Waymar Royce’s sword froze because of the cold, then shattered while he fought the Other. We know that their swords do shatter steel as we saw in the prologue, AGoT. I think that the armor of the Others being able to withstand ordinary blades makes sense, even though we have not seen it in the text yet. For the most part, the information we are given can be verified. There are interesting things contained in the passage quoted above. No Valyria, no Valyrian steel, so it can’t be the dragonsteel that is mentioned in the scroll that Sam found at Castle Black, although it’s possible that this dragonsteel was a precursor to Valyrian steel. Upon hearing the word dragonsteel, Jon’s mind as well as Sam’s goes directly to Valyrian steel, an assumption that is likely to be wrong since Valyria was not around when the Long Night fell.Īt this point in the story, we don’t know if Valyrian steel will be efficient against the Others, we don’t know how it will behave in the intense cold that the Others bring with them.īut the point stands. The Knight of the Laughing Tree is the little crannogman. But it seems like the answers to the question might be contained for the most part in ACoK.Īs general rule of thumb, when it comes to mysteries, the first answer is usually incorrect.
“That was my first thought as well.” Samwell I, AFfC 5Īnd just like that, we were all thrown for a loop that we are still circling years later. Supposedly they could not stand against it.” “I found one account of the Long Night that spoke of the last hero slaying Others with a blade of dragonsteel. Fire will dismay them, though, and they are vulnerable to obsidian.” He remembered the one he had faced in the haunted forest, and how it had seemed to melt away when he stabbed it with the dragonglass Jon had made for him. “The armor of the Others is proof against most ordinary blades, if the tales can be believed, and their own swords are so cold they shatter steel.
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