The night King is a shapeshifter who rules the woods during the night. He is a reaper of sorts, who watches over the spirits of the departed and shepards his subject's nightmares away from their minds. It is said the king personally murders those he deems ready to die, that's not true. In reality, he comforts the dying. The king's lover, the daylight Queen, rules over the woods during the day but he can only see her at dusk or dawn as being too exposed to the sun wounds him.