In a new video, Marco Risch from Nerdkultur talks about the upcoming series in the Game of Thrones universe: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
Who is Marco Risch? Since 2015, Marco Risch has been covering news, analyses, reviews, and interviews on his YouTube channel Nerdkultur related to current films and series.
Additionally, he meets weekly with his colleague Yves Arievich to chat in the Nerd & Culture podcast about pop culture film topics like Star Wars, Marvel, and DC.
Both the YouTube channel and the podcast are part of the Webedia network, which also includes MeinMMO.
In a new video on YouTube, Marco talks about the upcoming series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which is set in the Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon universe.
You can watch the video from Nerdkultur here:
Same World, Different Tone
How does Marco describe A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms? At the beginning, Marco clarifies: Even though the trailer boasts about 100 years, the new series is, strictly speaking, set 89 years before Game of Thrones and thus between the first Westeros series and the prequel House of the Dragon.
The first trailer already shows: The series has a different tone, less serious than the intrigues known from Westeros. Another big difference: The series will only have 6 episodes, each lasting 30 minutes. Thus, it is shorter than the long, epic episodes of the other two fantasy series.
The series is about Ser Duncan the Great, who is on the road with the little Egg. As Marco explains, the story is based on George R.R. Martin’s series of short stories Dunk and Egg
, which were published between the novels of A Song of Ice and Fire
.
Marco describes Duncan with the following words:
He is therefore the personification of chivalry, without having been born into it himself. A representative of George R. R. Martin’s critique of nobility. A motif that we find repeatedly in his books – and especially, up until the end, even in the main series.
Marco compares the mood from the first trailer of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms with the first seasons of Game of Thrones.
The People’s Perspective
What makes Duncan so special? The trailer makes it clear that everything is seen from Duncan’s perspective, fitting with the book where everything is told from a first-person perspective. This is unique among all the series that always tell from different perspectives.
According to Marco, Ira Parker, the showrunner of the series, explained that A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is supposed to be more grounded
than the other series. The story is supposed to show the people suffering under all the intrigues and actions of the elite
.
But another character is also part of the series. Egg, a bald child, is not a person from the common folk and belongs to the Targaryens. Marco explains: With Egg, a Targaryen will experience what the reign of his family means for the people.
Starting January 18, 2026, the series will premiere and the first season will adapt the first of the three novellas about Duncan. So far, no continuation has been confirmed, but if the series is popular, there seems to be nothing standing in the way. However, Marco also mentions: Martin would like to continue the story of the Hedge Knight but is not doing so because of The Winds of Winter.
Despite the different tone of the series, Marco is sure: The story of Duncan and Egg is not insignificant and, like everything in Game of Thrones, this story does not happen randomly. You can find more about Game of Thrones here: The Seven Kingdoms of Game of Thrones in the Power Ranking
