Game of Thrones season 8 spoilers: The flames seem to be back

It seems as though things haven’t quite wrapped up at another Game of Thrones set, but will it still be standing after all is said and done?

Warning: Game of Thrones season 8 spoilers are here to improve your weekend — provided you’re okay with reading them, of course.

Word had it that work would continue at Winterfell for quite the long period of time — about three months, to be exact — for Game of Thrones season 8. Granted, we’re not actually three months out from when that rumor started, but this latest find from our sister site Winter is Coming appears to prove that we’re at least a month into filming something there, as WiC also notes.

And by “something,” we mean that yes, there appears to be more fire.

Here are some images from Facebook via Davy “Kingo” King:

Early morning start for #GoT7 at Moneyglass this morning, the castle is buzzing!😉

Posted by Davy 'Kingo' King on Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Now, granted, this says “early morning.” It’s possible that the sequence actually ends up being an extended night battle that lasts until dawn or close to it. That would help explain why it’s taking so long — trying to use natural light inevitably becomes a touch reliant on the weather, aside from the whole having a huge fight sequence there.

Meanwhile, some footage from Instagram shows that there are definitely signs about not taking pictures that have been summarily ignored to bring you this footage:

This is a touch older, but it does show the sheer amount of stuff needed to do anything at the level of production we expect of Game of Thrones.

It does have us wondering, though: how long can these controlled burns last before something happens? How much of the set will still remain? And do the night shoots lasting so long include dark shots of the ruins that might be left?

After all, Arya Stark was once a “Ghost of Harrenhal,” and if our guess about her fate is right, she might become a true ghost of Winterfell.

Next: Season 8 spoilers: Back in a familiar environ

(Granted, we don’t think ghosts are an actual thing in Westeros yet, but Maisie Williams might have to show up as a hallucination of Jon Snow’s or something.)