Benjen Stark, White Walkers' connections, Rhaegar's prophecies & Dany vs Jon:
First of all, let me remind you who Benjamin Stark is/was/whatever… he was Ned’s Little brother, see, Ned had three siblings: his older brother Brendan, his pretty sister Lyanna and Benjen.
Benjen was never up to be a part of Robert’s rebelion during the Targaryen crisis, he decided to stay back in Winterfell (well, he stayed because of the known fact that there must be a Stark in Winterfell, always), when Ned came back, Benjen joined the Night’s Watch for his own reasons and soon became the first Ranger.
We saw him in the show the first three episodes of season 1 to never see him again, so let’s begin with all the connections between the White walkers, the Starks and a probably Daenerys vs Jon war:
This theory is based about how Benjen was probably captured by the White Walkers and there are two possibilities here: he was made one of their new commanders OR used as a sacrificed (in season 4 we saw a glimpse at what looks like a high-ranking White Walker & the Stark’s shield that make me believe that he is a White Walker. A picture is worth a thousand words ):
Ehem…
Some readers (including myself) believe that the Starks somehow have an inch in connection to the White walkers or that the Stark’s blood has the answers to how bring down the Wall.
White Walkers cannot pass the Wall because of it’s magic, so, to bring it down they have to use Stark’s blood.
The Wall was made by Bran Stark “The Builder”
And there’s some kind of magic there who connects the Wall to the Stark’s blood.
We have three sides in the show/books: the White Walkers, the red god followers and in the very middle the maesters (the ones who hate magic because they cannot control it); so fire and ice exists in a state of “balance”. And how do they kept that balance? Well, they basically took down that magic, this is were Dany’s dragons came in.
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Dragons have an inexplicable connection to magic, so most things the maesters wrote about dragons is false and this means there’s a chance about more history being falsified, and this is were we talk again about the White Walkers.
Now, a creature like a dragon born of fire is totally linked to the red god followers, but we know so little about the White Walker’s history; in one of the old Nan’s tales the White Walkers appeared thanks to the long night, they battle joining forces with The First Man & The Children Of The Force for a long time and then the last hero came with his dragon steel blade and the war ended (I believe this is a reference to the Valyrian Steel), but then the Wall was built.
We really don’t know much about this last hero, it could be a personification of Azor Ahai.
So, thanks to the association of the last hero’s myth Azor Ahai, we have the valyrian Steel & dragons & White Walker son the other side.
The interesting thing about old Nan’s tales is that they only speak about the White Walkers closing in the last hero, she never talks about him killing them all. And how do you end a war without killing the other side? Easy, you make a deal, a peace treaty.
If the last hero only appeared at the end of the long night is probably a logical thing to assume that he was the intermediary of that peace treaty, right?. You know, he was just a simple warrior or a general.
The Children Of The Force had their own war against The First Man and if they eventually made a deal is not hard to believe that the peace treaty only could have been made with another supernatural force.
Jumping to modern day Westeros, how do you seal a peace treaty between two Houses? With a marriage.
What if the White Walkers built the Wall with their ice magic? And they built it to seal out men from their lands.
Is not hard to believe that over the centuries people started to forgot about the true meaning of the Wall. Now I know we haven’t seen any White Walker Bride but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
Historically the Night’s Queen did exist, we just don’t have enough information about her.
Let’s involve characters with all this facts about the three sides, the Wall and the magic:
The interesting fact about this is that it is implying that the Starks would have White Walkers DNA. They’re the human personification of the Winter, Winter brings Ice and White Walkers are based in Ice Magic.
Means that whatever the finale battle would probably be, the surviving Starks would align themselves with the White Walkers.
Who is the fire of this scenario? Melissandre & Daenerys with her dragons. They’re the personification of fire, House Targaryen’s motto is Fire & Blood.
But why did the White Walkers wait till now to start attacking again? The only reason I find here because all of this facts is that they’re doing it again because of the men’s actions, men are actually NOT holding the peace treaty anymore. They’re colonizing in the North & the beginning of the White Walkers attacks coincide with the reemerging of the dragons. Fire & Ice. This is balance. So the Fire comes back so does Ice.
Here is where we need to talk about Azor Ahai’s prophecy, see, Rhaegar Targaryen was obsessed with the prophecy and what if her understood that to keep that precious balance he had to have a son with Lyanna Stark? To bond Ice & Fire.
We’re assuming by now Jon Snow is the combination of the prophecy:
“I pray for a glimpse of Azor Ahai, and R’hllor shows me only Snow.”
Melissandre, ADWD.
So, if the White Walkers are really connected to the Starks, would it be possible to think that their reappearance is the result of all the Stark’s who were killed? It makes the sound of “Winter is Coming” sounding more like a battle cry than a fearful premonition.
Jon and Daenerys are probably gonna be two sides of this equation. Meaning that depends of which perspective you take, one of them is the hero and one is the villain.
There are a lot of people who believe Daenerys will become the main villain of the series, for now is just a theory but when you look for evidences in Rhaegar’s prophecies like the blue flower growing in the Wall of Ice, you start seeing Jon as the prince who was promised.