When Sam is reading about the "mountain of dragonglass" underneath Dragonstone, he’s looking for ways to stop the White Walkers, but when Jon shows up to make his plea to mine the dragonglass, it sounds like he needs enough of it to take on an entire army. Season 7 has been hinting this isn’t true, and very quietly confirmed it once Jon and his wight-capturing team make an unmentioned switch to dragonglass weapons. One of the major reasons that the Army of the Dead is so intimidating is that - at least up until this episode - they appeared to only be stopped by fire. This isn’t necessarily "killing" the wight remember that poor Jojen Reed was stabbed to death by a wight skeleton that had been decapitated when Meera stabbed it through the head in Season 4's tenth episode, "The Children." Decapitating a wight does not stop it, you need to literally break apart it’s bones so none of it can be used offensively. "Hardhome" introduced the idea that wights were more like zombies - if you could crush the head or disassemble the body, you could immobilize the wight. If the battle between the Night’s Watch and Army of the Dead at the Fist of the First Men hadn’t been whittled down to simply Sam running through some fog, we might have seen some more wight battles before Season 5, but hey, Game of Thrones knew it'd need some big bucks to spend on Season 7. Fire was the only way we officially were told to stop a wight, mostly because the show had four more seasons before the Army of the Dead needed to show up en masse at Hardhome. Burn the bodies of the dead and they won’t become wights burn the body of a "dead" wight and it won’t come back. Since Jon Snow saw his first wight brought into Castle Black in Season 1, we’ve been repeatedly told that fire stops the wight enchantment. There’s a wight "instant kill" weapon that isn’t fire Before we break down the possible powers of a White Walker dragon, let’s look at the two classifications of soldier for the Army of the Dead. The differences between the wights and the White Walkers used to just be how hard they were to "kill." This episode added some complexities to the relationship that makes Viserion’s magical properties even more mysterious. That means Viserion is not a wight dragon, but a White Walker dragon. This is more like what we saw from the Night King in the Season 4 episode "Oathkeeper," when he converted one of Craster’s male babies by touching it on the forehead. The Night King had to physically touch the corpse of the dragon in order to awaken it with ice-blue eyes. That's bad news for Jon and Dany, as the opposing forces can only grow in number with every grisly battle.īut the process that reanimated the Hardhome fallen is not what happened to poor Viserion, one of Dany’s three children. When the Night King raised his hands (and the dead) at Hardhome, he was creating wights, which play by zombie rules. The assault on what was left of the Free Folk at Hardhome was impressive, but didn’t tell us much about how the wights operate as a fighting force. This is the moment that the Army of the Dead became the threat we’d all suspected was coming.
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