Still been thinking about this. Seems possible to me that "Night's King" might be a title instead of an actual specific individual, similar to "The King in the North" for the northerners. Maybe the Night's King from the myth above (thanks Sirken!) was only the first one, or the first one to call himself that? I feel like they wouldn't have gone back and edited the synopsis on the HBO site if the name "Night's King" wasn't an important detail in the first place. Seems possible that some web intern got a copy of the wrong synopsis and made a mistake posting details he shouldn't have.
There's also the fact that the spikes on his head seem to form a sort of crown:
http://i.imgur.com/HMZwi6y.jpg
However, the most interesting thing to me is the fact there are 13 Others in the scene:
http://i.imgur.com/ocRIXSl.jpg
Where else have we seen the number 13 recently?
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He was a fearless warrior, who was named the thirteenth Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.
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We also know the 13th Lord Commander was the brother of The King in the North at the time, so he was most likely a Stark, or closely related to them.
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his own brother, the King in the North
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Getting really tin-foily here now, but bear with me. We also keep hearing how there "must always be a Stark in Winterfell." Currently, there is no Stark in Winterfell. So maybe... the Other we saw at the end of the episode might be the Night's King, who was also a Stark at one point. Maybe they know that there is no Stark in Winterfell at the moment, and they're moving back south to reclaim it?
... Okay, maybe a little ridiculous. Still fun to think about
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