Game of Thrones season 8: Watch the first true teaser

Is it new Game of Thrones season 8 footage? No. Is it still extremely glorious and able to cause palpitations in the hearts of fans everywhere? Yes.

Game of Thrones season 8 has a release month: April 2019. If you’ve followed along with the filming spoilers, then you might know a bit about what’s to come in the final season. If you haven’t, that’s okay too. Even the spoiler watchers don’t have it all solved just yet, and that’s probably because the season is so epic that even with the knowledge of who filmed what where and when, there’s still a lot unknown.

Unfortunately, the first true teaser that seems to have been newly made as opposed to stitched-together footage from previous seasons really doesn’t say much. Indeed, it’s not even really season 8 footage. It’s more symbolic, if you will.

Moreover, HBO and Game of Thrones haven’t even officially released it just yet, although it appears to have come from CCXP 2018 down in Brazil. Fans have put the footage onto Twitter, however, and it’s … well, epic.

Watch it below:

First, ice starts to cover the Seven Kingdoms from the north, freezing over a direwolf and a dragon in quick succession. From the south, though, comes fire, licking at the paws of a lion before consuming it, and both elements meet in the middle.

Of course, this is pretty much a metaphor for the final clash between the living and the dead for control of not just the Seven Kingdoms, but Westeros and perhaps the world at large, depending on whether or not wights can cross the ocean. We’re not putting it past them, just saying.

And now, for a brief conspiracy theory, does ice consuming the dragon mean that Dragonstone will fall? Winterfell being in trouble seems like a given, so the wolf in ice makes sense. However, although you could ascribe an ice dragon to the fall of Viserion in season 7, this is about the season to come — not the season that was.

In other words, we may have just gotten something of a spoiler, or at least something that could come to pass in Game of Thrones season 8. Keep an eye out for a trailer, fans, and we’ll do the same.