Helen Sloan/HBOWell, it looks like winter is definitely here for the fine people of Westeros. HBO has released the first 14 images of the final season of Game of Thrones. From the looks of the new pictures, everybody is still in one piece...for now.
Details about the final season are being kept under wraps, as per usual, but we can tell you this: the six-episode final season kicks off Sunday, April 14. And, well, you might not be satisfied with the ending.
"I don't know that anyone is going to be satisfied," Maisie Williams recently told Sky News about the series ending. "No one wants it to end, you know, but I'm really proud of this final season. I've always felt ashamed to say things like that, but I am. I'm really proud of all the work we've put it, for me it's the right time. I hope people like it."
Williams' statements align with what Kit Harington has been saying about the end of the series.
"It's like when you finish a book, you're not happy it's over are you? You don't finish a good book and say, 'I'm happy I finished that'," Harington said on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show. "But you have this grief that it's over, and it's exactly same with nine years doing this show. No matter how it ended, or how it does end, there's always this bit of you that's like, 'oh'; there's this loss around it."
See the new images below.
Liam Cunningham as Davos Seaworth in episode two.
Hannah Murray in episode two.
Isaac Hempstead Wright in episode two.
Jacob Anderson as Grey Worm and Nathalie Emmanuel as Missandei in episode two.
Hannah Murray as Gilly and John Bradley as Samwell Tarly in episode two.
Conleth Hill, Emilia Clarke and Iain Glen in a scene from episode two.
Kit Harington and Maisie Williams in a scene from episode two.
Kit Harington as Jon Snow and John Bradley as Sam in episode two.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister in episode two.
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister in episode two.
Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen in episode two.
Bella Ramsey suits up for battle as Lyanna Mormont in the second episode of the season.
Harry Grasby as Ned Umber.
Kristofer Hivju as Tormund Giantsbane.
Gendry and Arya Stark share a moment.
Rory McCann as the Hound.
Joe Dempsie as Gendry.
Bella Ramsey as Lyanna Mormont.
Jon Snow rides his first dragon.
Maisie Williams and Kit Harington in Game of Thrones.
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Gemma Whelan and Alfie Allen.
Jon Snow with a dragon.
The Hound (Rory McCann) and Arya (Maisie Williams)
Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke in Game of Thrones.
The Night King left a message.
Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy.
Bran Stark and Jon Snow, together again.
Kristofer Hivju as Tormund Giantsbane.
Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen and John Bradley as Sam.
Need more than these images? How about a teaser?
The final season of Game of Thrones begins on Sunday, April 14 at 9 p.m. on HBO.