All The 'Winds Of Winter' Spoilers In The New 'Game Of Thrones' Trailer

While the most recent season of Game of Thrones had begun to move past George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books, Season 6 marks the first time that smart, awesome, adorable book readers will be just as in the dark as drooling TV slobs. This becomes obvious watching the trailer HBO just released for the upcoming season. We have entered a new frontier, where spoilers gut punch us all equally. So what does the new Game of Thrones trailer ruin for everyone waiting on The Winds of Winter?

Here’s the trailer if you haven’t seen it yet, ya kook.

Jon Snow Will Abandon The Night’s Watch And Ride South For Winterfell

Everyone widely assumes that Jon Snow will return from the dead, but we have only fan theories as to what he’ll do next. The most popular theory is that Jon Snow is no longer bound by the oath of the Night’s Watch, since he died (“ Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. ”). So naturally he’d ride South to take back Winterfell from the Boltons.

The trailer might just back that up:

Is this Jon Snow riding against the Boltons? Vanity Fair dug up this photo captured on the set and the evidence seems compelling, if not definitive.

Euron Greyjoy murdered Balon Greyjoy

In A Feast For Crows , Balon Greyjoy dies under mysterious circumstances. Dude fell off a rope bridge in a storm outside his own castle. For a hard man obsessed with the iron price, his death didn’t seem likely to wind up being a case of the dizzies. Readers smelled treachery afoot.

But then HBO’s Game of Thrones set the Greyjoys aside. That looks set to change in Game of Thrones Season 6, which will finally portray the dynastic fight for the Iron Islands. It also looks like the new Game of Thrones trailer finally solved Balon’s likely murder.

This is Euron Greyjoy (played by Game of Thrones newcomer Pilou Asbæk) pulling back his hood on a rope bridge. Euron is Balon’s younger brother, who was exiled from the Iron Islands for impregnating younger brother Victarion’s salt wife. Euron has kept busy all these years, pillaging around the world in his ship Silence, crewed entirely by men whose tongues Euron has ripped out.

In the books, Euron shows up the day after Balon dies to fight for the throne, but it looks like Game of Thrones will make explicit Euron’s final, murderous confrontation with Balon Greyjoy.

The Mountain Will Get To Kill Some Priests

In both the books and on the show, Gregor Clegane has been returned to a twisted half-life thanks to Qyburn. He’s now more monster than human.

This new trailer for Game of Thrones proves we won’t have to wait long to see that monster unleashed. Here he is at the head of troops about to retake the Sept of Baelor from the High Sparrow’s maniacal religious order.

Theon Will Return To The Greyjoys

It looks like Reek will become Theon Greyjoy once more. On the HBO series, Reek was last seen fleeing Winterfell with Sansa Stark. In preview chapters for The Winds of Winter, Theon has been captured by Stannis Baratheon and is set to be executed.

But here’s Theon getting dunked in water by men in Greyjoy armor:

Theon is a major character in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels and is a narrator of many chapters. It seems unlikely that the book would have the Baratheons execute him while he lives on in the show.

Instead, this is good evidence that Stannis Baratheon is as doomed in The Winds of Winter as he is on Game of Thrones. Theon will be returned to the Greyjoys, where they’ll either dunk his head in a bucket for fun, or attempt to deprogram him with even more torture.

Season 6 May Vary From ‘The Winds of Winter’

There are also a number of plot reveals in the trailer that may play out differently in The Winds of Winter . A quick shot of Tormund surrounded by Bolton shields has many speculating that the wildling chief will be killed in Season 6. But that may not play out the same in The Winds of Winter, which will be following a far different wildling situation out of A Dance With Dragons . For example, Mance Rayder is still alive in George R.R. Martin’s version.

While this first trailer for Game of Thrones Season 6 spoils a lot for those of us who have waited patiently for The Winds of Winter, it also produces more questions than it answers. What will come out of the confrontation between the Night’s King and Bran Stark? Will we finally learn that the Night’s King is a Stark himself, as has been suggested in the novels?

While some of the answers will come after the April 24 premiere of the new season, many more will have to wait for the nebulous, future release date of The Winds of Winter.