Head-canon about White walkers BLOOD-MOON - GOT prequel
So, I have a head-canon/conjecture/theory about the White-walkers. I know it’s long, but hear me out... As you can see it mentioned again and again that the Story of the age of heroes is not really what it's told to be and the LONG NIGHT and the events of it may not be as they are told to be. I have this head-canon that White-walkers in the previous age, might have been a different species altogether with more humanity in them than what this version in GOT is. Conjecture no.1 There could be 2 types of White-walkers. 1- That were a naturally evolved species, with power of winter sans the raising the dead part. This species might have had very long life-spans but were not immortal and also able to procreate by themselves. This species were more like the children of the forests, worshipped the old-gods. With Winter magic and their own ecosystem. 2- Second species was created by infusing the magic of the 1st species of white-walkers with Dragon’s destructive magic and human body. They were essentially an AI designed with the singular purpose to destroy the forces of MEN that were encroaching upon the territories of the old-god’s and the magical species of the north. Conjecture no. 2 But even if there is just ONE kind of white-walker and all of them were created by the SHOW’s Night King, A species can evolve over time. It could be that a faction declared and raised themselves to be a different species altogether with more of a will to survive and flourish. They might have the kind of parallel with Children of the forest like that of Modern day stories of AI's created by humans as a weapon or aid, becoming sentient and gaining a consciousness and will of their own. It could be that the OLD WHITE-WALKERS from the Long night were not the villians but the heroes trying to fight a war for their right to exist and survive. Perhaps after major losses of life and their original species numbers, they decided to build the wall with help of magic of the children of the forests who created them and take their species to the land of always winter for their survival.
It could be that these factions in the WHITE WALKERS were also at odds with one another. There was one that wanted to co-exist with humans(FACTION A) and thrive on their own (supplemented by the old gods) And A FACTION B that wanted to kill all living things and dominate it all. Because White walkers are not a species that need resources (As far as they have been established in the canon). At the end of the long night this Faction A, could have been able to broker a deal with the humans and children of forest in order to defeat Faction B, and there could have been a pact for humans to supply their unwanted off-spring to be converted into White-walkers for their species to keep thriving and keep worshiping and preserve the Old Gods’ dominion over the TRUE north, and Faction A would safe-guard the remnant of Faction B up in the lands of always winter in order to ensure survival of all three sides. It could be that the reason “There should always be a STARK in Winterfell is because, ancient white walker magic could have been a supplement to the building of Winterfell and because Starks themselves might have white-walker blood and hence the natural forces of NORTH always support them.
BUT even if White-walkers did not have two species. It could be that because the pact of providing White walkers with human children was broken and outright demonized after the whole night king thing, and less and less numbers were given to supplement them, over thousands of years, their numbers dwindled until there were none left and the FactionB started to gain power again. They warred with Children of the Forest, who were also suffering because of the Old-tree Gods’ dominion was being destroyed with more and more Weirwoods being destroyed down South, and Faction B started taking over again wanting to subjugate the whole of Planetos and decided that to save a few of their numbers they would dominate the whole Planetos using dark magic and raising the dead and transform human babies to supplement their species and dominate Planetos indefinitely. A last ditch effort, that all hinged on ONE White-walker, that fails in GOT. In case of their being 2 species of WhiteWalkers: There could be a twist coming that even after the events of GOT, there are still WHITE-WALKERS in the land of Always Winter. With a lot of other unknown winter creatures that are not Zombies but actual living creatures.. and perhaps also remnants of an actual ICE-Dragon. .... WELL... that is my head canon anyway... I am still working on it... LOL... sorry for the loooooong theory/ head-canon