A creepy new trailer released Sunday from the tease-meisters over at “Game of Thrones” hints that we may never see Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) or Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) ultimately ascend the throne.
The trailer takes us to the House Of Black and White, current residence for Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) and the Faceless Men, where the faces of the dead — which surely outnumber the living on this show — decorate the halls. Look, there’s Ned Stark (Sean Bean), and over there, isn’t that “Red Wedding” casualty Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley)? Their eyes are closed, their skin gray. Joining them are poor Robb Stark (Richard Madden), who died in Season 3, poison victim King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) and former “Thrones” poster boy Jon Snow (Kit Harington), stabbed to death, “Julius Caesar”-style at the end of Season 5.
As the camera pans over this funereal display, each of the deceased speaks—who knew they could record voiceovers in Braavos?—from beyond the grave. Says Ned Stark, who lost his head in Season 1, “The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.” Predictably, King Joffrey has still not put aside his ego: “Everyone is mine to torment.” Most ominous, though, is the tea-leaf style utterance of the late Mr. Snow. “The long night is coming and the dead come with it.”
That night will most likely include Tyrion and Daenerys, for their faces, too, already adorn the death wall at the House of Black and White (as do those of twin lovers Cersei and Jaime Lannister, also still among the living). We won’t know which character dies first until Season 6 kicks off April 24 on HBO.