British actor Owen Teale has announced that he will be reprising his role as Alliser Thorne in Game of Thrones season 4.

Wales Online has recently spoken to the Welsh-born Teale about his current theatre project, and in the interview, Teale revealed that he will be back for season 4 of Game of Thrones.

This season’s 10 episodes will roughly cover the second half of the third book in the series, A Storm of Swords.

While fans of the book series A Song of Ice and Fire won’t be surprised to hear that Thorne returns in Game of Thrones season 4, we won’t fault TV show fans for having forgotten who he is.

The character Alliser Thorne was last seen in season 1 of Game of Thrones. He is the Night’s Watch master-at-arms, and also trains new recruits who arrive at the Wall.

In the first season, Thorn tries to force the other new recruits to beat up Samwell Tarly, until Jon Snow comes to Sam’s rescue. This forever turns Thorne against Jon, and prompts him to come up with the mean-spirited nickname “Lord Snow.”

Lord Commander Mormont sends Thorne away from the Wall, to plead with Joffrey Baratheon to send more men to the Night’s Watch to fight the threat in the North.

In season 4, we will see Thorne return to Castle Black, where we know Jon is also heading. We don’t think that the time apart will have calmed the waters between this pair, and wonder what Thorne might do to foil Jon’s plans…

Game of Thrones season 4 premieres in 2014 on HBO.