Game Of Thrones: 6 Reasons Why Valyrian Steel And The Night's King Matter
3. Who Was The Nights King?
The White Walkers arrived in Westeros during a time known as the Age of Heroes, approximately 8,000 years before the timeline of the show starts. This was when the Long Night started, signalling the longest and coldest winter seen in Westeros - and heralding the arrival of the Others from the Land of Always Winter. They marched down on Westeros, killing those in their path and raising armies of the dead. The First Men (the first humans to settle in Westeros) and the Children of the Forest (who appear in Brans storyline) united, armed with dragonglass, to push the Others back, thus leading to the building of The Wall and the establishment of the Nights Watch. The 13th Lord Commander of the Nights Watch is said to have found and fallen in love with a woman beyond The Wall, who had skin as white as the moon and eyes like blue stars. He took her back to the Nightfort (a castle on The Wall, akin to what Castle Black is now), and declared himself the Nights King and her the Queen, and this unholy union conducted a reign of terror over the Watch for 13 years (one of the atrocities theyre believed to have committed is the sacrifice of children to the Others). It took a combination of The King-Beyond-The-Wall and The King of the North to defeat him and restore order to the Nights Watch.
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