Iwan Rheon, Kristian Nairn, and Faye Marsay big goodbye to their characters

San Diego Comic-Con 2016 has come and gone, but there’s still plenty of information to sort through. For example, HBO has put up a new post on its Making Game of Thrones blog that gives several Game of Thrones cast members whose characters have died a chance to look back on their time on the show…and to reveal what they swiped from the set. For instance, the show sent Iwan Rheon (Ramsay Bolton) the paring knife he used to cut an apple in the scene with Osha from “Book of the Stranger,” the one where he kills her. That’s gotta be an odd memento. Meanwhile, Kristian Nairn (Hodor) “took a bit of one of the broken doors.” Naturally, he plans to put it on his wall.

Hodor’s death was one of the most emotional moments of Season 6, and it took Nairn by surprise. He was also shocked by the revelations about Hodor’s origins, in part because he’d tried to pry them out of author George R.R. Martin before with no success. “It’s amazing to me that I’ve known George now for seven years. I always asked him the origin of Hodor and he never told me. He really is good at foreshadowing and keeping things secret.” He’s good like that.

As for his last day on set, Nairn was played out by longtime scene partner Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran Stark). “I wrapped right around my fortieth birthday,” Nairn said. “Isaac was the one who got on the megaphone and said, ‘Kristian Nairn, you’ve wrapped.’ It was quite an emotional moment.” Later on, he enjoyed the huge reaction inspired by Hodor’s death in “The Door,” even if it got a little extreme at times.

"People were howling like a banshee crying. People genuinely annoyed. Like, ‘You really ruined my day.’ [Laughs.] I love how seriously people take it. It just shows how invested people are in the show and it’s awesome."

Faye Marsay, who played Arya’s nemesis the Waif, was also pleased with the reaction her character’s death received, although it was probably a little less laudatory. “People hated her, but they loved her as well,” she said.

"I was really proud of that as an actress. I don’t mind people saying they hated the character – it’s a sign that I’ve done something right."

Marsay, who found out about the Waif’s death when flipping through the script for “No One,” thinks that “the Waif served her purpose for Arya,” meaning that pushed Arya’s storyline along. Now that Arya is back in Westeros and using her newfound skills to cross names off her list, it seems like the pressure worked. Thanks, the Waif. Sorry Arya had to peel your face off your skull.

Rheon found out that his character was a goner after receiving a call from the Game of Thrones showrunners, who are known to call select cast members and deliver the bad news. “I got the phone call from David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss]. They were like, ‘Congratulations! Ramsay gets to the Iron Throne.’ At that point, I knew he was dead.” Yeah, that story wasn’t terribly believable. As for Ramsay’s death scene, where Sansa feeds him to his dogs, Rheon said that he and director Miguel Sapochnik “spent a long time” working out the details. According to Rheon, there was “such a wish fulfillment aspect to it,” and that takes time to work out.

Sophie Turner (Sansa), for the record, loved filming that scene, although she’ll miss Rheon terribly. “It’s always the evil ones that are the nicest people in real life,” she said.

And what does Rheon think Ramsay’s legacy on Game of Thrones will be? He tends to agree with Sansa that House Bolton “will disappear,” unless something hugely unexpected happens.

"That tends to be what happens in Game of Thrones because the history is written by the winners. I guess he’ll go down in history as a tyrant. I don’t think he will be extremely remembered unless someone’s pregnant. You never know. I hope she isn’t."

The Sansa-is-pregnant theory was floating around for a while after “Battle of the Bastards” aired, but we should mention that Sophie Turner herself denied it. We hope she isn’t pregnant, too. Nairn described Hodor’s legacy a little more directly. “Hodor’s legacy is to work hard,” he said. “Be kind to people and hopefully you won’t end up being slaughtered against a door by a herd of undead.” Words to live by.