Before Westeros said goodbye to House of the Dragon‘s second season, it said hello to the Realm’s most beloved duo. HBO shared a sizzle reel for shows debuting in 2024 and 2025. The montage included the first official footage from the network’s upcoming Game of Thrones prequel, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Dunk and Egg’s live-action debut was brief, but it still featured some memorable moments and characters from their first tale together.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdom‘s first season will adapt George R.R. Martin’s first Dunk and Egg novella, 1998’s The Hedge Knight. The show’s footage opens with Peter Claffey’s Ser Duncan the Tall arriving on horseback at (what is almost certainly) Ashford Meadow for a grand tourney. There a stern Dunk puts on his helmet, though his armor is clearly not that of a wealthy knight.
We then see a minor character named Plummer the steward. He’s the master of games for the tourney. Here we see him ask Dunk for his name. What we don’t see is the issue of standing Plummer will raise with the large knight.
That’s followed by our only look at the legendary duo’s other namesake, Egg. The secret Targaryen prince (another Aegon!) played by Dexter Sol Ansell sits by a fire where a bird is cooking on a spit. His shaved head hides his true identity, which will end up playing a big role in how he ends up becoming Ser Duncan’s squire.
From a distance we then see an older man practicing with his sword. That’s Ser Arlan of Pennytree, the hedge knight Dunk who took Dunk on as a squire when Duncan was just a boy. Ser Arlan’s death leads Duncan to head to Ashford Meadow’s tourney alone.
That’s followed by Duncan drawing his sword near a tree (an important tree!) as we hear him say his name and title in a voiceover. Is he training without his armor? The way he points his sword indicates this is no mere exercise. Someone has raised his ire.
Finally we see Dunk of Flea Bottom punch a man in armor. They are fighting in the mud with bodies strewn all around them. Who is Dunk fighting? The answer qualifies as a big spoiler, because that person’s name will give away a major part of the story. If you don’t want to know who it is, you can wait until the show debuts in 2025. (Or you can read Martin’s story.) If you can’t wait, though, continue reading past this picture.
That unseen combatant is most likely Egg’s older brother, Aerion Brightflame. Why is a lowly hedge knight fighting a royal prince in the mud? We’re not going to spoil everything after just six seconds of footage from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.