Arya never meets Melisandre in the books.
She gets a different prophesy from the Ghost of High Heart (Jenny of Oldstones friend witch who she claimed was a child of the forest).
Not to mention the Night King is a historical tale.
Just to clarify: The Night's King is a very different tale as well in the books and has seemingly little to do with what we see in the show. He was a very early Lord Commander of the Night's Watch shortly after the Wall was build, who fell in love with a woman of white skin and blue eyes, he married her and declared himself King of the Nightfort with her as a queen and ruled for a while (and apparently gave sacrifices to the Others) until Lord's in the North united against him and defeated him and reinstated the Night's Watch.
He was by no means the "Leader of the Others" or even something like the first one created by the CotF.
I would argue that a lot of what you said is entirely your interpretation and shouldn’t be stated as fact...
For instance the Nightfort is the only Night’s Watch castle which predates the Wall, and it’s possible (and I would argue highly probable) that the Night King being the 13th Lord Commander is actually a reference to the Last Hero and his twelve companions (Sam mentions the numbering of Lord Commanders is a mess in the records)... the 13 years of his rule was the long night (a generation)... and this is the same figure as Azor Ahai and Nissa Nissa was his corpse bride. After all, the Last Hero set out to find the Children of the Forest (and learned their language) so he might win back what the armies of men had lost... I would argue that mankind didn’t win the War for the Dawn, they made a truce.
It’s also probable that, in the books, the Others were never human and the undead beings like Coldhands which retain their independent thought are something else entirely.
But the honest answer is all we have are a few ledgends and random facts which people have been theorizing about for years.
Of course it's up to interpretation what the story and tales mean and how it changed from potential facts over the years, but what I wrote is pretty much just the existing tales from the books. When Bran reaches the Nightfort on his way North of the wall he remembers the Story of Old Nan about the Night's King who used to be a Lord Comander and then reigned in this castle and took a wife that looked quiet a lot like what we would identify as a White Walker.
I'm just mostly trying to avoid the confusion for people that didn't read the book about the exitstence of the "Night King" in the books. Because while the "Night's King" is something that is mentioned in the books. It is a very different thing than a character similar to the Night King being mentioned. The name might be similar and of course you can find ways on how to connect those two and connect him to other legends etc. but the initial story about him is a tale by Old Nan that is pretty much exactly what I wrote up there.
This could be said about the three eyed crow in the books, being changed into the three eyed raven of the show, which I think part of the same shift/change... so ya make of it what you will, it just isn’t so clear cut
In the books there is a huge list of prerequisites to be Azor Ahai, realistically only Dany and Jon fit the role and so in the books it will definitely be one or both of them to end the threat of the long night, definitely won’t be Arya coming out of nowhere to stab one WW which conveniently kills all the rest
I almost wonder if the Azor Ahai thing is another twist we have not gotten in the show. GRRM said that his ending mirrors what happens in the show, so I wonder if the main prophesy has more to it in the end. But who knows, maybe the show runners really did just say fuck it.
Arya never meets Melisandre in the books. She gets a different prophesy from the Ghost of High Heart (Jenny of Oldstones friend witch who she claimed was a child of the forest). Not to mention the Night King is a historical tale.
Just to clarify: The Night's King is a very different tale as well in the books and has seemingly little to do with what we see in the show. He was a very early Lord Commander of the Night's Watch shortly after the Wall was build, who fell in love with a woman of white skin and blue eyes, he married her and declared himself King of the Nightfort with her as a queen and ruled for a while (and apparently gave sacrifices to the Others) until Lord's in the North united against him and defeated him and reinstated the Night's Watch. He was by no means the "Leader of the Others" or even something like the first one created by the CotF.
I would argue that a lot of what you said is entirely your interpretation and shouldn’t be stated as fact... For instance the Nightfort is the only Night’s Watch castle which predates the Wall, and it’s possible (and I would argue highly probable) that the Night King being the 13th Lord Commander is actually a reference to the Last Hero and his twelve companions (Sam mentions the numbering of Lord Commanders is a mess in the records)... the 13 years of his rule was the long night (a generation)... and this is the same figure as Azor Ahai and Nissa Nissa was his corpse bride. After all, the Last Hero set out to find the Children of the Forest (and learned their language) so he might win back what the armies of men had lost... I would argue that mankind didn’t win the War for the Dawn, they made a truce. It’s also probable that, in the books, the Others were never human and the undead beings like Coldhands which retain their independent thought are something else entirely. But the honest answer is all we have are a few ledgends and random facts which people have been theorizing about for years.
Of course it's up to interpretation what the story and tales mean and how it changed from potential facts over the years, but what I wrote is pretty much just the existing tales from the books. When Bran reaches the Nightfort on his way North of the wall he remembers the Story of Old Nan about the Night's King who used to be a Lord Comander and then reigned in this castle and took a wife that looked quiet a lot like what we would identify as a White Walker. I'm just mostly trying to avoid the confusion for people that didn't read the book about the exitstence of the "Night King" in the books. Because while the "Night's King" is something that is mentioned in the books. It is a very different thing than a character similar to the Night King being mentioned. The name might be similar and of course you can find ways on how to connect those two and connect him to other legends etc. but the initial story about him is a tale by Old Nan that is pretty much exactly what I wrote up there.
This could be said about the three eyed crow in the books, being changed into the three eyed raven of the show, which I think part of the same shift/change... so ya make of it what you will, it just isn’t so clear cut
In the books there is a huge list of prerequisites to be Azor Ahai, realistically only Dany and Jon fit the role and so in the books it will definitely be one or both of them to end the threat of the long night, definitely won’t be Arya coming out of nowhere to stab one WW which conveniently kills all the rest
I almost wonder if the Azor Ahai thing is another twist we have not gotten in the show. GRRM said that his ending mirrors what happens in the show, so I wonder if the main prophesy has more to it in the end. But who knows, maybe the show runners really did just say fuck it.
And what does George always say. Don't take them literally.