8 Things You Need To Know About The Women Of Game Of Thrones Season 6

8. Yara Greyjoy Is Back

Bran Stark may be the returning character getting the most attention, but there's another who sat out Season 5 back in action this year: Yara Greyjoy. 

Theon's sister, she hasn't been seen since Season 4's The Laws of Gods and Men, trying and failing to rescue her tortured brother, and her return is part of a big focus on the Ironborn this year. 

They were cut from the show in Season 5, in what seemed to be an Iron Islands or Dorne situation (with the showrunners choosing the latter, unfortunately for us viewers), and it would have been fair to assume that the show could move past them altogether, but instead it appears that their book arcs are making it into the show now. 

Yara's going to be faced with a big new challenge on her home turf, as uncle Euron (Pilou Asbæk) returns home with a thirst for power. That struggle should play out in Season 6's opening episodes, although quite where Yara's storyline heads after that remains to be seen, as in the books she winds up captured by Stannis Baratheon, who is, well, let's say rather incapable of doing such a thing now. 

The Season 6 trailer did give us a brief look at Yara, in a sexual encounter with a mystery woman, but don't expect all her interactions this season to be quite so happy.