Warning: this feature contains numerous spoilers forGame of Thrones third season and beyond.
If you havent read the books, leave well alone.
For the benefit of those whove read ahead in George R.R.
MartinsA Song of Ice and Firesaga, weve attempted to unpack what the new trailer tells us.
A rowing boat bearing two unidentifiable figures can be seen in the foreground, moving away from shore.
One is dark, and one fair, but its anyones best guess as to who they are.
Davos Seaworth and Edric Storm perhaps?
Further darkness comes with a shot of a hooded topless figure bound and strung up by his arms.
Back behind the Wall, the trailer returns to Jon Snows progress amongst Mance Rayders freemen.
Then youll service your own bride with a wooden prick.
Ill geld you, I swear it.
Is it as satisfying an uncle/nephew moment as that slap inThe Old Gods and the New?
Better, wed say.
Next comes an out-of-sequence Ygritte shooting an arrow in the rain.
Understand that, monster after Joffrey reveals a sick plan for his former betrothed.
One of the few deaths by natural causes in George R.R.
Martins saga is that of Lady Catelyns father, Lord Hoster Tully.
Its his funeral boat we see aflame drifting along the waters of Riverrun.
The trailers final words belong to (we think) the man who uttered its first, Lord Varys.
A treat though the trailer was, it leaves us considering what and who, wasnt featured.
Despite their growing importance in the narrative, the Tyrells and the Freys were conspicuous by their absence.
Understandably, a certain bloody event didnt get a look-in aside from oblique allusion.
