Not sure if you've seen the latest ccg expansion for A Game of Thrones:

Melisandre smiled. “Necromancy animates these wights, yet they are still only dead flesh. Steel and fire will serve for them. The ones you call the Others are something more.”
“Demons made of snow and ice and cold,” said Stannis Baratheon. “The ancient enemy. The only enemy that...

So it won't be too long before other races start coming out for BoW once all the main players for the throne are done - meh I am so non plus'd right now.
I really will not get into BoW, I have no desire to sink money into it but that is where all of FFGs creative juice will go meh.

Chris

p.s. Yeah OK, so I've had a bad day, so will point my frustration at FFG and be moody and stroppy at them and what not but you saw it here first....

I don't see The Others coming into the game at all. Most of the series thus far has been about the battles amongst the houses, while The Others represent an outside threat that hasn't yet fully materialized (they show up in the prologue of the first book, and then aren't seen again for a couple of books). Plus, they are one of the few forms of magic in Westeros, and I think it's been pretty plainly stated that there aren't any plans for magic in BoW (I'm sure one or two characters who use magic might show up as leaders, like Stannis' pet priestess, but I think they'll represent their "magic" through some leader bonus, as opposed to a fully-functional lore system like "real" BattleLore).

bcwMD said:

More like Stannis is Melisandre's pet king...