People Are Probably Gonna Kill Me: Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Showrunner Teases Dunk Saving Baby Walder Frey
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner teased that the upcoming Dunk and Egg series will include small Easter eggs and at least one surprising Game of Thrones cameo — *including* a scene idea where Dunk might save a baby Walder Frey. The comments came during post-panel interviews and reference the books’ existing ties to the larger Song of Ice and Fire timeline.
Timeline and Easter eggs
The Dunk and Egg stories sit *roughly 77 years after* House of the Dragon and *89 years before* Game of Thrones, so the series is distant from the main show but still within George R.R. Martin’s larger timeline. Consequently, the adaptation can include small nods to known characters and moments, rather than direct overlaps.
Martin said, “It would be fun to have other great knights from Westerosi history,” he said. “I think Jaime Lannister would like to enter tournaments, winning some, fighting some of them. And Tyrion would just bet on them.”
Walder Frey cameo
After the A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms panel, a reporter asked whether the showrunner had a list of cameos. The showrunner answered simply: “yes.”
He then described a specific idea from the books: “My favorite is, and look, it’s not until the third book, but there’s a baby Walder Frey,” Parker says. “I have this, hopefully, really funny idea that people are probably gonna kill me for. But this idea that something’s happening, like there’s a runaway horse cart, and this baby’s about to be killed, and Dunk intervenes and saves baby Walder Frey.”
The showrunner added that the moment would not be called out or made into a big plot point: “We don’t ever make a thing of it,” Parker says. “It just happens, and we’re on with the story. That’s sort of the closest we get to it in the three novels that have been written.”
Brienne connection and filming
The showrunner also noted a deliberate, small visual callback for attentive viewers. “In the fifth episode, there’s a scene where young Dunk is walking along a road, heading back to King’s Landing, and it’s the same road that Brienne and Pod were on when they were heading off from King’s Landing,” Parker says.
Fans have long wondered whether Dunk is an ancestor of Brienne of Tarth. George R.R. Martin confirmed the theory in 2016, and the showrunner said the series will include *small, tiny touches* that nod to that lineage when appropriate. Because filming took place in Belfast — where parts of Game of Thrones were shot — the production could reuse locations to reinforce these connections.
