HBO has just released a graphic tease for its third season of Game of Thrones, which will be returning slightly earlier than prior seasons: March 31st, 2013, Collider said.

Based on roughly the first half of George R. R. Martin's third A Song of Ice and Fire series novel A Storm of Swords, the only hint of new material for the upcoming season is a cryptic riddle said by a strange woman.

There’s really not much to read into with the graphic itself, but the words: “The great war is between death and life, ice and fire. If we lose, the night will never end” seem to put a particular focus not on the messy politics of the prior season but on the likely inevitable horror of the White Walkers / Others as they descend from beyond the Wall, according to Collider.