'Game of Thrones' Season 6 Spoilers: Fate of House Stark Rests on Rickon?

By Dondi Tiples, Christian Post Contributor Friday, October 30, 2015

Spoilers have emerged over "Game of Thrones'" upcoming Season 6, pointing out Rickon will be returning, with the future of House Stark resting on his shoulders.

With "Game of Thrones" currently filming in Belfast, Ireland and parts of Spain for its upcoming Season 6, rumors have emerged Art Parkinson's Rickon Stark will be making his return and joining an apparently still alive Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and his army to seek their revenge against House Bolton.

Back in Season 3, when Osha (Natalia Tena) and Rickon split up with Bran (Isaac Hempstead Wright), Hodor (Kristian Nairn), Jojen (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) and Meera Reed (Ellie Kendrick), audiences believed they wouldn't be encountering the youngest Stark child for quite a while.

Since the show began diverging from the books in Season 5, after running out of material pending George R. R. Martin's release of the sixth book in his "A Song of Ice and Fire" saga, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have begun branching off "GoT's" storyline, as well.

In the coming season, Rickon will reportedly come out of hiding with Osha, and being the only possible male heir to take over House Stark (Bran having began the process of turning into a tree in the previous episode), it is speculated he will emerge an older and wiser character, having been schooled in the ways of survival by the wildling Osha.

The previous season, Sansa (Sophie Turner) ran away from Ramsey (Iwan Rheon), and with Stannis (Stephen Dillane) dead, the power in the North has shifted to House Bolton.

Jon, who will return no longer a member of the Night's Watch, will reportedly lead an army to wrest control of the North from the Boltons, with both Rickon and Sansa joining him in his fight.

With his naturally aggressive nature, portrayed both in Martin's books and in the show, a now teenaged Rickon with long shaggy hair, and his equally shaggy direwolf, Shaggydog, are expected to turn the tide in Jon's attack on the Boltons.

"Game of Thrones" Season 6 is expected to premiere on HBO by the spring of 2016.