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Lauren Milici

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode 5 explained: What is the Blackfyre Rebellion?

Finn Bennett as Aerion Targaryen in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

We have just one episode left of Game of Thrones spin-off A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and things are looking pretty bittersweet for our favorite hedge knight.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode 5 gave us our first look at the Blackfyre Rebellion, depicting the bleak aftermath of the impossibly brutal war. Though the war is regarded as important in the books, we've only seen a quick nod to it in Game of Thrones itself – in which a season 1 scene involving Ned Stark sees him reading the book Lineages of the Great Houses and sees an entry for Daemon Blackfyre.

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