To celebrate the impending return of season four of HBO's Game of Thrones, the production team has released 15 new images highlighting the characters you love, the ones you love to hate, and the ones who you just met and will probably die before the episode is over.

Game of Thrones returns Sunday, April 6th at 9pm, featuring Golden Globe-winner Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Charles Dance, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Alfie Allen, Diana Rigg, Natalie Dormer, Kit Harington, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams and Isaac Hempstead Wright.  New cast this season include Pedro Pascal, Michiel Huisman and Indira VarmaDavid Benioff and D.B. Weiss created the series and serve as executive producers.  Hit the jump to check out the images.

Check out the new images from season four of Game of Thrones below:

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Image via HBO

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Image via HBO

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Image via HBO