New pics from GoT set at St. John’s Fortress,Dubrovnik begins its King’s Landing transformation 

season 5 has well and truly begun in Šibenik, Croatia, with scenes being filmed there yesterday and today.

As images were shared by various sites during the construction of the set at St. John’s Fortress, many speculated on what it could be used to film. The following new images offer us a much clearer view on the type of scene(s) we could be seeing there in the fifth season.

has shared the above image and the following one. In them we can see Essosi extras, both noble masters and slaves/sellswords/pit-fighters.

has also shared the following images of extras at the fortress, giving us a closer look at the costumes.

Sources on Facebook have also confirmed that Dubrovnik city is once again undergoing preparation for outdoor King’s Landing scenes, with stacks of hay, branches and woven wood being used as props.

I think the costuming of the extras at St. John’s Fortress pretty much confirms the popular speculation about what’s being filmed there. What do you think?

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Have we seen that style of facial jewelry/chains on the masters before?

I can’t get the spoiler tag to work, SPOILERS!!! – they work now.

So the guy that took some of the pics above said on facebook that

he saw Peter Dinklage and Iain Glen on set, he couldn’t take any pics though. It looks like that set isn’t just a training ground for the pit fighters.

In Season 4, we did. Plenty of the masters shown at the end of Breaker of Chains had that kind of jewelry.

Stacks of hay and wood outside Dubrovnik/King’s Landing? could those be things carried by sparrows?

The big guys from the first picture look like they could be pit fighters, just speculation though.

What do you mean? Like a training ground and auction block or something?

Isn’t Tyrion involved in an almost pit-fight in ADWD? Maybe they’re trimming the portion where he’s owned by Yezzan zo Qaggaz, and just having he and Jorah purchased to be pit fighters.

The woman in the top pic could easily be the pit fighter Barsena Blackhair who in the books at least

gets eaten by Drogon after being gored by the boar she fought in the pits.

That makes sense, they’ll have to speed up some things in order for them to make it to Daznak’s Pit in time.

I was at the fortress today. They filmed a big scene with extras and main characters.

I promised not to disclose anything, so unfortunately I can’t say anything more.

The woman in the first picture is part of the crew and no extra.

Well then… What’s the point in casting Yezzan?

Yezzan will be the one in charge of the fighting pits in the show and he will be the one nagging at Dany to reopen them rather than Hizdahr. When she agrees, he starts smuggling slaves in for the Pit fights in the grand reopening (which would be against Dany’s laws- that only willing fighters can be placed in the Pit). Then that Luther dude takes over Tyrion and Jorah’s ship and sells them to Yezzan. The big question now is if Yunkai will be involved at all, or if the big battle of Meereen will be scrapped in the show in favor of some sort of inner-city civil war.

Do you mean that she’s part of the cast? Or did she just feel like dressing up in costume to make the extras feel comfortable?

they mentioned Yunki and how they got back to enslave people again and she send Darrio to them so I dont think this is all was for nothing

what do you think will happen with Astapor and the butcher king ?

If they’re going to all this trouble, couldn’t we somehow get some Strong Belwas up in here?

Those two guys in the first pic definitely look like stunt performers.

I think this is just her personal style and no costume.

I have little doubt that Charles Dance will play the most brilliant festering corpse ever seen on television.

So jelous! Maybe this is too much to ask and if you can’t answer don’t worry, but I’m really curious about it… Did you notice something new/really distinctive in any of the main characters faces?

So were you an extra/crew member or did you just happen to be there?

Thought I saw some Dothraki for a moment there but I guess Dany has completely neglected them now!

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