It’s the first teaser trailer for Game of Thrones Season 6!

Hot on the heel’s of the first Season 6 promotional image, HBO has uploaded the first teaser trailer for Game of Thrones Season 6. Behold:

PREPARE FOR SPOILERS

There’s no new footage, but there’s a bunch of new dialogue, most of it courtesy of Max von Sydow as the Three-Eyed Raven, the character who’d haunted Bran’s dreams since the first season and who he finally met at the end of Season 4. Here’s what the Three-Eyed Raven says:

"We watch. We listen, and we remember. The past is already written. The ink is dry."

He seems to be explaining the art of greenseeing to Bran. Book-readers will know that a greenseer is a kind of mystic who can see into the past, present, and future of Westeros by peering through the eyes of the weirwood trees that dot the landscape. In A Dance of Dragons, the Three-Eyed Raven Crow teaches Bran how to be a greenseer, and it looks like Bran is going to be looking at some heavy stuff. “They have no idea what’s going to happen,” he says. Ominous.

I love that quick barrage of images from the show’s past in the middle. By my count, we’ve got:

• Jon Snow’s murder
• Catelyn’s throat being cut at the Red wedding
• Ned Stark being beheaded while Arya watches
• Arya going blind in the House of Black and White
• The fight with the wights outside the Three-Eyed Raven’s lair
• Ice being melted down in “Two Swords”
• Joffrey’s death
• Robb being killed at the Red Wedding
• Jaime getting his hand chopped off
• The Three-Eyed Raven (in raven form)
• Daenerys sitting with her dragons
• A Harpy statue being pulled down from atop a pyramid in Meereen
• The Night’s King turning one of Craster’s sons into a White Walker/wight
• Wights overrunning Hardhome
• Sansa and Littlefinger kissing in the Vale

One question I have: is Bran actually seeing these flashes using his greenseeing abilities? If he is, greenseeing will work differently on the show than it does in the books, since there’s no way weirwoods could have witnessed all of those events. I suspect it’s just a technique the editors used to tease Bran’s new abilities while making a trailer that reminds us of what’s come before and which looks really cool. Mission accomplished.