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We may have just wrapped up one Game of Thrones spinoff (for now, at least), but another trip to Westeros is already on the way next year with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. While the show has already found some key figures in its cast, a few more familiar faces from George R.R. Martin’s Hedge Knight tales are coming along too.
Deadline reports that HBO has revealed seven new cast members for the prequel series—set approximately halfway into the two-century gap between House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones. Edward Ashley, Henry Ashton, Youssef Kerkour, Daniel Monks, Shaun Thomas, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, and Danny Webb have all joined the series as characters connected to a major event from the first “Dunk and Egg” short story, The Hedge Knight: the tourney at Ashford Meadow.
The tournament is where Duncan the Tall (played by Peter Claffey in the show) first comes into his own as a knight; he’s a former squire looking to compete after his mentor passes away from illness. Having picked up his own squire in the process—the young boy known as “Egg,” secretly the young prince Aegon V Targaryen (Dexter Sol Ansell)—Duncan finds himself facing a trial by combat when he inadvertently gets into an altercation with Prince Aerion Targaryen (Finn Bennett), which then becomes a full on seven-vs-seven melee to clear his name.
Several of the participants in that trial are among the new cast. Ashley and Thomas play brothers Steffon and Raymun Fossoway, respectively, who end up on either side of the trial by combat after Steffon goes back on his support of Duncan. Monks will play Ser Manfred Dondarrion, a knight who declines Duncan’s request for help both to first enter the tourney as a combatant, and then during the trial. Ashton meanwhile plays Prince Daeron Targaryen, Aerion and Aegon’s brother, supporting the former in Duncan’s trial. Lastly, Kerkour and Vaughn-Lawler play two important figures at Ashford—Steely Pate the Blacksmith, and the master of the games for the tourney, Plummer—while Webb plays Ser Arlan of Pennytree, the hedge knight Duncan initially squired for.
The casting at least gives us a good indicator of at least what we can expect the show to adapt—and one major scrap in the process—in its six-episode debut. Presumably the show might only end up covering the events of the tourney and trial, but no doubt we’ll find out more the closer we get to its launch on HBO sometime in 2025.
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