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4. The Truth About The Others

Game of Thrones Night's King White Walker
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Although it hardly featured within the episode, this was a pretty major reveal: the origins of the White Walkers!

While various theories existed about how they came into being, and history tells of an alliance between the Children of the Forest and the First Men to defeat the ice demons, it turns out that it was actually the Children who created them, in order to help fight the humans.

This is quite the shift in how we view the Walkers, given they were previously thought-of as mysterious creatures from the far North who came down and attacked the Children and the men alike. Now we know that they're a product of mankind's war with the Children, which is one of the biggest reveals about the series big bads that we've ever had.

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