Seven years on from the finale of Game of Thrones, the Westeros industrial complex is alive, well and breathing fire. For a while, it seemed as if the Game of Thrones legacy wasn’t going to be able to hold strong, which seemed unfathomable given how enormously successful the original series was. House of the Dragon had just wrapped its second season run and the overwhelming feeling was one of… disappointment. After years, treatments, scripts and even one expensive failed pilot, the larger Game of Thrones narrative universe is finally firing, and in more than one direction. It’s set a decade before Game of Thrones at a tournament in Harrenhal, where anxiety about King Aerys II’s erratic and violent behaviour.