We can extrapolate from there: if there are giant wights, you have to imagine they would want to ride giant mammoths, for instance. like Old Nan told Bran about in Season 1. A White Walker puts Craster’s son on an alter, the Night King touches the baby on the cheek, and the child’s eyes turn ice-blue, the same color as … Either way, both of these revelations would have felt more momentous if this episode hadn’t ended with a White Walker dragon, but they are important wight rules nonetheless.
There’s no hope in using his still-living brothers against the Night King’s dragon, because they can’t do any damage to him with the natural dragon tools they have now.If Jaime Lannister was panicking about three living dragons, everyone in Westeros should be panicking about this one evil dragon. And maybe this is how we get "Ice Spiders big as hounds!"
This is more like what we saw from the Night King in the Season 4 episode "Oathkeeper," when he converted one of Craster’s male babies by touching it on the forehead. If Viserion is a White Walker dragon that means he can only be killed with dragonglass or Valyrian steel, not simply with fire like regular wights. You guessed it: white. One of the major reasons that the Army of the Dead is so intimidating is that -- at least up until this episode -- they appeared to only be stopped by fire.Season 7 has been hinting this isn’t true, and very quietly confirmed it once Jon and his wight-capturing team make an unmentioned switch to dragonglass weapons. Another subtle rule: the zombie bear acted as we’d expect a polar bear to act, just with more mortal flesh wounds on it. Which brings us back to a White Walker dragon -- a dragon that's so enchanted it is anti-flame. But you may be wondering: Did Viserion die after Arya killed the Night King? Since the Night King went through the trouble of touching him, this could mean Viserion is actually a White Walker dragon, and not merely an undead wight (like the rest of the Night King's army). Since Jon Snow saw his first wight brought into Castle Black in Season 1, we’ve been repeatedly told that fire stops the wight enchantment. Presumably Viserion is still as resistant to piercing damage as his living brothers, making spears, arrows, and swords moot.Here’s some food for thought: if White Walkers can change any dead thing (be it human, giant, or polar bears) into a wight could Viserion transform large groups of the dead just by landing near them?
We may earn commission from the links on this page. Thanks to the main encounter with the White Walkers, the action-packed "Beyond the Wall" gave the characters their first viable option for defeating the Army of the Dead. The White Walkers were an ancient race of formerly-human ice creatures who came from the Far North of Westeros. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content on their web site. The White Walkers have a dragon now This is the moment that the Army of the Dead became the threat we’d all suspected was coming.