Of course, one of the most notorious scenes in the series was the Red Wedding which played out in the third season of the HBO epic.
Walder (played by David Bradley) betrayed the Starks and slaughtered Robb Stark (Richard Madden), his wife Talisa (Oona Chaplin) and his mother Catelyn (Michelle Fairley).
Now, one Game of Thrones fan has highlighted that there was a huge bit of foreshadowing in George R.R. Martin’s book A Clash of Kings from his A Song of Ice and Fire series.
In a part of the text which sees Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright) observe the younger Freys, the Red Wedding appears to be hinted at via a children’s game.
Reddit user LiLaLeprachaun wrote: “The passage is about Bran watching the Walder kids playing ‘Lord of the crossing’ and it illustrates perfectly how the Red Wedding is going down.”
They then went on to share the passage from the source material: “The way their game was played, you laid the log across the water, and one player stood in the middle with the stick. He was the lord of the crossing, and when one of the other players came up, he had to say, “I am the lord of the crossing, who goes there?” And the other player had to make up a speech about who they were and why they should be allowed to cross.
“The lord could make them swear oaths and answer questions. They didn’t have to tell the truth, but the oaths were binding unless they said “Mayhaps,” so the trick was to say “Mayhaps” so the lord of the crossing didn’t notice.
“Then you could try and knock the lord into the water and you got to be lord of the crossing, but only if you’d said “Mayhaps.” Otherwise you were out of the game. The lord got to knock anyone in the water anytime he pleased, and he was the only one who got to use a stick.”
As viewers will remember, Walder controlled the important crossing, the Green Fork, which Robb’s army needed to use in the first season.
Catelyn went to negotiate with him and he consented for them to cross and declare he would provide his troops as long as Robb married one of his daughters or granddaughters.
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The Starks agreed to the terms, however, Robb violated the agreement when he married Talisa.
As a result Catelyn’s brother Edmure (Tobias Menzies) wed Walder’s daughter Roslin (Alexandra Dowling) instead.
But when the families gathered for the nuptials, Walder killed the Starks as part of his revenge.
Subsequently, the whole grisly affair is foreshadowed in the text as the “lord of the crossing” is another name for Walder.
As the Starks broke the oath they had sworn they were “pushed in the water” – which turned out to be murder in the events that followed in the book.
In the series, the deaths of the Starks were avenged by Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) in the sixth season.
Using a mask stolen from the Hall of Faces, Arya posed as a serving girl and fed an unwitting Walder a pie with a filling made from his sons.
She then revealed herself to be Arya before slitting his throat open in the same manner her mother had been slain.
Arya took Walder’s face and impersonated him at a feast with all his sons in attendance and offered a toast to their victories.
However, Arya had poisoned the wine and so murdered all of Walder’s male heirs.