When Game of Thrones debuted in 2011, it quickly earned a reputation as one of television’s most ambitious and influential dramas. Among its sprawling cast of houses, the Targaryens loomed especially large — a once-exiled royal family that had ruled Westeros for nearly three centuries before the events of the series.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, a prequel to HBO’s hit fantasy series Game of Thrones, has arrived.

Manning the spade is Peter Claffey’s wonderfully humble Ser Dunk, laying to rest his mentor Ser Arlan of Pennytree with naught but three horses to bear witness.