What was the point of the babies in Game of Thrones?

The babies in Game of Thrones, specifically Craster's sons, were given to the White Walkers (Others) as tribute to ensure Craster's survival, and the Night King transformed them into new, sentient White Walkers, serving as commanders or future leaders for his army, rather than just mindless wights. They represented the White Walkers' method of propagation, growing into their own kind and expanding their forces beyond mere reanimated corpses, adding a deeper threat beyond just a massive undead army.

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What was the point of turning babies into White Walkers?

The White Walkers turned Craster's sons into baby White Walkers, revealing their plan to spread their kind throughout Westeros. The White Walker subplot in Game of Thrones was a red herring, diverting attention from the main plot and ultimately wasted in its execution.

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What was the Night King doing with the babies?

The Night King could turn male human babies into White Walkers by pressing the tip of his finger to the baby's cheek. The child's skin would begin to pale and its eyes would turn the same blue as the other White Walkers. The Night King could raise and reanimate unburnt corpses as wights.

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What were the babies for in Game of Thrones?

The Craster's Babies Subplot Didn't Go Anywhere

Though the question of what did the White Walkers do with the babies seems to have been answered with the revelation that they turn them into new White Walkers, the whole subplot proved pointless by the end of Game of Thrones.

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Why did Jon switch Gilly's baby?

However, Jon Snow, the new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, has swapped Gilly's son with Dalla's. This is done to spare the innocent child from Melisandre's flames on account of his king's blood, leaving Gilly's son at the Wall.

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What The White Walkers Do With The Babies EXPLAINED..

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Why did Drogon spare Jon Snow?

Game of Thrones' Drogon chose not to kill Jon Snow because of his Targaryen blood, his love for Daenerys, and Drogon's possible understanding that while Jon committed the act, he wasn't the reason for Daenerys' death at the end of Game of Thrones'.

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Did the baby become a White Walker?

Game of Thrones: Season 4

The baby becomes a White Walker. After being told by Morag that the baby will be a sacrifice for "the gods", Karl orders Rast to leave the baby in the woods for the White Walkers to seize him.

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Are Cersei's kids really Jaime's?

Robert took the Throne with the help of the Lannisters when he ended the Targaryen dynasty. Cersei has been involved in an incestuous affair with her twin brother, Jaime, since childhood. All three of Cersei's children are Jaime's, unbeknownst to Robert.

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How do White Walkers reproduce?

While these ideas in the pitch memo were tentative, they do seem to fit with what was revealed in Season 4 of the TV series - implying that the White Walkers are actually never "born", do not reproduce biologically as their own independent race, but "reproduce" by turning select humans into new White Walkers.

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Who was the night king before he was turned?

According to legend, Night's King was originally a Lord Commander of the Night's Watch who found in the Haunted Forest a cold woman with bright blue eyes, seemingly a female White Walker.

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Why do White Walkers ignore Sam?

White Walkers had no use for adding someone to their armies whose primary talent is reading. The quest is to destroy the memory of humans, not preserve it. They looked over Sam and decided he posed no threat because they assessed him to unprepared to survive on his own.

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Was the Night King a Targaryen?

No, The Night King was created by the Children of the Forest, not born of Targaryen blood.

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Do baby White Walkers grow up?

It's implied the Night King was turning them in to White Walkers, but he's turning babies and the only White Walkers we see are adults! The babies that get turned still grow. They eventually become the higher up white walkers.

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Why did children create Night King?

In the books, the Night's King is a human who fell in love with a white-skinned creature and declared themselves king and queen before being defeated by the Night's Watch. Game of Thrones did reveal that the Children of the Forest created the White Walkers to fight off the First Men.

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Why can't babies go in walkers?

Baby walkers can be dangerous because babies can: move quickly so they may fall down steps or run into things ■ reach dangerous things like hot drinks ■ pull heavy things onto themselves, like TVs.

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Where were the White Walkers for 1000 years?

Where have the White Walkers been for the last 1000 years? They were in "The Land of always Winter", beyond the Wall, probably raising the army of dead. However some characters have at times mentioned that they might have been hibernating for the 1000 years they've been considered dead.

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Why can't White Walkers cross water?

It would make logical sense the Walkers can not handle the water however, as they are very cold, and appear to emanate lower temperatures they might freeze the water around them and become stuck.

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Do female White Walkers exist?

There were no female White Walkers ever seen in Game of Thrones but, based on a story from the books, there could have been a Night's Queen. That's just as well, saved her the indignity of a silly death in the final season.

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Who is the strongest White Walker?

He is depicted as the leader and the first of the White Walkers, having existed since the age of the First Men, and is the most dangerous and powerful of his race. The Night King is an original creation of the television adaptation, thus far having no counterpart in the novels upon which the show is based.

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What mental disorder does Cersei have?

#3 Cersei Lannister (Alcoholism)

The Queen of the Seven Kingdoms is also the undisputed “queen of wine.” The excessive consumption of alcohol often leads to physical and psychological addiction, and Cersei definitely fits the bill in both categories.

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Does Joffrey know Jamie is his dad?

While the show hinted at Joffrey's suspicions, there was never a definitive confirmation that he knew Jaime Lannister was his biological father instead of Robert Baratheon.

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Who is the stupidest Lannister?

Cersei calls Jaime the stupidest Lannister.

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Why was Sam not killed by Night King?

The White Walkers spared Sam in Game of Thrones because they saw him as a useful messenger to spread fear and inform the Night's Watch about their undead army.

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Are White Walkers human?

White Walkers are humanoid creatures from the HBO television series Game of Thrones, and the George R. R. Martin novel series A Song of Ice and Fire on which it is based. Primarily referred to as the Others in the novels, White Walkers are a supernatural threat to mankind who dwell north of The Wall in Westeros.

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Why are there White Walkers?

There were many conflicts and tensions between the Children of the Forest and humans, especially with the First Men, and in order to be able to defend themselves, the Children of the Forest created the White Walks, a race of ice creatures, as a weapon to fight the First Men, who are human settlers who came to Westeros ...

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