Game Of Thrones creators planned Ayra Stark would kill The Night King THREE years ago – as Kit Harrington admits he’s ‘surprised’ it wasn’t Jon Snow

GAME Of Thrones creators have revealed they knew Ayra Stark would kill The Night King three years ago but Kit Harrington was still "surprised" it wasn't Jon Snow.

Against all the odds, tiny Arya single-handedly killed the all-powerful Night King and saved nearly all the main characters from certain death.

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Arya's crucial kill shot seemed to come from nowhere but now the creators of the show have revealed that they always knew she would be the Winterfell warrior to defeat the Night King.

On the Game of Thrones after show, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss said they have known Arya would deliver the fatal blow for about three years.

"For, god, I think it’s probably three years now, we’ve known that it was going to be Arya who delivers that fatal blow," David Benioff said.

"We hoped to kind of avoid the expected. Jon Snow has always been the hero, the one who’s been the saviour, but it just didn’t seem right to us, for this moment."

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Arya was able to kill the Night King with one blow because of her Valyrian steel dagger.

It is the same blade that an assassin tried to use to kill Bran when he was in a coma.

Later, Bran gave it to Arya and she used it to slit Littlefinger's throat.

Meanwhile, Kit Harington has revealed that he was surprised his character Jon Snow didn't get to wipe out the White Walkers.

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"I was surprised, I thought it was gonna be me!” Kit told after last night's show.

"But I like it. It gives Arya’s training a purpose to have an end goal. It’s much better how she does it the way she does it.

"I think it will frustrate some in the audience that Jon’s hunting the Night King and you’re expecting this epic fight and it never happens – that’s kind of Thrones.

"But it’s the right thing for the characters. There’s also something about it not being the person you expect. The young lady sticks it to the man."

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