Game of Thrones season 8: 5 early predictions for the final season

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister and Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister – Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO

3. Cersei’s child will not live (long … or at all)

Sorry, everyone, but it’s probably not going to happen. There are a lot of things that could happen to Cersei’s little lion cub before he or she (or they?) greet the world, and after as well.

We’ll boil it down to three distinct possibilities.

First is that Cersei straight-up dies. We’ve already predicted that season 8 is going to kill off a lot of characters. If she dies before the baby arrives, then unless there’s going to be a “no man of woman born” situation (that is, the baby will be “untimely ripped“), there’s no real chance of survival.

Second is that Cersei miscarries. We talked about the end of the spoilers. There’s one scene that’s missing from a list of them. To quote directly:

"“Cersei awakens in a bed soaked with blood. The general consensus is that she miscarries.”"

She is not a young woman anymore, after all, and she’s in a high-stress situation.

Third is that there’s a stillbirth. I think this one is the most unlikely of all, perhaps even more unlikely than my being wrong completely and the baby (or babies) being born and actually surviving for any length of time.