Bloodied Jon Snow in ‘Game of Thrones’ teaser

Spoiler Alert: This story contains multiple spoilers about Game of Thrones Season 5

LONDON, United Kingdom – Is it the confirmation that fans of the HBO series are waiting for? The “Game of Thrones” Twitter account on Monday, November 23, posted an image showing the fantasy epic’s youthful hero bloodied but standing, suggesting that he is very much alive and will return in season six.

Various news web sites concluded that Jon Snow, the lord commander of the Night’s Watch, will be back when the season returns in April 2016. The Twitter post read: “APRIL. #GoTSeason6 #GameOfThrones. 

“It’s finally real. Everything looks set for Jon Snow’s much-debated return to Game of Thrones after the show’s official Twitter feed posted a photo of actor Kit Harington in character with a bloodied face. Not supine and glassy-eyed on the snow either,” reported UK’s Independent.

“The implication is that season six will be returning, as expected, in April 2016. Or that Snow’s name has been inexplicably changed to April,” the UK’s The Telegraph also reported.

APRIL. #GoTSeason6 #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/DSK2xZi9i9

— Game Of Thrones (@GameOfThrones) November 23, 2015

Played by Kit Harington, 28, Snow was stabbed to death by mutinous followers at the end of season five, which closed on an image of the young warrior falling bloodied into a ditch.

But fans of the Emmy-winning television show – who include President Barack Obama – were not willing to let go of their hero quite so easily.

Many have been speculating Snow would somehow resuscitate – perhaps aided by magic or witchcraft – with wilder theories suggesting he could be reincarnated as a wolf.

Reports that Harington was spotted on the set of season six had fueled speculation of Snow’s return – while the show’s creators played along.

Back in July, director David Nutter told Entertainment Weekly that Obama himself asked him about Snow’s fate when they met recently.

“He turned to me, put his hand on my shoulder, and said, ‘You didn’t kill Jon Snow, did you?'”

“I said, ‘Jon Snow is deader than dead,'” said the director of the show, based on the fantasy novels of George R. R. Martin. – with reports from Agence France-Presse