Rejoice! Spring is out there…somewhere! What’s that you say, you’re still up to your ears in snow and ice? Ah well, winter ain’t all bad—after all, it heralds the return of one of our favorite series. HBO is finally ramping up the Season 4 promotion for Game of Thrones; today they’ve released a couple new teasers and character posters, and more (for non-readers) reasons to ponder about Tyrion’s fate. Seriously, if you haven’t read, WHY NOT? You wouldn’t have to sit around in terror over every poor sap’s life; your tears would already have dried, and you could be sitting back watching your friends’ having a heart attack over stuff you knew was coming. C’mon, join the dark side.

Here’s a little Stark family teaser:

And over at EW, Tyrion asks a very interesting question.

*Updated to add Daenerys/Jorah teaser:

Here’s a fan made Season 4 teaser, which sets all the bits of new footage we’ve seen (before today) to Lorde’s cover of Tears for Fears’ Everybody Wants to Rule the World.

And finally, the posters:

Game of Thrones returns April 6th.

Cindy Davis, (Twitter) says, “Not today.”