As fans eagerly await the arrival of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms , bringing another corner of George R.R. Martin’s Westeros to HBO, the showrunner of the Game of Thrones spinoff is teasing the return of a familiar character. Sort of. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms takes place about a century before Game of Thrones , so it would have to be someone we met on the latter show very, very late in their life. Someone like, say… Walder Frey.

The Lord of the Crossing—very well known to fans of both Martin’s books and the HBO series for hosting the infamous Red Wedding—is of extremely advanced age when we meet his incarnation played by David Bradley. But time hasn’t softened his devious, unforgiving nature, as Robb Stark and company learn the hard way. And, as Martin’s Dunk charact

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