The Hound will return in Game of Thrones Season 6.
Ian McShane spilled the major spoiler for Game of Thrones Season 6 during a radio interview.
McShane has a small but essential role in Season 6. The original casting call describes his character as a “priest, in his 40’s or 50’s. A gruff ex-soldier who found religion. Now a no-nonsense rural priest who ministers to the poor of the countryside.”
“The character is like a former warrior who has renounced violence and now leads this peace cult,” McShane said to Radio 5 Live, “I have nursed a loved character, a much loved character back to life. And he reintroduces—I won’t say him or her—but it’s a character whose much loved who everyone thinks is dead. But he’s not dead.”
“Who do you think it is?” McShane asks the hosts, who immediately guess he’s talking about The Hound or Jon Snow. “It’s not the latter, it might be the former,” McShane says.
McShane’s description of the character jives nicely with the Elder Brother of Quiet Isle, who appears in the fourth book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, A Feast For Crows. One of the novices following the Elder Brother is a mysterious gravedigger who covers his face and walks with a limp.
Though it’s never made obvious, the chapter is loaded with hints that this gravedigger is Sandor Clegane. He may have retired The Hound, but McShane has made it clear that Clegane survived his fight with Brienne of Tarth.
The Hound will return in Game of Thrones Season 6, hopefully just in time to fight his undead, Frankenstein brother.
