Who won the Battle of Winterfell?

The Battle of Winterfell was a showdown between the living and the dead. Who won Game of Thrones biggest battle yet?

This post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones season 8 episode 3.

On one side: Daenerys Targaryen, two dragons, a wolf army lead by Nymeria, and nearly everyone you’ve spent eight seasons watching fight amongst themselves, newly aligned. On the other: The Night King, an undead dragon and an army of white walkers and wights. Who came out on top?

Well, the Night King is dead and with him went all of the white walkers and wights. (Rules of the universe say that when a white walker “dies,” all the wights he or she turned dies with them.) So that’s a big W for humanity.

For an hour and 17 minutes, the Night King was winning the Battle of Winterfell in a big way. But it’s not over until it’s over and in this case, it’s not over until Arya says it is. Right as the Night King literally moved in for the kill with Bran, while a montage played of just about everyone else backed into a corner facing certain death, Arya came flying in. Not even a chokehold could stop her from stabbing the Night King and bam, just like that it was over. Night King — dead. His whole army of undead wights, white walkers and Viserion — gone, shattered like ice.

Arya won the Battle of Wintefell and by association, Dany won, Jon won, Sansa won, Tyrion won, Jaime won, Brienne won, the good guys won, humankind won. Sure, there will be more battles to come in the future. Cersei waits on the Iron Throne; Sansa and Dany never settled on a solution for the North. But those are battles between people, the living, they’re much less monumental. They — they being everyone living, everyone not the Night King — won. They, with enough heartbreaking exceptions to not make fans feel cheated, survived.

Game of Thrones continues with season 8 episode 4 on Sunday, May 5 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.