7 Game of Thrones characters who could appear in Dunk and Egg prequel
4. Olenna Tyrell
One of the main themes of Egg’s reign as king is the constant refusal of his sons to marry whom Egg wants them too. His oldest son and heir Prince Duncan the Small refuses multiple high-born matches that Egg makes so he could marry the low-born Jenny of Oldstones, the daughter of a woods witch. Egg himself marries a girl named Betha Blackwood for love, but tries to make political marriages for his children. That includes his second son Jaehaerys and his daughter Shaera, fall in love with each other and get married in secret despite Egg’s dislike of the Targaryen practice of incest. By the time Egg finds out, his children have already consummated their marriage, effectively forcing Egg to accept the match.
Egg tries to buck this trend by having his wife Betha betroth their youngest son Daeron to Lady Olenna Redwyne when Daeron is just 9 years old. Daeron follows in his siblings footsteps when he turns 18 by breaking his betrothal to Olenna, preferring the companionship of a knight named Jeremy Norridge. Olenna eventually marries the heir to Highgarden, Luthor Tyrell. Her son Mace becomes lord after him.
Olenna doesn’t have a ton to do in this story, but it would be fun to get a brief cameo to remind us about Diana Rigg’s masterful performance in Game of Thrones.
5. Old Nan
By the time we meet her on Game of Thrones, Old Nan is, well…old. It is said that she is the oldest person in Winterfell and has served the Starks for decades. She apparently came to Winterfell to nurse Brandon Stark…but there have been a lot of Brandon Starks over the years and no one knows which is the one she nursed.
We spend the most time with Old Nan when Bran Stark is recovering after Jaime Lannister throws him out a tower. She watches over Bran while she knits and tells him old stories with surprisingly creepy undertones.
Martin has said that a future Dunk and Egg novella will take place in Winterfell when Old Nan was a young woman. There is a theory that while Bran is using weirwood magic to peer back in time in A Dance With Dragons, he sees a young Old Nan kissing Ser Duncan the Tall. “Then there came a brown-haired girl slender as a spear who stoop on the tips of her toes to kiss the lips of a young knight as tall as Hodor,” the book reads. Does this explain Hodor’s immense size? Duncan wasn’t called “the Tall” for nothing.
Old Nan’s sons apparently died during Robert’s Rebellion and her daughters all moved away from Winterfell and died. Hodor is her great-grandson and her only living relative. When Ramsay burns Winterfell, he takes the women and children as prisoners to the Dreadfort. That presumably includes Old Nan. Due to her age, Arya and Theon think that Old Nan is likely dead.