The full Game of Thrones: Season 6 trailer has finally dropped

Game of Thrones: 9 Reveals from the Season 6 Trailer

 

The Iron Islands, Vaes Dothrak, Bran's visions, and more. Here's what the new Game of Thrones: Season 6 footage told us for certain.

The full Game of Thrones: Season 6 trailer has finally dropped, setting the internet ablaze with piercing and potent imagery involving boats, horses, the Night's King, and many, many shots of Jon Snow's lifeless body. Like, we get it. He's dead. So very dead.

And as with many a trailer, we have questions. In fact, considering that this season of Game of Thrones is the first not to easily correlate to any published Song of Ice and Fire book, the "unknown" now looms large and casts a formidable shadow. But instead of raising a bunch of "What's that?"s and "What if?"s, let's hone in on what the trailer actually confirms for us. The actual, (mostly) irrefutable information we get from it. Sansa and Theon survived the drop. Davos is in mourning. Melisandre has doubts. Thant sort of stuff. And much more.

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So here are 9 things the Game of Thrones: Season 6 trailer confirms for us...

More Flashbacks

The show gave us its first flashback last year with a brief Cersei prelude, but this year it looks like we'll be getting young Ned and some big battle moments...

Yup. Guy in the front looks pretty damn Ned-like. But we get it. This is still somewhat speculate-y. So here's Exhibit B...

That be Targaryen armor. And that doesn't exist anymore. So this all signs point to this being a glimpse into the past. So are there more flashbacks? You bet your butts.

Return to the Iron Islands

While Season 6 isn't following any particular book, there are still book elements from A Feast for Crows and A Dance of Dragons that were left out of the show. And a lot of that stuff dealt with the Greyjoys back on their rotten, jagged islands. And while we can only guess as to what's going on here (and with all the brooding shots of Pilou Asbæk as Euron Greyjoy)...

...we know for sure that Iron Island antics will be a big part of the season.

Yara, Y'all

As an extension of the previous entry, Yara will be back. Which one could assume since she's a Greyjoy. Though she's also a Greyjoy we've followed outside the particular, peculiar Pike goings-on.

It also appears Yara's found someone to help her forget just how cold, damp, and miserable her entire family is.

Vaes Dothrak is Back

Not only does Daenerys not get a warm welcome befitting a "Khaleesi" (or a "Breaker of Chains," "Mother of Dragons," etc), but she's trudged back to the Dothraki capital, Vaes Dothrak. Which, as you might guess, does not score very high on Yelp.

Sansa is Warm and Safe

Not that anyone thought Sansa and Theon fell to their crippling deaths at the end of last season's finale, but this shot (and the ones of Theon) confirm that they're okay. And that Sansa has been properly clothed. And placed inside someone's keep. And treated well enough that she doesn't look entirely depressed and forlorn. Not entirely.

Bran's in Deep S***

First off, Bran's back. He was gone all last season, but now the psychic Stark has returned with a beefed up storyline and and a sensible haircut.
Next? Bran's having what we presume are visions -- his ability to walk seems one big giveaway here -- of the Night's King. Last seen having a "Come At Me, Crow!" stare-down with Jon Snow. And, dream version or not, if you see that frosty fiend, you're not having the best day.

Good ol' Twincest

We can only speculate as to how Cersei feels upon hearing of her daughter's poisoning at the hand of Dorne, but apparently she doesn't blame Jaime for it. Well, not enough to stop them from engaging in their old favorite pastime of brother/sister face mushing.

Jorah the Explorer

Being overly, and perhaps creepily, familiar with Daenerys' scent, Jorah manages to locate Khaleesi's breadcrumb ring in the middle of dense grass.

Let's just hope it contains some sort of tracking devise or connects to a homing beacon. Because it's unlikely Jorah can Toucan Sam his way all the way to Dothrapolis.

Margaery Repents

This moment creates a lot of questions, for sure, but just on its own merit we see Margaery extending her hand out to the High Sparrow, looking for mercy.

Does this signal a new alliance? Does it, essentially, turn Tommen against Cersei (like the trailer seems to suggest with its editing)? That's all up in the air, but what we do know is that Margaery's sure as hell ready to get out of that dank, rank cell and make amends for all her sinning. Or, at least, go through the motions involved with repenting.