Cue the Game of Thrones fandom freaking out, because this is the first time Martin or anyone has mentioned the concept of fire wights. And in case you forget, Melisandre was inspired by Beric’s personal priest and resurrection expert, Thoros of Myr, when she brought Jon back.

In other words, is Jon Snow also one of these fire wights? What does that mean for his future? If you don’t recall, Jon tried to sign a magical D.N.R. with Melisandre last season before the Battle of the Bastards. “Don’t bring me back,” he said. But Melisandre said it wasn’t up to her. Like Beric and possibly the Hound, the Lord of Light seems to have plans for Jon Snow. Also last season, the red priestess Kinvara told Tyrion that Daenerys’s dragons were a gift from R’Hollor: “fire made flesh.” Are all these fire-based things—wights and dragons—the Lord of Light’s attempt to arm the realm against the ice wights from the north? In other words, what will become of this potentially undead Jon Snow once the battle’s lost or won?

Where Are the Hound, Beric, and Thoros Going?: The Hound (who is kissed by fire in his own unique way) stares into Thoros’s fire and sees “where the Wall meets the sea, there is a mountain that looks like an arrowhead.” He also sees “the army of the dead, thousands of them.” Fun fact! “Where the Wall meets the sea” is probably another way of saying Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, which is one of the outposts manned by the Night’s Watch. Or, at least, it was. But who’s in charge there now? Our man Tormund. So it looks like these two groups—wildlings and Brotherhood—are on a collision course.

There is, as a fellow TV critic pointed out to me, going to be a lot of place-setting in the penultimate season of Game of Thrones. The show writers need all their players in certain positions for the final showdown, and hopefully, the seams on how they get there won’t be too apparent. This Brotherhood scene with the Hound, Beric, and Thoros is a perfect example of moving players around on the board with some measure of grace. Adding in the Hound’s existential crisis, a callback to the farmer and his daughter from Season 4, and a reference or two to Ian McShane’s Brother Ray made this particular plot thread Game of Thrones at its finest.