Game Of Thrones Season 6: 11 Big Questions We're Asking After 'Oathbreaker'

6. What Will Ramsay Do With Rickon?

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After losing his wife and killing his father, Ramsay Bolton receives a gift this week from Smalljon Umber, in the form of Rickon Stark (accompanied by Osha and the head of Shaggydog).

Having lost Sansa, Ramsay was in need of another 'key to the North', and Rickon could be just that. Everyone will assume Sansa is missing or dead, and the reappearance of Rickon would make him the rightful heir to Winterfell. If Ramsay can sway the Stark to his side, or rather pretend that he has, then it would go some way to holding the North.

But what what will he do with him? Is he going to simply use threats against him? Will he announce that Rickon is indeed alive? Could he simply kill him, since most people think he's dead anyway? With Ramsay, you never can be sure.

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