And that is part of my problem with it. They made that very clear, which is the anthiesis of what made GOT, GOT.So here's something to think about. I just thought of this on the drive this morning to work. How long had it been since we had seen anything from the lord of light or any of his followers in an episode? It had been a while but in this episode they made it clear that both of those two followers were there to presumably protect and guide Arya, and once they were done doing that then it was their time to finally pass on. They established the power of the lord of light in this episode by having her perform two miracles of sort with the fire she set to their swords and then to the trench. Since the lord of light was for sure there and controlling certain destinies then it is safe to assume that most of the main characters were meant to live so that they could carry out other plans later on.
Most Super Hero tales revolve around the played out "chosen one / destiny" nonsense that everything was planned from the beginning. There was a prophacy! The main charactors are "special".
GOT set a new standard that "there is no special". It's been a Nihilistic show where people are killed and cut down mid stride before they could fulfill their goals and destiny. It's only in the last season or two (really since Jon came back) that we've moved away from that.
Season 1 GOT would have had the Dickless Ginger die by tripping and falling down some stairs, instead of getting a complete redemption arch with heroic death.
Also, it's been so long so long.
Didn't Bram have a younger brother? The Ginger killed two farm boys when he was trying to show he killed the Starks.
What happened to the girl that was with Bram? Her brother got eaten on the frozen lake... Hodor got mushed holding the door.... The wildling.. She tried to kill the crazy torture guy but died?