A recent post on the show’s official production blog indicates that Game of Thrones season 4 will bring back a familiar location with a bloody history.

Though it seems like blood has already been spilled in every single episode of Game of Thrones, a recent entry on the show’s official production blog makes it known that Game of Thrones season 4 will return viewers to the gory location of Craster’s Keep.

“Ah, Craster’s Keep,” writes Cat Taylor, who runs the Making Game of Thrones production blog. “Deep in the woods of a private estate north of Belfast, in at least six feet of mud (OK, inches), is the resilient set of the last wildling outpost before the Wall.”

This outpost, home to the incestuous wilding Craster and his many daughter-wives, was last seen in season 3 when the ragged remnants of the Night’s Watch’s disastrous ranging took shelter there on the way back to the Wall. Like the first visit to Craster’s keep, tensions ran high between the self-styled wilding lord and the black brothers; unlike the first visit, the return to Craster’s keep ended in a bloodbath.

Forsaking their oaths to Lord Commander Mormont, several men of the Night’s Watch – including Jon Snow’s old nemesis Rast – turned against their irascible host. Craster and Lord Mormont were both murdered in the ensuing melee. The only bright spot was that the disaster allowed Samwell Tarley to escape with Craster’s young daughter-wife Gilly and her newborn son.

“It’s a strange set,” Taylor noted, writing during production of Game of Thrones season 4 earlier this year. “With semi-permanent snow dressing, you do feel as if the temperature has dropped once you walk into the white-washed trees, even in the rare sun of late summer.”

It is especially interesting that Craster’s Keep will reappear on Game of Thrones season 4, as the area is not revisited in the Song of Ice and Fire book series after the Night’s Watch massacre. It seems most likely that the Keep will be visited by Bran Stark, traveling beyond the Wall with Meera and Jojen Reed, though Jon Snow is also near enough to pay the blighted area a visit.

Taylor includes a few humorous snippets of dialogue from the set, though the only one that offers any information about the scene hints that the set will be populated by chickens.

Game of Thrones season 4 will air in Spring 2014 on HBO.