You're Gonna Hear Me Roar: 'Game Of Thrones' Season 7 Premiere Hints At Major Lannister Death

It isn't only winter that'sbcoming to Game of Thrones, and while the Season 7 premiere may have been light on the ol' death and destruction, expect the old gods and the new to be claiming a few souls before the season is out. In a particularly precarious predicament is the current line to the throne, that loathsome Lannister brood at King's Landing. #LenaHeadey's Cersei may be sitting pretty on the Iron Throne, but as we all know what happens in Westeros, that honeymoon period doesn't usually last long.

By now, fans of #GeorgeRRMartin's novels will know all about Maggy the Frog — the back-swamp witch who prophesied Cersei's death at the hands of the "Valonqar" ("Little Brother." It all gets a little big complicated, but those tin foil hat theorists claim that the Season 7 trailer was our biggest clue yet to Cersei's demise. However, digging a little deeper into Episode 1, "Dragonstone," does one throwaway comment hint that a different death is once again coming for the lion sigil?

I ain't 'Lion.'

Finally living up to the hype surrounding his character, #PilouAsbæk was welcomed back to Season 7 as Euron Greyjoy. The big-cocked and salty pirate ditched his mission to woo Daenerys Targaryen and instead hoisted his mainsail toward Cersei Lannister. As he promises to make one half of a dangerous power couple, there is one exchange of words that foreshadows a grim future for the Lannisters, but this time it isn't Cersei's.

As Euron and Cersei exchanged barbs in her newly redecorated throne room, the subject of siblings comes up. Cersei rightly doesn't trust the King of the Salt Throne and reminds Euron of his past misdemeanors with, "You murdered your own brother." However, it is what Euron says next that sticks out. Turning to the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, Euron says, “You should try it. It feels wonderful.”

We all know that Cersei would love to kill her brother the Imp, but could showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss be alluding to the death of Jaime instead? It is amazing how #NikolajCosterWaldau has gone from floppy-haired slimeball to unwilling hero of the piece, but it is admittedly hard to see how Jaime will fit into the show's endgame. So, if this really is the case, here are the options of how and why it is time for Jaime Lannister to put down his sword and hang up that golden hand.

All's Fair In Love And War

If audiences have worked out that it could be Jaime to strike a killer blow to his sister, surely the scheming monarch herself has also figured this out. With the assumption that it is Jaime who will bring down Cersei, could she preempt and attack and do the unthinkable and kill him before he kills her?

It would all be very Macbeth for Cersei to try and escape her own fate to dodge Maggy's prophecy. Given that it has all come true so far, the Queen will definitely be looking for ways to prolong her life, but killing her soulmate could be a step too far even for someone as wicked as Cersei. Given that all of their children are now just ashes in the ground, Jaime really is Cersei's last friend in the realm. That being said, it is a lion eat lion world out there and who knows what Cersei is really capable of.

Euron Borrowed Time

Another option is that Euron will continue his streak of killing brothers, so could he put Jaime in his crosshairs? Asbaek has already told us how Euron will become the biggest bad since Ramsay Bolton, so we are expecting some pretty nasty surprises along the way.

Jaime is fast becoming one of the favorite characters on the show, so Euron offing the Kingslayer before he can become the Queenslayer would cement him as the next vile villain. Also, remember that three is undoubtedly a crowd, and if Euron plans on settling in with his wife-to-be, the leader of the Queensguard will undoubtedly be in the way.

A Stark Reminder

However, there is an altogether more satisfying end to the lonely Lannisters, which leads us to our favorite lil' slugger in Westeros. With the emergence of Arya Stark as a faceless assassin, and Cersei receiving top billing on Arya's kill list, it just wouldn't be Thrones if the youngest Stark girl didn't get to exact her revenge. So, just how could the girl from Winterfell strike down the Lannister matriarch?

You have to use your imagination a bit here, but Maggy's prophecy could still come true and Jaime could still be the one to kill Cersei — just not the Jaime we have come to know. If Cersei preempts her death and really does kill off her brother/lover, it would make him a perfect candidate for the Many-Faced God. Imagine Cersei striking her brother down, only have Arya take on his guise and stroll into her chambers to enact the ultimate revenge.

Jaime Lives

Of course, the other (and favorite) option is that Jaime lives while Arya still brings down that questionable Queen. The Faceless Men may usually be confined to using the visages of the dead, but as Jaqen H'ghar wore Arya's face at the end of Season 6, it showed us that this isn't always the case. Arya could become Jaime's doppelgänger and stroll straight into the capital to kill the queen.

The shot of Coster-Waldau strangling the life out of Headey's neck is a must-see addition to the show's final run, but only the Lord of Light himself (George R.R. Martin) knows how it will really go down. Either way, expect a pretty grim season for the remaining Lannister twins, because I can't see them both making it out alive, let alone still holding the Iron Throne. Two heads may be better than one, but when one of them is split open on the throne room floor, how much use is a backstabbing sibling?