Game of Thrones Key Art Reveals the True Season 7 Threat

Game of Thrones: Season 7 premieres on July 16th on HBO.

By Terri Schwartz

The war for the Iron Throne might still be raging, but with Game of Thrones now entering Season 7, there's no hiding that the real threat is coming from the North.

HBO released the official key art for Season 7, which puts the Night's King front and center. This seems to hint that the rest of Westeros will soon know what Jon Snow has been preaching for seasons: despite all the internal political squabbles, the fight with the White Walkers is the only one that matters. Check out the imagery below:

Game of Thrones: Season 7 key art

This refrain is becoming pretty familiar at this point; the teaser key art for Season 7 was of fire laced through ice, and the teaser trailer for the season similarly hinted at the White Walkers as the primary threat. The fire and ice imagery is a clear nod to the name of George R.R. Martin's fantasy series from which Game of Thrones is based, A Song of Ice and Fire. It also seems to be an homage to Daenerys Targaryen and her fire-breathing dragons (hopefully) finally meeting up with Jon Snow and his powers in the north.

While war with the White Walkers is imminent, that doesn't necessarily mean anyone in Westeros will take heed of the threat before it's too late. Entertainment Weekly released a new image from Season 7 that showed Daenerys taking her now massive dragon Drogon into a heated battle, with men fighting men around Drogon's legs. It seems more likely that Daenerys will be battling Queen Cersei's armies before she even becomes aware of the threat to the North, though hopefully she comes flying in to save the day instead of ignoring the White Walkers like previous rules of Westeros have done.

Game of Thrones: Season 7 returns Sunday, July 16th, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO. To get caught up beforehand, be sure to check out IGN's visual refresher to every Game of Thrones episode so far. Meanwhile, five potential spinoff series for Game of Thrones are currently in development. Here's a look at the best Game of Thrones merchandise.

Terri Schwartz is Entertainment Editor at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz.

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