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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms begins around 90 years before Game of Thrones. While that’s still a considerable amount of time, the books it is based on, George R.R. Martin’s The Tales of Dunk and Egg, do feature some familiar faces, either with brief appearances or mentions in the text. One of them is none other than one of the architects of Game of Thrones‘ Red Wedding, Walder Frey. He appears as a child at a wedding in the third novella, The Mystery Knight. Speaking with Polygon, showrunner Ira Parker discussed an idea for bringing him to the series:
“My favorite is, and look, it’s not until the third book, but there’s a baby Walder Frey. I have this, hopefully, really funny idea that people are probably gonna kill me for. But this idea that something’s happening, like there’s a runaway horse cart, and this baby’s about to be killed, and Dunk intervenes and saves baby Walder Frey. We don’t ever make a thing of it. It just happens, and we’re on with the story. That’s sort of the closest we get to it in the three novels that have been written.”
Which Other Game of Thrones Characters Could Appear in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms?
The idea of young Walder Frey appearing in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a fun one, and would carry a sense of cruel irony, with Dunk, a hero, saving the life of someone who’d become one of the worst people in Westeros (in the book, Dunk finds him annoying and unpleasant even as a kid). It’d be an easy and largely organic connection to make to the parent show, given he already appears in the books, but isn’t the only familiar character who could appear in the prequel.
