Game Of Thrones: All The Hidden Messages & Meanings In Season 8 Teaser Trailer

6. Winter Comes To Winterfell

Game Of Thrones Season 8 Teaser
HBO

While the teaser largely centres on the Starks, it ends with a palpable sense of dread. As the cold winds blow, the Crypts start frosting over, heralding the arrival of Winter at Winterfell.

Not Winter as in the season, which has already come, but as in the undead. The Season 7 finale ended with the Night King using Viserion to break down the Wall, and the Army of the Dead are making their slow march of doom towards the Stark homestead.

Winterfell, then, is going to play home to some White Walkers and wights, although it's fair to assume they won't be protected by guest right. Winterfell is going to be the setting for the biggest battle the series has ever done, which will see Jon and Co battling the Night King's army, and this serves as a nice little tease of that coming fight.

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