Game Of Thrones Prequel: 10 Legendary Characters We Hope To See

10. Symeon Star-Eyes

Eagle-eyed readers will notice that the title mentions characters we might meet. That’s because, well most obviously, they haven't been announced yet. The other reason is a lot of these legendary figures’ stories have been passed down by word of moth as opposed to written accounts. As Samwell Tarly told Jon Snow in A Feast for Crows:

The oldest histories we have were written after the Andals came to Westeros. The Fist Men only left us runes on rocks, so everything we know about the Age of Heroes and the Dawn Age and the Long Night comes from accounts set down by septons thousands of years later. There are archmaesters at the Citadel who question all of it. Those old histories are full of kings who reigned for a hundred years, and knights riding around a thousand years before there were knights.

Symeon Star-Eyes was said to be a knight that was totally blind and by some accounts even placing star sapphires in the empty sockets. Hence the name. He fought with a long staff with blades at both ends and would spin it in his hands, similar to Arya.

The kicker is knights and nobility, or chivalry in general, wouldn’t arrive in Westeros for thousands of years, as Sam so elegantly pointed out. Some theories suggest Symeon was a White Walker himself. The prequel may very well give us the real story on Symeon‘s sockets.