<P> Sam Tarly kills an Other with a dragonglass dagger in A Storm of Swords (2000). His former comrade Small Paul is killed and reanimated as a wight . The undead Paul is unfazed by the dragonglass but Sam is able to put him down with fire . Bran Stark recalls the story of the Night's King, a Stark and the 13th Commander of the Night's Watch who had been seduced by a female White Walker . The Night's King and his queen enslaved the brothers of the Watch until the Starks and the wildlings joined to defeat him . </P> <P> Martin said in 2012 that readers will see more of the Others in his forthcoming novel The Winds of Winter . He noted in another 2012 interview, "(We'll learn more about their) history, certainly, but I don't know about culture...I don't know if they have a culture". </P> <P> The White Walkers portrayed on HBO's Game of Thrones differ slightly in appearance from their literary counterparts, but Aaron Souppouris of The Verge named them among "the most visually iconic creatures on the show". In the TV series, the primary White Walker has been portrayed by Ross Mullan . Their apparent leader is the Night King, portrayed by Richard Brake and Vladimir Furdik, who first appeared in the episode "Oathkeeper". In "Hardhome", the effectiveness of Valyrian steel against the White Walkers is proven as Jon shatters one to pieces with a single stroke of his ancient sword Longclaw . Unlike in the novels, the TV series has established that wights can be destroyed by dragonglass . </P> <P> In the season 6 episode "The Door" (May 2016), Bran Stark experiences a vision of the creation of the Night King by Leaf, one of the Children of the Forest, by stabbing a human prisoner in the chest with a dragonglass dagger . Leaf explains to an incredulous Bran that the Children were at war with the First Men . </P>

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