HBO has released a new trailer for Game of Thrones’ climactic Season 8.
As you might expect, it’s a fairly sombre, stirring affair, bringing along (dragon-filled) new clips that offer ominous warnings about the war to come.
Naturally, we don’t know a great amount of detail about the upcoming season, although we do know it will contain “the longest consecutive battle sequence ever committed to film,” which will take place in Winterfell over the course of one episode.
The trailer begins with a terrified Arya, bloodied and running from an unknown enemy through the halls of Winterfell, which seems to imply that the White Walkers have breached the Starks’ ancestral home. Given everything that Arya has been through since the series began, it’s a little worrying to see her so panicked (ditto Varys, who looks decidedly freaked out, huddled in the crypts of Winterfell with what looks like a bunch of women and children), but that’s also just confirmation that everyone is taking the considerable threat of the Night King seriously.
Source: IGN.com Game of Thrones Season 8: New Trailer Released