

Any flights delayed by dragons on the runway are, happily, covered by the Guarantee. So, as a public service, here’s how to get to some of the locations featured in the show and, for each destination, we’re going to give you a couple of places to visit. Recently though, there’s been a lot of interest in visiting the filming locations of Game of Thrones – a phenomenon neatly known as “set-jetting” – particularly since we are (at the time of writing) on the latest series. … Well, we’re not actually going there, are we? It’s a fictional show. And, with that, we’ll be over here sobbing all the way through April 14.Here at, we love exploring new places, but this week we’re blurring the boundaries between the real and the fictional, as we do a Top 10 Game of Thrones Special! Destination – Westeros, Essos, Sothoryos Airport – various If you’ve never been … The ending, then, may see nearly everyone on the show die (if the Night King carries out his task).

Weiss said the Night King was just a “force of destruction” on the show (not really good or bad) in an interview with Deadline from 2016. “The Night King doesn’t have a choice he was created in that way, and that’s what he is,” Weiss and Benioff wrote in an email interview. “In some ways, he’s just Death, coming for everyone in the story, and for all of us.” The theory would mean, then, that the Night King isn’t actually evil as we think of him, but just a tool the Old Gods are using as a means to an end.Įven GoT showrunners David Benioff and D.B. According to the theory, the White Walkers have been sent to carry out the Old Gods’ will-that is, to kill off the seven deadly sins in the form of the Great Houses of Westeros and the Seven Kingdoms and destroy all of humankind save for a precious few (just like the flood from the Book of Genesis).īut why would the Old Gods be mad at these houses? Perhaps because Westeros has forgotten about them, and have started worshipping new gods (the Seven, the Lord of Light, etc.). So, what are the White Walkers? This theorist posits that the Night King and his legions of undead are actually akin to Noah’s Flood (if we take this biblical allegory thing a step further). House Tyrell: Greed House Baratheon: Rage House Targaryen: Envy House Martell: Gluttony House Frey (or Greyjoy, doesn’t matter): Sloth House Stark: Pride House Lannister: Lust According to one Reddit user, Lobcity414, each house in Game of Thrones represents one of these cardinal sins:
