The Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms team has George R.R. Martin plans for 12 unwritten Dunk & Egg stories

Interestingly, this has also come up in interviews with Parker, who is now in the rare position of knowing more about what would happen to Dunk and Egg, were Martin to ever get down to the business of writing their books, than almost anybody else in the world. That’s because Martin has shared outlines for fully twelve other stories taking place throughout the characters’ lives with Parker, none of which have ever been publicized. Which feels like a lot!

“George has outlined 12 more of these stories that he’s shared with me,” Parker said in a recent THR interview, noting that he has an added bonus of both his lead characters being pretty well-known historical figures in the world of Game Of Thrones. (To the point that one of them was namechecked obliquely in a memorable Game Of Thrones death scene.) “These stories take them all the way through their lives. Some of these are just a paragraph, but they give you a sense of where they’re going to go and the people who come back in and out of the story.”

Parker, who’s currently working on the second of the show’s currently ordered two seasons, was also quick to knock on wood, noting, “I hope everybody likes this and I hope we get to do more. But I don’t have a crystal ball. I actually don’t know—in spite of how long I’ve been doing this—what it is that audiences really respond to.” Pointing out that his show lacks many of the franchises flashier elements—no dragons, no multiple continent-spanning sweep—he asked, of the show’s appeal, “Or is it the hope that I have? We have one of the ingredients: Two unusual characters—like Arya and the Hound, or Brienne and Podrick—who are paired together and having conversations. I hope that’s what [made Thrones work]. It’s a big part of what it was for me.”