15 BEST Game Of Thrones Season 8 Theories

13. The Direwolves Save The Starks

Jon Snow Direwolf
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Wouldn't it be fitting if the show ended with direwolves, since everything began with the discovery of the orphaned pack? This is a universe defined by doubles and mirroring, after all.

What if the mirror we're going to see is the remaining Direwolves teaming up with more of their species to return the favour, saving the orphaned Starks - and their supposed "runt" Jon Snow (who turns out to be their most powerful, just as his companion Ghost has) - from the fall of Winterfell?

We know that Ghost gets "a fair amount of screen time in Season 8,” according to visual-effects supervisor Joe Bauer, so it would fit that the wolves are important. And of course, we got that narrative tease of Nymeria's reappearance with her new pack, which could have been an isolated story point if not for George RR Martin himself saying “You don't hang a giant wolf pack on the wall unless you intend to use it.”

One theory suggests that Ghost and Nymeria will reunite and lead a giant pack of their own kind to save the Starks. Somewhat inevitably, one or both will then die, but it would at least be a great sequence. And if the pack survives, in the end, their deaths matter.

[Simon]

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