HBO captured the internet’s attention by releasing the first proper trailer for Game of Thrones’ highly-anticipated sixth season yesterday. With no more books to help guide them, fans have been poring over every detail trying to figure out just what the heck is going to happen this season. Will the Boltons finally get what’s coming to them? Will Dany’s story finally get interesting again? Is Jon Snow really dead? The trailer doesn’t really answer any of these questions unfortuantely, but it does drop quite a few hints about what’s to come this season. Here are the best details hidden in the season six trailer.
10. Greyjoys Kingsmoot
While Game of Thrones is ahead of George R. R. Martin’s source material in most respects by this point, there are still a few major plotlines that have yet to be tackled on the show. Judging by a couple shots in the trailer, it looks like season six will finally depict the Greyjoy family Kingsmoot from A Feast For Crows. The Kingsmoot is an important aquatic ceremony used to pick a new king in the wake of Balon Greyjoy’s death, which means we should be seeing the introduction of other members of the Greyjoy clan – namely Balon’s brothers Euron, Victarion, and Aeron, each crazy in their own distinct way. Yeah, the Greyjoys are going to mean serious business in season six. Speaking of which …