'Game of Thrones' star warns that some of our favorites will become White Walkers in Season 8

When we last saw Jaime Lannister, the Kingslayer-turned-queen-betrayer was in uncharted territory.

For the first time in his life, Jaime willingly abandoned Cersei in the Game of Thrones Season 7 finale, heading north to join the fight against the White Walkers (and hopefully warn Daenerys that Cersei's planning to double cross her with an army of sellswords while he's at it).

Of course, that heroic act of rebellion also puts him in the oncoming path of the Night King and his undead army, who are currently marching towards Winterfell with a hundred thousand wights and an ice dragon -- a fact that isn't lost on star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.

"The fear is that I would be turned into one of those undead. That would suck," he admitted in a recent interview with Esquire, when discussing Jaime's decision to leave the relative safety (no pun intended) of King's Landing.

"You know some of the main characters are going to get turned. There are going to be some blue-eyed main characters running around," he pointed out. "And, god, I hope it's not me. That's three hours of make-up in the morning. I know that if David Benioff and Dan Weiss read this, they'll go, 'Oh, yes we will.'"

Since Season 7 was surprisingly low on major deaths, the stars are clearly bracing themselves for a high body count in Season 8; Liam Cunningham, who plays Ser Davos, recently told Mashable, "I have no idea whether the last season is going to be a bloodbath of well-loved characters or whether they make it to the end; who knows? I really thought with the season we’ve just finished that there would be a higher death count of major characters."

But how much danger is Jaime in? Considering that he was the one who incited pretty much all the drama of the series by pushing Bran from a window in the very first episode, a heroic sacrifice would lend weight to his journey of redemption -- although we can't help but hope that he might secretly be Azor Ahai, aka The Prince That Was Promised (and that he'll live happily ever after with his soulmate, Brienne).

Another fan theory suggests that Jaime might have a different destiny in store: Becoming the 1000th Commander of the Night's Watch, and a pivotal player in the war against the Night King.

But what about Westeros' next top incest couple, Daenerys Targaryen and Jon Snow? Some fans think that Dany is a good candidate to follow in the footsteps of a mythical figure from George R. R. Martin's books known as the "Night's Queen," a female White Walker who could rule over the frosty world of eternal winter alongside the Night King, should the White Walkers win. (FWIW, we think Cersei's a much better pick for the Night King's frosty bride, since she's already ice cold.)

Jon, meanwhile, is kind of already a wight -- as is Beric Dondarrion -- at least as far as George R. R. Martin is concerned.

Speaking to Time, Martin hinted that anyone who is resurrected by the magic of the Red God R'hllor isn't technically alive anymore, at least in his books: "Poor Beric Dondarrion, who was set up as the foreshadowing of all this, every time [he's resurrected] he’s a little less Beric. His memories are fading, he’s got all these scars, he’s becoming more and more physically hideous, because he’s not a living human being anymore. His heart isn’t beating, his blood isn’t flowing in his veins, he’s a wight, but a wight animated by fire instead of by ice, now we’re getting back to the whole fire and ice thing."

If Dany and Jon think incest is icky, let's hope no one points out the necrophilia...

Will any of our favorites survive Game of Thrones Season 8? We'll have to wait at least a year -- if not longer -- to find out for sure.