9. When Mance Rayder Died
Leading up to Mance Rayder’s death, the wildlings had been progressively handing over the antagonist’s torch to the Night’s Watch, and Mance Rayder’s execution essentially finalized the exchange.
Where the show is at now, things seem to be more or less fine between the wildlings and the men of the Night’s Watch, though it’s quite unfortunate that Mance had to die before that happened. We’re not sure how you felt about him, but we liked Mance Rayder.
He was a strong man who believed in Jon Snow and only wanted to see his people (and humanity by extension, we hope) survive the coming Winter. We also give him major respect points for not kneeling at Stannis Baratheon’s feet. So Stannis decided to set him on fire (Mr. Baratheon has a tendency to let things burn, more on that below), and faithful Jon Snow put Mance out of his torture by firing an arrow through his heart.
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