I’m confident (read: hopeful) that the Night King and his army will fall with a good chinch of season remaining. He’s the boogie man, but not the real evil of the story. The human element is so much more compelling and I think the show would be much better served to spend time in a “post-winter” Westeros to see how that would play out. It would be pretty dissatisfying if the last shot is dragon glass to the heart of the night king, he explodes into a million pieces of sand and we fade to black.
Who is your money on?
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The spiral/circle symbol has been running throughout the series.
In the very first episode, during the cold open, we see wildling body parts arranged in a circular pattern created by the whitewalkers.
In Season 3 Manse and Jon stumble upon a spiral made of horse parts and manse says “always the artists”, referencing the walkers.
Season 6, Bran “looks” into the past before Hodor’s death scene, we see the Children creating the first whitewalker under the Weirwood tree. The arial view of the tree shows its surrounded by stones in the spiral pattern.
Season 7 when Jon and Dany are in the caves, the drawings of the Children on the walls show lots of symbols and shapes, including whitewalkers and the circle/spiral again.
I’m sure there are more. I googled these since I’m not always 100% sure what the hell’s going on in that show, but hope this helps.
What if the Night King is a Targaryen?
He would have a claim to the throne, and presumably a really good one, considering he's much, much older than Jon or Dany.
Also, only Targaryens can ride dragons, and there's footage the Night King riding the reanimated dragon Viserion.
Notice the similarity in the the fire circle and the Targaryens sigel.
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The theory is that he hired one of them face changers from Braavos to take the fall for him. I’m just saying that’s why there’s votes for him to win the throne.
About as much sense as someone volunteering to engage in trial by combat for someone else.
But never thought of the faceless people being there instead of him. I am not going to outright dismiss that theory, and here’s why. He has always shown himself to be cunning. Is it possible that he convinced, paid, or whatever, a Faceless Assassin to kill someone in that room, realizing they might be killed instead, but the Faceless person he sent didn’t realize the turn of events that would happen. That is plausible, in my opinion. Long sentence. sorry. In short, could Littlefinger have convinced someone to take his place to kill someone, knowing the would be assassin might be killed instead. The assassin might not have been volunteering to die, but only volunteering to kill with his face on, only to have the tables turned on him unexpectedly?Well, the case for that was clearly laid out, as the Prince of Dorne was avenging his sister. And he wasn’t walking into certain death (wouldn’t have been death at all if it wasn’t for pride / arrogance). What point would there be in taking money to kill yourself? It’s just bogus fan theory. There are thousands of them out there....and it’s hard to believe and tie up all the loose ends for about 99% of them.
But never thought of the faceless people being there instead of him. I am not going to outright dismiss that theory, and here’s why. He has always shown himself to be cunning. Is it possible that he convinced, paid, or whatever, a Faceless Assassin to kill someone in that room, realizing they might be killed instead, but the Faceless person he sent didn’t realize the turn of events that would happen. That is plausible, in my opinion. Long sentence. sorry. In short, could Littlefinger have convinced someone to take his place to kill someone, knowing the would be assassin might be killed instead. The assassin might not have been volunteering to die, but only volunteering to kill with his face on, only to have the tables turned on him unexpectedly?