HBO has revealed the air date for the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones with a chilling 90 second teaser.
The network tweeted the haunting video on Sunday night which contained the April 14 premiere date.
The episode will be broadcast for Irish and UK fans on Sky Atlantic on Monday, April 15 at 2am.
The trailer shows Jon Snow, Sansa and Arya Stark in the crypts of Winterfell.
90 days, 23 hours, 55 min, 27 seconds pic.twitter.com/ZxaPAmwf36
— HBO (@HBO) January 14, 2019
They walk through the corridors of their ancestral home while the voices of their dead family members can be heard.
Jon Snow passes the tomb of Lyanna Stark, who he thinks was his aunt but is actually his mother. Dying Lyanna's voice can he heard saying "You have to protect him", her last words to her brother Ned Stark who raised Jon as his own.
Sansa passes her mother Catelyn Stark's statue, who is heard saying: "All this horror that has come to my family... it's all because I couldn't love a motherless child".
When the family members arrive at the end of the crypt, they see three statues of their own.
Before they can process the significance of their effigies, Jon Snow's torch is extinguished and a frost begins to spread, hinting at the arrival of the dreaded White Walkers.
Jon and Arya draw their swords as they await the enemy that is never shown...
HBO chief Richard Plepler has seen rough cuts of the final six episodes of the long-running fantasy series, and says they are like "movies".
He told Variety: "It’s a spectacle. The guys have done six movies. The reaction I had while watching them was, 'I’m watching a movie'".
Of showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, he said: "They knew the bar was high. They’ve exceeded the bar.
"I’ve watched them twice without any CGI and I’m in awe. Everybody’s in for an extraordinary treat of storytelling and of magical, magical production."
