Game of Thrones season 8: Cersei’s death sealed in old prophecy

While we wait to finally learn what will become of the remaining heroes and villains of Game of Thrones, Cersei Lannister’s fate was sealed years ago.

It’s been widely speculated that as tensions between Cersei and Jaime Lannister continue to boil, only one of them will make it out of their feud alive.

And in the books of George R.R. Martin, Cersei turns to witch, Maggy The Frog, who shares a vast array of prophecies surrounding the current occupant of the Iron Throne’s fate, but one of the warnings prominent in Martin’s literary collection didn’t make it to the HBO series.

It read: ‘And when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you.’

Valonquar translates to ‘little brother’ in High Valyrian, and thus fingers immediately pointed to Tyrion Lannister to deliver the killer blow, but now Reddit user tibs_I has suggested that the decision to remove the line from Game of Thrones could mean Cersei will meet her grisly end at the hands of someone outside of her family tree.

‘In the books, Maggy tells Cersei that she will be killed by her brother. However, after rewatching the series, she never explicitly states this in any episode,’ they wrote.

‘Is it likely that means the show will deviate from the book and have her death come at the hands of another character such as Arya Stark or maybe even the Night King?’

Following the events of season seven, which saw Cersei announce her pregnancy with what we’ve been lead to believe will be Jaime’s baby, most fans have predicted the Queen will die in childbirth.