Game of Thrones Season 7: Many Spoilery Returns

Apparently, Game of Thrones will feature another character returning for Season 7, one that might come as a bit of a surprise.

Warning: Game of Thrones spoilers have caused heart palpitations and Getting Hype Syndrome. Read with caution. 

Poor Arya went blind from shock at these spoilers. Screencap via HBO

As Game of Thrones continues filming its seventh season in places like Iceland, little spoilers keep emerging. This is not a spoiler from Iceland. This is, however, a spoiler from our sister site, Winter is Coming, and ultimately via Watchers on the Wall. David Bradley — Lord Walder Frey or Argus Filch if your tastes run more towards Harry Potter — will apparently appear in Season 7. That’s per his official résumé at United Artists.

“But wait!” you may be saying. “Walder Frey died! Arya murdered him in the totally excellent Season 6 finale!”

“But wait,” we say, as does WiC, “Arya is a Faceless Man and could very well take Walder Frey’s face to help aid her escape.” Here’s how it could be done, since we don’t know much about how exactly the Faceless Men take and prepare faces.

One could say that it’s…elementary.

Please read the following Game of Thrones commentary in the voice of your favorite Sherlock Holmes actor.

We know, my dear Watson, that the young lady Stark can wear another’s face as if it were her own. After murdering Lord Frey, she readied his face as she had learned. As for the corpse, she proceeded to dispose of it in the same manner she had his sons. Gruesome, but effective. All this took her very little time and very little notice, since she could still use the face of the serving girl and pretend to be helping an indisposed Lord Frey to where she needed to go to perform her art and obtain his face.

Now, with Frey’s face, all she needed to do was make sure to avoid as many servants as possible, particularly those who may have seen her. Had she stayed longer, it would have been impossible for her to leave, and her ruse may have been discovered. No, she needed to make a clean escape. Wearing his face, she proceeded through the halls, hobbling as much as possible and finally going outside to order a horse prepared for riding. Though the command may have seemed odd, servants would not dare disobey. She would know this as Eddard Stark’s daughter.

So she rode out, still in Frey’s guise, and when she had ridden far away enough from the castle, she disposed of his face and proceeded north to Winterfell to reunite with her brother and sister as well as her believed half-brother, Jon Snow.

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Game of Thrones returns this summer.