Three new knights have joined the HBO drama, promising to bring blood and brutality with them.

Splitting men from groin to throat.

Killing a warhorse with a single punch.

Gwayne Hightower (Freddie Fox) and Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) on House of the Dragon season 2

And corpses so mangled after battle that theyre only identifiable by their shoe size.

In short: expect violence.

TheGame of Thronesprequel left fans with an action IOU in place of the climactic clashes wed hoped to see.

Now, the HBO show is set to correct that, as its most recent casting news suggests.

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Ser Bold Jon Roxton is a Greens-allied knight famed for carrying Valyrian steel longsword Orphan-Maker.

Hell be played by Joplin Sibtain, who can currently be seen as Cassians mate Brasso in Disney+Star WarsseriesAndor.

Well keep you posted as further production news arrives.