Editing Others (section)

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Waymar Others.jpg|thumb|Ser [[Waymar Royce]] discovers the Others, by Amok ©]]
During a ranging [[beyond the Wall]], Ser [[Waymar Royce]] is confronted by a group of at least five Others who speak an icy language. Waymar duels one of the Others, but the [[ranger]] is blinded when his sword shatters. The laughing group butchers Waymar, who then rises as a [[wight]] to slay [[Will]].{{ref|AGOT|0}}

Lord Commander [[Jeor Mormont]], in conversation with [[Tyrion Lannister]] at [[Castle Black]], refers to white walkers being glimpsed by fisherfolk on the shore near [[Eastwatch-by-the-Sea]]. Tyrion discounts them, however, by mentioning mythical [[merlings]].{{Ref|aGoT|21}}

[[Old Nan]] tells [[Bran Stark]] about the [[Long Night]], when white walkers moved through woods.{{ref|AGOT|24}}

Traveling in the [[wolfswood]], Bran encounters six [[wildlings]] and deserters from the [[Night's Watch]], who discuss whether to take the boy hostage and return north to sell him to [[Mance Rayder]], the [[King-Beyond-the-Wall]]. Out of fear for encountering the white walkers, one of the men decides not to do so.{{Ref|AGOT|37}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
At [[Craster's Keep]], [[Gilly]] tells [[Jon Snow]] that [[Craster]] gives up his infant sons to the cold gods; Jon determines she is speaking of the Others.{{ref|ACOK|23}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Samwell Dragonglass.jpg|thumb|[[Samwell Tarly]] with an [[obsidian]] dagger, by Amok ©]]
Encamped at the [[Fist of the First Men]], the [[Night's Watch]] hear three horn blasts signifying Others. The brothers are then attacked by [[wights]] in the [[fight at the Fist]].{{ref|ASOS|Prologue}}{{ref|ASOS|18}}

While the survivors retreat through the [[haunted forest]] back to Craster's Keep, an Other knocks away [[Grenn]]'s torch and kills [[Small Paul]]. [[Samwell Tarly]] stabs it in the throat with a [[dragonglass]] dagger, however, and Sam hears a sound similar to the cracking of ice beneath one's foot. The Other's armor, flesh, and bones melt away as a result, dissolving away until nothing remains.{{ref|ASOS|18}} Sam is dubbed Sam the Slayer, which he finds mocking.{{ref|ASOS|33}}{{ref|ASOS|75}}

During the [[mutiny at Craster's Keep]], one of Craster's wives warns Sam that Craster's sons will soon arrive for [[monster|Gilly's newborn boy]].{{ref|ASOS|33}}

At the parley during the [[battle beneath the Wall]], Mance Rayder reveals to Jon that he is trying to lead the [[free folk]] south of the Wall to protect them from the Others and their wights.{{ref|ASOS|73}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Jon Snow, now [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]], has Sam research the Others in the [[vaults of Castle Black]], but Sam finds limited information about them. Sam mentions the [[last hero]] slaying Others with [[dragonsteel]], which makes Jon think of [[Valyrian steel]].{{ref|AFFC|5}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Jon Snow and [[Tormund]] discuss their common foe, the Others, when Tormund's four thousand wildlings cross the Wall. Jon asks if the Others troubled the wildlings on their march to the Wall, and Tormund informs him that the Others had been with them all the way, though they never attacked the free folk in force. Rings of fire protected the free folk camps at night, though some willdings were lost if their fires went out.{{ref|ADWD|58}}