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will the others have some sort of general or leader in future?


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tolkein's witch king of angmar is a good example of an evil field commander. He commanded sauron's army in many battles and destroyed arnor.



Will the others have some sort of lord or general. Will the night's king/coldhands/stannis return and take that role? The witch king was the lord of minas morgul.


the night's king/coldhands will be the lord of the nightfort.



The great other while may be the main antagonist but needs a significant physical representative.



Who could the new night king or commander be?



The series would be much more interesting if the heroes had an opponent to contend or measure against.



Bloodraven is the most obvious choice to me. Bran has extraordinary warg and greenseer potential at a very tiny age. He has great inert power. More than blood raven.



What if bloodraven is using him to find the horn of joramun? then use it to break the wall and take his army south. Take revenge against society that has wronged him.



There is Stannis as another candidate but i hope not. He's been through too much to turn darth vader in the end.



The tv series has shown us some Uber others. maybe one of them? or they work as nazgul? there were about 13 uber others



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I believe we will see some sort of Other General or Generals, we are gonna need someone/something that is significantly more powerful than the Others we've seen before especially if there gonna battle the dragons, we need to feel like the dragons will be in extreme danger and not just fly over the Others toasting them with little effort.



The Nights King would be my guess as the main General making him the most powerful WW maybe with some magical powers to fight the dragons.



I like the idea of putting the Others into classes so there would be the Generals, then the standard Other, than the wights with the wights making up the majority of their army.



Im also really looking forward to seeing if The Others ride these giant ice spiders we've heard about. And I wouldnt be suprised if the Others had some other kind of monsterous creatures fighting their side.


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I've kind of been figuring that "The Great Other" is their king or general.



Show spoiler:


In season four there's an episode where they show us what happens to Craster's sons, to an extent. The HBO episode guide originally listed the icy guy who takes the baby as "Night's King, Brandon Stark." The name was almost immediately taken down, but the Night's King part remained for a few hours. That was taken out too and HBO said it was a mistake not a spoiler, but there are plenty of people who doubt their word on this. Night's King returning could lead the Others, or some Others.

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To expand on my Euron guess:





(1) Euron's personal sigil is almost an explicit reference to the Night's King, with crows holding a black crown over a field of blue. Below the crown is a red and black eye that likely references Euron's "smiling eye."



(2) He's strongly associated with the the color blue and the shade of the evening, which is harvested from a tree that is almost the symbolic direct opposite of Weirwood. There is quite a bit of symbollism throughout the book pitting blue and red against one another (or alternatively, in harmonious song) as the symbols of ice and fire, respectively.



(3) The Storm God is the "Great Other" parallel in the Drowned God religion. It's easy to miss the parallels between R'llor and the Drowned God, but these parallels are many and clear. The drown god urges his subjects to "make their names known in fire and blood." He is said to have "brought flame from the sea and sailed the world with fire and sword." And where does Euron fit into the Drowned God Mythos:



"I am the storm, my lord. The first storm, and the last" --Euron



(4) There is good reason to believe that the Others may stage an invasion from the sea, as per Cotter Pyke's observations. Also, Patchfaces prophecies suggest (to me at least) that "under the sea" is a metaphor for death and otherliness. Patchface himself was rather radically changed when he drowned (but came back to life) in a body of water off the coast of the Stormlands. That body of water is also associated with Storm God legends relating to the founding of House Durandal and the construction of Storm's End. The Others' great chamption could easily come from the sea rather than the north.


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I think it mostly comes down to the level of sapience and individual agency the Others possess. Broadly I would say that there are three possibilities:



1) The Others are not fundamentally different from humans in that regard - they have some form of society, organized way of communication, and most importantly there may be dissent about issues among them. In this case it is likely that they have a leader who is one of them. This individual might also fulfill the function of a high priest/diviner of the Great Other, if the Great other does not have a direct physical manifestation. Or this individual IS the Great Other.



2) The Others as a whole act independently, but operate as a kind of hive mind. In this case there wouldn't necessarily be a leader, at least not in the classical sense of an individual mind giving orders. There could be an outside (non-Other) individual directing their actions, like Bloodraven, but this individual is not inherently part of the Others' being. In this case they either just expand south because the coming winter (and maybe other factors) now provide them with an opportunity to do so, or because they are somehow lured by an outside influence. They still could, for example, have a sense of self-preservation.



3) The Others are just magical manifestations or a force of nature. They have no individual sentience, and no goal as a whole. They act because they are controlled by someone - which might either be the Great Other, or some other outside individual. The important distinction is that this means an Other is just a hollow, magical shell. Which would beg the question if the individual minds controlling them has been the same throughout all of their history (at least back to the Long Night, or whatever actually happened back then), or if their periodic appearance has to do with several different individuals gaining the power and knowledge to use them over the years. Which would mean that their "goal" might be different every time.


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