Jorah Mormont - Here’s a guy whose whole grizzled, whispery, mustard-shirted schtick revolves around sacrificing himself for Daenerys.

These are the characters whose storylines seem most likely to end with a big, bold act of selflessness. Let’s take the likely deaths in piecemeal fashion, because they tend to slot into discrete categories. Not knowledge gleaned from a close reading of the books, or from leaked on-set scuttlebutt, or anything, really, but a recent re-watch - and a reasonable understanding of how narrative arcs generally play out. Nothing remotely spoilery lurks beneath them. These predictions are not based on anything but gut instinct. Now that we’re entering the home stretch - just six episodes left, which will clock in at an estimated seven hours and twenty minutes, total - all the series’ disparate storylines are crashing together, which can be depended upon to send its body count soaring.

There’s been some small amount of winning, here and there, but just really a tremendous lot of dying - characters big and small, both the beloved and the benighted, have been poisoned, beheaded, slashed, gashed, stabbed, devoured by hounds, hurled from parapets, immolated, head-squished, pincushioned by arrows and - in one case - even died of old age, if you can imagine anything so grotesque. Since that time, over the course of seven seasons, Cersei has been proven exactly right, again and again. It was May 2011, years before the show would become the inescapable international phenomenon it has, and two episodes before it would set itself firmly down the path to becoming just that, by killing off its nominal main hero, Ned Stark. More like fiveshadowing.īecause she said that to him way back in the seventh episode of Game of Thrones‘ very first season. “When you play the game of thrones,” Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) told Ned Stark (Sean Bean) icily - but of course she says everything icily - “you win … or you die.”įoreshadowing? To say the least.

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