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it's Charlie. This will be my Game of Thrones
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
trailer video for the new series they just announced.
HBO just officially ordered a Night of the Seven Kingdoms.
to series is like the next big Game of Thrones prequel.
They're doing all explain what's going on, where it fits in the timeline
and what their plan is for how they're going to adapt the book material
for this story. George R.R.
Martin was talking a lot about this.
He is heavily involved in writing the episodes right now,
so it's not like they're just making up a whole bunch of stuff on their own.
It's kind of the same way that they built House of the Dragon with George R.R.
Martin, helping them build out the stories because the original book
material for that stories is relatively scarce.
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Of course, I'll do episode videos for when it premieres.
I'll explain what the timeline is for that too.
But if you haven't read the books, A Night of the Seven Kingdoms is the name
for the collected series of novellas about the adventures of Sir Duncan
the Tall and Aegon the fifth Targaryen,
affectionately known as the Tales of Dunk and Egg.
But George R.R.
Martin already said,
We're not going to call the show Tales of Dunk and Egg
because that would make it sound like a sitcom,
which does sound kind of funny, like HBO doing a Game of Thrones sitcom series.
Do I say something?
Is it mean?
What do I say? What?
Oh, we've got to. They're ready.
Oh, sorry.
One of the major differences, though, just in the way
the show would feel, the way it would work from, say, House of the Dragon right now
or the main show, Game of Thrones, is that it mostly just follows Sir Duncan
the tall an aegon the fifth when he was a boy serving
as Duncan's squire about 90 years before the events of the main show.
So whereas House of the Dragon
in the original Game of Thrones series follow this massive cast of characters
and there's not like one single main character like Jon Snow, Diners
are arguably the two biggest characters, but that was really only right at the end.
And you could argue for most of the shows, all the characters
were an ensemble together during a Night of the Seven Kingdoms.
Dunk and Egg are the de facto main characters now.
There are a lot of other really important
characters to the story, but it mostly follows those two.
It picks up just after the first Blackfire rebellion.
So we're about 80 years
after the Dance of the Dragons, which they're
starting on House of the Dragon right now.
So it's a couple of generations after the characters
we're watching on House of the Dragon right now.
Pretty much
all those characters would be dead by this time, including those Dragons.
Because one of the other really notable things about this period in history
is that it picks up about 50 or 60 years after the death of the last Dragon
that belonged to the Targaryen family, while they still sat on the Iron throne.
We know dangerous dragons were eventually hatched from some stolen dragon eggs
taken from dream fire many, many years earlier when Dream Fire was still alive.
We actually saw her in the Dragon Pit during House of the Dragon Season one,
when Aymond tried to prove himself
by actually claiming a dragon from the pit itself.
Later, Dream Fire winds up being ridden by Helena, who has Dragon dream.
So Dream fire Dragon dreams.
You get the association there.
But for about 150 years there were no dragons alive.
There were dragon eggs because we know about dinosaurs, dragon eggs.
But none of them had hatched
the major conflicts during the night of the Seven Kingdoms in the realm
just during this period in history are the second Blackfire rebellion.
The Bloodraven is very active before he became the Three-Eyed Raven.
He's also one of the Targaryen bastards who's related to Maester
Amon, who is also very active at this point in history.
Maester Aemon was actually the older brother of Aegon the Fifth the egg in the title.
Dunk and Egg.
He actually mentions egg when he lay dying during the Game of Thrones series. Hey,
I dream
first. I was told
the funny thing about Maister and he actually told us to Jon Snow
during the early seasons of Game of Thrones
when Jon Snow was getting worked up about what was happening with the war,
the Five Kings Maester Aemon had to set him straight, like, Look, kid,
I've been through this before.
I had to watch all my family die, meet horrible ends.
But because they had taken the black base, Draymond was trying to tell him, No,
you can't rush to help out. You took the black.
You took an oath, Mr.
Aemon was supposed to ascend to the Iron throne.
Remember? He's Aegon, the fierce older brother.
So he was ahead of him in the line of succession.
Their oldest brother had died from the pox in their second oldest
brother was Aryan Targaryen, the one who infamously died after
drinking a cup of wildfire, claiming that it would transform him into a dragon.
So when Aemon was going to officially be recognized as the heir apparent,
he formally took the black becoming a Maester to the night's watch
because he didn't want another situation like the Dance of the Dragons
to come around again,
where it turned into a battle of succession within the family.
Again, like he didn't
want to have to fight his brother for the iron throne again.
And that's how egg from Tales of Dunk and egg became aegon the Fifth.
But that didn't happen until many, many years later in his lifetime.
Pretty much everything that they would cover
in a night of the Seven Kingdoms series, even through like four or five seasons,
would be when he's a young boy.
But the idea is that there are still a lot of conflicts,
a lot of really big things and really important
figures in the realm during this period, even though
it seems like a relatively chill period within the target and family.
We had the later Blackfire rebellions, a very young Maester Aemon
like the Chad version of Maester Aemon, the Chad version of The Bloodraven
and the Boy Aegon, who would eventually become Aegon
the fifth ascending to the Iron Throne when he was much older.
If they do wind up doing the first Blackfire rebellion,
they might do that as its own show.
Just because so much happens during that period,
you could turn that into like four or five seasons of its own show,
but it feels almost just like what they're doing right now
with the Dance of the Dragons, which is probably why they're skipping past it.
Maybe they'll circle back around or do it in some flashbacks.
During the upcoming night of the Seven Kingdoms series.
Like they'll probably refer to it because it's relatively recent.
After the first Blackfire rebellion, when the series picks up,
assuming there aren't a bunch of big time jumps during a night of the Seven
Kingdoms, the first Blackfire rebellion was about 15 years before season
one would begin that Blackfire rebellion started because King Aegon
the fourth sired a ton of bastards like more bastards than Robert Baratta
and did, legitimized a bunch of them in his favorite one,
the most powerful
one named Damon took the name Blackfire after he'd been legitimized
the same name as Aegon, the Conqueror's Valyrian Blade, which had been passed down
since Aegon the Conqueror. From King to King.
It was intended to be a sign of right to rule,
like each king would eventually pass it to the heir apparent.
Eventually, Aegon, the fourth gave the valerian sword Blackfire
to his bastard Damian, instead of his legitimate heir, Darren.
The second they wound up fighting a bitter war over the iron throne,
that was the first Blackfire rebellion that eventually the second
Blackfire rebellion, which does happen during a night of the Seven Kingdoms.
Like we'd actually see a version
that play out during a night of the Seven Kingdoms.
That was Damon and some of the other Blackfire
children who had come back from Essos after they'd formed the Golden Company.
That's basically what happens with a lot of bastards from Westeros
is the Golden Company
is made up of a lot of Highborn bastards from Westeros or people who are exiled.
So during the second Blackfire rebellion, it's a lot of the same energy,
but it just Demon's Children and people from the Golden Company.
George R.R.
Martin just did a big blog post explaining what's going on with their plan
is for adapting the books and how many episodes are going to do
per season, how many seasons they have planned.
He said that each season would be about six episodes.
There's a bit of a shorter episode count,
but there's less book material to adapt in.
Right now they have at least three Seasons Plan, which would adapt
each of the three Dunk and Egg novellas that he has already written.
He did say he planned on writing more Dunk and Egg story,
so it does sound like they want to go for like four, maybe even five seasons,
but the episode count would stay a little bit shorter.
The first season would adapt.
The first novella, which is called Hedge Night.
He did say that the title of the show would probably change.
Like right now, HBO has the longest title in the history of show titles ever,
and they're just using it as a working title.
So they might just call the show The Hedge Night.
But that's the story of how Aegon became Ser Duncan
the tall Squire in house, or Duncan The Tall became a knight.
There's a whole bunch of drama they get up to in this story.
Like it all goes down at this famous tourney
called the Tourney at Ashford, where a bunch of people wind up dying.
There's a lot of chaos in the line of succession.
A whole bunch of shit just goes down.
They also do something really cool that they haven't done on any of the shows yet.
They actually have a trial by seven, like the Seven Gods of the Faith of the Seven.
We've seen Trial by Combat Before, which is two parties either
fighting each other over an actual trial that they're having,
like someone is accusing someone else of something with the defendant
having a chance to win their freedom,
if he can kill the accuser or force them to submit
or they both choose champions like Tyrion in Searcy,
each choosing Oberyn Martell in the mountain to fight in their stead.
But trial by combat is just a one on one thing.
Trial by Seven is a full on seven on seven.
So you have 14 people on the field of battle just fighting it out.
The terms of victory are the same, though.
The winner is the last man standing.
One of the other interesting things about Ser Duncan
the Tall is that he's also the ancestor of Brienne of Tarth.
And his story, especially initially in his life, is very similar to Brian's
in that her only wish in her entire life is just to become a knight,
and she eventually becomes the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard to Bran.
Basically the same thing happens with Ser Duncan the Tall, where he never knew
his parents.
He was raised in flea bottom, is an orphan,
and during that period it was almost impossible
to become a knight if you weren't of noble birth.
Eventually, he's able to start out as a squire to a hedge knight.
Thus the title of the Sir book named Sir Arlen Penny Tree, who teaches him
sword fighting, How to take care of Horses.
All the basic skills you need to be a knight.
Then the story takes a Very Knight's Tale kind of turn.
If you remember that movie, A Knight's Tale with Heath
Ledger, the story of ser Duncan the Tall plays out
a little bit like Heath Ledger's story in that movie.
We're on the way to The Tourney at
Ashford This very famous tourney where all this drama goes down.
Sir Arlen winds up dying in Ser Duncan.
The tall wears his armor, trying to compete in his stead.
When he gets closer, he winds up running into a bald
boy at an inn who he allows to become his squire.
And at the time he just calls himself egg.
But he eventually learns that that is egg on the fifth, like the heir
to the iron throne.
Eventually, when he becomes a squire, though,
like when they actually become a pair, he isn't the official heir.
Like there's still other brothers
that are older than him in the line of succession.
Without getting into big spoilers or anything like that, a bunch of drama
goes down at The Turning.
Ashford This trial by seven happens in Aegon's father maekar officially allows
Ser Duncan the tall, to become part of the royal family
and become the official knight to aegon the fifth.
They go on a bunch of adventures together, he eventually ascends the Iron throne,
and once he did, Dunk became his Lord Commander of the Kingsguard,
like Brienne did later in the timeline to Bran.
So the core of the series is all about the friendship of dunk and egg.
That's why most people who read the books
think of the story as the tales of Dunk and Egg.
Right now, it sounds like HBO's plan is either to release this
during the final season
of House of the Dragon or like the year right after House of the Dragon ends.
So there is no yearlong break.
We don't wait three or four years
before the next Game of Thrones spin off or sequel series.
George R.R.
Martin also said all the other sequels, prequels,
all those other spin off shows are still in contention.
They're still working on them.
So we'll probably hear about more than being greenlighted in future years, too.
He did make a big deal about clarifying that nothing has actually been canceled,
like none of the sequels or prequels
that you've heard about have actually been canceled.
They're all still being developed, which includes the Jon Snow sequel series.
I just did a really big video about that.
You can click here for the teaser
for that and click Here for My House The Dragon Season two teaser Video.
Thank you so much for watching.
Everyone stay safe and I'll see you guys in the next one.