A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS Season 2 Will Dive Deeper into Targaryen History and The Blackfyre Rebellions

Fans who jumped into A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms expecting a small-scale Westeros tale got exactly that in Season 1. The spotlight stayed on Dunk and Egg, but the shadow of the Targaryen civil war loomed large over every dusty road and tournament field.

Now, with Season 2 on the way, the big question is how much deeper the series will go into the Blackfyre Rebellions and the Targaryen legacy.

Set roughly 13 years after the First Blackfyre Rebellion, the show takes place in a realm still nursing bruises from Daemon Blackfyre’s failed attempt to seize the Iron Throne from King Daeron II Targaryen.

The war ended with the Targaryens holding power, but it fractured loyalties across Westeros. That history already shaped Season 1 in subtle but meaningful ways.

We heard about Ser Arlan of Pennytree fighting at the Battle of the Redgrass Field. Egg sang about the rebellion, and those Episode 5 flashbacks with Dunk showed the grim aftermath of war. The past wasn’t front and center, but it was everywhere.

Speaking with Variety, showrunner and co-creator Ira Parker explained just how much that history will factor into Season 2 and beyond:

“The Blackfyre Rebellions are in and out of their lives for Dunk and Egg, all the way up until pretty late I’d say. The Second Blackfyre Rebellion factors in pretty heavily into one of the books, and obviously we make a few mentions to it in Season 1.

“But I’d say it’s important background and informs a lot of the characters that they come in contact with. Essentially, we are 15 years outside of a massive civil war, and so there’s still a lot of those lingering resentments. There are certainly a lot of open wounds left.

“One of the promises I made to George very early on is that I really wouldn’t create story. We are adding to the character and the world. We’re writing this TV show as if George had written a novel instead of a novella.

“So we’re just filling out things that he naturally probably would have done. But we don’t send people on any side quests, and we try not to get too bogged down in history. These are nice, little contained journeys.”

That approach lines up with how Season 1 handled its world-building. The rebellion shaped people’s choices and prejudices, but the narrative stayed grounded in Dunk and Egg’s personal adventures.

Season 2 will adapt George R.R. Martin’s novella The Sworn Sword, which pulls the duo into the service of Ser Eustace Osgrey in the Reach. What starts as a petty dispute between Osgrey and Lady Rohanne Webber quickly reveals deeper scars left by the Blackfyre conflict. Old allegiances resurface, and those divisions aren’t ancient history, they’re still raw.

And that’s only the beginning.

If the series continues into adapting The Mystery Knight, the Blackfyre drama becomes far more direct. That story involves a secret plot tied to yet another attempted rebellion.

In total, there are five Blackfyre Rebellions across Game of Thrones history, most of which unfold during Dunk and Egg’s lifetimes. If Parker gets his wish of stretching A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms out for as many as 15 seasons, there’s plenty of Targaryen turmoil to mine.

For fans of Westeros lore, this is exciting territory. The Blackfyre Rebellions have long felt like prime material for a full-scale Game of Thrones spinoff, maybe even an anthology chronicling each uprising.

That may not happen as a standalone series, but this show has the chance to explore those events organically, weaving them through Dunk and Egg’s travels.

Still, it would be incredible to see the First Blackfyre Rebellion fully realized on screen one day. It’s a brutal, tragic chapter in Targaryen history packed with larger-than-life figures and battlefield spectacle. A limited series focused entirely on that conflict could easily stand on its own.

For now, though, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 2 looks ready to expand its scope without losing its intimate feel. The swords may be smaller and the politics more personal than Game of Thrones or House of the Dragon, but the stakes are still tied to the fate of the realm.

Season 2 is set to premiere on HBO and HBO Max in 2027, and when it arrives, expect more Targaryen history simmering just beneath the surface of Dunk and Egg’s next adventure.