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Originally Posted by Shamalam
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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?
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.
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?
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the nights king can not be the great other, the timelines just dont match up. the nights watch was created to protect the realms of man from those white walkers (whom were all created by the great other). The Great Other created the Whitewalker that the 13th lord commander of the nights watch fell in love with. the nights king was also slain by the combined forces of the king beyond the wall & the king in the north. White walkers are not dead people or reanimated corpses, those are whigts, they are thralls to the whitewalkers. Wights are dead men or creatures raised up by the whitewalkers, seemingly when touched by the cold that accompanies them. Anyone who falls against the Others must be burned, or else the dead will rise again as their thralls. Fear of their own dead becoming wights leads the free folk to burn them.
i love you sir. the stark in winterfell thing is because if there is not a stark in winterfell, they will lose it and they will lose the north. dat game of thrones (although for a while i had a tin foil theory about this as well, involving the stark family crypt and ghosts).
this entire thing tells the song of ice(whitewalkers, the great other, lyanna stark) and fire(dragons, R'hllor, rhaegar targaryen).