Game of Thrones director confirms Stannis Baratheon's fate 

Jon Snow isn’t the only character whose fate had fans speculating at the end of the

The death scene of Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane) also had some wondering if the daughter-torching would-be king was really the end of his character. When Brienne swung Oathkeeper at Stannis, the camera cut away—not showing his death, and the rule of TV is if you don’t actually see a person’s dead body, they might come back (and sometimes, even if you do). 

Talking to EW.com at Comic-Con on Friday, the episode’s director David Nutter confirmed that Stannis really is gone. 

“From the very beginning, and [through] the script process, that was the intent – he’s dead,” Nutter said.

The director explained that actually showing the death would have felt “gratuitous.” 

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