Game Of Thrones: 15 Plot Threads The Show Totally Abandoned

10. The White Walkers Spirals

Game of Thrones Last Hearth White Walker Symbol
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The White Walkers' sudden defeat in The Long Night was one of the more jarring elements of Season 8, with the show dispensing with them quickly after such long build-up over the years.

While we learned this season - vaguely - what the Night King wanted, there was still a lot left in the shards of ice and piles of bodies that followed the Battle of Winterfell.

Who was the Night King? What prompted the White Walkers to start marching south in the first place? And biggest of all, were those spirals simply a calling card, an FU to the Children of the Forest, or something with a much deeper significance?

Perhaps the prequel will shed some light.

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