I just got back from Avengers: Endgame at 2 AM, an enormously emotional journey a decade in the making and man, I don’t know if I’m up for the Battle of Winterfell tonight in Game of Thrones, which looks to be similarly devastating, if not more so. Ah who am I kidding? Of course I’m up for it.
This is at least one of the climactic battles we will see in the final few episodes of Game of Thrones, perhaps the largest with the army of the Night King going up against pretty much every surviving character minus Cersei, all crammed into Winterfell, though even she might show up to help/backstab by the end.
While no one knows for sure who’s going to die because there have been no confirmed leaks and we are way, way past the books, there is one theory about the Battle of Winterfell I have seen written and talked about so many times this past week, it’s less of a theory and more of a sure thing.
The crypts ain’t safe.
All last week, various characters made a big deal about how the crypts of Winterfell will be the safest place to be, which is where they’re cramming all the non-fighting women, children and Tyrion as everyone else fights the Walkers and the dead inside and outside the walls.
While this might make sense for a normal battle, the crypt is underground and easily defensible with limited points of entry to outside invaders, this is…not a normal battle. This is a battle against magical beings who create their army from the dead and…guess what there’s a lot of in underground crypts? The dead. Specifically, Stark dead, generations of Stark kings and queens going back ages, so it stands to reason there are at least a few dozen sets of bones down there, including a few we know for sure are there like Ned and Lyanna Stark.