As revealed ahead of "The Long Night", the Night King's target was Bran Stark, or rather, the Three-Eyed Raven. His goal was to erase Westeros, and that started with the Three-Eyed Raven, who served its memory. In order to wipe out humankind, he needs to destroy the keeper of its stories.
The White Walkers were often portrayed as a shadowy threat during early seasons, and it was revealed in season 3 that Wilding Craster gave up his male children - born of incestuous relationships with his own daughters - as sacrifices to the Walkers in exchange for being left in peace in the Haunted Forest.
Simply put: no, the Night King is not a Targaryen, as poetic as it would have been for Jon / Aegon and Daenerys to have to face off against their many-greats-grandfather. Let's unpack that further. He's not because, unfortunately, there weren't any Targaryens around Westeros then.
The DifferenceWights are a product of White Walkers, and they're essentially undead pawns that the White Walkers use to fight their battles. As we learn in season seven, if you kill a certain White Walker, you also kill the wights it created — which is why Jon is so hellbent on going after the Night King.
White Walker GlossaryWhite Walkers: Those selected and turned by the Night King's touch to help lead his army, presumably largely made up of Craster's children. Wight: The reanimated corpses that comprise the Army of the Dead.
The Targaryen sigil is a three-headed dragon breathing flames, red on black. The house words are "Fire and Blood". It eventually became the first royal house of the Seven Kingdoms, as House Targaryen of King's Landing.
The Healer's Hand combines the hand with a spiral to create a powerful symbol of healing and protection. This symbol holds therapeutic energy and is worn still today by those searching for its curative powers. By displaying this symbol around your neck or in your home, it is said to bring luck, health, and fortune.
You can also use the word as a verb when something moves in a spiral shape: "Then the wind died and I watched my kite spiral down to the ground." The origin of spiral is the Medieval Latin spiralis, which means "winding or coiling," from a Greek root: speira, "coil, twist, or wreath."
If you've ever seen a pendant, a figurine, or a tattoo that features the silhouette of a woman with both hands raised in the air or linked together upwards, and a spiral on her belly, that is the Spiral Goddess. This symbol is a common imagery in Paganism and Wicca and is used liberally by worshippers of the Goddess.
One of the oldest geometric shapes found throughout the ancient world are spirals. Petroglyphs of spirals date back to around the Neolithic period. The spiral has become a powerful symbol for creation and growth, used by many ancient cultures and religious traditions. …
The 6 Most Powerful Spiritual Symbols on the Planet
- The Hamsa, the healing hand.
- The Ankh, key of life.
- The Cross, a sign of infinite love.
- The Eye of Horus, the great protector.
- Om, harmony with the universe.
- The Lotus, flower of awakening.
In Werewolf culture in the Teen Wolf, the spiral is the symbol for revenge, and it is carved or scrawled, typically in public places, as a message to those who have wronged them that they will be seeking their vengeance.
Game of Thrones season 8 episode 1 writer Dave Hill has said that by using his sigil, the Night King is mocking the humans and the Children of Men. “The Night King then adopted the symbol as a sort of blasphemy, like Satan with the upside-down cross,†Hill said.
The White Walkers have made symbols out of bodies previously, and we have seen the spiral in a key flashback, the one where the Children of the Forest sacrificed a man in some sort of pagan ritual at a tree, a man who became a White Walker. Around the tree was the spiral pattern, made up of stones.
The first time Game of Thrones associates a curious symbol with the Army of the Dead is in season 1, episode 1, “Winter is Coming†when body parts of wildings are left in a strange circle with a line through the middle. It looks like Φ.
Who are the White Walkers? The White Walkers are leaders of an ice zombie horde known as "wights" seemingly intent on destroying the world of men. They come from the far North, deep beyond The Wall, but have been organized under the rule of the Night King and are making their way south to Westeros as we speak.
The StagThe sigil of the royal house, House Baratheon, is a black stag with a gold crown against a gold background. This sigil is quite versatile and multi-faceted just like Renly, Stannis and Robert Baratheon. It symbolizes wisdom, growth, and virility.
The Night's WatchThe trio quickly found the wildlings had been killed and arranged in a spiral pattern upon the ground. Two of the group were killed by a White Walker, while the third managed to flee back south of The Wall.
It's the body of Ned Umber, the child who is technically Lord of House Umber whom Jon pardoned last season. Earlier in the episode, he'd returned to his home to begin preparing for the war against the White Walkers, but the war found him first. “It's a message,†says Beric.
