This is never confirmed, he could have escaped by knocking him out like all the other guards from that scene. Someone posted a video of it about 5 pages ago. But to Arya she has no clue just like us but he very likely could be dead. He betrayed and helped jail Ned with Littlefinger too I think.
So there have been about 5 or 6 scenes throughout the course of the entire series that has shown the wights or White Walkers and your comparing this to the Walking Dead? A man needs perspective.
the entire show has been built on the walkers. everyone is constantly reminded that winter is coming. this episode just showed you what winter is.
Yes. Valyrian Steel was forged with dragon fire. Which is part of why Valyrian Steel is rare. Valyria was destroyed in a cataclysmic event of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tidal waves over 400 years ago and the secrets of forging Valyrian Steel were lost with it. It wasn't just about dragons. They're stronger and sharper (and don't need to be maintained or sharpened again) yet lighter than any other metal used for swords. Still, before Dany's dragons, the last dragon had died roughly 150 years ago. So even if the secrets were known, there would've been no dragon fire to forge new blades with. I guess both materials are significant because they were born of fire. Dragonglass from volcanoes and Valyrian Steel from dragon fire. Yes, regular steel is born from fire as well, but not as hot as dragon fire. Reforging a Valyrian blade, as we saw with Ice when it was turned into Oathkeeper and Widow's Wail, is a very difficult and laborious process.
Yeah, sorry, if you've been watching this show not aware that a major over-arching storyline is that Winter is Coming and with it comes death, then you are terrible at comprehending what you are watching. They showed us a White Walker in the first episode and have spent considerable time building up their ominous presence from Benjan Stark telling Tyrion not to tell him what lives beyond the wall to Sam shaking like a little girl as a White Walker rode by him. Craster's Keep, wights attacking Mormont, Mormont sending Alliser Thorne to get men with the dead wight's hand, Sam slaying a walker, the letter from the Wall that gets Mel to send Stannis north, etc. etc.
What's your point? The opening scene introduced us to this threat and the most popular characters (as a house) repeatedly remind us that Winter is Coming. I think most intelligent people are aware that this show will ultimately deal with the White Walkers.
No, your comment was about the whole show being about walkers...like this was just revealed to you in last nights episode or something. At least that's how I took it. My comment was meant to support the idea we knew about them from day 1.
No it hasn't. Most of the characters don't give a ****. They don't even believe they exist. The last "winter" was a long, long time ago and almost everybody believes that White Walkers are just legends or ghost stories. If anybody believed White Walkers existed, there would be some kind of actual effort to join forces to stop them. But there is none, because nobody believes the threat exists. Nobody responded to the Night's Watch's request for help. Except for Stannis, who fought the wildlings and has now left with his army to pursue his claim on the throne. The vast majority of the story is about the struggle and fight for power and the consequences that follow. It's about the Lannister's taking control of the throne. The Tyrell's trying to do the same. The Baratheon's trying to get back control and seek revenge for King Robert. The Starks trying to survive and take revenge for what happened to Ned and later Robb and Catelyn. Littlefinger trying to move up the ranks despite having grown up with no rights or land. The Bolton's establishing themselves as the new wardens of the North. Dany learning how to be a Queen and lead people so she can come back and take the throne she believes rightfully belongs to her family. This is 90% of the show. The only people who care right now about White Walkers are the free folk and the Night's Watch, who still probably don't fully buy in because 1) most still haven't seen them and 2) most still seem to consider the wildlings the bigger threat. I'm sure that at some point the White Walkers will encompass more of the story as the threat becomes more imminent, and may even become the central focus of the story by the end. but to this point it's actually been only a small part of it.
