OT: The Long Night (Spoilers)
I think that not many people truly have a notion of how powerful an undead invasion is... if it truly goes as I picture it, then I seriously doubt that the humans will put up much of a resistance.
First, we have the Others themselves, practically unbeatable in melee unless by a very special type of material, which, almost no one knows about. It's going to be a slaughter against any army that dares face them in an open battle. Then we have the wights themselves, and that's the question, the true might of the Others. Now, look at it this way, winter is coming, a winter never seen since the Long Night. Lots of people are going to die, either by starvation or cold, in a land already torn by the War of the Five Kings, with possibly another one coming (the Three Queens that LF mentioned). The Others already have a TON of wights I bet, from all the killing they've been doing to the wildlings all this time, and now it's like Christmas for them, the wildlings have been defeated, they are all spread out, confused and disorganized, yet all in the same location more or less. Plus all those corpses from the battle, skirmishes, etc, it's a wight-feast. Then, assuming the wall goes down and they really invade, who's gonna stop them? As they move south, they will destroy any initial forces they encounter due to unpreparedness, they will have a huge amount of fresh corpses to raise as they pass, dead from the winter. Each enemy casualty is another wight. And now let's talk about the wights. They don't feel fear, so they can't rout in battle. They don't need to sleep, they don't need to eat, they require no supply trains, no rest, no morale, nothing, they just go forward, with their cold hands and superhuman strength (yeah, they turned a NW guy's head around completely) arrows, swords, are nothing to them, only fire can kill them. Now imagine, armies of 50-100 thousand are referred in the books. Soldiers requiring food, training, soldiers hailing from all sorts of place in a way that those places still maintain a reasonable "civil" population. But the Others don't need especially trained soldiers or equipment or supplies. They only need dead bodies, no matter if they are women, men, farmers, nobles, weak, strong, old, children, doesn't matter, as long as it's a dead body. We are talking about whole populations here, all of them moving as one with supernatural strength. It's going to be a supernatural army guided by supernatural creatures of ice mounted in giant ice spiders numbering HUNDREDS of thousands easily or more. And as they advance south, and as they fight battles and conquer castles and cities, their numbers will rise. I really don't see how they could be stopped, except by something really drastic like Dragons or everyone uniting and using obsidian or some prophecy of a legendary hero coming true. And even then, what? Apparently the last time humans won with the help of the Children of the Forest, but they are gone. Let's just hope now that Bran, Coldhands and the Three-Eyed-Crow really are up to something, something that will allow the humans to strike at whatever the Others have as a "commanding centre", and stop the invasion dead in it's tracks, because, otherwise, there's no way in the seven hells they are going to win by miltary strength alone.
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ed. Im also assuming that Jon will have the help of dragons thanks to Dany
Originally Posted by gapper4
