What did the White Walkers need with Craster’s babies on Game Of Thrones? George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song Of Ice And Fire began back in the mid-1990s – and is still ongoing – which formed the basis of HBO’s groundbreaking fantasy series. Game Of Thrones became the definition of event television, bringing Martin’s complex characters and stories to life with a cinematic sheen. It also featured several shocking demises and epic battle scenes.

While Game Of Thrones will go down in history as one of the biggest television shows on the planet, in the eyes of many viewers and critics, it didn’t stick the landing. Season’s 7 and 8 featured reduced episode counts and often placed spectacle over characters and paying off years worth of intricate storytelling. The final season was considerably particularly disappointing and is likely to remain a point of contention among the fanbase for some time to come.

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The final season of Game Of Thrones finally brought the Night King and his army of the undead to the forefront, resulting in a huge battle sequence that saw him defeated. The White Walkers were often portrayed as a shadowy threat during early seasons, and it was revealed in season 3 that Wilding Craster gave up his male children – born of incestuous relationships with his own daughters – as sacrifices to the Walkers in exchange for being left in peace in the Haunted Forest.

In Game Of Thrones season 4 the last of Craster’s sons was born, after the Wildling had been slain during a mutiny by brothers of the Night’s Watch. This baby is left in the forest and later taken by a White Walker to the Lands of Always Winter. It’s there the child is placed on an altar and the Night King himself approaches, who then places a finger on the baby’s cheek, causing its eyes to turn into those of a White Walker.

It’s clear from this scene the Night King took Craster’s sacrifices and turned them in more White Walkers for his army. Only a small number of White Walkers were seen throughout early episodes of Game Of Thrones, but the battle between the living and dead during season 8 made it clear there were many of them. What’s unknown is how quickly these White Walker children grew to adult size, or if they grow in human years. This question was left unanswered on the series but the baby turned into a White Walker in season 4 was almost certainly destroyed, alongside the rest of the undead army, when the Night King was defeated in the final season.

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It’s pronounced Paw-rick, not Pad-raig. Now that’s out of the way, a brief introduction. Padraig has been writing about film online since 2012, when a friend asked if he’d like to contribute the occasional review or feature to their site.

A part-time hobby soon blossomed into a career when he discovered he really loved writing about movies, TV and video games – he even (arguably) had a little bit of talent for it. He has written words for Den of Geek, Collider, The Irish Times and Screen Rant over the years, and can discuss anything from the MCU – where Hawkeye is clearly the best character – to the most obscure cult b-movie gem, and his hot takes often require heat resistant gloves to handle.

He’s super modern too, so his favorite movies include Jaws, Die Hard, The Thing, Ghostbusters and Batman. He can be found as i_Padds on Twitter making bad puns.

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