Full spoilers ahead for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Season 1.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has concluded its first season, but that’s not the end of the journey for Dunk and Egg. The towering hedge knight and his young squire will return for a second season — and likely a third — on HBO, but there’s precious little on-the-record information at this point about what’s in store for viewers. Fortunately, showrunner Ira Parker recently chatted with IGN to help shed light on what fans can expect from the next season. Read on for what we learned about A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Season 2.
What Is A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 2 About?
Like the first season, Season 2 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms will consist of six half-hour episodes. It will adapt “The Sworn Sword,” the second novella in George R.R. Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg series. Set a few years after the events depicted in Season 1, Season 2 brings in a new cast of characters for Dunk and Egg to encounter, most notably Lady Rohanne Webber, aka the Red Widow, and Ser Eustace Osgrey, two rivals locked in a bitter land dispute as a drought devastates the Reach. Lady Rohanne is believed to be an old witch responsible for the deaths of her first four husbands, but she is in fact an attractive young woman with political savvy and ambiguous intentions. Ser Eustace is a proud old knight and veteran of the First Blackfyre Rebellion to whom Dunk swears his sword.
If “Season 1 really is about fathers and sons and what’s passed on to the next generation,” then Season 2, as showrunner Ira Parker recently told IGN, will explore the theme of “loyalty and maybe against blind loyalty.”
Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell will reprise their roles as Dunk and Egg, respectively, although the casting of Lady Rohanne and Ser Eustace has not yet been revealed.
Given how short “The Sworn Sword” is – it runs a little over 100 pages, depending on the layout of the edition you have – should fans expect additional material to be added to the show?
“We’re pretty faithful to the book, again,” Parker said. “I would say little flourishes here and there, but we did a lot of that in Season 1 as well. It should all feel inherent to the world and to Dunk’s POV.”
When Will Season 2 Premiere?
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was renewed for a second season in November 2025, and Season 2 is expected to premiere sometime in 2027. They’re currently filming interiors for these new episodes at Belfast’s Titanic Studios, where the original Game of Thrones was shot, with exteriors in Spain…although there’s been an unforeseen twist.
“We are going to drier pastures in Spain for [the drought scenes],” Parker said. “Except that the location that was meant to be our dry riverbed is now a fully flowing river after getting rain for the first time in ten years at this location, and so now has sent us scrambling and searching for changes at this late date.”
