The new Song of Ice and Fire calendar will be based on Fire & Blood

Every year, we get a new calendar based on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, with various artists rendering scene from Martin’s landmark work in loving detail. 2023 will be no different…but there’s a twist this time, and it might just tell us something about HBO’s upcoming Game of Thrones prequel show House of the Dragon.

As reported by Los Siete Reinos, the upcoming 2023 A Song of Ice and Fire calendar won’t be based on A Song of Ice and Fire at all…it’ll be based on Fire & Blood, Martin’s “fake history book” about the Targaryen dynasty. According to the Penguin Random House page for the calendar, it’s not even called the A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar anymore, but rather The World of Fire & Blood 2023 Calendar.

Notably, House of the Dragon is also based on Fire & Blood, specifically the stretch about the Dance of the Dragons, a brutal civil war that tore Westeros apart. That’s what the calendar will focus on too.

Fire & Blood calendar hints at House of the Dragon premiere window?

You see what we’re getting at here? The calendar is revamping itself to be more in line with the Song of Ice and Fire thing of the moment, in this case House of the Dragon. We even know when the calendar will be available for purchase: July 19. That’s a week after a new TV tie-in edition of Fire & Blood is hitting bookshelves.

So we have a new edition of Fire & Blood and a new Fire & Blood-themed calendar coming out in the same month. Is this an indication that House of the Dragon will be out around the same time? We can’t know for sure, of course, but the evidence for a summer premiere date is heating up.

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