The images engraved into season 8’s title sequence offers a more recent history - or, if your theory brain is wired for clues, a glimpse of the future. A brief reminder of some of the most important historical events that preceded the events of Game of Thrones.

This opening sequence was designed as a subtle history lesson.

Robert on the Throne from the original Game of Thrones opening HBO Robert’s Rebellion from the original Game of Thrones opening HBOįinally, there’s an image of what can only be Robert Baratheon on the Iron Throne: a stag sitting on a throne, with all of the other animal sigils, most prominently a lion, bowing before it. The second carving on the astrolabe shows images shows a dragon, beset on all sides by a stag, a wolf, and a lion, depicting the events of Robert’s rebellion. This is meant to represent the Doom of Valyria, a volcanic eruption that destroyed the world’s greatest civilization, the Targaryens are one of the few Valyrian families to have escaped the doom. The Doom of Valyria from the original Game of Thrones opening HBO The first of the astrolabe’s traditional carvings depicts a dragon, a great city, and a volcano. Until, however, the first episode of season 8, the show’s final season. The intricate turning of the astrolabe, which we now know to be the giant hanging fixture in the Citadel library, is cut to three times during each opening title sequence, and always has the same three carvings in it. There is one thing about the sequence that hasn’t changed though: the astrolabe. The clockwork map of Westeros shifts and changes, as the camera soars over it, lingering on the locations that will be relevant for the episode it precedes. The Game of Thrones opening title sequence is famous for changing every episode.

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