

And this guy fights a lot but he’s not really fussed over the trappings of nobility, so he’s going to have something really nasty and functional.” “Y’know, this guy is a very high rich lord but the sword is kind of a symbol of his office but he doesn’t really fight, so he should have something kind of stately, like an heirloom. It’s also encouraging to hear that he’s giving the props on House of the Dragon a lot of thought. “One of the many things I like about Tim’s work is that he really does think about the character that’s using the sword,” Condal said. If you listen to the full episode, you will quickly learn that Condal is a total sword dork, which I guess isn’t surprising seeing as how he has a whole podcast dedicated to props. Their topic on this episode: swords, both in general and the specific ones we’re getting on House of the Dragon, which is set around 200 years before the original show. For instance, showrunner Ryan Condal recently talked with the show’s armorer Tim Lewis on an episode of his podcast The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of, which is about movie props.


House of the Dragon, the first of several Game of Thrones series in the works at HBO (and the only one we’re guaranteed to actually see on the air) will premiere sometime in 2022, and things are getting real.
