Game of Thrones Season 5: New Characters Introduced in Season 5 Premier

Game of Thrones Season 5 episode 1 will be airing sometime April 2015 at the HBO network. While there is still no official release of the episode titles, it has already long been revealed by co-creators and show runners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss that the materials that will be used for the episode plots will be drawn from both the fourth [A Feast for Crows] and the fifth [A Dance with Dragons] books in George R.R. Martin's six-book "A Song of Fire and Ice" epic saga.

New additions to the cast have also been announce to portray characters that will be introduced beginning this fifth seaso. The incclude Alexander Siddig as 'Doran Martell,'the, ruler of Dorne and the older brother of Oberyn, and Toby Sebastian as 'Trystane Martell,', the youngest son of Doran and the heir to the throne in the HBO announcement. Also included,DeObia Oparei will reprise the role of 'Areo Hotah,' a loyal protector of Doran.

Beniof and Weis have furthermore already confirmed that Season 5 will have a storyline on Dorne in the aftermath of Oberyn's death. The Dorne storyline will include an arc covering the feared 'Sand Snake Sisters,' Oberyn's illegitimate daughters who will be plotting revenge for their father's death. Playing the 'Sand Snake Sisters' are Keish Castle-Hughes as 'Obara Sands,' Jessica Henwick as 'Nymeria Sands,' and Rosabell Laurenti Sellers as 'Tyene Sands.'

Nell Tiger Free will reprise the role of 'Myrcella Baratheon,' the daughter of Cersei and Jaime Lannister who was shipped off by her uncle Tyrion Dorne in Season 3. Deviating from the "A Song of Ice and Fire" books, Jaime in Season 5 of the TV series will be seen traveling to Dorne to visit his daughter Myrcella. There, he may also get into a fight with the Sand Snake Sisters who blame the Lannisters for their father's death.

Jonathan Pryce, has been cast as the 'High Sparrow,' the leader of a religious movement which will be stirring up things in King's Landing against the Lannisters. Hannah Waddingham plays Septa Unella, one of the 'Most Devout,' of the ruling council of the Faith of the Seven. And rounding up the cast of new characters, Enzo Cilenti will play 'Yezzan zo Quaggaz,' a slave trader and one of the elite rulers at Slavers' Bay.

Filming for the series began July and ended this month. Cersei's (Lena Headey) much-talked-about 'walk of penance' scene was shot in Croatia at a rumored cost of $50,000 per day for four days because of the added security. That this scene will be shown means Cersei will be seen finally meeting her downfall in Game of Thrones Season 5. In the book, Cersei was sentenced to endure the 'walk' for her various sins against chastity and fidelity. She is shaved of hair from her entire body, then stripped naked, she is forced to walk from the Great Sept of Baelor to the Red Keep covered in blood and grime. Cersei will also be seen stripped of her powers in King's Landing.