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Other team? From what I remember they fought against humans and then made a pact with them and were mostly wiped out by the walkers. I don’t really know if you could qualify them as on a specific team. Again, I have a hard time seeing how this is a coherent allegory about climate change.
By “team other” I mean their ultimate goals are aligned with the others, even if the others don’t consciously realize it since they are just primordial hungry ghosts - forces of nature. Both of them seek the reconciliation of nature and mankind, meaning undoing the evils of the past and having a human hand guide the spirits back to peace. It’s basically the end of Princess Mononoke, where the CotF are the wolf gods/princess Mononoke and the waves of goo coming from the spirit of the forest that kill everything are the white walkers. Jon Snow is Prince Ashitaka.
Humans sinned against nature. Natures vengeance eventually catches up against them. They solve it by a human hero making amends and reconciling the contradictions between man and nature.
Is this speculation? It’s been a while since I read the books, but I don’t recall there being a lot of information to confirm this.
It’s heavily foreshadowed to the point that it’s either the plot, or it’s the plot which GRRM will subvert. World of Ice and Fire gave away the entire story by giving us historical details of the first Long Night and the nature of Bloodstone Emperor. In addition we have GRRMs purposeful conflation of wildlings and white walkers as both “others” excluded from human society, Jon’s central plot of letting these “others” through the wall and reconciling civilization with the wildlings, Jon being killed and resurrected as undead mirroring his being “killed” by forsaking his oath and joining the wildlings, the story of the Pact (humans and nature avatar have to work together to fix things, not war against each other), Coldhands being a sentient cold wight which foreshadows what Jon will become (Coldhand ferries people across to and across the wall), the Isle of Faces having Green Men on it protecting it from humans which is obviously important but as of yet unused in the plot, etc.
In fact, the very first time we are introduced to the white walkers they are looking for someone who looks like Royce, and instead of killing him they do a ritual where they test him (and he fails, so they kill him). They are searching for Jon Snow to lead them, he looks just like Royce does.
The Bloodstone Emperor, also known as Azor Ahai, caused the first long night by calling down a meteor onto Earth (its the “shadow” at Stygai by Asshai) and causing mass extinction and blotting out the sun. He destroyed nature in pursuit of magical power, the story of Azor Ahai killing his wife to forge a magic sword is a metaphor for Bloodstone Emperor (a literal wife killer) killing the earth and his empire to seek magic power. Meteors/Falling Stars are used interchangeably with swords in GRRM’s symbology, the meteor plunging into the heart of the Earth to be quenched. This is the original sin of man. Azor Ahai is not a savior, he is effectively the anti-christ.
GRRM heavily foreshadows and uses parallels in all of his plots. This will be the big picture ending of the story, we’ve had decades at this point to pull out all of his literary references and themes from Conan, Elric of Melnibine, Lovecraft extended universe, etc.
While we don’t know the exact specifics, we can see he is putting together the pieces for Jon Snow to be resurrected, lead the white walkers south of the wall, and reconcile humanity’s sins of seeking magical power at the cost of blood and nature. The show didn’t understand this so they just had Jon be resurrected by Melisandre and be identical as before and it means nothing and then Jon does nothing in the plot until he kills Dany for some reason. Oh and the White Walkers are defeated by Arya stabbing the “Night King” (a made up TV show character, the White Walkers don’t have a central leader yet in the books) which is obviously farcical. The TV ending is wrong. The White Walkers will not be defeated by stabbing their leader with a knife and then they all crumble, that is not what has been built up to. They will be “defeated” by being appeased, given back whatever humans stole, and let back into the Weirwood Trees.
Ahh, I have not read the companion books to the main series. I was confused for a minute because I didn’t really remember the original series delving too much into the topic. I also only watched like maybe a season of the show, so I haven’t got a clue who the night king is.
Yeah the full picture only really comes into focus once you’ve read A World of Ice and Fire. It literally just lays the plot all out, or at least the first part of the cycle is laid out, and we can see that we are in the history repeats itself as tragedy then farce portion of it. GRRM does this more than any other author, he always foreshadows everything and hides parallels to everything. Even character names are usually an amalgamation of one or two historical figures, fictional characters, archetypes or concepts - and they always stay true to those parallels or break the tropes very explicitly.
Basically GRRM loves showing off his big literary brain and all the tropes he knows.