Every SPOILER we know for Game of Thrones season 8

Ghost will have “a fair amount of screen time”

The last time we saw Ghost, Jon Snow’s direwolf, he was raising his head off the floor as his master was resurrected from the dead. Sansa mentioned him once in season 7, but he never actually showed up onscreen. That is way too much time to go without sight of Jon’s most consistent companion, but according to special effects supervisor Joe Bauer, that’s all about to change. “Oh, you’ll see him again,” Bauer told The Huffington Post. “He has a fair amount of screen time in Season 8. He does show up.”

Well, thank goodness for that. According to Bauer, the reason the direwolves aren’t as prominent in the show as they are in the books is because they’re very tricky to render from a special effects perspective. “The direwolves are tough because you don’t want to get them wrong, so we end up always shooting real wolves and doing a scaling trick with them, but the real wolves only behave in certain ways.” There was actually a Ghost scene written for season 7, but it got cut.

But we can leave that dark time behind. We look forward to seeing Ghost rip out a few undead throats come April.