GOT Theory: Qyburn is The Great Other

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Reading different theories about "The Great Other", one theme seems to be pretty common: We're wayyy to late in the game to introduce a brand new character as the big-bad. If Azor Ahai is literally one of the characters we already know and love, then it just wouldn't be nearly as heavy if The Great Other wasn't also someone we know.

Nearly everything he has done so far in the story has significantly strengthened the Night King's hand.

His backstory goes that he was a maester studying at the citadel (you know, the big center of all knowledge and the one place you would definitely want to go if you were the big bad guy in disguise), but got kicked out for meddling in necromancy and other super dark stuff. He just so happens to join the Brave Companions, who just so happen to end up at Harrenhall just in time for Qyburn to become Roose Bolton's new Maester after torturing/killing the last one.

Fast forward a bit, and Jaime ends up in Harrenhall badly wounded. Guess who is there to treat his wounds, and ingratiate himself to Jaime in the process? As a result of his interactions with Jaime, he ends up all the way in Kings Landing, where he somehow RAISES THE MOUNTAIN FROM DEATH AS A CAPTIVE WIGHT. The Mountain is not alive again in the same sense as Jon or anyone else raised by the lord of light, he's just a giant fucking thoughtless zombie that obeys Qyburn's every order. (Kind of like the wights...)
Once he's achieved power in Kings Landing, he immediately starts destabilizing the realm. Sure, blowing up the Sept of Baelor helped Cersei, but it also definitely helped the Night King.

One of the biggest threats to the Night King are probably Dany's dragons. Guess who just built a giant dragon-killing crossbow? (Also don't be so sure Drogon is alright, I'd bet anything Qyburn coated those arrows in poison of some sort.)