GRRM Has 12 New Dunk & Egg Tales Planned for HBO’s Future

Westeros isn’t running out of stories anytime soon. George R.R. Martin has quietly outlined plans for as many as 12 new Dunk & Egg adventures—and he’s already shared them with the showrunner of HBO’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

In a new interview, series creator Ira Parker says Martin handed over “about 10 to 12” outlines for future novellas about Ser Duncan the Tall and his royal squire Egg, mapping their lives far beyond the three published tales. Those plans now sit at the heart of HBO’s latest Game of Thrones prequel.

Fifteen Dunk & Egg Novellas on the Table

Martin has long teased more Tales of Dunk and Egg, name‑checking future titles such as The She-Wolves of Winterfell and The Village Hero, plus later stories like The Sellsword, The Champion, The Kingsguard and The Lord Commander. Background on the novellas

Combined with the three existing novellas—The Hedge Knight, The Sworn Sword and The Mystery Knight—Parker’s comments suggest Martin has rough material for up to 15 Dunk & Egg stories in total. He’s previously said he plans to write the fourth, The Village Hero, once he finishes long‑delayed The Winds of Winter. Martin’s own tease of future tales

For HBO, that’s potentially years of source material. Season one of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms adapts The Hedge Knight, while a second season based on The Sworn Sword is already in production. If the network sticks to a one‑novella‑per‑season model, Dunk and Egg could easily match or outlast Game of Thrones’ eight‑season run.

The scale of those ambitions tracks with Martin’s broader TV slate. He’s been helping to shepherd multiple spinoffs, from the already‑airing House of the Dragon to revived projects such as Ten Thousand Ships and The Sea Snake. More on other Westeros prequels For a deeper dive into how all that TV work has affected his book schedule, see our look at Winds of Winter delays.

Martin Calls Dunk & Egg His Best Work

Despite not taking a script credit on season one, Martin has been unusually hands‑on with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Parker describes sending him early drafts, then workshopping scenes over the phone rather than taking top‑down notes.

That collaboration seems to be paying off. Martin has praised the show publicly as one of the most faithful adaptations of his work to date, while also calling The Hedge Knight “the best thing [he’s] ever written.” Martin on the HBO adaptation Our earlier coverage of HBO’s new Dunk & Egg era digs into how the show shifts focus from dragon dynasties to lowborn chivalry.

Set roughly a century before Game of Thrones, the series trades palace coups for muddy tourneys and moral dilemmas. It opens not on war, but on a young hedge knight wondering if he’s good enough for the vows he’s taken—a smaller, more intimate Westeros that reflects Martin’s own fondness for these stories.

Whether all 12 outlined Dunk & Egg tales are ever written—or filmed—remains an open question, especially with The Winds of Winter still unfinished. But for readers who’ve waited more than a decade for another novella, the revelation that Martin has so much mapped out is a rare, concrete sign that Ser Duncan and Egg have a long future ahead, on the page and on screen.