AS SEEN ON TV: WHITE WALKER

A WHITE WALKER

AS SEEN IN:

'Game Of Thrones'

CREATED BY:

George R.R. Martin

PORTRAYED BY:

Ross Mullan

TV STATUS:

Generic name, one of many

TV DIMENSION:

The main TV Universe, the Planet Mondas

From the 'Game Of Thrones' wiki:

The White Walkers, referred to as the Others in the books, are a mythological race mentioned in ancient legends and stories from the time of the First Men and the Children of the Forest. Eight thousand years before Robert's Rebellion, a winter known as the Long Night lasted a generation. In the darkness and cold of the Long Night, the White Walkers descended upon Westeros from the farthest north, the polar regions of the Lands of Always Winter. None knew why they came, but they killed all in their path, reanimating the dead as wights to kill the living at their command. Eventually the peoples of Westeros rallied and in a conflict known as the War for the Dawn, the White Walkers were defeated and driven back into the uttermost north, with the Wall raised to bar their return. In the present day, most believe they never existed and are just the stuff of legends, and even the few who believe they did once exist think they went extinct thousands of years ago. Certainly, none has been seen for thousands of years.

While held as myths and spoken of in the same breath as ghosts, goblins, "Grumkins and Snarks", there is a growing belief amongst the wildlings who live beyond the Wall that the White Walkers have returned.

"In that darkness the White Walkers came for the first time.

They swept through cities and kingdoms, riding their dead horses,

hunting with their packs of pale spiders big as hounds."

Old Nan

BCnU!