my white walker theory; excuse if its been discussed before

[CrannogXninja]

Old Nan refers to them as White Walkers.

Has anyone ever brought up the fact that the name could have been lost in translation over time?

Mayhaps last time thousands of years ago, they were around they were referred to as WIGHT walkers, not white walkers? Could this be something Sam will find in the library at the Citadel???

Maybe were a group of wildlings/people that would warg other humans, possibly mastering it and using OTHER forms of magic and being able to combine both magic and warging to make the dead rise and control them?

Maybe Coldhands is simply an outcast Other\WW'er who doesnt agree with his clans actions?

which, if i am right....

means Bran could very well turn into an Other if he keeps warging Hodor?

ps to all you morons who said Howland Reed isn't a ninja bc he fights guerilla warfare style with nets and poisoned arrows, DO YOU KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT NINJAS? bc that's how they fight. HREEDs going to be master killer, mark my words. Hell be the equivalent of Hoyce Gracie in UFC early days, a little guy with an unusual fighting style that no one trains for.

This could explain the Citadel's hatred of magic and Haggors view of warging into another human as an abomination, because of what you could turn into (an othor). The white/wight Walkers and their physical bodies are the results of warging into other people over generations.

[CrannogXninja]

anybody?

plz

[Shadrich]

I think white walkers/others were clearly enough identified as being different from the wights.

I doubt others are skinchanging (warging is only for wolves) into wights, I think it is more similar to magic of R'hlor (resurrection), and then they control them with magic.

ps to all you morons who said Howland Reed isn't a ninja bc he fights guerilla warfare style with nets and poisoned arrows, DO YOU KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT NINJAS? bc that's how they fight. HREEDs going to be master killer, mark my words. Hell be the equivalent of Hoyce Gracie in UFC early days, a little guy with an unusual fighting style that no one trains for.

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[jentario]

Interesting. What is their motive, though?

[protar]

I think it's been bought up before that Others could warg Wights (and that by extension BR may be warging CHs) but I've never seen that particular etymological line of argument before.

[CrannogXninja]

i know the WWers are different than wights, what im implying is the WWers can control the wights, hence perhaps being called "wight Walkers".

their purpose? kill, and take over, I dont really know.

[Shadrich]

i know the WWers are different than wights, what im implying is the WWers can control the wights, hence perhaps being called "wight Walkers".

their purpose? kill, and take over, I dont really know.

Oh. Sorry, now I see your point :P

Yeah, Whites are most likely controlled by Wight(e) Walkers. Good call yo.

[Atroksia]

Interesting theory, imo. At least that's a theory I might wish to turn out to be true, hah. But maybe (and tbh that's what I fear) we'll never really get to know where the WWers came from, what made them what they are, if they always been what they are, if they're really the creatures of the counterpart of R'hllor, if... and so on.

[Wade Stark]

Maybe they are the Wight Wakers :huh:

[CrannogXninja]

mayhaps....

centuries their main rivals were the COTF. The COTF's magic could keep them at bay, at least force a stalemate where neither side has an advantage...

Men come. chop down weirwood trees, weakening the COTFs magic. WWers attack but the men hold them back with dragonglass, prompting the early Maesters to fully embrace technology and regard magic n evil (WWers use magic, are evil, therefor the citadel does not want to lower to their level and uses other methods)

WWers hibernate, or hide, knowing men will decimate the COTF, and have a better chance against men than they do vs tge magic of the COTF. WWers play the long game, like the sith taking 2,000 years of hiding to reemerge vs the jedi in star wars.

[utecifa]

I have read a theory once that would tie somewhat into yours.

That one was that the Wights are the real evil and antagonists and they right now are in the process of controlling The Others, not the other way around as has been presented thus far. This would help explain some of the thoughts and foreshadowing of a prior Other/Stark connection without calling into question why the probable protagonist family was in bed with the supposed antagonists. Because they really aren't, the antagonists.

I'm not sure I buy that theory though. But it is one of the many theories on this story I have read, and I remembered it while reading your post. I think it would somewhat tie into what you have presented here.

[CrannogXninja]

I believe the Wight walkers (i am forever calling them that now) control the wights. I just dont see the wights as in control of the wight walkers..