It’s very hard to convince people that the mission beyond the Wall+the grand parley next week from the show won’t happen in the book. Do you think it’s likely these may happen in the books?

opinions-about-tiaras:

racefortheironthrone:

A mission beyond the Wall? Yes. Jon and co are bound for the Heart of Winter, so I see that happening.

This mission? No. The books already established that wights who go south of the Wall stop being reanimated and rot away. The show dropped that little plotline, but it’s there in the books. 

Wait, hold on. Do we know this? Like, for sure?

The only instance I can think of is when Ser Alliser tried to take that hand down to King’s Landing and it rotted away. And that’s hardly dispositive; the hand was severed from the rest of the wight. It might be that if they’d contained an <em>entire</em> wight the re-animation magic would continue to work just fine. Or it might be that the Wall doesn’t mean anything, but that the wights, being dead flesh, will  putrefy and rot and wither away anywhere that it is naturally above freezing.

Or is there another instance of us being told wights don’t work south of the wall I missed?

See here.