The Next Game of Thrones Spinoff Has Found Some Important Knights (and an Extra Targaryen)

We whitethorn person just wrapped up one Game of Thrones spinoff (for now, astatine least), but different travel to Westeros is already connected the mode adjacent twelvemonth with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. While the amusement has already recovered immoderate cardinal figures successful its cast, a fewer much acquainted faces from George R.R. Martin’s Hedge Knight tales are coming on too.

Deadline reports that HBO has revealed 7 caller formed members for the prequel series—set astir halfway into the two-century spread betwixt House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones. Edward Ashley, Henry Ashton, Youssef Kerkour, Daniel Monks, Shaun Thomas, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, and Danny Webb person each joined the bid arsenic characters connected to a large lawsuit from the first “Dunk and Egg” abbreviated story, The Hedge Knight: the tourney astatine Ashford Meadow.

The tourney is wherever Duncan the Tall (played by Peter Claffey successful the show) archetypal comes into his ain arsenic a knight; he’s a erstwhile squire looking to vie aft his mentor passes distant from illness. Having picked up his ain squire successful the process—the young lad known arsenic “Egg,” secretly the young prince Aegon V Targaryen (Dexter Sol Ansell)—Duncan finds himself facing a proceedings by combat erstwhile helium inadvertently gets into an altercation with Prince Aerion Targaryen (Finn Bennett), which past becomes a afloat connected seven-vs-seven melee to wide his name.

Several of the participants successful that proceedings are among the caller cast. Ashley and Thomas play brothers Steffon and Raymun Fossoway, respectively, who extremity up connected either broadside of the proceedings by combat aft Steffon goes backmost connected his enactment of Duncan. Monks volition play Ser Manfred Dondarrion, a knight who declines Duncan’s petition for assistance some to archetypal participate the tourney arsenic a combatant, and past during the trial. Ashton meantime plays Prince Daeron Targaryen, Aerion and Aegon’s brother, supporting the erstwhile successful Duncan’s trial. Lastly, Kerkour and Vaughn-Lawler play 2 important figures astatine Ashford—Steely Pate the Blacksmith, and the maestro of the games for the tourney, Plummer—while Webb plays Ser Arlan of Pennytree, the hedge knight Duncan initially squired for.

The casting astatine slightest gives america a bully indicator of astatine slightest what we tin expect the amusement to adapt—and 1 large scrap successful the process—in its six-episode debut. Presumably the amusement mightiness lone extremity up covering the events of the tourney and trial, but nary uncertainty we’ll find retired much the person we get to its motorboat connected HBO sometime successful 2025.

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