GoT reveals how Jon Snow can kill ALL the White Walkers
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Game of Thrones season 7 episode 6 'Beyond the Wall'.
There's been a big issue plaguing Game of Thrones fans' minds for a while now: just how is the conflict with the White Walkers going to be resolved?
The big, scary villains overarching the entire seven series so far seem almost too intimidating to be killed in any discernible way. For example, while fire kills wights (as seen in last night's breath-taking sequence), it doesn't affect the Walkers who created them.
Only dragonglass and Valyrian steel can kill White Walkers, and we've only seen four such deaths on-screen so far. Plus, they now have a literal ice dragon in their midst, making the Night King's army even more terrifying.
But one little detail that emerged in last night's episode (August 20) 'Beyond the Wall' might hold the key for how Jon Snow (Kit Harington) will bring about the demise of this army for good.
Killing a White Walker, as Jon did in last night's episode, also apparently results in all of the wights they have created being killed as well. Going straight to the source eradicated the need to burn the wights to ash – they were instantly eliminated when their life-source no longer existed.
"Kill him," a (possibly) very astute Beric suggested, referring, of course, to the Night King. "He turned them all."
Could it be so easy as Jon simply taking out the Night King and leaving the White Walkers as extinct as the Children of the Forest who created them?
Well, probably not – this is Game of Thrones after all – but it's an interesting theory that might help this seemingly futile battle ultimately end in Westeros' favour. And then we can move onto the battle for the Iron Throne...
Game of Thrones season seven concludes next Sunday (August 27) with a movie-length finale at 9pm on HBO in the US. It will be simulcast at 2am on Sky Atlantic on Monday (August 28) in the UK.
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