Let's start with this: the White Walkers (also called the Others) are not zombies. So it's unlikely that the White Walkers are out to exterminate mankind just for kicks.

But I think the battle between Good and Evil is fought largely within the individual human heart, by the decisions that we make.' evil.Īs Martin puts it: 'The battle between Good and Evil is a theme of much of fantasy. Martin has said numerous times that he's not especially interested in conflicts of good vs. Mel believes that they are servants of the Great Other, some kind of cold, clammy devil figure. On the HBO show, it seems like they're bent on world domination or some such nonsense, but in A Song of Ice and Fire, things are not so clear cut.Ī lot of folks, including the Red Priestess Melisandre, seem to think that the Others are evil, point blank. We still don't know what they're after at all, or why they're heading south. we don't know that they're actually bad news, either. They don't exactly seem like good news.īut, in defense of the Others and their whole creepy deal. They've taken down multiple brothers of the Night's Watch, and (in the TV show) at least one dragon. These mysterious ice folk are advancing on the Wall with their army of the dead.

But if we absolutely had to name the single biggest threat facing Westeros and the Seven Kingdoms, we would probably settle on one enemy in particular: the White Walkers. There are evil queens and scheming courtiers, mountain-sized baby butchers and fire-breathing dragons and straight up creeps like Ramsay Bolton. The world of Game of Thrones is full to the brim with shady characters.

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