Talking about the prophesy with a friend irl right now…
Was the prophesy ever explicitly discussed in GoT? Who knew it? In this ep, the king told the daughter (bare with me on names, I don’t have them down yet) that only the king and his heir know the prophesy. But Mad King was killed and Berantheon (or whatever his name was) took the thrown from him, so he never would have known the prophesy.
Everyone always said “winter is coming”, but I think for them, it just meant that, literally, winter is coming, so prep your stores so you have enough to eat through out the coming extended winter.
Now we hear from the king that only he knows the true prophesy and that there will be cold and dark coming from the north and the true king will save them (or whatever the exact prophesy was).