A Brief Reminder of When 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' Takes Place
Gizmodo • • entertainment
Key Points:
- "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" is set in 209 AC, a period of relative peace in Westeros between the Targaryen civil war (the Dance of Dragons) and the events of Game of Thrones.
- The show adapts George R.R. Martin’s Dunk and Egg series, focusing on a time when the Targaryen dynasty, led by King Daeron II, is stabilizing after the civil war and the decline of dragon power.
- Daeron II, known as Daeron the Good, unified Dorne with the rest of Westeros and maintained peace after the first Blackfyre Rebellion, though his reign ends amid the Great Spring Sickness epidemic.
- The major Westerosi houses
