Comic-Con’s annual Game of Thrones panel had its usual store of surprises for attendees on July 25, with the unveiling of nine new castmembers for the show’s upcoming fifth season.

Star Wars Episode III’s Keisha Castle-Hughes will play Obara Sand, described as “a fearsome warrior and the eldest bastard daughter of the late Prince Oberyn Martell. Her mother was a Dornish peasant girl who caught the eye of the late Prince”.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Alexander Siddig will be playing Doran Martell, with Toby Sebastian as Trystane Martell, Nell Tiger Free as Myrcella Baratheon, DeObia Oparei as Areo Hotah, Enzo Cilenti as Yezzan, Jessica Henwick as Nymeria (“Nym”) Sand, and Rosabell Laurenti Sellers as Tyene Sand.

The biggest name joining is Jonathan Pryce as the High Sparrow, “a pious man whose fellow believers have swarmed King’s Landing, ministering to the lowest and decrying the corruption of the highest”.

The panel, which included George R.R. Martin as well as Kit Harington, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Rory McCann Maisie Williams, Sophie Turner, Gwendoline Christie, Natalie Dormer, John Bradley, Pedro Pascal, and Rose Leslie, gave little away about the upcoming season, although Martin joked that it was not a good move for an actress ever to ask for a raise.