Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-86.181.99.232-20160817015330/@comment-5308269-20160820093435

GoT Dawn wrote: Fenrir51:  Do you really think the Children of the Forest to create of the first White Walkers (The Night King) from a “greenseer” person? The title “greenseer” has magical ability to perceive future, past or distant events in dreams known as Green Dreams and the Children of the Forest had respect. The main purpose the Children of the Forest and support these greenseers to save these sacred trees (Old Gods of the Forest) of the trunk and the closest thing to a "shrine" that the religion possesses. The Children of the Forest did not have enough numbers, no technology (iron, build stone) or use horses, and non-fierce to fight against a First Men war. They only have the forest and wielded magical powers (greenseers people) to arose the oceans over these land and kill the First Men. Think about it, the Children of the Forest to capture a common "greenseer" person to create this first White Walker (the Night King) to defense the First Men...they choose to capture a "greenseer" person and they respect these people and support them against the First Men. It's your theory.

 I think the Children of the Forest to capture a Stark and  esc aped. Over the years the Night King (a.k.a. rogue Stark) had evolved his magic and changed in these thousand years.. .



Why do you presume to talk to me as though I don't know what greenseers are?

And no, I don't think there were any human-greenseers until the Night King was created. I think all the Starks and all the human wargs and greenseers throughout Westeros' history are descended from the Night King before he fully-turned into a White Walker. His transformation may have been more gradual, considering he's the first of his kind. Previously, only the Children of Forest believed in the Old Gods and had skinchangers and greenseers among their ranks before the First Men adopted their religion. And if part of the transformative-process of the Night King involved imbuing him with what were hitherto only Children's abilities, then this might have beed the reason why these abilities were manifested in later generations of men.

I suspect that the identity of the man who would become the Night King was figure of Westerosi legend called Brandon of the Bloody Blade. This Brandon was apparently one of the many children of Garth Greenhand, the first known king of the First Men, and Brandon was also the ancestor (or father) of Bran the Builder. Brandon of the Bloody Blade was a formidable warrior of the First Men who is said to have cleared the Reach of both the Children and the race of Giants before pushing northwards. If this man was the "Bloody Blade", it might be the Children abducted him so they could transform him into an inhuman assassin and sort of "sleeper-agent" to eliminate the First Men, who were conducting a largely successful war of genocide against them. Only later did their human-weapon develop into something else. I don't think it was the Children's intention to create an omnicidal force of nature that the Night King has since become!