Game of thrones why is there a wall

For years, Game of Thrones fans have speculated about how the Night King and the White Walkers would eventually make their way south of the Wall.

One theory surmised that the seas around Westeros would freeze and they would simply walk around it. The undead dragon topples a section of the Wall within minutes, and the season ends just as White Walkers begin their invasion of Westeros.

So, how exactly did the Wall come crashing down? George R. According to the Westerosi myth, they built the Wall roughly 8, years ago at the end of the first Long Night.

Its entire purpose is to keep the White Walkers out of Westeros, though as centuries passed, it also became a dividing line between the Seven Kingdoms and the Freefolk. It took hundreds of years to complete and thousands to reach its present height. A mixture of ice and rock, it weeps on the outside, but its core never melts and climbers can expect sudden sheets of ice to crack and slide off in an instant, as we saw in season three when Jon climbed the Wall alongside several wildlings who tumbled to their deaths.

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Those trapped beyond the Wall following the construction were then referred to as Free Folk. However, despite the conventional story being that Bran built the Wall to keep the White Walkers out of Westeros, there's suggestions in George R.

Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books that it was the result of a truce with Others and that both sides help with construction to divide the continent. There's even evidence that some members of the Night's Watch used the Wall's many secret passages to sacrifice their young to the White Walkers.

While none of this is confirmed in the text, it suggests the books have secrets the HBO show only hinted at. The Wall stood for over eight millennia but was eventually brought down by the Night King. Having transformed one of Daenerys Targaryen's dragons into a member of his undead army, he led his forces out of the Haunted Forest toward the Wall and broke it down with magical blue fire. The breach allowed the Night King and the wight army to cross the borders and march to Winterfell.

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