Will any Game Of Thrones characters appear in House Of The Dragon?-Meghna Amin-Entertainment – Metro

Game Of Thrones prequel series House Of The Dragon is just hours away from hitting our screens, as the first episode, entitled Heirs of the Dragon, launches tonight, August 22, at 2am UK time on Sky Atlantic.

The series, based on George RR Martin’s supplementary novel Fire and Blood, will follow the ancestors of the original show’s Daenerys Targaryen (played by Emilia Clarke).

Starring actors including Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke and Paddy Considine in the cast, the show is jam-packed full of dragons, drama and political intrigue.

However, while it may hold just as much drama as Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon is set 200 years before the events we know from the land of Jon Snow and Ned Stark.

While at the start of Game of Thrones, Daenerys and her brother Viserys (Henry Lloyd) were forced to fend for themselves in the outside world, in House Of the Dragon, House Targaryen is still at the height of its power, with King Viserys Targaryen I sitting on the Iron Throne.

Which means we probably shouldn’t expect any characters we’ve seen before crop up… although, there may be one who could have existed between both eras.

The story, starring Matt Smith, follows House Targaryen (Picture: HBO)

One Game of Thrones character who would have been alive during the 200 years before, when House of the Dragon is se, would be Lady Melisandre.

Known as the Red Woman or the Red Witch, Lady Melisandre appeared in series six, where she was an advisor to King Stannis Baratheon, before she revived Jon Snow and served as his advisor – before she was banished.

There may be one character who could be old enough to stretch over the two time periods (Picture: HBO)

She later fought in the final battle against the Night King and in the aftermath, having destroyed the army, she walks out of Winterfell and is diminished into dust.

But first, her true form was revealed to be an elderly lady, which was described by showrunner David Benioff as ‘several centuries old.’

Lady Melisandre was reportedly 400-years-old (Picture: HBO)

Oliver Ford Davies, who plays Maester Cressen, also revealed in an interview shared on Youtube that Carice van Houten, who plays Lady Melisandre, admitted her character was 400-years-old, which would mean she would be around during House of the Dragon too.

To be exact, the spin-off is set 172 years before Daenerys’ birth, when she was born on an extremely stormy night at Dragonstone, her family’s ancestral seat.

This is why one of her monikers – of which she has famously many – is Daenerys Stormborn.

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While there are many similarities between House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones, given they take place in the same universe, there are also some notable differences, like the fact that there are plenty of dragons in existence in the prequel, while 200 years later, it’s believed that all dragons are now extinct.

Another major difference in the new show is the introduction of House Velaryon, an ancient house that viewers will have never met before, because they weren’t included in Game of Thrones – despite members of the family still technically being alive in the timeline.

House of the Dragon premieres on Monday August 22 on Sky Atlantic and NOW.

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