Game Of Thrones Season 8 Trailer Breakdown: 21 Things You Need To See

17. The Golden Company

Game of Thrones Season 8 Trailer
HBO

Euron Greyjoy has made good on his mission: to sail to Essos and return with the Golden Company, a group of sellswords some 20,000 men strong (with a few elephants too, though none are visible here), who are famous for never breaking a contract.

The Company dates back to the Blackfyre Rebellion, linking them (even if tangentially) to the Targaryens, and they're led by Harry Strickland. In the books he's a portly, balding and middle-aged man, but here he looks like the second coming of Jaime Lannister, and is played by Marc Rissmann.

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