GOT Spoilers & Thoughts on Ending Ahead!!!

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First off, I understand where people were coming from when they expressed disappointment toward the Night King’s storyline having ended so quickly by a character not fitting the description of the prince/princess that was promised or Azor Ahai.

Arya Stark has been my favorite character since day one and I am extremely happy that she was the hero in the end of s8x03 (the story has been building up to her having this kind of moment since literally season one, but that’s a whole separate post).

However, I also fell in love with GOT for it’s Shakespearean-esque style in terms of foreshadowing, symbolism, metaphors, etc. So I get why people feel they’ve been cheated for the past eight seasons with how things with the Night King ended. It didn’t q u i t e fit the prophetic bill.

BUT (major spoiler theory coming your way)

Going along with the idea that Arya is not Azor Ahai, what if the Night King’s sudden death shows us that he’s not the darkness explained in the prophecies after all?

Hear me out… If these theories are true, then the prophecies would still be relevant.



The Night King was born as a result of The First Men’s wrongdoings. They invaded Westeros, killed the children of the forest, cut down the sacred trees, and took the land for themselves. The Night King’s entire goal since then was to erase mankind altogether.

Under these circumstances, the Night King sure as hell comes across like the ultimate darkness exhibited in the prophecies. But we have three episodes left to show that he’s not, which begs the question:

what if the real darkness that the reincarnated Azor Ahai is supposed to defeat is the darkness brought on by mankind?

We’ve seen mankind’s evil tendencies, both big and small, throughout the whole show. A few examples: Robert Baratheon started a war, killing thousands of people, out of anger; Cersei killed hundreds of people so she could regain control, always stating that what she did, she did for her family (uncaring of what was good for the people); even Aegon Targaryen used his dragons to unite the seven kingdoms and create ultimate power for himself.

Everything that has happened, in some way or another, has been a direct result of the sins, the darkness, of man.

Now comes the final battle. We all thought it would be against the Night King because we’ve spent the last eight seasons thinking he was the darkness that was prophesied (yes it’s a word). But going by the logic mentioned above, he and the army of the dead were just parts, just results, of the darkness. Not all of it.

What if the iron throne, which represents mankind and its ceaseless transgressions, is the ultimate evil? What if the only way to defeat the darkness is to usurp/kill Cersei and break the wheel?

There’s been a lot of talk about breaking “the wheel” in later seasons. Much like the Night King, the wheel was created from mankind’s sins, representing all the times men have fought and killed for power. Failing to break it would result in a long night line of corrupt or unfit rulers like Cersei and basically every king before her.

I don’t know for sure how how the wheel will be broken, but I feel like it has something to do with destroying the throne. If the darkness does stem from mankind and not the Night King, wouldn’t eliminating the monarchy help prevent history from repeating itself?

In any case, it’s certainly is interesting to view Death as not being the greatest evil after all. Mankind is, and has always been, its own greatest downfall.

Additional thoughts:

- Remember folks, since they’ve been beating it into our systems this whole time: e v e r y t h i n g h a p p e n s f o r a r e a s o n

- If killing mankind was the Night King’s goal, it makes sense that he, the god of Death, would want to kill the Three-Eyed Raven first–doing so would not only break the wheel, but make it so a new one would never be created again, thus taking away all chances for history to repeat itself



- All of this will likely fall onto Dany, the one who’s been gearing up to take back the throne her whole life, and Jon, the one who has a more legitimate claim. Jon doesn’t seem to want the throne, so I think Dany must decide to either conquer Westeros (which wouldn’t break the wheel at all), or choose what’s best for her people (Sam questioned if she would do this in 8x01 because he knows Jon did and will again). Choosing what’s best for her people and eliminating the throne would not only break the wheel, but defeat the darkness that mankind has created through it (think of Lord of the Rings and how the ring had to be destroyed in order to create peace)

Lol I started this post to defend Arya and why her absolutely s l a y i n g the Night King was one of the best fucking things to happen to Game of Thrones and ended up cracking the motherfucking code.