(JON PANTING)
Time to meet the King-beyond-the-Wall.
The wildlings are the people who live north of the Wall.
The name "wildling" is what the people who live south of the Wall call them.
And they would project that name,
which has its connotations of being uncivilized.
They're feral, and they fight incredibly well, and they're tough.
I like you, boy.
But if you lie to me, I'll pull your guts out through your throat.
KRISTOFER HIVJU: They are ruthless in some ways, and in some ways,
they are very connected because they need each other.
MARTIN: It's a harsh life. The winters are devastatingly cold.
Food becomes very scarce.
They eat what they find, and they find what they eat.
MARTIN: Because of the harsh conditions under which they live,
they are a more primitive society
than the people of the Seven Kingdoms.
There's actually quite a lot of Westeros north of the Wall.
It's a large expanse of land,
probably as large as Canada.
Things that have been reduced to legends and history in the Southern world
are living and breathing north of the Wall,
the giants being an obvious one.
First time you've seen a giant, Jon Snow?
And as you might expect in any piece of land that large,
there are different types of wildlings. They are not a unified people, by any means.
MICHELE CLAPTON: The people who live near the coast
make their armor out of oyster shells,
and then we see Rattleshirt's gang.
There are different bits and pieces going on.
We felt if you lived up there, you'd have to be quite organized.
'Cause they also move, so you would take your minimal amount of things.
All those things were taken into account
to try and bring something new to the look of the camp.
ASHLEIGH JEFFERS: We wanted to not make it a vast military encampment,
but also it's a community where families are traveling
with the armies and the clans.
KIT HARINGTON: Women in the wildling society
are seen as more equal than in the South.
They're expected to fight like men.
- Give it back. - Well, I stole it.
It's mine. If you want it, come steal it back.
LESLIE: As a wildling woman, I think you fight for what you want.
And if you don't, you've then got to live this life
whether you've made that decision or not.
So, you've got to stand up for yourself.
CLAPTON: We've made skin skirts
and some of it's fabric that we've waxed.
It's not fashion,
but I just wanted to show that they were women.
And if they all dress the same, you can't.
LESLIE: While we were on location yesterday,
I saw one of the wildling women.
She had a skirt, and I got really envious.
I was like, "I wanna be feminine. Where is my long skirt?"
KEVIN ALEXANDER: With the wildlings, the general look on them is practicality.
We've let their hair down. We've used braids and twists and things
to take away from people's faces and stuff.
MARTIN: A lot of the wildlings raid south of the Wall.
They'll climb over the Wall looking for valuables, gold, they steal women.
Most of the iron and steel weapons they have
are things that they've gotten by killing someone else and stealing their weaponry.
TOMMY DUNNE: We've given the men large axes, spears, swords
made from bone, and a lot of antlers.
With the women, a few more short swords and predominantly archery.
The weapons are practical for this part of the world.
We've wrapped them with leathers,
we've wrapped them with fur in keeping with the area.
How many men remain in Castle Black?
- A thousand. - Liar.
DAVID BENIOFF: If you were a Northerner,
you grew up hearing these stories
that the enemy are the wildlings.
There's this endless war going on between those who live in the North
and those who live beyond the Wall.
HARINGTON: I don't think the wildlings essentially are fighting for anything.
Beyond the Wall, they're happy. This is their land. Their free world.
MARTIN: The free folk call the people of the Seven Kingdoms "kneelers"
because they recognize the superiority of a class of nobility.
There are no nobles north of the Wall.
You don't become the king because your father was the king.
There's no crown.
The idea that people would choose their own leader
is a pretty enticing idea
to people who are not in any line of succession and never will be.
Sometimes, a charismatic leader will rise among the free folk,
and Manse has done that.
Mance has won the allegiance of the free folk.
You're Ned Stark's bastard.
CIARAN HINDS: He's radical and dangerous.
But in this world that we live in,
everything is quite radical.
MARTIN: Mance is a wildling by birth,
but he was captured as an infant by the Night's Watch,
who they brought back and raised.
This was someone who struggled with his Night's Watch vows.
Someone who had problems with the way the Night's Watch did things.
MARTIN: So, instead of being leader of the Night's Watch,
he became a leader of the enemy.
And a very dangerous enemy because he knows a great deal about the Night's Watch.
He's been trying to harness this army of all these different clans and tribes.
He believes something massive is going to happen out there
and he wants to take them all back in to the other side of the Wall.
So you know how I got moon worshippers and cannibals and giants
to march together in the same army?
No.
I told them we were all going to die if we don't get south.
Mance is perhaps the most dangerous King-beyond-the-Wall
to rise for hundreds of years.
JACKSON: To do Mance Rayder's tent, and to do that whole world out there,
we used huge mammoths that lurk up in the frozen North.
Carcasses of different animals that inhabit this environment.
We'll put together all kinds of furs, and animal hides, whale bones.
Huge structures holding up the tent. It's not just like a little army tent.
There's no trees here, in our world.
So we reflected that in the design also.
Wildlings grew up thinking of those south of the Wall
as being their enemies and vice versa.
But the truth is, the real enemy that's out there is capable of destroying all of them.
HIVJU: Then when winter comes, it will be
too dangerous or impossible to live beyond the Wall.
So, they have to get through it to get away from White Walkers.
MANCE: When it's time, I'm going to light the biggest fire
the North has ever seen.