The universe of Game of Thrones will soon be enriched by a series that will feature a despised character from the original. The showrunner already has a wicked idea for it.
Attention Spoiler: In the article, we reveal details about the character Walder Frey and the upcoming series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. If you don’t want to know anything about it, you should stop reading here.
Which character is it about? If you have seen Game of Thrones or read the underlying books, you probably remember Walder Frey. The character first appears in Season 1 and soon makes a name for himself as a pretty nasty guy.
One of the highlights that no reader or viewer will ever forget is the “Red Wedding,” where many characters lose their lives, including some main characters. The massacre takes place at the court of Walder Frey and under his command and is even based on historical events.
So it’s not surprising that the character is equally hated and feared. In the upcoming series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Walder Frey will appear again – but not as the ruthless lord we have known him so far.
From Murderer to Innocent Baby
What does the appearance look like? The spin-off to the main series is set to premiere in 2026 and will consist of three seasons, each based on stories by George R.R. Martin. It tells the story of knight Ser Duncan and his squire “Egg”. You can find all the information collected on MeinMMO.
The plot takes place about 90 years before the events of Game of Thrones. Accordingly, Walder Frey here is not a ruling lord, but much younger. More specifically, he is likely just a baby, because in Game of Thrones the character is initially 90 years old.
The showrunner of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Ira Parker, has already thought about how Walder Frey could appear in the new series. In conversation with Polygon, he shared his thoughts:
My favorite idea is, and this appears only in the third book, that there is a little Walder Frey. I have this hopefully really funny idea, for which people will probably kill me. But this idea that something happens, like a horse cart goes out of control and this baby is about to be killed, and Duncan intervenes and saves little Walder Frey.
Ira Parker
The idea has its charm, considering the terrible acts the character commits as an adult. After all, it’s hard to be angry with a baby, especially when it looks really cute. Nevertheless, this raises the question of how the further course of the story would have looked if the baby had died that day.
One thing is certain: many other characters would have survived, and the “Red Wedding” would not have existed in this form. Duncan’s act was therefore well-intentioned but ultimately caused great suffering in Westeros.
By the way, the idea of incorporating Walder Frey into the story is even based on the literary source. It features a four-year-old boy, whom George R.R. Martin confirmed in a post on livejournal.com is Frey. However, this is just a small guest appearance on the side.
How large the role of the character will be in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms cannot be estimated at this time. However, it will appear, and it will also be exciting to see which other characters from Game of Thrones will make their return – provided they were alive 90 years earlier. The series adaptation made the “Red Wedding” even more dramatic: A character from Game of Thrones made a grave mistake – the consequences were even worse in the series than in the book
