They suffered heavy losses which resulted in them disappearing from Westeros. The battle against the Walkers took its toll on the Children of the Forest. He also founded the castle of Winterfell, House Stark and the Night's Watch. They were successful and the White Walkers were eventually banished back to the north.īrandon Stark ('Brandon the Builder') raised the Wall with magic to prevent the Walkers from returning. Having a common foe forced the Children and the First Men to unite to defeat the Walkers. The White Walkers saw the darkness as an opportunity to invade Westeros from the north, causing immense suffering and destruction. That harsh winter was followed by a night that spanned years. After all, going away is also a way “for the others at home to appreciate you.A great winter descended over Westeros, lasting for generations. As Wlaschiha suggests, her return might actually be a welcome one. This has been a growing experience for Arya, one where she went halfway across the world to find out she was really herself and to go back home. She posed as a boy and everybody but him believed it and so already when she was a little girl, he could see that she had quite some talent to do these things or to become a different person, and when she left Westeros, she was still a little girl and now, over the course of her training, she’s grown up and now she goes back to Westeros and she’s a totally different, yeah, she’s a totally different person.
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When he first met her, he immediately recognized the potential in her. “That’s why in the end, when he realized she’d managed to escape the Waif and kill her, he was also pleased because his student had excelled,” Wlaschiha said. In way, that also explains the smile-he’s pleasantly surprised to see that Arya took to the training so well she killed the Waif. As I said, death is a part of life, so if Arya had died, Jaqen would have probably regretted it or would have been sorry, but that would have only meant that she wasn’t the person that he’d been looking for. … I don’t know if she had to be that mean to her, but ultimately, I mean, trying to kill her… when Jaqen told the Waif, ‘Go ahead and kill her, but don’t let her suffer,’ I think the Faceless Men, in their philosophy, they’re kind of evolved all those human things. She didn’t want anyone in the House of Black and White who wouldn’t be ready or wouldn’t be fit to be a Faceless Man. It’s that the Waif was ideologically pure, and only wanted people of like mind in the House of Black and White. To him, it’s not about the Waif being jealous of Arya. He also sees the Waif’s story very differently that some. I think that Faceless Men, they certainly have an interest what’s going on in Westeros, otherwise why would he just shown up out of the blue, in Season 2 and picked Arya and offered her to train her? So there must be some sort of interest and I think, yeah, what’s the point of training her if she can’t put that training to use? He didn’t train her to become a Faceless Man and stay in the House of Black and White in Braavos forever. I mean, that’s the reason he trained her. In my opinion, it was clear from the beginning. He says that, to him, it was always obvious that Arya trying to be “No One” was like a teenager trying to deny who they are in order to be one of the popular kids, and that the Faceless Men are using that for their own ends. Tom Wlaschiha, who plays Jaqen, spoke to Access Hollywood over the weekend on his character’s choice to let Arya leave Braavos alive. We know that H’ghar let her go-he even seemed to smile a bit, like a proud older brother finally seeing her stop trying to pretend she was cut out to be anything other than herself when she declared that she was “Arya Stark of Winterfell.”
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But we’ve seen what the Faceless Men are capable of. I mean, I know, at the end of “No One” she was pointing Needle to his heart and everything. If Arya does show up in Westeros next week, part of the reason she’ll be doing that is because Jaqen H’ghar let her go. But I think it’s pretty clear that Arya is heading back to Westeros posthaste after the events of “No One.” Many fans (including some of my co-workers) have fantasies about her turning up in the finale, possibly giving her regards to the Freys and Lannisters. It’s too bad Arya wasn’t around to see her older sister finally join the ranks of Stark murderers.
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Afterward, Sophie Turner spoke about her character finally getting “her first kill.” This passed weekend, “Battle of the Bastards” spent a good deal of time focusing on Sansa Stark (Lannister Bolton) and her attempt to take back Winterfell from the Boltons.