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Wights

Also called: Army of the Dead
BooksUndeadSorcery1968 to 1999

Wights are the reanimated dead of A Song of Ice and Fire and its television adaptation Game of Thrones (2011), raised by the Others from those they kill. In the books fire destroys them and dragonglass does nothing; the series made dragonglass lethal to them. In the series they are all destroyed when the Night King dies.12

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First appeared
1996
A Game of Thrones published 1996; TV series (TV-MA) from 2011
Source work
A Game of Thrones (1996)
George R. R. Martin
Made in
USA
What causes it
Sorcery
The Others, called White Walkers on television, raise those they kill.
How you become one
A creature killed by the Others gets up as a wight.
Weak spots
  • fire
  • dragonglass (television series only)
  • killing the White Walker that raised them (television series)

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
1996

A Game of Thrones published 1996; TV series (TV-MA) from 2011

field notes

What the sources say

1

In the novels they have pale skin, black hands and glowing blue eyes12

2

Severed parts keep moving12

3

The first appears in the prologue of the first novel, when a slain ranger rises and kills a comrade12

4

Wildlings burn their dead so that they cannot be raised12

5

In the series a dragon is raised as a wight12

6

In the series the whole army falls when the Night King is killed12

Sources

  1. White Walker - Wikipedia
  2. Game of Thrones - Rotten Tomatoes

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Same era: 1968 to 1999

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