How A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms’ Egg Is Associated To Sport Of Thrones Characters

Do not go to any jousts if you have not watched the third-ever episode of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” titled “The Squire.” Spoilers forward!

Initially of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” the most recent spin-off and prequel to “Sport of Thrones,” we meet Duncan, a squire and aspiring hedge knight performed by Peter Claffey. After the demise of his mentor, who was a “actual” knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Duncan decides to attempt to make it on his personal … and one fateful evening, he meets a younger boy recognized solely as Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell) who begs to be his squire. Duncan is hesitant, particularly as a result of hedge knights are a kind of freelance deal, however he in the end agrees.

That little boy isn’t any mere squire, although. Within the remaining moments of the present’s third episode, “The Squire,” we study that Egg is definitely Aegon Targaryen, son of Prince Maekar Targaryen (Sam Spruell) and the youthful brother of each Daeron and Aerion (performed respectively by Henry Ashton and Finn Bennett). This solely involves gentle as Aerion publicly torments each Duncan and the thing of Duncan’s affection, puppeteer and artist Tanselle (Tanzyn Crawford), seemingly for enjoyable, and Egg calls for that he cease in his capability as a royal.

That is most likely simply as surprising for Duncan as it’s for audiences, until you’ve got already learn the novella collection by George R.R. Martin, “Tales of Dunk and Egg,” and adopted their adventures all through Westeros. If you have not learn that or “Hearth & Blood,” Martin’s historical past of the Targaryen household that serves because the supply materials for “Home of the Dragon,” there are some guide spoilers forward, however here is every thing it’s essential learn about Egg (also called Aegon). 

Here is the gist of how Egg’s life performs out aside from his time as a squire to Duncan (within the curiosity of protecting the secrets and techniques of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” protected, we can’t spoil these particular novellas right here). Although we solely see two of Egg’s brothers in “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” — at the least to this point — he truly has three, together with a brother named Aemon who joins the Night time’s Watch. You may keep in mind Aemon from “Sport of Thrones,” the place he works as Maester Aemon on the Night time’s Watch headquarters of Fortress Black, mentors Equipment Harington’s Jon Snow and John Bradley’s Sam Tarly, and is performed by the late Peter Vaughan. In “Sport of Thrones,” as Aemon passes away, his remaining phrases reference his youthful brother: “Egg? I dreamed that I used to be previous.”

Egg does turn out to be king, and he earns an unflattering nickname alongside the best way: Aegon the Unlikely, referring to the truth that he is his father’s fourth son and no one anticipated him to ascend to the Iron Throne of Westeros. (Because it occurs, his father Maekar was additionally a fourth son who defeated the chances to turn out to be king.) By the point Maekar dies, each Aerion and Daeron are lifeless, and their heirs are too younger to take the crown, so a council intervenes. With Aemon having taken a vow to “put on no crowns” when becoming a member of the Night time’s Watch, Aegon turns into Aegon V Targaryen, King of Westeros. 

That identify would finally be handed on to his great-grandson, who was the newest in an extended line of Aegon Targaryens and theoretically the rightful inheritor to the throne of Westeros. Nonetheless, Egg’s great-grandson spent most of his life not understanding he was a Targaryen and was raised underneath a special identify: Jon Snow.

Finally, Aegon’s reign of Westeros ends in tragedy, regardless of his finest efforts to be a superb ruler, and we will see that early spark of kindness in Egg. (Additionally, I ought to say that Dexter Sol Ansell is an unbelievable younger performer who beforehand appeared in “The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” because the youthful model of Tom Blyth’s antihero Coriolanus Snow, and he brings a lot coronary heart to the position of Egg that he is an absolute delight to look at.) Regardless of Duncan’s makes an attempt to shake Egg off by insisting he would not want a squire, the curious and brilliant younger boy stays undeterred, and by “The Squire,” it feels fairly clear that the 2 have shaped a reasonably unshakeable connection.

There’s a small drawback right here, which is that Egg, as a royal, is not precisely speculated to be a squire for a lowborn knight who would not even serve a specific home. It is easy to imagine that, earlier than lengthy, Egg’s dad Prince Maekar may step in and demand that his son cease doing soiled work for a humble hedge knight like Duncan. Nonetheless, there has to be a means for this dynamic duo to remain collectively, particularly when you think about that there are a number of novels targeted on their exploits in “Tales of Dunk and Egg.” On the finish of the day, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” that collection’ adaptation, is a pitch-perfect buddy comedy — even when a type of buddies simply revealed he is a secret royal — so here is hoping that Egg stays in Duncan’s service.

“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” airs new episodes on Sundays at 10 P.M. EST on HBO and HBO Max.