Game of Thrones fans noticed that the Night King was missing from the end of Sunday’s episode...and they have a theory.

Mild spoilers ahead, just FYI!

Sunday night’s episode of Game of Thrones ended in the most harrowing way possible. After a full hour of character development, weird breastfeeding jokes, and forge sex, the final moments showed our main man Tyrion seeing the White Walker army marching toward Winterfell. The thing is...the Night King wasn’t with them. So...whattup with that?

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You might initially think that Bran’s plan is working. Maybe the Night King—knowing he’s Jon Snow’s main target—has left the group and gone off solo to find Bran. But something tells me the Night King isn’t that stupid. Which brings us to a pretty solid fan theory: The Night King has taken his ice dragon to King’s Landing to create millions of new White Walkers. (Psst: Keep in mind that this theory was written before Sunday’s episode—meaning the person who wrote it is already half correct.)



“When the army of the undead line up for the Battle of Winterfell, the Night King and his zombie dragon will not be there. Instead, he will already be near to his next target...King’s Landing. If you play out what the Battle of Winterfell would be like in your head if the NK+Viserion would be there...it would be easy for Drogon/Rhaegal to take out the zombie dragon; it’s 2v1 and wights all can be killed by fire...including Viserion. It would not be difficult to simply fly up to Viserion and breathe fire on him, and that would be that. THE NIGHT KING IS NOT STUPID, not enough to kamikaze his most powerful asset. If you have a superweapon that you can’t use against a particular target, then you find a different target.”

The theory also speculates that the living will actually win the Battle of Winterfell, only to find out that there’s an even bigger army of the dead coming from King’s Landing. Plus, there’s evidence of this in Bran’s season 4 vision:

“During season 4 while Bran is being ushered north to meet Bloodraven, he touches a weirwood and has a set of visions, which we see. All of those visions have since come to pass, except the ones where he sees a destroyed throne room & a dragon shadow pass over King’s Landing. I believe the reason we are only shown a shadow was to not give away that it is actually the NK and Viserion, not Dany and her dragons.”

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Following that logic, let’s talk about Dany’s vision at the House of the Undying, where she sees the throne room covered in ash. Just theorizing here, but is it possible this is a scene from how the show ends, when Dany finally arrives at King’s Landing, only to find it burned down from the Night King’s destruction?

Either way, as the original theory states: “Bottom line, I simply don’t see the NK risking his newfound ice dragon in a fight he is sure to lose...when he can simply fly down south to KL where there are no dragons to deal with...and 1 million new recruits for his army packed tightly into a small area.”



I buy it.

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