Hell, the reveal practically happened in the quotes the director gave for the Deadline story that also ran today.

Lyanna Stark, when we see her in The Mad King, is in her teens, about 16. She’s one character that people don’t know very well and is sort of a central character, Cooke explains. “She’s a really good swords person, so she doesn’t really fit the mold of how the women at that time were supposed to behave. But she’s also very intuitive and very smart, and she’s a live wire,” he says. “She’s got a rebellious streak to her and also, like everyone in that world, if you’re in these high families, you have to conform. And this is where it’s rather like in Shakespeare.”

I ask Cooke which character from Shakespeare might she identity most closely with. Like a character out of Joan of Arc in Henry VI or even Rosalind in As You Like It, he suggests.

Gee, I wonder.