According to a 2012 interview with van Houten, “she’s way over 100 years” old indeed, showrunner David Benioff said during the season six premiere’s “Inside the Episode” aftershow that Melisandre is “several centuries old.”Īt the end of “The Long Night,” Melisandre takes off her amulet once the Battle of Winterfell is over and the army of the dead has been defeated. Thanks to a magic crimson amulet she wore around her neck, Melisandre looked like a glamorous 30-something-year-old woman (the actress who plays her, Carice van Houten, is 42) but when she took it off, we could see she was fully elderly. In the show’s season six premiere, “The Red Woman,” it was revealed that Melisandre was actually much older than she appeared. But what little we do know is super important: She is centuries old, and her mission on Game of Thrones was to find the savior who would defeat the Night King.
the Red Woman, is how little we know about her. The most curious thing about Melisandre, a.k.a. It was also a callback to her fidelity to a prophecy called “The Prince That Was Promised,” which foretold the rise of one true savior who now seems to be Arya Stark.Ħ winners and 6 losers from Game of Thrones’ biggest battle yet Melisandre knew how important Daenerys, Jon, and Arya were to defeating the Night King - and showed up to support them Melisandre’s appearance marked a stunning return and final chapter for the character, who has been one of the most morally beguiling and odder individuals on the Game of Thrones roster. Finally, at the end of the episode, she dies, collapsing into the snow. Later in the episode, she sets the trench around Winterfell ablaze with her magic, helping hold back the hordes of wights and White Walkers and aiding the living’s retreat.
In the episode’s opening minutes, Melisandre arrives seemingly out of nowhere and blesses the Dothraki arakhs, setting them ablaze before they take on the White Walkers. Right before Game of Thrones’ epic Battle of Winterfell in “The Long Night,” Lady Melisandre - Westeros’s most mysterious, crimson-wearing magic wielder - returned after a departure early in season seven. This post contains spoilers regarding the third episode of Game of Thrones ’ eighth season.