As we approach the April 24 premiere of “Game of Thrones” Season 6, we’ll be checking in with characters to look at what they’ve been up to and what the future may have in store for them. This post contains spoilers from past seasons and far-fetched guesses about forthcoming ones.

The character: Melisandre (Carice Van Houten) is a clairvoyant priestess to the Lord of Light and longtime ally of Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane). She hasn’t exactly endeared herself to fans. First of all, she’s a sinister puppetmaster whose string-pulling rivals Lord Baelish’s scheming. But she’s also part of a cult, whose practices include a pretty capricious approach to ritual sacrifice. That was especially clear last season, when she convinced Stannis to burn his own little girl — the plucky, beloved Shireen — at the stake.

Melisandre is perhaps best known, however, for her ability to conceive and give birth to killer shadow babies. Because once you see a ghostly creature crawl out of a woman’s womb, you can never unsee it.

Given that claim to fame, actress Van Houten could guess what the response would be when she announced she was expecting a child with fellow actor Guy Pearce. And boy was she right.

Last time we saw her she was ... Arriving at Castle Black at a most opportune moment, just before Jon Snow’s murder.

After it was clear that Stannis and his army (or what was left of it) were about to get trampled, Melisandre gave up on Operation: Winterfell and fled. She was greeted at the Wall by Ser Davos (Liam Cunningham) and Jon Snow (Kit Harington), who wanted details about the fates of Stannis and Shireen. Melisandre didn’t go into specifics, probably because Davos would have killed her on the spot if he knew what she did to the little girl. But her morose expression conveyed that the news wasn’t good.

So now what? “The great victory I saw in the flames, all of it was a lie,” Melisandre says to Davos during the trailer for Season 6.

It looks like these two longtime enemies, who were bonded only by their allegiance to Stannis, may become allies without him. Jon Snow fans have high hopes for what will happen next. The two will team up to bring the Lord Commander back from the dead. After all, there’s been too much foreshadowing to ignore, considering Melisandre’s meeting with Thoros of Myr when he astonished her with tales of resurrecting Beric Dondarrion.

Maybe their plot has something to do with Davos’s final words in the trailer, when he appears to be threatening a couple of Night’s Watch men.

But what else could be in store? Apparently something big.

“Yes, there’s a surprise. Not what you think it is, it’s something else!” Van Houten told Australian news site news.com.au. “I knew it was coming at some point. People had talked about it before to me, but I wasn’t sure when it was going to happen. Urgh, this is really vague. As it should be.”

Whatever that means.