George R. R. Martin met with James Hibberd of The Hollywood Reporter at Milk of the Poppy, Martin’s medieval apothecary bar in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he shared how he was inspired to create the characters of Dunk and Egg for his Hedge Knight stories. The characters are being brought to life in the HBO series ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’. “I had the idea that I wanted to write a prequel, so I would set it before ‘Game of Thrones’ started. And I wanted to write it about a tournament. I’ll set this entire one around a tournament,” Martin said. “One thing or another, Dunk and Egg came from somewhere. I had to figure out who starred in this. This story and the characters Dunk and Egg really came alive on me.”