Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3035448-20160824024303/@comment-32758236-20170803053017

As far as the Walkers, the novels give us very little information about the Walkers. Consider Martin's pov, he still follows the historical concept (inherently wrong, but I won't go into that here) that history is written by the victors. All of the information we have of the Walkers is provided by humans who view them negatively. From a historical pov, westerners categorized many indigenous populations as monsters or dangerous creatures. We have no idea what the Walkers want, only what westerosi expect or think the walkers want. Ask yourself this: why are the dragons considered "good" but the walkers bad? Maybe the Walkers arrive because the dragons are actually bad? Maybe house Targaryan and the old Valyria are the real plague of the world? The show gives us much more visuals of the Walkers than the books. In fact, the Walkers are this loose myth that appears sporatically and rarely throughout the series. Yet readers and westerosi alike have conclusive opinions of something they know little about.