#Lyonel baratheon

[garnetislovegarnetislife]

begging hbo to make the opening sequence for dunk and egg (at least for the hedge knight) some sort of puppet show or at least involve puppets of some kind

[jaehaeryshater]

Announced Casting for upcoming series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms; they are as follows: Dexter Sol Ansell as Egg, Peter Claffey as Duncan the Tall, Sam Spruell as Maekar Targaryen, Finn Bennett as Aerion Targaryen, Bertie Carvel as Baelor Breakspear, Daniel Ings as Lyonel the Laughing Storm, and Tanzyn Crawford as Tanselle! Last pic is speculated actors, and we do not know their role yet

[nouketou]

From Aegon V to Aerys II

Almost the end of the dragon’s line

-> Duncan the Tall’s heraldry in the corner

-> Vhagar as the dragon representing the next generations

-> Daeron and Jeremy Norridge sharing the same earrings, who previously belonged to Aelor and Aelora

-> Shaera is wearing Helaena’s crown, while Rhaella’s is a brand new one made for her

-> Rhaelle is wearing Jena Dondarrion’s headpiece

[ophelias-lamentation]

Rhaelle Baratheon neé Targaryen

The youngest child of Aegon V and Betha Blackwood, she was married to Lord Ormund Baratheon. When all four of her elder siblings broke their betrothals to the great houses, the Baratheons were amongst those spited. After a short rebellion and a trial by combat, she was betrothed to Ormund and sent to Storms end to act as cupbearer to Lord Lyonel. She married Ormund and had her son Steffon a year later. She’s marriage to House Baratheon helped lead to the downfall of House Targaryen as her grandson Robert Baratheon used his relation to her as his claim to the Iron Throne after he rebelled against and nearly decimated House Targaryen. I like to think that she was still alive in the current timeline.

Sneak peek of what’s next: Rhaenys Targaryen daughter of Rhaegar

[aphrmoosun]

"A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms." (2025) [CAST]

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

The Hedge Knight graphic novel - could it work as a roadmap for HBO's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms?

So, per reports, HBO's Dunk & Egg show is going to be 6 episodes. I've seen several people saying that's too long, it should be 4 episodes at most, a 2 hour movie at most, there will be too much filler, blah blah blah. Well let me tell you, that's not true!

In 2003, The Hedge Knight was adapted as a 6 issue comic book (later collected as a graphic novel), and I think its script, each issue ending in a cliffhanger or dun-dun-dunnn moment, would work perfectly for the show, and is very probably how they'll do it.

Potential spoilers under the cut, but first - is this not perfect casting and costuming? It so is.

Like I said, I think each issue could be the plot of each episode. So I'm just going to summarize these issues, I hope you've read the GN or the novella. (If not, go read it, go read all of Dunk & Egg, it's so good.)

#1 - Dunk buries Ser Arlan, decides to go to Ashford for the tourney, meets Egg and a weird drunk guy at an inn on the way, gets to Ashford, sets up camp in the forest (bathes naked in a stream), goes to the tourney field and sees Tanselle performing her puppet show, gets measured for armor he can't quite afford, gets back to his camp to find the weird little bald kid making dinner.

#2 - Dunk agrees Egg can be his squire, that night he sees the falling star, next morning goes to Ashford castle and gets told he needs to prove he's a knight to enter the tourney (or that Arlan was, since he says Arlan knighted him), meets Aerion (badly) but also the Kingsguard, sells his horse for armor money, talks to Tanselle and meets the Fossoways, then meets up with the young Dondarrion lord whose dad Arlan worked for and relates the House Dondarrion origin story (imagine them telling that via puppet imagery, ooh), gets told "yeah knowing that is no proof you're a knight, sucks to be you".

#3 - Dunk goes back to the castle, stumbles into Baelor and Maekar arguing about M's missing kids, Baelor remembers his epic joust with Arlan so yay Dunk can be in the tourney, Dunk and Egg talk to Tanselle about painting him a shield, they watch the opening of the tourney (lots of jousting and pageantry including Lyonel "the Laughing Storm" Baratheon), and the first day ends after Aerion deliberately kills that horse.

#4 - Dunk argues with Egg over how much of a douche Aerion is, more flirting with Tanselle, gossip with Raymun Fossoway about the Targaryens, Egg runs in to say Aerion's hurting Tanselle, Dunk beats up Aerion and almost gets murdered by Aerion's goons, Egg reveals himself to save Dunk, Dunk in prison, talks to Egg and Baelor, Baelor tells him he can be mutilated for striking a prince or ask for trial by combat, so "how good a knight are you, truly?"

#5 - Aerion says sure, trial by combat, but only a trial of seven, Dunk has to find 6 guys, talks to Raymun and Steffon Fossoway, Daeron apologizes and tells Dunk his dragon dream, shield reveal, next morning the smallfolk are all "a knight who remembered his vows", various guys show up to help Dunk and Raymun gets knighted, but Steffon Fossoway goes to Aerion's side so they're still missing a guy, "are there no true knights among you?", wait is that Valarr??? no it's Baelor in Valarr's armor omg

#6 - The trial of seven. You know how this ends. 😭 Then talking to Maekar, and Dunk and Egg ride off into the sunset together.

I hope that's convincing enough for the doubters! I can see a few points where something might be shifted from the end of one to the beginning of the other -- but on the whole I think the comic is an excellent roadmap for the show, and I hope this is the way they lay it out. Also ftr, the Sworn Sword graphic novel was also originally 6 issues so possibly season 2 ditto (unless they add an episode for the in between THK-TSS Dorne and Oldtown adventures that didn't actually appear in the novellas, idk). But the Mystery Knight was only released as one book, so who knows, they might go for more episodes when they get to that season.

Also, re taking inspiration from the comic, I really hope they adapt the Kingsguards' gold codpieces. Just because.

[funnypages]

Current announced cast of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

[sasha-naell]

"But no one would knight a very young boy who is still a squire, it’s common sense, you would have to be a fool"

Lyonel Baratheon :

[athenawx]

Ser Lyonel Baratheon and Prince Baelor "Breakspear" Targaryen

🎨 Mike S. Miller

[blackbyrenflowers]

Actors for Aerion, Baelor, Tanselle, Maekar, and Lyonel have apparently been cast for Dunk and Egg:

[warsofasoiaf]

I saw an article calling House Baratheon the worst in Westeros & blaming them for the Dance, Rebellion & War of 5 Kings. There was the usual crap take about Robert going to war b/c Lyanna chose Rhaegar, Wo5K they blamed on Robert's neglect & Renly's ego, but for the Dance, they said it was because Borros could not be polite to a visiting prince. I thought A. the conflict was already set & B. the dragon fight was on Aemond. How much responsibility is really on Borros? Also, was Lyonel justified?

That's a pretty bad take for all three wars. Robert's neglect isn't going to stop Cersei from trying to pass off Joffrey as the legitimate heir or that Stannis and Jon Arryn knew about it, and it's not like Robert made Aerys murder Rickard and Brandon. The Dance is likewise not House Baratheon's fault. Borros Baratheon didn't make Viserys marry Aemma Arryn and have two rival dynastic lines or create the power struggle between them. It's nonsense, a very bad take.

Lyonel was certainly justified in being pissed off at a royal alliance being broken, and could have fairly demanded compensation. Especially since Lyonel went along with Dunk's lie that he wasn't a knight, he could have rightly seen himself as cheated and betrayed.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

Note that The Hedge Knight first established the historic fratbro gigachad Baratheon model wayyy back in 1998 (and then TWOIAF showed Lyonel was an asshole too). THK was also where Maekar first appeared -- and THK was written while GRRM was working on ACOK where Stannis first appeared. It's all coming together...

fire and blood establishing that every single baratheon is a frat bro gigachad asshole and robert is just made in the image of his forefathers while stannis is an extreme weirdo outlier who just happened to get the recessive visenyistical maekarpilled targaryen second son stoicism disorder makes their entire dynamic so fucking funny in hindsight

[hotdaemondtargaryen]

FABIEN FRANKEL WITH RAFFERTY LAW, DANIEL INGS AND WILL POULTER — at the british GQ excellence in film with paul smith event.

[aphrmoosun]

"A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms." (2025)

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

Have you ever done speculation on future Dunk & Egg titles? I've been wondering what the title of the final story that would presumably focus on Summerhall would be. I think GRRM once listed The Lord Commander as a title (though I might just be thinking of The Kingsguard), but I think he was LC when the Laughing Storm whose name is currently escaping me sort of rebelled and Dunk settled that? Idk, just curious on your thoughts on future D&E titles

I'm not sure I have any thoughts, sorry? Like, I know that the story with the working title The She-Wolves of Winterfell will have a different title, but I can't think of what the title will be. (The Northern Visitor, The (Really Tall) Household Guard?) As for Summerhall, The Lord Commander is possible, since Dunk was not yet LC during the trial by combat with Lyonel Baratheon (and that story is probably The Champion).

My thing is more about speculating what stories could happen in the working titles GRRM has listed. Like, I think The Village Hero must involve the story of how Pennytree became a royal fief, and thus would involve the Blackwood-Bracken Feud and probably the first time Egg meets Betha. I have the feeling that The Sellsword involves the Third Blackfyre Rebellion, Dunk and Egg either with the Golden Company themselves (as spies for Bloodraven?) or with another mercenary group (maybe the Company of the Rose or the Second Sons?) that encounters the GC right before they invade Westeros, D&E's efforts to end the war, and Aerion (himself a former? Second Son) being a douchebag as always. (Probably he's the one who dishonorably kills Haegon Blackfyre after he surrenders.)

The Champion would have Lyonel's rebellion (and Jenny and her Prince of Dragonflies), so The Kingsguard could include the tourney that has 10-year-old Barristan the Bold as a mystery knight, or the tourney when he was 16 and unhorsed both Duncans and was knighted. Unless The Kingsguard would be Lyonel's war, in which case The Champion could be a story involving the fall of Danelle Lothston, the shift in the course of the Trident (away from the Inn of the Crossroads), and perhaps the time Ser Lymond held the bridge against Ser Maynard. And of course, The Lord Commander would be the Tragedy at Summerhall, and how Dunk saved Rhaella and baby Rhaegar, but in the end died with his king.

But otherwise, I'm not good at devising future D&E titles myself. Hope this helps anyway!

[gotham-at-nightfall]

The Blacks and the Greens

By Jota Saraiva