Everything to Know About A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 2

Despite being stabbed approximately a hundred times during his trial of seven in Season 1 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Ser Duncan "Dunk" the Tall managed to make it out of that mess alive. Now he'll continue his adventures alongside the young Aegon "Egg" Targaryen, as he tries to maintain some semblance of genuine personal honor while running afoul of the frequently brutal lords who rule Westerosi society.

There's no need to wonder if Season 2 is on the way, fortunately, because the highly rated series was renewed two months before it premiered. Dunk and Egg's next adventure is definitely coming. Let's see what we know so far about A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 2.

When will A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 2 premiere?

There's no premiere date for Season 2 of A Knight of The Seven Kingdoms just yet, but a launch in 2027 is expected. And since this series has relatively short seasons and episodes, and isn't remotely the same sort of sprawling production we've seen on Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, there's plenty of reason to hope it'll be the first half of the year.

What's next for Dunk and Egg?

Season 2 will cover the events of the second Dunk and Egg novella, The Sworn Sword. This story takes place a year and change after The Hedge Knight, as Duncan finds himself in the service of the disgraced lord Ser Eustace Osgrey and gets in the middle of an intrigue-filled land dispute with the recently widowed Lady Rohanne Webber. And, like the story in Season 1, this one also has a big, climactic honorable duel at the end.

Don't be surprised if Season 2 expands on the book a bit, like how Season 1 added material about Duncan's childhood BFF Rafe. In Martin's stories, Rafe isn't mentioned until the third novella, and the specific flashback we saw with her doesn't come from any currently published stories.

Of particular interest for Game of Thrones lore enthusiasts in this story will be the way it explores some of the fallout from the first Blackfyre Rebellion, in which a bastard branch of House Targaryen rebelled against the crown about a decade prior to the start of the series. It's an important topic for this show, since Season 3 will likely be about Dunk and Egg accidentally getting caught up in the second Blackfyre Rebellion.

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New cast members for Season 2

Season 2 began filming in December, and so the new cast has largely been assembled already. The new main folks in the new season will be Lucy Boynton (Sing Street), Babou Ceesay (Alien: Earth), and the incredibly prolific character actor Peter Mullan (Ozark). Boynton will play Lady Rohanne, Mullan is Ser Eustace, and Ceesay will embody the grimey Ser Bennis, another hedge knight in Eustace's service who is very good at getting into trouble.

Returning A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms cast members

Aside from Dunk and Egg, there aren't many characters from The Hedge Knight who pop up again in The Sworn Sword, and the ones who do don't have major parts to play in this story. You can expect the cast to be nearly entirely new, with only the main pair guaranteed to return. But we do expect the late Ser Arlan of Pennytree, Duncan's well endowed old mentor whose death kicked off the series, to pop up in some more flashbacks.

Cast list

• Peter Claffey as Ser Duncan 'Dunk' the Tall
• Dexter Sol Ansell as Aegon 'Egg' Targaryen
• Danny Webb as Ser Arlan of Pennytree
• Babou Ceesay as Ser Bennis
• Lucy Boynton as Lady Rohane Webber
• Peter Mullan as Ser Eustace Osgrey

How to read the Dunk and Egg novellas

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The three Dunk and Egg novellas were each originally published over the course of a decade in anthology collections featuring stories by a number of different authors, but in 2015 the stories were finally collected and released in one big, illustrated volume. 

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How many seasons could A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms go?

In addition to the three Dunk and Egg novellas currently published, author George R.R. Martin has a number of others that he's sketched out to some degree that he's shared with showrunner Ira Parker, so there's apparently a pretty solid wealth of material that the series can draw from.

And we know the final ending of the story of Dunk and Egg, which was prophesied by a witch in Season 1 — something only Egg understood at the time, since Duncan didn't yet know Egg's true identity. About 50 years after the events of the tournament at Ashford Meadow, Dunk and Egg supposedly die in a massive fire when Aegon attempted to birth seven dragon eggs, a failed attempt at the same thing Dany would successfully pull off a few decades later during the events of Game of Thrones. But it's extremely likely there's a lot more to that untold story, because Prince Rhaegar Targaryen — Dany's older brother, and Jon Snow's secret father — was born during Aegon's fire. 

The point here is simple: there's a lot of Dunk and Egg material that A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms could mine, including plenty of stuff we don't know anything about, and so the series could go on for a lot longer than you might think. 

Where to watch A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

All episodes from Season 1 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms are available to stream on HBO Max.