Bringing it all into focus - The Karstark Banner

Below are some opening credits snapshots on each episode 1 from season 1 - 8.  

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Season 6

Season 7

Season 8

Is this the Karstark Banner at the center of it all?

Will their banner shine brighter than all when we reach the end?

No wasted words?

Is Alys Karstark somehow the key?

Is this a clue?

In the end it won't be about them.

Every year except for season 8 the sun or the Citadel thingamabob has been over the Winterfell weirwood.  This year the blinding sun within it has come into focus.  It seems to be the Karstark Banner.  Do they have a lot to do with the endgame?  Is Alys Karstark the “just woman”?  If so then who is her “honorable man”?  In the books Jon Snow marries her to a wildling; Sihorn Magnar of Thenn, thus creating a new noble house.  Is the sun symbol that we see the sigil of their house burning brightly.  The Karstark motto is “The Sun of Winter”.

I have some more thoughts on this and more but I don't have time this morning.  Will get back to this later to let you know what I think.