Warning: This post is dark and full of spoilers.
I don’t know about you, but watching Game of Thrones episode five of season eight was stressful AF. Watching Arya constantly dodge death while Daenerys and Drogon destroyed King’s Landing was probably the most tense I’ve ever been while watching a TV show.
At the end of the episode, Arya manages to somehow emerge from the ashes and sees a white horse waiting for her. Some fans have speculated the horse was the one Harry Strickland, the leader of the Golden Company, was riding before Drogon decimated his army.
who left this horse on this old town road pic.twitter.com/E74WI1zfjU
— clio (@cliomiso) May 13, 2019
Arya: I must get out of here….
Horse: Your Uber has arrived#GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/HAvj0r4gQG
— kyle (@kayleeykremee) May 13, 2019
Pale horse waiting for things to calm down so it can pick Arya up #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/6lndBRPAeP
— Mohit Here (@MohitKumar14Th) May 13, 2019
Some even thought Bran could have warged into the horse and sent it to save his sister.
Either way, it’s Arya’s way out of King’s Landing and it seems the horse might have a huge symbolic significance.
In the Bible’s Book of Revelation, the four horses of the apocalypse all ride different coloured steeds, and Death rides a “pale horse”.
The passage reads, “And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.”
So, does this mean Arya is Death and Daenerys just moved to the top of her kill list? Dany does have green eyes after all.
Does anyone else feel like the close ups of Daenerys in this episode were designed to remind us that Dany has Green eyes? ‘Brown eyes, Green eyes, Blue eyes.’ Arya will stop the Kings Landing massacre, but which green eyed queen will she kill? #GamefThrones pic.twitter.com/BuSNfgc6D4
— Kerri (@Kerri_may) May 6, 2019
It would all line up given Arya served the god of Death with the Faceless Men and then later killed the Night King.
It would also support the popular theory that Arya will be the one to kill the Mad Queen.