Others: what do we know about the white walkers?

The Others, or white walkers, are one of the biggest mysteries in Game of Thrones / ASOIAF. What are white walkers, and what are wights? How can white walkers be killed? And what do they want? This video contains major spoilers for Book 5 / Season 5, including spoilers from the show that aren’t in the books. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCveZqqGewoyPiacooywP5Ig?sub_confirmation=1 Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AltShiftX Twitter: https://twitter.com/altshiftx Created with Toon Boom Studio 8.1, Adobe Creative Cloud, a Wacom Intuos Pen Tablet, and a Blue Yeti microphone. Images and video from Game of Thrones used here under fair use. Pyramid image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kheops-Pyramid.jpg Thanks to the following supporters on Patreon: @MrFifaSA, xandria lenert, zyad aloqily, Fred Petty, Jason Rattray, Madeline Cockrel, staffio the seventh. Thanks to @TurtleSergio for Russian subtitles and María Mariño Costa for Spanish subtitles. Errata: 7:56 George Martin has said that Westeros and Essos are not connected (SSM 1207). That was back in 2002, though - maybe he hadn't written the Yi Ti and Five Forts stuff yet...