24 new official Game of Thrones photos released from season 6! 

Isaac Hempstead Wright as Bran Stark and Max von Sydow as the Three-Eyed Raven. From one of Bran’s visions. Photo credit: Helen Sloan/HBO

After a winter’s drought of fresh news, HBO today released 20 amazing new official images from

The photos feature an array of major characters from the upcoming year, including the returning (and standing?!) Bran, Yara and Balon Greyjoy, blind Arya, tense Lannister siblings and so much more! There is a distinct lack of the new characters, but that just means we have more to look forward to!

The season 6 premiere is now 73 days away, debuting on April 24th, in the show’s standard 9PM time slot.

Click through for all the HQ new photos, with a taste of season 6!

Gemma Whelan as Yara Greyjoy. Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO

Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen. Photo: Macall B. Polay/HBO

Michael McElhatton as Roose Bolton and Iwan Rheon as Ramsay Bolton. Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister. Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO

Patrick Malahide as Balon Greyjoy. Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO

Nathalie Emmanuel as Missandei. Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO

Carice van Houten as Melisandre. Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO

Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy and Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark. Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO

Liam Cunningham as Davos Seaworth. Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister and Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister. Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO

John Bradley as Samwell Tarly and Hannah Murray as Gilly. Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO

Gwendoline Christie as Brienne of Tarth. Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO

Iwan Rheon as Ramsay Bolton. Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO

Dean-Charles Chapman as Tommen Baratheon and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister. Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO

Hannah Waddingham as Septa Unella. Photo:: Helen Sloan/HBO

Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister and Conleth Hill. Photo: Macall B. Polay/HBO

Maisie Williams as Arya Stark. Photo: Macall B. Polay/HBO

Jonathan Pryce as High Sparrow. Photo: Helen Sloan/HBO

Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister. Photo: Macall B. Polay/HBO

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Hodor, Hodor, Hodor! I can’t stop myself!

That picture of Tommen and Jaime brings up some really bad memories and really weird thoughts…

Sansa and Theon look like crap. Arya looks creepy. Love it.

So, my neighbors get a couple of days of respite from the burnings. They produced the first result, but I swear to Red God if the trailer doesn’t come out soon…

Very happy to see Patrick Malahide in the pictures. And Gemma Whelan of course. Welcome back.

I believe Bran and the Three-Eyed-Raven are standing at Winterfell because the wall textures are not dark enough to be Castle Black or Harrenhall and Winterfell (and the Dreadfort) have very similiar walls.

And that makes sense with the flashbacks we already know about. Interesting that they seem to be both walking around in their vision.

Love seeing Bran all grown up. The 5th photo of Jaime with Myrcella’s body…the look on his face. So sad.

isnt that a picture shortly after she jumped, she has the same clothes on. It would take some time for her to look really pregnant…

and Deadpan still has hair. I guess they can’t risk making her “unpretty”?

And is that Myrcella under that sheet or is Bronn playing a reall cruel joke?

The Bran one looks like a flashback of Winterfell. The Walls look like the walls in S1.

Standing Bran is what confuses you? Standing BR gives pretty much away, that it’s a dream.

is it just me or does the show look even more Beautiful then before ? I mean it looks gorgeous. and everyone looks perfect, HBO released to teaser trailer for Silicon valley, hopefully Game of thrones isn’t to far off

What in the world are you talking about? She’s cloaked and bent over! You can’t even see her midsection.

I don’t think enough time has passed for her to be showing, plus I feel like jumping off a huge wall would have nipped that in the bud, for lack of a better term

I still think it looks like Castle Black, but it could certainly be Winterfell.

Also probably no trailer Sunday since they like to spread stuff out…

So happy right now! They look like they are all from the first few episodes.

Poor Sansa and Theon, freezing in the winter snows. They look ragged and miserable

But I think one Sansa picture is missing… The one where she is alone in the snow?

And I must admit, seeing Myrcella’s dead body in the sept with Jaime and Tommen also makes me very sad.

Is Ramsay actually mourning for Myranda? He looks like he is contemplating something…

They look amazing. Sansa looks like she’s been through the wringer, hopefully dirt = character progression! Can’t wait.

Where is the Sansa in the snow picture? The one that makes her look like she has, heaven forbid, a tiny bump?

What in the world are you talking about? She’s cloaked and bent over! You can’t even see her midsection.

And some tried to tell me before they wouldn’t do Blind Beth -here’s hoping for wolf dreams

To back my Winterfell claim up (from season 1): http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/clayseason/game%20of%20thrones/locations/the%20north/winterfell/courtyard4.jpg

First pictures for Season 5 were released the same day as the trailer.

I’m glad they kept Euron for the trailer

I love that we’ll actually see Bran and the 3EC in the visions (reminds me of the Pensieve in Harry Potter). It’s so nice to see new footage, can’t wait for the trailer!

How did anyone use to shave in the first place? Boy, the medieval centuries must have been just disgusting.

Yeah, greedy me was thinking about that as well

I’m not seeing a Sansa baby bump. Prays to the gods she’s not pregnant with a demon spawn.

That’s got to be a vision at WF, right? Definitely doesn’t look like the cave or the ToJ locations.

Theon and Sansa look adequately disheveled to appear to have been on the run for a while.

Brienne being indoors makes me doubt she finds Sansa and Theon, who are clearly out in the elements.

Poor Myrcella. Poor Tommen. Poor Jaime. Suffer, Cersei, suffer.

Uh oh, Septa Ulna appears to be giving Margery the ‘confess’ treatment.

We learn that: – Myrcella is actually dead and Jaime returns to KL with her corpse (Nell Tiger Free is also returning for a cameo in Season 6)

– Bran and Bloodraven will leave the cave and actually “visit” the places that Bran sees in his visions. In the picture they seem to be at Winterfell.

– Roose Bolton is alive at the start of the season (regarding the “Winterfell is mine” speculations)

– Melisandre will leave Castle Black

– Sansa and Theon both survived the fall

– And most shocking: Sansa seems to be pregnant with Ramsey’s child! 😮

Glum looking Mel, Marge in the crypts, Waking Dream Bran is a good idea, makes his character more interesting then just boring cave scenes, plus we get to see a standing Brynden Rivers/Bloodraven etc

OMG!!! Amazing!!! Trailer, next week??? Yes, please!!!

– Davos and some smoke in front of him? Jon’s funerall pyre?

-Melisandre doesn’t look depressed anymore and is leaving the wall. Before or after Jon’s funerall pyre?

-I don’t think that sansa has a baby bump. The pictures are the aftermath of mother mercy and she is wearing the same clothes And she didn’t have one in that episode.

– brienne in a abandoned something? Maybe she finds theon and sansa hidding in there?

Blind Beth – I love it. What a great gift for a Thursday!

They’re not gonna make her pregnant. Besides if it was a babies bump that would means she’d have to have been away from winterfell at least 2 month, which is unlikely.

Seeing all these pictures reminded me of how little I care about Dany’s story line. The others are just more exciting, despite not having dragons.

Amazing!! I find the picture of Davos an interesting choice. That smoke swirling in the bottom left of the photo might be…

…smoke from Jon’s funeral pyre before his resurrection? He seems to have a troubled look about him.

And regarding Sansa, isn’t that just her sleeve sticking out of her dress as she reaches out to hold Theon’a arm. I don’t see a bump!

That Reek&Sansa shot looks as it was taken from the Revenant :,D

Yes! I was thinking that it looks like Davos is attending a Jon BBQ…

Not sure if this link will work properly but…Sansa *appears* to have a baby bump in this photo. I really hope its just a bulky coat.

Funny how on the show he is actually the last of the Five Kings to live.

Why are people acting so surprised at Myrcella being dead? HBO already confirmed it months ago.

Well that removes any shadow of a doubt of Myrcella’s death, not just poisoning – they do sort of imply she’ll die in the next novel, and if it’s Tyene who ends up poisoning her perhaps this wasn’t the worst idea for a condensation (though I still think it was mishandled) — also, WTF Trystane is on the same ship?

Thought: confirmation that Samwell and Gilly will be traveling by ship to Oldtown. Some had wondered if they’d condense it by making them go overland (which is silly). ***I really hope the Cinammon Wind has a Summer Islander crew. They’re one of the few examples of black characters actually in the storyline that even Martin directly cited on a shortlist.

Greyjoys! Balon and Yara! I was worried Balon would remain offscreen.

FUN FACT: When Arya is blind, it’s not CGI: Maisie Williams is wearing special jelly-like contacts which actually render her blind in real life (method acting).

Mel is leaving Castle Black with some warriors, who are they? I see a green cape in the bottom left corner…

And is it me, or Theon broke something when he fell from the wall of Winterfell?? Maybe he can’t walk.

Balon is still alive and scowling, Melisandre really didn’t do such good job with them leeches… I still think the trailer might happen Sunday, purely because HBO would relish releasing a blood-soaked trailer, featuring world’s worst husband Ramsey and a twincesting couple on Valentine’s Day.

No she stuck her hands inside her pockets to stay warm in the freezing winter.

SO happy to see Patrick M. and Gemma W. in the pictures! Wish we got to see Pilou as well (can’t wait to see how they grease him up) but that picture of Arya got me so charged. I am excited to see where that girls ends come episode 10. I am probably one of the few who could give a shit about Jaime (Jaime is “meh” but NCW is “meow”!) but I admit I am a wee surprised that they off’d Myrcella. I sort of expected an antidote from Trystane. This should make for an uncomfortable homecoming.

Bran is HOT. Welcome back, baby. I do not feel creepy about saying it either.

Sam, Gilly, Davos, Varys, Tyrion…they are all welcome sights!

Why do I feel like Theon and Sansa are going to run into some trouble? I mean, that’s a given but all I can think is Ramsey and his dogs go hunting….

Now we need a promo shot of McShane, with a shadowy figure of a Gravedigger in the background.

I am a Hound girl to the core and nothing would top this season off more than seeing that man again.

There are similarities in the structures, but do I see what you’re talking about (guessing you’re looking at the beam).

Are Roose and Ramsay looking at a certain someone making a surprise return to Winterfell?

That picture of Tommen and Jaime brings up some really bad memories and really weird thoughts…

I just saw the title, haven’t seen the pictures, I just want to say HOOOOOOLLLYY SHIIIITTTT FINALLY SOMETHING FUCK YES

Balon: “Who are you?” Stranger: “A man is no one…”

I think it’d be cool if Salladhor Saan brought Sam and Gilly to Oldtown.

let’s see, they released the Outlander season 2 trailer today releasing on the 9th and Silicon valley teaser trailer for season 2 releasing on the 24th.

They released pictures for season 6 of game of Thrones, maybe something more this weekend if we are lucky.

I think it’d be cool if Salladhor Saan brought Sam and Gilly to Oldtown.

….that’s not the worst idea, actually. Economy of characters and all. He’s got a ship.

NO KIDDING! That would be Sansa’s fate wouldn’t be, she has a terrible little Ramsay offspring!

The absence of Trystane from the photo on the boat is making me hopeful that Bronn tossed him overboard.

Below is a photo of Balon and Theon from S2, so you can compare the fireplace with the S6 photo. Nothing notable here, just saw that the new set is very faithful to the old set, or possibly even the same one.

there appears to be a bump, I thought the exact same thing when I first heard it. Is it true, Gods I hope NOT!

Why am I struggling to recognise that as Theon/Alfie Allen? I’m sure that must be him, but for some reason he looks a little different. (Edit: You know what it’s probably that shadow under his chin making it look like he’s got a new beard).

Anyways, great pics and article. Nice to know the cliff-hanger characters like Sansa/Theon will probably be appearing in trailers too, if they’re releasing these images ahead of time! Can’t wait 😀

Also, BALON OMG. I like to imagine that’s the first time he’s stood up out of his chair and looked around since the last time we saw him (S3E10).

That Sansa in the snow atill looks intense!

Mel is leaving Castle Black with some warriors, who are they? I see a green cape in the bottom left corner…

Is that Sansa’s cloak in the Melisandre picture? The patterning on that cloak and the cloak in the Sansa pictures is pretty similar, but I’m not quite sure if it’s the same.

We think they’re liars after so much else.

One major and much talked about character notable by his absence

Someone suggested Sansa was pregnant from a photo last year, and they were almost skewered. It could be (I mean, obviously it’s possible, people!), but even if it is, she could take care of that pretty easily I would think….should she want to. Or – she could be keeping her hands warm in some pockets. Or, maybe just found something to eat and leaned slightly. LOL. Us tall girls….gain 2 pounds and rumours fly.

I am so so so hoping Euron is terrifyingly badass. He could do it so well.

It;t not a baby pump, I check and it’s exactly the same outfit she wears when her and Theon jump last season. The way she is standing it looks like the material isn’t laying underneath one another creating a bulge.

One quick google search of her season 5 clothes should confirm it’s the same outfit/ probably not laying flush from the jump and fall.

interesting, it looks like sansa is in the mel pic at castle black, then again that could be someone else.

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