The popular Game of Thrones house will not appear in the series

By Nick Santangelo

When Game of Thrones has completed its eight consecutive seasons next year, the franchise will not be over for television, but the author George RR Martin revealed that this could be the end of a house .

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Martin revealed that, despite the previous implications, the HBO Long Night precedent would be set 10,000 years before Game of Thrones, but that 5,000 years could be more accurate. That said, the time is enough to assume that many of Thrones's core items, including the Targaryen House, would not have existed.

"We're talking about" 10,000 years "in novels, but you also have places where teachers say," No, no, it was not 10,000, but 5,000, "Martin said. "Again, I try to reflect real life things that a lot of fantasies do not reflect."

"In the Bible, people live for hundreds of years, then people have added how long they have lived and used this information to determine the date of the events." Really, I do not think so, "says Martin. "We are now getting more realistic dating for carbon dating and archeology, but Westeros does not have that, they are still in the phase of" my grandfather m ". said and his grandfather told him. "

"So, I think we are approaching 5,000 years old, but you're right, Westeros is a very different place, there is no King's Landing." Throne of iron There is no Targaryen Valyria has barely begun to rise the great empire he has built.We are dealing with a different and older world and hope it will be part of the pleasure of Series. "

After reading Martin's quote, some now speculate that dragons might not appear in The Long Night either.

As stated Martin, Targaryen House is closely related to the appearance of dragons in the series and the novels on which it rests. Viewers saw Daenerys Targaryen raising his three dragons Viserion, Rhaegal and Drogon Eggs into almost unstoppable killing machines. The three players should play an important role in the eighth season of Game of Thrones.

Last week, HBO announced the date of the first season of the last season of Game of Thrones. Last month, IGN announced that HBO had entrusted Naomi Watts with the lead role in The Long Night.

Nick Santangelo is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia. He loves video games and sports, but not video games. Follow on Twitter.