Game of Thrones
"Game of Thrones" Season 6 character Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) was featured in a new character photos to tease the HBO series' return. HBO

After ending on a massive cliffhanger last year, “Game of Thrones” is finally returning to HBO April 24 to answer a lot of questions about who is alive or dead. To tease those hoping that their favorites make it through the end of Season 6 unscathed, the network has released a slew of character posters showing many residents of Westeros resting comfortably inside the hall of the Faceless Men.

The posters come on the heels of the teaser trailer that was released Feb. 14 and follows the same theme. In Season 5, audiences were introduced to the Hall of the Faceless Men. Inside, the mysterious shapeshifting group has countless human faces on display that their ranks can then morph into. In that spirit, several characters on the show, both living and dead, appeared on the wall accompanied by some of their most famous quotes. Wednesday, the show began posting some of the same images to its official Twitter account along with some of their more defining quotes from the series

The posters include already deceased characters like Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson), and Oberyn Martell (Pedro Pascal). However, they’re not restricted to characters that have died on the show. Others released by HBO include still-living characters like Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) and Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklege). As outlets like Variety speculate that fans shoud consider the implications of showing some of these characters among the dead. After all, Season 6 will mark the first time that the show has run past the written source material of George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” book series, so the network can tease any death they’d like and even book-readers would be none the wiser.

Also included in the character posters is Jon Snow (Kit Harington), who fans will mark as perhaps the most interesting addition to this collection of faces both living and dead. The reason is because [SPOILER ALERT] after the Season 5 finale cliffhanger, Snow exists in both states. After being stabbed several times in the chest by mutinous members of the Night’s Watch, fans have been speculating wildly about whether or not the character will actually be dead when Season 6 premieres. It’s unclear at this time whether his inclusion in the character posters means he’ll show up in the new run or if it’s just HBO having a little fun with its fans.

You can see a handful of the newly released character posters below. In addition, the network allowed several news outlets to post exclusive characters photos of their own. Fans can find images for characters like Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) at the Hollywood Reporter, Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) at Variety and Robb Stark (Richard Madden) at TVLine.

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