Welcome back everyone is Charlie
HBO just revealed that it's casting the new Game of Thrones
Knight of the Seven Kingdoms prequel series.
George R.R. Martin's also revealed a bunch of details about it.
So we'll break it all down.
It's also going into production way faster than we thought that it would,
so we actually might see episodes pretty soon.
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Of course I'll do videos for all the episodes,
just like I do for House of the Dragon, like I did for Game of Thrones.
Any of the other prequel series or sequel series that they wind up
releasing the next couple of years? there's a lot of them.
I'll talk about some of the other ones at the end of the video.
How's the Dragon's season?
Two episodes
should release during next summer.
They're still on track for that, even though there have been
a couple of strikes. Don't worry about that.
I've already done a couple of videos
about all the footage, the teasers they've released,
so I'll put links to that down in the description below.
And at the end of this but starting with the big stuff, Knight of the Seven
Kingdoms is based on the tales of dunk and egg stories that George R.R.
Martin wrote.
There are three novellas, basically, and they were just collected in a larger
book called A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which is where the series gets
its name from,
they might tweak the name just a little bit to keep from getting
super long because the full title now has a subtitle called The Hedge Knight.
That might just be for season one because the three Duncan Egg novellas
are called A Hedge Knight, which is a reference to Ser Duncan the Tall.
Book two is called The Sworn Sword, which is also a reference to Ser Duncan,
the swearing his sword to Aegon the fifth in the last novella book
three is called The Mystery Knight, which as you could have guessed
it, big surprise is also a reference to Ser Duncan the Tall.
within the world of a song of Ice and Fire in Westeros.
A mystery Knight is someone who competes in a tournament like a joust
without revealing their identity or using a pseudonym or a fake name
during the tales of Duncan Egg dunk fights in a tournament celebrating the wedding
of Ser Ambrose Butterworth using a pseudonym
called The Gallows Knight instead of his real name.
probably the most famous example of another mystery Knight in Game of Thrones
history was Lyanna Stark, who fought in the Great Tourney of Herron Hall
during the tournament, a younger Howland Reed, seen here later in the timeline
with a young Ned Stark,
was bullied by three squires of other knights at the tournament.
Lyanna Stark came to his aid,
beat off the attackers with the sword like while she was dressed as Lyanna
Certainly she had her dress on,
then later entered the tournament disguised as the Knight of the Laughing
Tree with armor that had a tree on it that appeared to be laughing.
It drove the Mad King even more mad because he thought the tree
was actually laughing at him.
because you remember by this point he's grown incredibly insane in supposedly
the great tourney of Herron Hall was a ruse
that Rhaegar Targaryen threw in order to try and call a great tournament
and get the rest of the round
to support him deposing his father and him taking the iron throne.
there are a lot of theories about that during
the original Game of Thrones novels,
but they never definitively answered if that's what regards original plan was.
Maybe we'll hear about that in some future Robert's Rebellion series at some point.
but. During that great tournament when Lyanna Stark was pretending
to be the Knight of the laughing tree,
he defeated the three knights that those squires were serving
in the three defeated knights agreed to severely chastise their squires
as a way for Lyanna to help get some justice for Howland Reed
Because he'd been afraid to actually challenge
the squires in open combat like you normally would in a situation like that,
but the news you may have seen your feeds recently is that HBO
is now casting the roles of Sir Duncan, the Tall and Prince Aegon
the fifth for a planned filming date during 2024.
At least that's what the casting announcement looks like.
They're going to be filming next year, which is way faster than I think
we expected I'm still not expecting them to release episodes to like 2026.
But if they aren't able to get House of the Dragon season three out by 2025,
we might actually get lucky.
And they just released Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
between seasons of House of the Dragon A while ago, George R.R.
Martin made it sound like season one of Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
would only have about six episodes. So be on the shorter side.
But supposedly the episode count could wind up changing.
HBO wasn't really happy
when the original series started doing those shorter seasons,
and they're not really happy.
The House of the Dragon Season two had to reduce their episode count to
but house the dragon's actually a good template for what
Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is going to be like.
So when House the Dragons started a lot of fans were worried
that there wouldn't be enough material for them to adapt to normal series
because the actual dance of the Dragons
Targaryen Civil War that it's covering only lasted for a couple of years.
Like it was actually pretty quick.
George R.R.
Martin only wrote a couple of short stories
covering that in the Fire and Blood book
that he wrote is more of an appendices like a Silmarillion type
of book written by a master who narrates when certain things happen in history.
It's not written like an actual novel,
like the main song of Ice and Fire novels that they adapted for the main series.
like when they did the original series, they had really big novels to adapt
for most of the seasons.
Obviously, when the show started to go off the rails is when they lost
all the material to adapt verse, everyone's worries
when they get to the House of the Dragon. And some of these are the prequels,
but they don't have a ton of material to adapt.
but if George R.R.
Martin is writing, he wrote on House of the Dragon.
He's writing on Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, helping them expand the story.
And if it weren't fine for House of the Dragon,
it'll probably work fine
for any of the other periods in history they want to cover.
Well, funny you should ask.
Let me get my map.
so as long as he's the one that's actually expanding the material
for those different time periods, I'm not worried about the story.
Knight of the Seven
Kingdoms would pick up about 80 years after the first black bi rebellion.
So the other cool thing about the series, they can feature the Blood Raven, Brendan
Rivers, a.k.a. the Three-Eyed Raven.
Before he became the Three-Eyed Raven
he was very active during this period in history.
He was a Targaryen bastard of Aegon, the fourth.
He was the infamous king
who started so many bastards that it put Robert at the end of shame.
He hated his legitimate oldest son who was heir to the iron throne,
legitimized a bunch of the bastards
creating house black fire, which directly leads to the Black Fire rebellion.
It causes a whole bunch of problems.
the survivors of that wound up going off to Essos to create the Golden Company.
Brendan Rivers fought on the side of his half brother, King Darren.
The second obviously was half brothers with all the black fighters too.
so this is another Targaryen Civil war like the House of the Dragon
Dance of the Dragons.
It was just a bunch of bastards versus a bunch of true born people.
Brendan Rivers supported the true born side, the actual crown basically
the reason why he was called the Blood Raven though, was because of a birthmark
covering most of his face in after his half brother King Darren.
The second died from an illness.
After the Blackfire rebellion,
He became the hand of the king and the master of whispers to Darren's son
Brynden's nephew, Aerys, the first after he took the Iron throne.
Then Aerys dies without an heir.
So the iron throne passes to his brother Maekar the first.
And it's around that period the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
series would be taking place.
The story begins when Heir is the first is still sitting on the Iron throne.
But after the Blackfire rebellion and before Aegon, the fifth father
maker, the first succeeds his brother Aerys is the next king.
would they might do on the show though, is because most of this takes place
when Aegon the fifth is squire to Sir Duncan the tall like when he's
much younger and is having adventures going around the different seven kingdoms
but because Aegon the fifth eventually does become the next king in Ser Duncan.
The taller becomes the Lord Commander of his kingsguard eventually they'll probably have
Some flash forward
to where he actually becomes the next king in the name Sir Duncan.
The title to the Kingsguard this is, where the title of the Collected Books
gets its name.
Because when you become a Kingsguard, you become a Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
a like the whole trajectory of the series,
it's like the rise of Sir Duncan, the title in The Rise of Aegon the fifth.
but because so much of the series takes place when they're much younger.
I think that's what most of the episodes will be in in
those be like a quick flash forward at the end of the series to him actually
becoming king in Sir Duncan the Tall becoming a Kingsguard.
they're probably not going to do the tragedy of summerhall
because that happened way later in Aegon that this life
and because Aegon the fifth was the younger brother of Mr.
Aemon on the show Game of Thrones.
We might actually see a much younger version of Mr.
Aemon
the whole idea is that Aegon the fifth became the next king of Westeros
as part of a great council where they were selecting the next king.
but when that was happening, Mr.
Aemon was actually ahead of him in the line of succession,
so part of the idea is that Mr.
Aymond didn't want to cause another Targaryen
Civil War battle over succession so soon after the Blackfire rebellion,
and he didn't want to leave the master,
so he chose to take the black instead, basically leading the great council
to select Aegon.
The fifth is like the next likely successor.
There was a brief moment during the original Game of Thrones series where Mr.
Aymond is talking to Jon Snow about his true heritage.
Like I am a Targaryen,
I had to sit through all these different conflicts, the rise of the Mad King,
everything that happened with the neighbors,
you know, I wasn't able to help them even though I wanted to like mainstream
and actually wanted to leave and help the nearest
when everything happened with the Mad King and Robert's rebellion.
so it was much earlier in the timeline.
He still like a lot of characters who were alive during the main series
Game of Thrones.
Also, Melisandre
is like one of the oldest characters in the main series and game of Thrones.
She could show up at any point during this part of the timeline.
the other interesting thing too, is about the Bloodraven black stories.
So when Mr.
Amos took the black and went to the wall, the blood raven also took the black
and went to the wall,
He even rose to the rank of Lord
Commander of the night's watch before he became the Three-Eyed Raven.
But the reason why the blood raven took the black
was because of a separate event involving the death
of one of the black fighters during the great tournament.
It was like one of Aegon, the first first acts to actually
have him arrested and gave him the choice to take the black.
So let's take a whole different video about the history of the blood raven as is
you really interesting.
So if we learn more about the character on the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
series, I'll do a much bigger video about him.
but when the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms series picks up, he's basically
hand of the king.
So it makes sense that we would actually see him during the series.
Let me know in the comments.
So who do you want to play? Duncan Egg?
I would totally be fine
if they were unknown actors that we don't know anything about.
I don't mind their
not being a super famous actors on any of the Game of Thrones series,
even though there are a couple on House of the Dragon,
they probably won't announce more
the actual characters, the casting until next year,
but they can probably do like a solid three
or four seasons out of this, just like they're doing for House of the Dragon.
Like I said, expanding the story with George R.R.
Martin being the one to actually expand the story.
what they'll probably do, though, is that once House of the Dragon Season
four airs this Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
series would take over, become like the main series.
And then they do like the next sequel series, spin off and so on and so forth.
there's still a bunch of others that they're working on, like the Jon Snow
sequel series, The Sea Snake Series, about his nine voyages,
like the nine famous voyages and conquests around the world.
A Princess Nymeria the 10,000 Ship series about the history of Dorne.
there's an animated series that they're working on.
There's the Aegon's Conquest series, which might just be like a future House
of the Dragon series.
The idea is that they'll do more Targaryen periods in history
and just still call it House the Dragon, but cover different periods in history.
sort of be like House of the Dragon Subtitle Conquest for Aegon's Conquest.
the only series that I've heard about them actually canceling is the flea bottom
series. I'm totally fine and then not doing that.
But there's a bunch of others that we'll probably hear
about in like the next several years.
Like they'll still do Game of Thrones sequel series,
spinoff series till the Heat Death of the Universe.
So I'm going to be like 90 years old someday
doing breakdowns for a new Game of Thrones episodes.
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