Do White Walker Babies Grow Up?

As we know, White Walkers are a magical humanoid, so it seems likely that they would grow up like normal humans. But that would mean that the baby from season four probably isn't a grown-up White Walker yet, which would indicate he isn't ready to join any invading armies.
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What happens to White Walker babies?

Craster's Keep functioned as a sanctuary for the Night's Watch, but it came at the cost of the crows having to tolerate how Craster 'married' his daughters and continuously bred children from incest. What do the White Walkers do with the babies that Craster gives them? They turn them into more White Walkers.
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How do White Walkers grow?

The Night King Turns Craster's Sons Into White Walkers

The conversion of Craster's sons into baby White Walkers is the only way the Night King and his brood can procreate. Indeed, even during the Age of Heroes, the Night's Queen bore no children for the mysterious 13th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.
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Do the White Walkers age?

They certainly age or else the Night King would be accompanied by mounted White Walker babies. One can say with reasonable certainty that neither the Night King nor Leaf die of old age.
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Why did White Walkers want babies?

The White Walkers want life from male babies. Since they're babies, the Night King can change them into White Walkers (his army generals) and train them as they grow up. Craster's sons were given to the White Walkers, and inturn the White Walkers protected him from wildlings and left him alone.
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Why are there no female White Walkers?

Either way, it's all down to selection bias. The White Walkers were made from men. The vast majority of humans they encounter are men or boys, and as Game of Thrones keeps reminding us, old patterns are hard to shake off. This doesn't mean we'll never see any female White Walkers in Game of Thrones.
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Is the Night King a stark?

According to Old Nan, the Night's King may in fact be (hold on to your small clothes) a Stark! If that isn't enough, legend has it that the Night's King was not just any Stark, he was King Brandon Stark's brother—or possibly Brandon Stark himself!
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How long is White Walker aged?

Finally, it's transferred to oak casks to mature for a minimum of three years. The casks are one of the most important things to affect the color and flavor of the finished whisky. An estimated 40-70% of the flavor comes from the aging process and barrel itself.
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Why can't the White Walkers swim?

2. White Walkers are allergic to salt. This theory not only covers the idea of the Night King's army swimming across, but also why they don't use their magical winter abilities to freeze the water and walk across. And it's simple, really: White Walkers are allergic to salt.
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Why do White Walkers have blue eyes?

The collagen spacing of their “winter eyes” reflects blue light, making them appear an eerie blue.
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What are White Walkers weaknesses?

Yeah, it's not easy, as Sam discovered the terrifying way. White Walkers are vulnerable to blades made from dragonglass or Valyrian steel. Jon Snow uses his Valyrian steel sword Longclaw to take out a White Walker at the battle of Hardhome in Season 5.
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Why do White Walkers want Bran?

Exactly why The Night King insists on killing Bran is later summed up by the Three-Eyed Raven himself in season 8, episode 2, "A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms," by stating “He wants to erase this world, and I am its memory.” Since the Three-Eyed Raven is basically a living record of mankind within the world of Game Of ...
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Why do White Walkers only come in winter?

The terms of the pact were simple: The White Walkers would chill out in the Land of Always Winter, if the humans left them alone and vowed never to use fire magic (like dragonglass and Valyrian steel) against them again.
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Are the White Walkers gone forever?

However, their plans were thwarted when Arya Stark killed the Night King at the Battle of Winterfell, resulting in the permanent extinction of the White Walkers and the end of the Great War.
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Why did the White Walkers wake up?

'This happens after Benjen goes to the Wall and Ned's brother and father die… He goes to war with Robert…and leaves Winterfell without a blood Stark. Ned Stark is the reason the white walkers woke up.
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Can White Walkers have Children?

Since they cannot make children of their own — being frozen zombies kind of makes that difficult — the walkers turn abandoned children into children of their own.
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Is the Night King A targaryen?

No, the Night King is not a Targaryen.

The Night King isn't the leader of the White Walkers. Instead, he's a legendary historical figure who supposedly betrayed the Night's Watch to marry a “corpse queen” and then crowned himself a king.
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Do the White Walkers get a dragon?

But the loss of Viserion — named for Dany's late brother Viserys, who himself died back in season one — does a great deal to level the playing field between Team Humanity and Team White Walkers. True, Dany still does have two dragons to the White Walkers' one: her own Drogon, and the currently riderless Rhaegal.
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How are White Walkers born?

Based on what we've seen, the White Walkers are at least 8,000 years old: In season six, we learned that the Children of the Forest created the very first Walker as a weapon to combat the first men to arrive on Westeros. (They did so by plunging a piece of dragonglass into a man's heart.)
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How long is Walker Blue Aged?

Finally, it's transferred to oak casks to mature for a minimum of three years. The casks are one of the most important things to affect the color and flavor of the finished whisky. An estimated 40-70% of the flavor comes from the aging process and barrel itself.
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Who became the first White Walker?

The Night King appears in a vision being observed by Bran and the Three-eyed Raven, where they witness him as a human being forcibly transformed into the first White Walker by the Children of the Forest by impaling him with a dragonglass dagger.
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Is Night Bran a king?

Bran Became The Night King By Accident

People are always warning Bran about warging for too long, so the idea here is that he tries to warg into the captive First Man to help him escape, only his consciousness becomes trapped in his body and Bran has essentially been the Night King this entire time.
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Can Night King speak?

He could raise the dead. He had strange, devilish horns on his head. But a lot of the fear he inspired came simply from what we didn't know about him. He didn't speak, save in the form of horrific corpse-art installations that were rather hard to decipher.
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Why was night king immune?

Just as with the White Walkers under his control, the Night King was immune to fire due to the extreme cold he radiated.
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