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734755, I really liked that theory at first, but it wouldn't make sense.
Posted by stravinskian, Wed May-01-19 10:11 AM

According to the story we've seen, the Night King was one of the "First Men," from many thousands of years ago. But the Targaryens only came to Westeros a few hundred years ago.

(Actually, it IS possible, chronologically at least, that the Night King could be a Stark! The Starks claim to be descended from the First Men. One of the other fan-theories floating around involved an ancient Stark who led the Night's Watch and made it so big that they started calling him a King, the "Night's King." This story doesn't exactly fit in with the show's origin story either, though.)


The fact that the Night King can ride a dragon is presumably just because he directly, psychically controls that particular dragon, just as he does for the Walkers and the Wights.

Also, the claim that only Targaryens can ride dragons is something that was more true in the books than in the show. Jon Snow was able to ride Rhaegal, and as we know that's in part because he's a Targaryen. However Dany didn't seem all that surprised that Jon was able to ride him. Given how paranoid she's been about her position as the heir, you'd think she'd suddenly get a lot more suspicious of Jon if his being able to ride Rhaegal meant he was a Targaryen.

As for surviving the fire, he's a being of ice magic. We've seen the White Walkers put out fires a bunch of times. Maybe he just created a magical layer of super-cold air around himself that snuffed out any bit of the fire that approached him.