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[[File:The other girl by AniaEm.jpg|thumb|300px|Wight, dead raised up by the [[Others]]. Art by AniaEm©]]
 
[[File:The other girl by AniaEm.jpg|thumb|300px|Wight, dead raised up by the [[Others]]. Art by AniaEm©]]
'''Wights''' are dead men or creatures raised up by the [[Others]], seemingly when touched by the cold that accompanies them. {{Ref|aGoT|52}} Men who fall in battle against the [[Others]] must be burned, or else the dead will rise again as their thralls.  
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'''Wights''' are dead men or creatures raised up by the [[Others]], seemingly when touched by the cold that accompanies them. {{Ref|aGoT|52}} Anyone who falls against the [[Others]] must be burned, or else the dead will rise again as their thralls.  
 
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Fear of their own dead becoming wights leads the [[wildlings]] to burn them.  
Fear of wights leads the [[wildlings]] to burn their dead.
 
 
==Appearance==
 
==Appearance==
 
The appearance of wights depends entirely on the condition of the corpse when it is raised. Some are lifelike, while others are badly rotten although the process of decay has been halted. All are easily identified by their eyes having turned bright blue {{Ref|aGoT|Prologue}}{{Ref|aSoS|33}} and their hands and feet black and swollen with pooled and congealed blood. {{Ref|aDwD|4}}  
 
The appearance of wights depends entirely on the condition of the corpse when it is raised. Some are lifelike, while others are badly rotten although the process of decay has been halted. All are easily identified by their eyes having turned bright blue {{Ref|aGoT|Prologue}}{{Ref|aSoS|33}} and their hands and feet black and swollen with pooled and congealed blood. {{Ref|aDwD|4}}  
 
 
==About==
 
==About==
 
Wights are supposedly attracted to warm blood and will attack with surprising strength.  
 
Wights are supposedly attracted to warm blood and will attack with surprising strength.  

Revision as of 02:01, 11 November 2012

Wight, dead raised up by the Others. Art by AniaEm©

Wights are dead men or creatures raised up by the Others, seemingly when touched by the cold that accompanies them. [1] Anyone who falls against the Others must be burned, or else the dead will rise again as their thralls. Fear of their own dead becoming wights leads the wildlings to burn them.

Appearance

The appearance of wights depends entirely on the condition of the corpse when it is raised. Some are lifelike, while others are badly rotten although the process of decay has been halted. All are easily identified by their eyes having turned bright blue [2][3] and their hands and feet black and swollen with pooled and congealed blood. [4]

About

Wights are supposedly attracted to warm blood and will attack with surprising strength.

It appears that wights retain at least some of their former memories, since the wight of Othor seemed to know where Lord Commander Jeor Mormont slept and who he was as it tried to kill him, and the wight of Thistle recognises Varamyr Sixskins even warged into the body of a wolf.

Being dead, Wights feel no pain and will continue to fight regardless of injury. Though they can be stopped by total dismemberment, their limbs will continue to move if detached from their bodies. When a wight is destroyed, the blue disappears from its eyes. [1]

Wights appear to be able to remain in a state of stasis, such as outside the hillside entrance to the cave of the three-eyed crow. The snows have buried most of the dead men, but they are still there, hidden, frozen, waiting. [5]

Weakness

They are highly flammable and will be quickly consumed if set aflame. It is unknown at this time whether wights can cross the Wall on their own, although corpses brought through the Wall can apparently still reanimate as wights. Burning corpses appears to prevent them from being reanimated by the Others to become wights.

Known Wights

A list of individual characters that have been turned into wights over the course of the series:

References and Notes