Why do White Walkers have blue eyes?

Since they're all newly dead, they retain their mostly human appearance. The big physical difference is that no matter what color eyes the person had while they were living, all wights have glowing blue eyes to match the White Walkers'.
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What do blue eyes mean in Game of Thrones?

“Blue eyes” references the Night King, who Arya ends up killing with her Valyrian steel dagger. The Night King's death resulted in the entire white walker army collapsing to the ground, meaning Arya is the one who effectively won the battle between the living and the dead.
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What are White Walker eyes?

They are capable of reviving any dead creature as wights, including horses, giants, and even dragons. They cannot, however, revive a corpse into servitude if it has been burned. Once a wight has been created, its eyes turn an icy blue, similar to the White Walkers' own eyes. Wights serve their masters without question.
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Are White Walkers just zombies?

True to form, the White Walkers—or wights, as they are sometimes called—are resurrected bodies. Technically, by that definition alone, they are ghouls, not “zombies,” but there is, of course, way more to the Game of Thrones convention.
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What Colour eyes do White Walkers have?

White Walkers look similar to humans, but with flesh made of something like brittle ice and with bright blue eyes.
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Why do White Walkers collect babies?

The Night King Turns Craster's Sons Into White Walkers

As for why Game of Thrones' babies, and not adults, are candidates for being turned into White Walkers, this is likely because infants are easier to mold into whatever the Night King wishes.
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Why did the White Walkers turn a baby?

Well, according to the books, this is how "the others" procreate. 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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Can White Walkers talk?

Yes White Walkers can talk. In the show the language they use is called Skroth. It makes a sound like crackling ice similar to the books and we also see a White Walker communicate to the wights and other White Walkers when it screams near Sam.
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What woke the White Walkers?

'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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Is Bran the Night King?

The Night King is a show-only character, he doesn't exist in the books (at least not yet). Bran being the Night King would be a gigantic step away from the source material. Like, so big it changes the entire story.
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Was the first Night King a stark?

A Storm of Swords

She said some people believe Night's King was a Bolton, a Magnar of Skagos, an Umber, a Flint, a Norrey, or a Woodfoot. However, she identifies Night's King as a Stark of Winterfell and brother to the King of Winter and suggests his name was Brandon.
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Who killed the first White Walker?

Sam Tarly is the one who unwittingly discovered a way to kill White Walkers: dragonglass, which is basically the GOT version of obsidian.
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How are White Walkers born?

The White Walkers were originally First Men themselves, before being captured by the Children of the Forest to be changed into weapons. The Children of the Forest pressed dragonglass daggers into the chests of these First Men to create the first White Walkers.
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Who has Arya killed with green eyes?

The elephant-loving royal is one of many people with green eyes in the books. However, she's the only green-eyed person on Arya's kill list.
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Which green eyes did Arya shut?

Accepting Littlefinger as the green eyes Arya was destined to kill means changing the order of Melisandre's prophecy, from "brown eyes, blue eyes, green eyes" to "brown eyes, green eyes, blue eyes," although not only is there nothing to say that Melisandre was placing a specific timeline on her words, that's exactly ...
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What did the red woman say to Arya?

Back in season three Arya came into contact with Melisandre, the Red Woman (Carice van Houten), who looked deep into Arya's eyes and foretold: “I see a darkness in you, and in that darkness, eyes staring back at me.
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Is Benjen Stark a White Walker?

You guessed it, Benjen is a White Walker...

They shoved a piece of dragonglass in his chest, which stopped him from falling to the control of the unfriendly White Walkers. That's why he was able to maintain loyalty to his family and help Bran and Meera.
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Why did the White Walkers ignore Sam?

Since Sam saw firsthand the enormity of the White Walkers and their army, he could spread the truth which would result in more fear. Essentially, the White Walkers could have wanted Sam to travel back to the Wall and inform the Night's Watch of what was coming.
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Why can't the Night King be burned?

So, it shouldn't be a shock to anyone that he was able to withstand the direct blaze from Drogon's fire. And his immunity to fire doesn't have anything to do with a possible Targaryen lineage but rather everything to do with his magic. The only way to defeat him is with Valyrian steel, and that's just what Arya does.
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What did the Night Walkers want?

As revealed ahead of "The Long Night", the Night King's target was Bran Stark, or rather, the Three-Eyed Raven. His goal was to erase Westeros, and that started with the Three-Eyed Raven, who served its memory. In order to wipe out humankind, he needs to destroy the keeper of its stories.
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Can White Walkers not go in water?

They can't swim, but they can't drown either

Bits of rotting flesh on bone probably aren't too buoyant in real life, either, so it's no surprise that every wight that set foot in water sank like a stone. But with no need for life-giving oxygen, you can just walk around down there!
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Why did the Night King not talk?

The King in the North and Joramun, the King-Beyond-the-Wall, joined forces to defeat him. After he was killed, it was discovered that he had been making human sacrifices to the Others - the White Walkers - and all records of him were destroyed, and uttering his name was forbidden, so it became lost to history.
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How did Uncle Benjen survive?

Instead, he and his men were ambushed by White Walkers and one of them stabbed Benjen in the gut with a sword made out of ice. He was left to die but our favorite little mythical beings, the children of the forest came and saved him.
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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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Why was the Night King created?

Aside from being a symbol of death, the creation of the Night King was a way to add more history to the fictional universe. The series had the opportunity to dive deeper into the mythology of White Walkers by tying in their creation to the Children of the Forest and the First Men.
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