Game of Thrones season 8 filming: [SPOILER] is burning!
Recent photos from Game of Thrones season 8 filming show a popular Westerosi location burning. Warning: SPOILERS ahoy.
As Game of Thrones season 8 continues to film, and its fans continue to wait out the long night until 2019, our fellow FanSided site Winter is Coming has been keeping close tabs on which actors are filming where, and what locations are of particular interest. To that end, photos and a video of a certain wintery castle have surfaced, and it appears to be on fire.
Before we move forward, this is your last chance to turn back, should you wish to remain among the ranks of the Unsullied.
Okay, now that you’ve made it this far, the video was taken by Steven McAuley on Facebook and shows the Winterfell set at Moneyglass, Northern Ireland, on fire.
https://www.facebook.com/steven.mcauley.14/videos/10155959577664034/
As reported by Belfast Live, the fire was part of a battle scene and involved 400 to 500 extras.
Winterfell not looking so hot. From Steven McAuley: https://t.co/iXpiqyfEOP pic.twitter.com/tEsMc174cp
— Crown_For_A_King (@Crown_ForAKing) January 31, 2018
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The real question now remains: Who or what caused Winterfell to catch fire? As you may well know, Cersei Lannister has a proclivity for burning things down. In the Game of Thrones season 6 finale, she destroyed all her immediate enemies by blowing up the Great Sept of Baelor.
But could Cersei’s mercenary soldiers from the Golden Company make it to the North in winter, and lay siege to a fortified castle like Winterfell? Highly unlikely.
No, it is more likely to be the Night King and his army of the dead attacking House Stark’s ancient familial home. In the season 7 finale, we saw the Night King ride a blue-flame-breathing undead Viserion break through the Wall, and literally, the last scene we’re left with is the army of the dead walking through the breach at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.
Next: Game of Thrones season 8 to debut in April 2019, per Maisie Williams
Regardless, whether its Cersei outside the walls of Winterfell, the Night King astride his undead dragon, or that one candle Sansa left burning in the tower window in season 5 finally tipping over and catching the whole castle on fire (thanks, Sansa), one thing appears for certain — the Starks are going to have to find a new home very soon…that is, if any of them survive the fire.