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| − | | Mentioned="[[Baelor]]"<br>"[[Two Swords]]" |
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| − | | Aka=Aegon of the House Targaryen, the Fifth of His Name<br>Aegon the Unlikely<br/>Egg |
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| − | | Titles=[[King of the Andals and the First Men]]<br>Lord of the Seven Kingdoms<br>Protector of the Realm |
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| − | | Family={[[Maekar Targaryen]]} - father<br>{[[Aerion Targaryen]]} - elder brother<br>[[Aemon|Aemon Targaryen]] - elder brother<br>{[[Duncan Targaryen]]} - son<br>{[[Aerys II Targaryen]]} - son<br>{[[Rhaella Targaryen]]} - daughter<br>{[[Rhaegar Targaryen]]} - grandson<br>{[[Viserys Targaryen]]} - grandson<br>[[Daenerys Targaryen]] - granddaughter<br>{[[Rhaenys Targaryen]]} - great-grandaughter<br>{[[Aegon Targaryen (Son of Rhaegar)|Aegon Targaryen]]} - great-grandson<br>{[[Rhaego]]} - great-grandson |
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| − | {{Quote|My father was [[Maekar Targaryen|Maekar]], the First of his Name. My brother '''Aegon''' reigned after him, when I had refused the throne, and he was followed by his son [[Aerys II Targaryen|Aerys]], whom they called the Mad King.|Maester [[Aemon]]|Baelor}} |
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| − | '''Aegon V Targaryen''', also called '''Aegon the Unlikely''' and informally known as '''Egg''', is an unseen character in ''[[Game of Thrones]]''. He is long dead by the time the series begins. |
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| + | '''Egg''' is the [[squire]] of Ser [[Duncan the Tall]]. |
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| − | Aegon V was the fifth king of his name to sit on the [[Iron Throne]] and the fifteenth king of the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] dynasty to rule the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. He was the father of the [[Mad King]], the grandfather of [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] and [[Daenerys Targaryen]] and the younger brother of Maester [[Aemon|Aemon Targaryen]]. He was dubbed "the Unlikely" because he was the fourth son of a fourth son and thus unlikely to have inherited the crown. |
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| + | Egg is wise beyond his years, confident and witty.<ref name="Casting">[https://redanianintelligence.com/2023/10/20/game-of-thrones-dunk-and-egg-prequel-casting-call-suggests-filming-sooner-than-expected/ Redanian Intelligence] and [https://www.westeros.org/News/Entry/A_Knight_of_the_Seven_Kingdoms_The_Hedge_Knight_Casting_Begins_Probably Westeros.org]; October 20, 2023</ref> |
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| − | ==Biography== |
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| + | Egg is codenamed "Boy" in a casting call published in October 2023. The character description reads as follows: |
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| − | ===[[Season 1]]=== |
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| − | At [[Castle Black]], Maester Aemon reveals to [[Jon Snow]] that his father was Maekar, and after their father died the crown passed to his brother Aegon, because Aemon refused the throne (due to his vows as a maester). He also bitterly recounts how the children and grandchildren of his brother were slaughtered during [[Robert Baratheon]]'s rebellion. Snow realizes that Aemon is a member of House Targaryen.<ref>"[[Baelor]]"</ref> |
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| + | :''"Aged 9-10. Physically small, the character is wise beyond his years, confident and witty. He has a neutral English accent, and is white with blue/green eyes and pale skin. Must be under 4'6 (137cm) and at least 9 years old by March 2024 for licensing."''<ref name="Casting" /> |
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| − | ===[[Season 4]]=== |
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| − | Aegon V is mentioned in [[Duncan the Tall]]'s entry in [[The Book of Brothers]].<ref>"[[Two Swords]]"</ref> |
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| + | On April 5, 2024, [[HBO]] announced that [[Dexter Sol Ansell]] had been cast in the role for the series.{{Webref|name=VarietyLeadsCast |author=Joe Otterson |date=April 5, 2024 |url=https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/game-of-thrones-prequel-hedge-knight-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-cast-peter-claffey-dexter-sol-ansell-1235961895/ |title=‘Game of Thrones’ Prequel ‘Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight’ Casts Peter Claffey, Dexter Sol Ansell in Lead Roles |website=Variety |access-date=April 6, 2024 }} |
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| − | After the death of her son [[Joffrey Baratheon]], [[Cersei Lannister]] remarks to [[Margaery Tyrell]] that the realm hasn't really had a good king in nearly fifty years. While she doesn't mention Aegon V by name, he is the king who died nearly fifty years ago: [[Robert Baratheon]] ruled for seventeen years before Joffrey, but was a drunken whore-mongering glutton who ignored politics (delegating matters of state to his [[Small Council]]). Before Robert, the Mad King [[Aerys II Targaryen]] sat the throne for about twenty years - prosperous years for the most part, but due to Aerys's Hand of the King [[Tywin Lannister]], who had become the real power behind the throne.<ref>"[[First of His Name]]"</ref> |
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| − | + | Egg is the deuteragonist of the [[Dunk & Egg novellas]], the first of which is set just under 90 years before ''A Game of Thrones''. |
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| + | While traveling to a [[tournament at Ashford Meadow]] in 209 AC, Ser Duncan the Tall encounters Egg at an inn and later takes him on as his squire. |
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| − | Aegon, using the alias "Egg", spent many years traveling the Seven Kingdoms as a squire in the service of Ser [[Duncan the Tall]], a hedge knight. At their first meeting Duncan was unaware of Egg's true identity, until he used his royal authority to save Duncan from being killed by his bullying older brother, Prince Aerion. Duncan was able to instead face Aerion on the [[tournament]] field and defeat him in combat. Unfortunately, Prince [[Baelor Targaryen (son of Daeron II)|Baelor "Breakspear" Targaryen]], the royal heir, was killed during the tournament. Prince [[Maekar Targaryen|Maekar]] - Aegon's father - despaired of Aerion's spoiled indolence and agreed to let Aegon serve as Duncan's squire to build character and gain experience of living in the "real" world. |
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| − | Aegon ascended to the [[Iron Throne]] in 233 AL, following his father Maekar's death in battle with an outlaw lord. Of Aegon's three older brothers, Aerion had poisoned himself to death (by ill-advisedly drinking [[wildfire]], thinking it might turn him into a [[dragon]]), Daeron had died of a pox and Aemon had disinherited himself by first joining the [[maesters]] and later the [[Night's Watch]]. As Aegon V Targaryen, he ruled for twenty-six years. During this time he made Ser Duncan the [[Lord Commander]] of the [[Kingsguard]] and secured an alliance between the Targaryens and [[House Baratheon]] by wedding his daughter Rhaelle to the then-Lord of [[Storm's End]] (she became the grandmother of [[Robert Baratheon|Robert]], [[Stannis Baratheon|Stannis]] and [[Renly Baratheon]], giving the Baratheons their claim to the Iron Throne). He had two sons, [[Duncan Targaryen|Duncan]] (often called Duncan the Small) and Jaehaerys. |
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| + | *{{GOT|Baelor}} {{Mentioned}} |
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| + | *{{H&L|Robert's Rebellion - Petyr Baelish and Varys}} {{Illustrated}} |
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| + | *{{GOT|Two Swords}} {{Text}} |
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| + | *{{H&L|Dragons}} {{Illustrated}} |
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| + | *{{H&L|The Kingsguard - Jaime Lannister}} {{Illustrated}} |
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| + | *{{GOT|The Gift}} {{Mentioned}} |
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| + | *{{H&L|Robert's Rebellion - Barristan Selmy}} {{Illustrated}} |
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| + | *{{H&L|War of the Ninepenny Kings}} {{Mentioned}} |
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| + | *{{GOT|The Iron Throne}} {{Text}} |
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| + | *{{AKOTSK|Season 1}} |
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| − | Being the fourth son of a fourth son, Aegon V was known as "the Unlikely" because he was unlikely to have inherited the crown. Actually, given that two of his uncles had twin sons, Aegon was initially ''twelfth'' in line to the throne when he was born (during the reign of his grandfather Daeron II). Even after his father was crowned he was still fourth in line for many years. |
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| − | Aegon V ruled wisely and well, but he had three major weaknesses. The first was that due to his years travelling across Westeros with Ser Duncan, he gained a great concern for the welfare of the [[Smallfolk]], yet opinions about this varied. Commoners remember him as a great king who was genuinely concerned about their well-being, who ensured their economic livelihoods by raising taxes on aristocrats and wealthy merchants, and who punished lords who abused the rights of the commoners they ruled over. The nobility of the Seven Kingdoms, meanwhile, grew to resent Aegon V - for exactly the same reasons. Second, Aegon V indulged his sons: having married for love himself, he permitted his sons to do the same, although this was not politically wise and made him enemies within the Seven Kingdoms. The nobility was already growing to resent him for his liberal policies with the smallfolk, and a marriage-alliance with one of the Great Houses would have helped to stabilize Targaryen rule. |
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| − | Third, Aegon V also had an overwhelming obsession with hatching the surviving Targaryen dragon eggs. These last two weaknesses culminated in 259 AL at the so-called "[[Tragedy of Summerhall]]". This was a fire that got out of control and destroyed the castle, killing Aegon V, Ser Duncan the Tall and Prince Duncan the Small. On the same night, Aegon's great-grandson [[Rhaegar Targaryen]] was born. |
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| − | For the TV series, the Targaryen lineage was simplified. Aegon V's younger son Jaehaerys, who inherited the throne as Jaehaerys II and ruled for three years before dying of grief, was eliminated from the line of succession and the Mad King, Aerys II, was instead made Aegon V's younger son directly. This makes Aegon V the grandfather of Viserys and Daenerys Targaryen, and Maester Aemon their great-uncle. |
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| − | So far, it has not been confirmed in the series if Aegon V's daughter Rhaelle did marry into House Baratheon, giving the Baratheons their claim to the throne in the TV series as well as in the books, or if the entire progeny of Aegon V has been replaced with just Aerys and Rhaella. The [[HBO]] Viewer's Guide confirms the existence of [[Duncan Targaryen]] in the TV show (making him Aerys and Rhaella's brother instead of their uncle), though in the [[Complete Guide to Westeros]] video '''"[[House Baratheon (Complete Guide to Westeros)|House Baratheon]]"''', Robert states that his claim to the throne was based on his descent from [[Orys Baratheon]], said to be a half-brother of [[Aegon I Targaryen]]. |
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SPOILER WARNING
This page includes content relating to the Dunk & Egg novellas, and therefore contains potential spoilers for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, as revealed in George R.R. Martin's writings. Anyone wishing to remain completely spoiler free for this prequel series should avoid any pages displaying this tag. |
Egg is the squire of Ser Duncan the Tall.
Personality
Egg is wise beyond his years, confident and witty.[2]
Behind the scenes
Egg is codenamed "Boy" in a casting call published in October 2023. The character description reads as follows:
- "Aged 9-10. Physically small, the character is wise beyond his years, confident and witty. He has a neutral English accent, and is white with blue/green eyes and pale skin. Must be under 4'6 (137cm) and at least 9 years old by March 2024 for licensing."[2]
On April 5, 2024, HBO announced that Dexter Sol Ansell had been cast in the role for the series.[3]
In the books
Egg is the deuteragonist of the Dunk & Egg novellas, the first of which is set just under 90 years before A Game of Thrones.
While traveling to a tournament at Ashford Meadow in 209 AC, Ser Duncan the Tall encounters Egg at an inn and later takes him on as his squire.
Appearances
– "Baelor" (mentioned)
– "Robert's Rebellion - Petyr Baelish and Varys" (illustrated)
– "Two Swords" (mentioned in text)- – "Dragons" (illustrated)
- – "The Kingsguard - Jaime Lannister" (illustrated)
- – "The Gift" (mentioned)
- – "Robert's Rebellion - Barristan Selmy" (illustrated)
- – "War of the Ninepenny Kings" (mentioned)
- – "The Iron Throne" (mentioned in text)
- – Season 1
References
- ↑ Histories & Lore: Season 4, Short 11: "The Kingsguard - Jaime Lannister" (2015).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Redanian Intelligence and Westeros.org; October 20, 2023
- ↑ Joe Otterson (April 5, 2024). ‘Game of Thrones’ Prequel ‘Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight’ Casts Peter Claffey, Dexter Sol Ansell in Lead Roles. Variety. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
External links
- Egg on A Wiki of Ice and Fire (potential spoilers for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight)
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