When does Knight of the Seven Kingdoms take place? The Game of Thrones timeline explained

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is the most recent Game of Thrones spin-off from HBO, however it’s a drastically totally different present in comparison with something we’ve seen earlier than. Primarily based on The Hedge Knight, a collection of novellas written by George R.R. Martin, the collection tells a a lot smaller and extra centered story about Ser Dunk the Tall (Peter Claffey) and his squire Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell), with season one faithfully adapting the primary novella, 1998’s The Hedge Knight, into six 30-minute episodes that supply a glimpse into the wealthy historical past of Westeros throughout an period we’ve by no means seen earlier than.

As you comply with Dunk and Egg’s misadventures and their exploration of knighthood and its ethical complexities, you may end up questioning the place their story falls inside the Recreation of Thrones timeline, and what the nice homes are as much as at this second in historical past. If that’s the case, you’ve come to the precise place.

When does A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms happen within the Recreation of Thrones timeline?

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 1 is ready roughly 89 years earlier than the start of Recreation of Thrones and 77 years after the season 2 finale of House of the Dragon. When it comes to chronological order, Home of the Dragon takes place first throughout 129 and 131 AC (that’s quick for After the Conquest, aka, Aegon I Targaryen’s conquest of Westeros). Throughout this time, Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) and her half-brother Aegon II Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney) are each vying for the throne in a fiery civil warfare that got here to be generally known as the Dance of the Dragons.

After that, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is the following present within the timeline, the primary season going down in 209 AC, 78 years after the Targaryen civil warfare. Though lots of stuff came about earlier than this, an important factor to know is that dragons are extinct, with the final one dying in 153 AC. So don’t go anticipating some flashy finale crammed with CG creatures.

Because of the shortage of dragons, the Targaryens have misplaced their mystical attract within the eyes of the general public. Life is way more grounded (and peaceable) on this period underneath King Daeron II Targaryen’s rule — till issues take a flip, that’s.

Lastly, Recreation of Thrones begins in 298 AC, barely lower than a century after A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. That is when the primary dragons in 145 years are born, and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) begins her quest to take the Iron Throne.

What are the primary Westeros homes as much as throughout A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms?

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Throughout this time, lots of the Nice Homes are in their very own domains, managing their respective territories. The one household to endure any huge upheaval on this period is the Targaryens.

Home Targaryan: The dragon-riding household now not has dragons, which have been extinct for almost a lifetime. The Targaryans nonetheless rule Westeros and have ushered in an period of peace underneath King Daeron II. Nonetheless, the household has a reasonably eventful 12 months, as seen this season in Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which is able to disturb the Targaryen establishment.

Home Lannister: Damon Lannister, also called the Gray Lion, serves because the lord of Casterly Rock and manages the territory. For many who don’t recall, that is the stronghold fortress of the Lannisters, which Tywin guidelines till he turns into Hand of the King to his grandson, Joffrey I Baratheon, in Recreation of Thrones.

Home Baratheon: The Baratheons dominated the Stormlands from Storm’s Finish, having changed the previous Nice Home Durrandons throughout Aegon’s Conquest, and had been often wedded to Targaryens to determine the Home. Lyonel Baratheon (Daniel Ings) is inheritor to Storm’s Finish and befriends Dunk through the Ashford Meadow tourney. Lyonel’s father, Symeon Baratheon​​​​​​​ (great-grandfather of of Robert, Stannis and Renly Baratheon) would have been Lord of the Stormlands at the moment.

Home Stark: The Starks throughout this time had been busy upholding their territory (aka, all of The North) and, very similar to their future successors, doing every part they may to remain out of the affairs of the remainder of the dominion and King’s Touchdown to take care of peace in their very own land. It’s not clear precisely who was heading up Home Stark at the moment; Lord Cregan Stark, who seems as a younger man in Home of the Dragon, grew to become Lord of Winterfell in 126 AC and lived a really lengthy life, finally turning into generally known as “The Previous Man within the North.” His actual date of dying is unknown, although it’s doable he lived till as late as 209 AC, which is when this story begins.