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

2. The Feather

Of all the imagery in the new Game of Thrones promo, the feather is perhaps the most intriguing. If you recall, Robert Baratheon placed the feather in the hand of Lyanna's statue way back in the very first episode.

That's all well and good, but by Season 5 the feather has fallen to the floor. Sansa picks it up when she visits the crypts with Littlefinger, but walks off still holding it. Does this mean she later went and put it back, is it a new feather, or is this just some more symbolism that doesn't really apply to continuity (in the same way there wouldn't be a statue of Catelyn made, since she wasn't a Stark)?

Either way, the feather carries with it a lot of meaning. In both scenes it's been glimpsed in, the topic at hand has been Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, and the idea that the Prince kidnapped her. We now know that is false, so it's fitting we see the feather fall when Jon walks past it. The feather stands as a symbol of Robert's love for Lyanna, but also the misguided belief of Rhaegar's misdeeds, whereas Jon is really the product of love.

At slightly more of a stretch, the feather could be taken to remind us of Robert and, in turn, Gendry. He still has a big part to play in all of this, and the notion of Robert just after we hear Lyanna pleading for her son to be protected at all costs could be hinting at Gendry protecting Jon in the final season, the son of Robert saving the son of the woman he loved, as one last act in their doomed romance. Just complicating this even further is that Gendry is often theorised to be the stillborn child Cersei and Robert had, who Cersei refers to as "a bird without feathers." Gendry's still an outside bet for the Iron Throne, so it'd be a good time to start hinting towards that too, even if it's a little more out there. Okay, way out there.