Ok, the White Walkers may be one of the most terrifying creatures to ever roam our television sets but a Game of Throne fan has actually come up with a very plausible theory that we’ve got them all wrong.
Season eight of the fantasy epic is going to be defined by the enormous battle between the living and the dead. We know next to nothing, but we know that – it is a stone cold fact, whether we’re ready for it or not.
One Reddit user, u/lobcity414, compared the houses of the Seven Kingdoms to the Seven Deadly Sins to offload how ‘corrupt people in this world have become’, with House Tyrell representing Greed, Baratheon Rage, Targaryen Envy, Martell Gluttony, Frey Sloth, Stark Pride, and Lannister Lust.
So where do the white army fit in?
‘The most powerful families in the world all encompass the deadliest sins imaginable according to many forms of classic literature,’ they write. ‘Analysing more Biblical symbolism I think the White Walkers could best be described as the flood in the story of Noah’s ark.
‘If you’re not familiar with it, the story in the Bible book of Genesis goes that God saw that human beings were far too corrupt and beyond saving, so he sent a flood to wipe out everything on earth (except of course for Noah, his family and the animals they brought with them on their big ass boat).
‘Perhaps the White Walkers are building up their army now because they have a mission from higher powers to wipe out mankind.’
Let’s face it, stranger things have happened in Westeros.
They go on: ‘I believe that the White Walkers aren’t the overarching bad guys, they’re a force sent by the old gods in Westeros who see that people have become too corrupt and they need to start anew.
‘Even GoT Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss describe The Night King, saying that he’s not really a force for good or evil, “He’s just a force of destruction” much like the biblical flood.
‘This show is known more than any other for subverting expectations and what a subversion it would be if the beings we believed to be the bad guys through the show up to this point were actually sent on a mission by the old gods who don’t like what men have become?’
It’s pretty out there, but we like it. Alternatively, though, another fan suggested the dead could be the catalyst for the houses to abandon their sinful traits.
‘Daenerys stops [pursuing] the throne and rather fight the White Walkers’ predicts u/Me66. ‘Jon forgoes his pride and takes the knee under Danny. Tyrion gives up his lustful ways and dedicates himself to service of Danny. Arya gives up her quest for pride and vengeance and allies with Jaime.
‘Jaime gives up the love of his life and source of lust to do some good in the North. Theon gets off his ass and does something.’
All will be revealed when Game of Thrones return to Sky Atlantic and HBO in April 2019.
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