A new poster for the upcoming third season of HBO’s Game of Thrones has been released, offering a date for the premiere of the new season etched in stone (or ice?).

The poster is fairly plain, showing only a date with a trio of swords through one of the zeroes, but still…it’s confirmation of the date we can expect our favorite fantasy series back and the first step to getting to that date. It’s all images, trailers, and anticipation from here, friends.

Check out the poster for season 3 of Game of Thrones below now.

While nothing is official yet, it looks like HBO is pondering possibly ordering not only season 3 of their hit series Game of Thrones, but a fourth season as well. And if they do, the plan will apparently be to film the two seasons back-to-back, which has become a popular option with movies.

The strategy would be attempted in order to best tackle book three in author George R.R. Martin‘s A Song of Ice and Fire series, titled A Storm of Swords. The plan was always to do one season of the show for each book in the series, but it became obvious that the contents of A Storm of Swords wasn’t going to fit in just one season, and so options have been discussed.