HBO drops first official teaser for Game of Thrones season eight

As we near the pointy end of the (very) long wait for the final season’s premiere, HBO has dropped the first official teaser.

The first official teaser for Game of Thrones season eight has arrived.

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The short clip was tweeted out with the words “Fire and ice”, and hinted that the final season of the wildly popular HBO series will be all about a cataclysmic showdown between the forces of fire (Daenerys, her dragons, and the fiery blood of the Targaryens) and ice (those pesky White Walkers).

Fire and ice. #GoTS8 pic.twitter.com/ixHIsPjyhW

— Game Of Thrones (@GameOfThrones) December 6, 2018

So far, we’ve only seen a scant two seconds of Game of Thrones ’ final season: a hug between Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner).

While there is no new footage in the teaser, it definitely leaves one with a sense of real foreboding.

Lovers Jon Snow and Daenarys are about to find out they’re related, for sure.

We see the Stone Table, that great map of Westeros located in the castle at Dragonstone, begin to freeze from the north.

First we see the wolf, representing the forces of Winterfell frozen solid, and then a Targaryen dragon. Then the perspective shifts and we see flames engulf the south. Most notably, the lion of Lannister burns up, in an image that evokes the fiery “Loot Train Battle” last season. Eventually the ice and fire erupt in the middle of the table.

Earlier this week, Vladimír Furdík — the actor behind the terrifying Night King — dropped the bombshell that the long-awaited battle will take place earlier than we’d expected, in the third episode of the six-episode season.

This guy’s up to no good. Picture: HBO

So who will win? Fire or ice? We’ll have to wait until season eight — the final season of Game of Thrones — hits HBO in April 2019.

This story originally appeared in Decider and is republished here with permission