While we ca n’t betoken everything that will happen in the final season ofGame of Thrones(though plenty havetried ) we do n’t need a magical 8 - Ball to know that the Night King will likely be one of the main antagonists . The fictional character is still cryptical , and although we do n’t do it on the nose why he ’s command a Brobdingnagian army to destroy the Seven Kingdoms , we might have fuck off some brainstorm into his personal identity in the season 8premiere .
In the latest episode , titled “ Winterfell , ” we are in brief re-introduce to a boy , Lord Ned Umber , who remove the claim after his family dies in the Battle of the Bastards contend for Ramsay Bolton . The 10 - twelvemonth - old lord pledge fealty to Jon Snow when he returns to the North , and is instructed to come back to his house in the Last Hearth to get reenforcement .
When we next see him , he is witness dead by Tormund Giantsbane , prod through a wall by the White Walkers . His trunk hang in the centre of a spiral symbolization made up of branch . In the terrific scene , the boy rebound back to aliveness as a wight and is gear up on fervency , also setting the turbinate ablaze . As reported byComicBook.com , fans have zeroed in on the helix , which has popped up in the show many time before , hypothecate that it could suggest the Night King is a Targaryen .
Fans on Twitter have hoard the times that the White Walkers made a spiral and compared them to the spherical Targaryen symbol . This could indicate that the Night King is scar places with his original household sigil .
Another hint that backs up this claim is the fact that the Night King is capable to rag Viserion , Daenerys Targaryen ’s Draco , whom he kill and reanimated last season . As only Targaryens can ride these creatures , it ’s easy to speculate that the undead loss leader might be one .
While many othersbelievethe Night King could really be a Stark , some are banking on the villain ’s indistinguishability being revealed in the final season . He has a specific charge , and we ’re dying to find out what that is .
