Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: Samwell I, ASOS

“You keep it…you’re not craven like me.”

“So craven you killed an Other.”

Synopsis: Retreating from the Battle of the Fist of the First Men, Sam Tarly slays a White Walker with the help of Small Paul and Grenn.

SPOILER WARNING: This chapter analysis, and all following, will contain spoilers for all Song of Ice and Fire novels and Game of Thrones episodes. Caveat lector.
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What do you think the Others did with Crasters’s sheep?

Given that the Others’s motivation is “extinguish everything we would call life,”” and that they “hated iron and fire and the touch of the sun, and every creature with hot blood in its veins,” I’m going to guess they killed them like they do all warm-blooded creatures.

This has been another PSA that no, the White Walkers are not good guys, the Night’s King is not evidence of a peace treaty that ended the War for the Dawn, stop it already.

Thinking About the White Walkers and the COTF

So I was talking with @goodqueenaly about the whole Season 6 revelation that the Children of the Forest created the White Walkers, and our conversation crystallized some problems I have with this twist.

If the White Walkers were a weapon, why weren’t they used during the war between the First Men and the Children during the Dawn Age, given that that war was an existential crisis for the Children where they brought down the Hammer of Waters on the Arm of Dorne and the Neck?
Why the two thousand year gap between the Pact that ended that war and the Long Night, which is the first recorded encounter between humans and White Walkers?
If the Long Night was so centered on Westeros, why are there records of the conflict across Essos, from the Rhoynar in the west (who tell of the hero of the Rhoyne who sang the secret song to bring back the day), to Asshai (where the legend of Azor Ahai was born), to the Bone Mountains (where the patrimony of Hyrkoon the Hero was founded), to Yi Ti (where the woman with the monkey’s tail saved the world from the Lion of Night, and the Pearl Emperor built the Five Forts to guard his lands from the Lion’s demons)?