Timeline for Can the dead cross the Wall?
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| Aug 21, 2017 at 16:30 | vote | accept | Jimmery | ||
| Aug 21, 2017 at 15:01 | comment | added | TheLethalCarrot | @Flater Oh I agree I thought it was worth stating and I can't remember where I read about it anyway so it might be bogus. Just thought it was relevant to the discussion so brought it up. | |
| Aug 21, 2017 at 14:59 | comment | added | Flater | @TheLethalCoder: I don't think range factors into the animated wights. The captured wight was not near its master (as it was the only one that did not collapse), and it has been taken beyond the wall. It's not impossible for the wight to collapse due to range at some point, but this seems to be glossed over in the show to a point where it seems that it will not become a plot point. Though if Sandor manages to bring a "live" wight to King's Landing, that will dispell both the range theory, and the theory that they require the cold. Though they might still favor the cold. | |
| Aug 21, 2017 at 14:56 | comment | added | TheLethalCarrot | On top of that I saw it said somewhere, so not sure how true it is, that the walkers control the wights puppet style i.e. each one has control over a group near it so it would make sense if the white walkers couldn't go out of the cold then the wights can't go much further. | |
| Aug 21, 2017 at 14:53 | comment | added | Flater | @iandotkelly: This could possible be an inference on my part. I would point to Alt Shift X as he is my main source for everything not said in the show, but I could have misinterpreted a theory of his as a truth. However, it has been said that white walkers bring the cold, and wights have never been seen outside of a cold area. Also, Walkers are immune to fire (but weak to dragonfire), but wights are weak to both, which could lend credence to their magic dispelling when the air around them is no longer cold. | |
| Aug 21, 2017 at 14:46 | comment | added | iandotkelly♦ | Great answer! Where has it been stated that wights can only go where it is cold? I can see circumstantial evidence - but it could for example be White Walkers can only go where it is cold. | |
| Aug 21, 2017 at 14:18 | history | edited | Flater | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 21, 2017 at 14:16 | comment | added | Flater | @TheLethalCoder: One could be a consequence of the other. Why send more men to build a wall (extension) to keep away something that you don't believe exists in the first place? The first season very much addressed that the Night's Watch tends to only get "prisoner" recruits, rather than voluntary recruits like Jon and Benjen; so it stands to reason that no one is funding the Wall anymore, it mostly exists as a way to dodge the death penalty. | |
| Aug 21, 2017 at 14:11 | comment | added | TheLethalCarrot | @Flater I thought it was stated that the main reason it wasn't built higher was because of a lack of men/resources to do so. Though that is probably a factor as well. | |
| Aug 21, 2017 at 14:10 | comment | added | Flater | @TheLethalCoder: Good point, but it seems more likely that they did not build the wall higher because most people assume the Walkers to be myths when the show starts. Even Ned Stark, who continually repeats that Winter is coming doesn't believe the eye witness testimony of the man he executes. He doesn't immediately dismiss it, but he argues to Bran that they haven't been seen for a considerable time, and it's therefore more likely an excuse for desertion, not an eye witness testimony. It seems unlikely that anyone would feel the need to build the Wall higher than it is. | |
| Aug 21, 2017 at 14:07 | history | edited | Flater | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 21, 2017 at 14:05 | comment | added | TheLethalCarrot | At the beginning of the series they also state about lately not having built the wall up higher implying that it is the height of the wall that matters. I think Benjen reiterates this saying the wall was built with magic. | |
| Aug 21, 2017 at 14:01 | history | answered | Flater | CC BY-SA 3.0 |