A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms delivers a primary for HBO. It is a Sport of Thrones spin-off with out the Iron Throne.
In each Sport of Thrones and Home of the Dragon, characters need nothing greater than to park their butts in that spiky chair to allow them to rule the Seven Kingdoms — and so they’re prepared to begin brutal wars to get there. However in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, there isn’t any battle for succession. There is not even a shot of the Iron Throne!
As a substitute, the collection focuses on a time of relative peace for Westeros, when hedge knight Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) and his new squire, Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell), enterprise to a event at Ashford Meadow. At first, most people they’re going to cross path with are smallfolk, none of whom have the kingly or queenly aspirations of Sport of Thrones or Home of the Dragon‘s leads. As a substitute, they’re most involved with making coin and having fun with the event.
Nevertheless, it is not lengthy earlier than the Targaryens enter the fray. Now dragon-less, Westeros’ favourite incestuous household nonetheless guidelines the Seven Kingdoms. However which member of the household sits atop the Iron Throne?
Who’s the king in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms?
The present Lord of the Seven Kingdoms in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is Daeron II Targaryen, who would not really seem within the present. He is presumably off in King’s Touchdown whereas his sons Maekar (Sam Spruell) and Baelor (Bertie Carvel) head to Ashford Meadow.
To place King Daeron within the context of different Targaryens you might be conversant in, he is the great-grandson of Home of the Dragon‘s Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) and Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith). He is additionally the great-great-great-grandfather of Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke).
However simply because King Daeron would not make an look in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms doesn’t suggest he is not attention-grabbing in his personal proper. George R.R. Martin’s The World of Ice & Fireplace lays out key components of his rise to energy and his rule.
Mashable High Tales
King Daeron had a contentious relationship along with his father, King Aegon IV. Whereas the latter needed to go to battle with Dorne, which was not but part of the Seven Kingdoms, the previous inspired peace.
Aegon started to sow rumors that Daeron was not his official son, and was as a substitute the product of an affair between his spouse (and his sister) Naerys and their brother Aemon. Whereas he by no means formally disowned Daeron as his inheritor, Aegon did legitimize all his bastards on his deathbed within the final “screw you” to his son. His bastard sons with noble moms got here to be often called the Nice Bastards, and so they went on to trigger main drama. However then once more, would we anticipate much less from the Targaryens?
One of many Nice Bastards, Daemon Waters, dubbed himself Daemon I Blackfyre and made a declare for the Iron Throne. So started the First Blackfyre Insurrection, which tore throughout Westeros and lasted from 195 AC (After Aegon’s Conquest) to 196 AC. Daemon and his sons perished by the top of the riot, and Daeron retained the Iron Throne. That will be the final main level of battle throughout his reign, though it would not be the final Westeros noticed of the Blackfyre Pretenders. (In any case, it is the “First” Blackfyre Insurrection for a cause.)
Exterior the Blackfyre Insurrection, Daeron’s reign was a peaceable and vital one. He managed to do what Aegon the Conqueror and several other of his descendant couldn’t: incorporate Dorne into the Seven Kingdoms, all with out bloodshed.
Earlier than Daeron even grew to become a prince, he married Princess Myriah Martell as a part of a peaceable pact with Dorne. As soon as he grew to become king, he negotiated with Prince Maron Martell of Dorne to carry Dorne into the Seven Kingdoms.
For his kindness and knowledge, King Daeron grew to become often called Daeron the Good, making him an enormous step up from most of the opposite Targaryens we have met throughout Sport of Thrones and Home of the Dragon. And whereas we can’t meet him in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, you possibly can thank him for the peaceable model of Westeros we witness within the collection.
Seven is aware of we can’t be getting that degree of peace in Home of the Dragon Season 3, that is for positive.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms premieres Jan. 18 at 10 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.
