The Night's King was the 13th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, and he ruled for 13 years. [1] Both have forbidden real names. [2] [1] In Game of Thrones, the television adaptation of the books, the progenitor and ruler of the Others (called White Walkers in the show) is called the Night King.Now 25% Off. $7 at Amazon. The early-to-mid noughties saw the zombie shamble back to the forefront of the horror scene. At the same time, ‘90s technophobia got a new burst of digital energy They are called the Five Forts and no one knows their origin, as the erection of the Five Forts predate the Yi Ti Empire itself. Legends says they were built to stop a so called "Lion of Night" and its army of demons from invading through the sands of the Grey Waste. The Lion of Night story is somewhat similar to the Night King story, at least But can the Night King (or the Others in the books) get past the wall in other ways? I suspect they can. We have seen that wights are not simply destroyed when crossing the wall, so presumably the wall magic (if any actually exists) is a passive barrier, not an active one that banishes the animation magic or destroys the undead.
In the books, there is a similar character, known in legend as the Night’s King. The Night’s King is a figure from Westeros’ Age of Heroes, a semi-mythical time period in history.