Seclusion. For the next 8,000 years, the White Walkers remained in seclusion in the far North, where some fans think they spent that time in some kind of slumber or hibernation. To quote another fantasy epic: “History became legend.
Craster's Keep functioned as a sanctuary for the Night's Watch, but it came at the cost of the crows having to tolerate how Craster 'married' his daughters and continuously bred children from incest. What do the White Walkers do with the babies that Craster gives them? They turn them into more White Walkers.
The White Walkers are leaders of an ice zombie horde known as "wights," seemingly intent on destroying the world of men. They come from the far North, deep beyond The Wall, but have been organized under the rule of the Night King and are making their way south to Westeros as we speak.
Why were the White Walkers sleeping for so long? After they were defeated/pushed back north they became dormant waiting for the three eyed raven's successor to be born.
According to Old Nan, the Night's King may in fact be (hold on to your small clothes) a Stark! If that isn't enough, legend has it that the Night's King was not just any Stark, he was King Brandon Stark's brother—or possibly Brandon Stark himself!
Either way, it's all down to selection bias. The White Walkers were made from men. The vast majority of humans they encounter are men or boys, and as Game of Thrones keeps reminding us, old patterns are hard to shake off. This doesn't mean we'll never see any female White Walkers in Game of Thrones.
Seclusion. For the next 8,000 years, the White Walkers remained in seclusion in the far North, where some fans think they spent that time in some kind of slumber or hibernation. To quote another fantasy epic: “History became legend.
No, the Night King is not a Targaryen.
In the books, however, the story of the Night King is slightly different. The Night King isn't the leader of the White Walkers. Instead, he's a legendary historical figure who supposedly betrayed the Night's Watch to marry a “corpse queen” and then crowned himself a king.
The Night King appears in a vision being observed by Bran and the Three-eyed Raven, where they witness him as a human being forcibly transformed into the first White Walker by the Children of the Forest by impaling him with a dragonglass dagger.
All of that changed when Bran entered the picture as the Three-Eyed Raven. This introduction gave the Night King a true motive outside the typical megalomania of Big Bads. By wiping out the Three-Eyed Raven, he would be wiping out all memories of the previous world and fully ushering in his new era.
Aside from being a symbol of death, the creation of the Night King was a way to add more history to the fictional universe. The series had the opportunity to dive deeper into the mythology of White Walkers by tying in their creation to the Children of the Forest and the First Men.
What are White Walkers? Long story short, they used to be humans and now they're ice monsters. They don't appear to speak to one another, but they do use some sort of nonverbal communication.
The First Men were destroying the sacred forests, and the Children believed they needed stronger protection. Sadly, the White Walkers turned against the Children, and became the fearsome force we've all come to know now.
As we know, White Walkers are a magical humanoid, so it seems likely that they would grow up like normal humans. But that would mean that the baby from season four probably isn't a grown-up White Walker yet, which would indicate he isn't ready to join any invading armies.
The White Walker might have recognized his cowardice as surrender and therefore let him live. It is possible that the creatures wanted more than just to kill the living. They wanted subordination.
With the help of magic, the Valyrians used dragons as a weapon of war and bonded with them. These bonds were maintained within the Valyrian bloodline by ensuring children were given a dragon egg upon birth, making the dragon imprint on the child as soon as it hatched.
"Targaryens are not immune to fire! The birth of Dany's dragons was unique, magical, wondrous, a miracle. She is called The Unburnt because she walked into the flames and lived. But her brother sure as hell wasn't immune to that molten gold."
So, when Jon saved Commander Jeor Mormont from a Wight, using his bare hand to throw a lantern across the room—he let out a scream. He was burned by the fire; he is not fireproof.
Biography. The Night's King and the Night's Queen enslaved the black brothers and performed human sacrifices. According to legend, the 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.
The terms of the pact were simple: The White Walkers would chill out in the Land of Always Winter, if the humans left them alone and vowed never to use fire magic (like dragonglass and Valyrian steel) against them again.
Since they're babies, the Night King can change them into White Walkers (his army generals) and train them as they grow up. Craster's sons were given to the White Walkers, and inturn the White Walkers protected him from wildlings and left him alone.
So the basic thrust here is that, according to fan theory, the current Starks may be descended from White Walkers, thanks to a child born of a human man and a White Walker woman known to legend as the Night's King and the Night's Queen respectively.
The revelation in this House of the Dragon episode suggests Aegon Targaryen knew about the White Walkers, and that was why he conquered Westeros in the first place.