A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is set in 209 AC, decades before Game of Thrones

Polygon reports that A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 1 is set roughly 89 years before the beginning of Game of Thrones and about 77 years after the season 2 finale of House of the Dragon.

Based on George R.R. Martin’s novella The Hedge Knight, the series follows Ser Dunk and his squire Egg in a smaller, more focused story; season one adapts the 1998 novella into six 30-minute episodes and is placed in 209 AC. In this era dragons are extinct (the last died in 153 AC), the Targaryens still rule under King Daeron II, and life is portrayed as more grounded and relatively peaceful — though the season is said to disturb the Targaryen status quo.

Several great houses are shown managing their domains: Damon Lannister holds Casterly Rock; Lyonel Baratheon is heir to Storm’s End and befriends Dunk while Symeon Baratheon would have been Lord of the Stormlands; the Starks focus on keeping peace in the North, with the exact leadership of House Stark unclear (Lord Cregan Stark became Lord in 126 AC and may have lived until as late as 209 AC). Game of Thrones itself begins later in 298 AC, when dragons return and Daenerys Targaryen’s quest begins.

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Culture, Hedge Knight, Ser Dunk, Egg, Targaryens