtic mythology, it is a reasonable race that lived on Earth before the advent of man, who eventually ousted them. Little by little they were almost forgotten, but mythology told about their inhuman abilities. The life of a white walker (sid) is 1.5-2 thousand years old, which makes it very different from a person. Thus, according to legends and traditions, they were presented as a deity. ”
It is from this image that the author wrote about his“Evil”, which for several thousand years has not been seen by any living person living within the limits of the wall. And all references were reduced to intimidation of small children.
Hierarchy
Раса мертвяков имеет своего повелителя, которому obeys unquestioningly. This is clearly seen during the eighth episode of the fifth season of the series, in which others attack the Stern House. At the moment when John Snow came to convince the wilderness to move behind the Wall, but he has to repel the attack of the army of others. Some time after the start of the battle, he sees a group of dead children turned into others and fighting against people. It makes a huge impression on him.
Human lore said thatthe leader of the white walkers is the Great Other, his name was forbidden to be pronounced out loud, so over time it was forgotten. Some simply called him the Lord of Darkness, the Ice Soul, the God of Night and Terror. It is he who resuscitates the dead people, turning them into vihts, ready to serve the darkness and do the will of the white walkers.
Thus, the race can be divided into three categories:
- Leader
- White Walkers.
- Vihty (ghouls).
Children
Many wonder why whitesto the walkers the babies whom Kraster constantly sacrificed to the Lord of Darkness? Since neither the author nor the scriptwriters have answered this question, we can distinguish two separate versions:
- In this way, there was a replenishment of the composition of these white walkers, loyal to their master, who turned them into their own kind.
- The walker who carried the human baby away did so for the sacrifice. And the goal is not the baby’s body, but the fact that this being is alive, it breathes and its heart beats.
History
On the pages of a book about how white appearedwalkers, Martin says in the words of old Nan: “This is the thirteenth lord commander of the Night Watch. He was not afraid of anything and that was his fault. Once, from the Wall, the Lord saw a beautiful girl with white skin, blue eyes and an icy body. He immediately fell in love with her and brought him to the Stronghold of the Night, making him his queen. Over time, the lord was transformed, began to offer sacrifices to others and changed his appearance with the advent of twilight. This continued until one of the Starks and Jaromun of the Wild overthrew his rule. Then he left the wall and disappeared into the vast expanses of the north, vowing revenge. "
That is how old Nan presented the tale to little Bran, calling the thirteenth Lord Stark from Winterfell.
Deviations from the book
According to the script written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, there are several significant deviations about walkers that are not related to the plot of Martin’s books. Here are some of them:
- In the film, Sam meets a group of ghouls on foot andon horseback The book says that the vihts are black and the walkers are white. In addition, the former do not have the intellect and are not capable of thinking, only to execute commands without question. At the end of the first season, they spread a wild circle out of the corpses (by the way, the meaning of this remains unrevealed).
- Vikhty slow and slow - frames from the film completely refute the writing. Ghouls are very fast, possess melee techniques and reasonable.
- Walkers appear only in the book "Dance with the Dragons", before this mention of them almost was not. In the series, the viewer can see them for the first time at the end of the first season.
- White walkers, whose photos were taken under daylight, refute what Martin wrote in the book. He specifically said that they appear only with the arrival of the night and hide with the dawn.
In future seasons and books, we expectThe next development of the plot related to the ghouls: a huge army of white walkers will soon reach the inhabitants of the Seven Kingdoms, moving through the Wall. That's when the great battle begins. And all the advantages are on the side of others, since most people have never even heard of their existence and are not able to stand up for themselves.
