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Seven is often an important number in fantasy worlds, credited with being more magical or significant than other numbers.

And according to 鈥淕ame of Thrones鈥� showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, it鈥檚 the number of seasons the show will air in total. 鈥淭hrones鈥� is debuting its fourth season on April 6.聽

鈥淚t feels like this is the midpoint for us,鈥� Benioff told Entertainment Weekly of the upcoming season. 鈥淚f we鈥檙e going to go seven seasons, which is the plan, season 4 is right down the middle, the pivot point.鈥�

Benioff noted that, like many other fantasy works, seven is a significant number in 鈥淭hrones鈥� world as well.

鈥淚 would say it鈥檚 the goal we鈥檝e had from the beginning,鈥� he said of the seven seasons target. 鈥淚t was our unstated goal, because to start on a show and say your goal is seven seasons is the height of lunacy. Once we got to the point where we felt like we鈥檙e going to be able to tell this tale to its conclusion, that became [an even clearer] goal. Seven gods, seven kingdoms, seven seasons. It feels right to us.鈥�

鈥淭hrones鈥� writer George R.R. Martin has planned seven books in his Song of Ice and Fire series on which the TV series is based. He has so far released five of the novels, with the most recent, 鈥淎 Dance with Dragons,鈥� having come out in 2011. Martin鈥檚 sixth book, 鈥淭he Winds of Winter,鈥� will be the next book in the series.

The first two books in 鈥淪ong鈥� each took one season of the show, but Martin鈥檚 third book in the series, 鈥淎 Storm of Swords,鈥� has taken two seasons of 鈥淭hrones,鈥� so it will be interesting to see how future books are divided for the show or if 鈥淭hrones鈥� returns to its one-book-per-season pattern.