With the recent nerd-gasmic news that Telltale is developing a Game of Thrones game , possibly in the same vein as their award-winning The Walking Dead game, comes many exciting questions. Most of which will probably be answered once the studio officially confirms the project with a comment and/or press release. But for now… LET'S SPECULATE!

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What realms will we visit in the new GoT game? Will it take place during the TV/Books timeline, or will we be zapped back to past eras - like the rise of Aegon the Conqueror or Robert's Rebellion? Will we see a young Ned Stark, pre-martyrdom, or will it all take place in a post-Ned world?The Walking Dead game, notably, was based on Robert Kirkman's comic book world. But regardless of the specific source material, the story focused on a different set of survivors from the comics and TV show altogether. It featured cameos from notable heroes, who are also currently on the AMC TV series, but they were designed to look like their comic versions and didn't wind up playing integral roles in the five-episode saga. The Game of Thrones HBO series doesn't stray as dramatically from its source material as the Walking Dead TV show does, so asking whether or not the GoT Telltale game will be based on the HBO series or the original George R. R. Martin novels might not be worth the question mark.And while The Walking Dead game only allowed us to play as one character, the extra 400 Days episode split its time between five characters in their own separate stories. So will the Game of Thrones game go the Lee Everett route, or the 400 Days route? Not sure. All we do know is that the stories will have to be soulfully intense and gut-wrenching, filled with hard choices and traumatic decisions that will haunt you long after the credits role. So here are some of the best places the game could go:For the purposes of this feature, I'm not going to spend a lot of time going into the deep and dark history of Westeros and Valyria. I'm going to keep it book and TV show specific. Not that the game couldn't take us into the past, but I feel like most folks may not be obsessive Song of Ice and Fire enthusiasts and would rather play alongside the events they know from the HBO series and the Martin novels. Of course, a good story is a good story and if the tale is grim and addictive enough, it might not matter what year it takes place. But I do think that there's a good chance they won't go pre-Ned. We shall see.The most obvious place for the game to start (or fully take place), is with The Night's Watch and their adventures beyond The Wall. Not only would there be a ton of hard decision making involving groups/survivors, but the endless dangers would be both natural and supernatural. The Watch itself is filled with crooks and killers and the snowy nights are filled with undead horrors. So if we're absolutely looking for a storyline that's the most similar to The Walking Dead game, this is it. Roaming hordes of wights and white walkers, ferocious Wildlings everywhere, and deadly, freezing temperatures. Just think. It could be YOU who knows nothing!Another interesting path to take would lead us smack dab in the middle of the War of the Five Kings. Most notably, in the hardest hit region - The Riverlands. In fact, Arya Stark's entire journey up until now has sort of played out like a Telltale game. Rough choices, betrayals, assorted heroes and villains popping in every so often. Each season, due to her age and stature, she's wound up being trapped in a different place with a different gang. From the Night's Watch caravan, to Harrenhal, to the Brotherhood Without Banners. And for her, it's all been about survival and the unexpected friendships she's made along the way.So the war-ravaged Riverlands, with its rotating door of appearances and cameos, it's unjust cruelty, and volatile unpredictability, could be a kick-ass place to explore in the game. You could even run into Arya, who'd probably swiftly try to stab you in the neck before saying "Most girls are idiots. Arya out!" Okay, maybe she'd only say one part of that...[caption id="attachment_866147" align="aligncenter" width="550"] [MUFFLED RAP MUSIC PLAYING IN THE DISTANCE][/caption]The regally rotten city of King's Landing could also be a damn fine place to point and click through. Because if you're looking for secret pacts, backstabbing, immoral leadership, and a brutally unbalanced class-system on the verge of exploding like a powder keg, then this is your one-stop shop. You could be a soldier, a sellsword, a peasant or, hell, maybe Robert has another bastard we don't even know about. His seedlings are everywhere.An even better scenario though would be if there was an immediate danger and the city was under siege. Which could be either during the Battle of Blackwater Bay, which played out on both TV and in the books, or it could go back 20 years and feature the "Sack of King's Landing" which would still allow for a ton of cameos from big characters both Stark and Lannister - just younger versions of course. Back when Jaime and Cersei's incest was more pure and innocent.Okay, so we should ask ourselves, "How important is it to feature the supernatural elements from Game of Thrones in the game?" You can have the zombies if you play as a member of The Night's Watch, and the Riverlands and King's Landing could feature an assortment of Red Priest voodoo and alchemy. But dragons, y'all. Do we want to see dragons?Without going back hundreds of years though, to Aegon (which could give us dragons in Westeros), the dragons wouldn't be full-sized ones. Just the pipsqueakers that Daenerys currently has. So if the story somehow took place over in Essos, and anywhere Dany-adjacent, the dragons would be "fun size." But, that entire region is filled with magic. Warlock illusions, Faceless Men, Lhazareen blood spells, and more.But, essentially, Essos might not work if the game story is going to take place all in one region. It could be awesome though if it were a part, or an episode, of the game - as Dany's one-woman crusade to rid the world of its slave trade, leaving burning cities in her wake, could be an terrific backdrop for a side adventure.So what would you guys like to see incorporated into the Telltale Game of Thrones game? Do you want it set in the past or in the current timeline? Do you want to play one character or multiple ones? Let us know.

Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/Showrenity