Posts Tagged ‘Trial of Seven’

Kingsguard Identification: Here’s the Thing (Hair’s the Thing)

Posted: March 25, 2026 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TV
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Last week, as part of my Westeros Wednesday series (filling the time between now and the House of the Dragon season three premiere) I had a long blog post (sorry for the ridiculous word count) talking in-depth about the big Judicial Jousting the happened in the penultimate episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

In that post, I took pains to try and track (mostly) the fourteen combatants in that trial. Part of that account included tracking the three Kingsguard involved, who are largely indistinguishable in their identical white armor and feature-covering helms.

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Some Misty Morning Exercise in Ashford

Posted: March 18, 2026 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TV
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One of the major events of HBO’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms‘ first season was a dramatic Trial by Combat.

Hold on a moment, I should really have put out some spoiler warnings before I started getting into details.

You should watch this terrific HBO show before reading this blog post. Go watch right now, we’ll all wait. It’s roughly a three-hour time commitment – a very short season of television.

Everyone, take five while people get caught up on the show.

Okay, now that they’re gone, lets talk about the Trial of Seven, and maybe another related (sort of related) melee from George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire.

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