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Cersei Lannister
Ah, Cersei. To date, she's been the ultimate player of the Game, but this is a streak that cannot last. I guess if they wanted to go full tragedy, they could wreck all of Westeros and let her rule, alone, over a dead continent in ruins. If Cersei wins, then it surely has to be a Pyrrhic victory, as other victories of hers turned out to be. But I don't think she will win, because she just offers too many great opportunities in her departure. Arya really wants to off her, but I think either Jaime will take her out or she'll have to endure watching Sansa ascend to Queen and be stripped of land and titles, etc., and have to go live in a nunnery or something like that. It may actually be a combination.
Way back in Season 2, Daenerys has a waking dream of sorts in the House of the Undying where she walks through the Great Hall of the Red Keep — its roof destroyed and snow falling — with continuing service to a room with an alive Drogo and non-scaly baby Rhaego. The latter event never happened, so is it a "this is what would have happened" to contrast with the vision of "what she's going to get in return?" It's easy to imagine that King's Landing and the Red Keep get destroyed through some combination of Army of the Dead, dragons, Dothraki horde, self-immolation via wildfire, etc. Remember, too, that by killing the White Walker, you can automagically kill all the zombies the White Walker raised, so they can kill every damn body in Westeros, and still dispatch the Army of the Dead if they can just kill the White Walkers and the Night King. If Arya, with her Valyerian steel dagger, can wear the face of a White Walker, then the Night King is in some serious deep shit. Just sayin'.
If I were writing the story, Cersei would "rule", alone, over a largely depopulated Westeros — ashes covered in snow. But, I'm not writing it, and America doesn't do tragedy. Alas. This is how I think it plays out — Jaime kills Cersei at some point after having sided with Tyrion in some sort of act of redemption.
Cersei's Baby
Cersei is pregnant as we go into Season 8, presumably with Jaime's baby. Even though she shagged her cousin Lancel when Jaime was on the road, there's no reason to think the kid's not Jaime's and to have it mysteriously not would be (what Qyburn?) some pretty crappy writing, but, hey, they did the whole Jaime charges Daenerys next to the dragon (WTF?) and Bronn knocks him off his horse before he can get incinerated (WTF?) into the lake where the deep part runs right up to the shore (WTF?) aaand they swim a mile underwater in armor (W the seriously T the seriously F?). That was shark-jumping badness, so, anything is possible, but I think that was just an aberration, not a symptom of impending suckitude, in an otherwise pretty awesome episode.
Time is tricky in GoT, so I think Cersei's baby is definitely in play. A boy, that's taken as a ward into Sansa's court? Or, adopted as son to Sansa and Tyrion? They wouldn't have a pregnant Cersei if the baby didn't have a role to play. What would a daughter mean? Early flier guess — boy turned into a White Walker by the Night King.
A summary of all original and current predictions with pointers can be found at the WBC Prediction Status page.
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