(And before you ask, no, Needle isn't Valyrian steel but run-of-the-mill castle-forged steel.) Multiple unfortunate run-ins with the Lannisters then caused Arya to lose Needle but gain an ally in the mysterious Jaqen H'ghar. She dubbed it "Needle" and wields the blade in her "Water Dance" fencing lessons with talented swordsman Syrio Forel. Even before the loss of dear Stark patriarch Ned, Jon Snow gifted a smallsword to Arya. The "wolf-blooded" Arya Underfoot has been a feisty firebrand from the very beginning of Game of Thrones, often contrasted against sophisticated sister Sansa ( Sophie Turner). That moment of last-second heroics happened so fast that some of the nuance of Arya's arc might have been missed, so let's revisit her story so far. Fans who have been following Arya's story for years now probably expected some action-packed badassery, but what few expected to see was Arya delivering the final strike against the Night King, ending his icy reign once and for all. But how she managed to get this far and just what abilities and weapons allowed her to pull off this impossible feat are just as important as the final deathblow itself.īy way of a quick recap, in "The Long Night", Arya battled her way through the haunted halls of Winterfell, her ancestral home, in an effort to stem the tide of the army of the dead that was decimating her fellow defenders. ![]() ![]() Arya, and by extension actor Maisie Williams, got to play a massively important part in the story so far in the most recent episode, quite literally saving the people of the North from certain death. Like most of the Stark children, she's survived untold horrors over the years/seasons on Game of Thrones, but unlike a few of them, she's alive and in good shape to survive the trials that are yet to come.
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