Game of Thrones: Why is Weirwood's Night Tree Plan Important?

By Terri Schwartz

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Bran Stark is the man who plans to defeat the King of Darkness and there is no better time to achieve it. While the White Walkers finally arrive at Winterfell at the end of the second episode of Season 8, all hopes rest on Bran's plan to pull the king out of the night and allow someone to kill him.

We know that next week's episode will happen to be the epic battle of Winterfell and that apparently will make history the longest sequential battle scene to ever be devoted to the film. But with three other episodes of season 8 after it seems reasonable to think that the king of the night might not fall as easily as Bran, Jon and Daenerys hope.

Let's start by telling. Bran's plan: he will be using bait while waiting at Winterfell's Godswood, near the heart of Weirwood, hoping that his presence will bring out the king of the night from his army so that Jon or someone Another could destroy the White Walker leader once. For everyone.

According to Bran, the three-eyed crow is the number one priority of the king of the night among the army of the living, because the three-eyed crow is the keeper of the stories of the world, and once it's over. he died, the inheritance and history of the seven kingdoms left with him. As Bran says, "he has already tried many times with many three-eyed crows".

The ultimate goal of the King of the night is to create the "Endless Night" to erase the world of men and destroy the three-eyed world. Raven, destroying his memory. Finally, Bran evokes the often theorized fact that the king of the night has marked him there are seasons, which means that he knows where Bran is at all times. "I have to bring it out into the open before his army annihilates us all," says Bran. Theon informs himself and the Iron Born – who have every interest in bringing some Dragonglbad – to stay by his side and protect him. The choice of Bran's location could be broader than just being easily accessible in a wheelchair. In the episode of season 6, "The Door", we discovered how the children of the forest had made the White Walkers: the children tied a man (presumably the man who became the king of at night) at a Weirwood tree and plunged him A piece of Dragonglbad into his heart, thus making him become the blue ice man we know today.

Is the secret to destroy the King of the Night as simple (or simple in terms of stories) as recreating that moment? Could Bran draw the king of the night to the Weirwood tree so that Jon (or anyone else with a Dragonglbad / Valyrian steel blade) can plunge his special weapon into his chest, pinning him to the Weirwood tree and canceling everything that preceded? The end of the White Walkers and the wights would not it be mortal, but rather a reversal of the cruel fate inflicted on White Walkers children many years ago?

This is a concept that fans have been theorizing for years. this would suit the narrative style of Game of Thrones. White Walkers were not bad at first; they were men turned into weapons by the children to destroy the first men, who threatened the children's home. Three-Eyed Bran often does not reveal all the information that he knows to his audience in distress – example, leaving only "what we do for love" to let Jaime know that he remembers 39 to have been pushed out the window, but not revealing this detail to the rest of the Daenerys yard. So his decision to attract the king of the night to Winterfell's Weirwood almost certainly makes more sense, even though our contention that he would be stabbed with a Dragonglbad weapon does not prove to be true.

The real question is whether or not destroying the Night King will be enough to destroy his horde. We learned in "Beyond the Wall" of Season 7 that the White Walkers seemed to respect the vampire rules, that killing the White Walker who was making a group of warriors was enough for them to be no more resuscitated. Does the same logic apply to the White Walkers themselves, in the sense that, if the King of the night fell, would all the White Walkers he dropped fall with him? Or does Jon and Daenerys' army need to defeat each of the White Walkers seen at the end of this episode to crush the army of the dead?

It seems more likely that the gang did not Destroy the king of the night in the next episode, but that does not mean that the plan to try to wedge him in a Weirwood tree (in the literal sense) will not play a key role in the fight against this threat. It was a little surprising to learn that no dragon has ever attempted to kill a White Walker during the many battles with the king of the night that raged before. Hopefully someone at least tries before the end of Game of Thrones, even though this plan does not work.

Regarding the idea that the Three-Eyed Raven is the only one to be the guardian of the Westeros stories, Sam seems legitimately preoccupied and confirms Bran's hypothesis that the king of the night would come directly to the three-eyed raven. This moment adds an interesting element to the theory that Sam will be the one who will complete Archbishop Ebrose's book "A chronicle of wars after the death of King Robert I", which will inevitably be called "A song of ice and fire" after Jon, Daenerys, the king of the night and those fire-breathing dragons.

Do you think that Bran's theory is not limited to that of the eye (of the gods)? Tell us how you think his confrontation plan with the king of the night will collapse in the comments below!

Terri Schwartz is editor-in-chief of the entertainment industry at IGN and talks to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz .