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

Game of Thrones has come to a controversial conclusion (to say the least) and now that HBO's Chernobyl has taken over the world, and IMDB for that matter, suddenly trashing the final season of Game of Thrones is no longer the cool thing to do on the internet.

One nugget in the World of Ice and Fire worth noting however is that the first of a handful of potential Game of Thrones prequels has officially begun filming in Northern Ireland, which is one of the same locations Game of Thrones was filmed.

We don't know much of the prequel, but what we do know for certain that it takes place during the Age of Heroes and the Long Night that comes after, thousands of years before the execution of Ned Stark. (Portrayed on television by Sean Bean who ironically starred in a movie called "The Age of Heroes" that was released almost exactly a month to the day after the Game of Thrones pilot aired. Look it up nerds).

With this era being the setting of the prequel, there's a plethora of legendary figures in this world's folklore fans will potentially discover the truth about at long last. Many of which are supposedly the founders of the great houses in Westeros we've come to love and loathe.

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.