Remember Dickon Tarly, Sam’s jock younger brother who was present at that painfully uncomfortable family dinner at Horn Hill?
We’ll find out when Game of Thrones returns on HBO in the US and Sky Atlantic in the UK in summer 2017.
The part was played by Freddie Stroma in season 6, but, according to Watchers on the Wall, the part has been recast for season 7 and Black Sails’ and Merlin’s Tom Hopper is the new Dickon.
It’s very possible that the two Tarlys could die in the attack, which would leave Sam as the (perhaps reluctant) head of the family.