Jorah shows up to defend her and the two fight off as many wights as they can. Drogon is swarmed by wights and takes to the skies, leaving Dany defenseless on the ground. Dany burns Jon a path into the castle and he resumes his pursuit of the Night King. Melisandre appears and delivers more cryptic messages about Arya shutting many blue eyes forever and defying the God of Death, causing her to run off to an unknown destination.Įveryone who’s still alive is quickly overwhelmed by the now-reanimated dead. Beric and The Hound arrive to defend her, and Beric gives his life in the process.
Arya dispatches a bunch of wights on the walls because she’s probably the best fighter Winterfell has, but even she’s quickly overwhelmed and has to flee. The wights then make it over the walls and break down the gates, leaving little in the way of defense for the living.įan favorite Lyanna Mormont is crushed by an undead giant, but before he can completely squeeze the life out of her, she manages to stab him in the eye with an obsidian blade in what is one of the most awesome deaths of the entire series. Though the armies of Winterfell are able to buy some time by lighting a long trench filled with spikes on fire, the Night King – who is flying around on the undead dragon Viserion – commands a number of wights to pile on top of the trenches, creating gaps in the blaze and bridges of corpses for the others to walk over. If they can’t do that, then there’s no chance of winning.Īs the battle goes on, Edd Tollet is killed saving Sam and the remaining fighters outside of the castle are forced to fall back. Jon and Dany eventually leave to find the Night King – remember, their victory depends on being able to kill the Night King before the dead can overwhelm Winterfell. The warriors meeting the wights on the fields outside of Winterfell are hopelessly outnumbered, and though they do at one point receive some help from Daenerys and Jon on her two remaining dragons, the Night King quickly summons a blizzard that makes air support difficult.
Pretty much from the get-go, this battle does not go well for the living.
Only a few Dothraki and Jorah return from that early clash, and the rest of the rest of Winterfell’s army prepares to face the dead head on. We never really get a good look at the size of the wight army in this shot because it’s so dark (which is a problem throughout most of the episode), but it’s big enough to take out the thousands of Dothraki riders in a matter of minutes. Once Davos decides to let Melisandre keep her head, the Dothraki – led by Jorah Mormont and Ghost, Jon’s direwolf – charge ahead and begin the attack.
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