Aemon Targaryen
Maekar's third son, gentle and clever, sent to the Citadel to forge a maester's chain of his own free will. A very long road is ahead of him ÔÇö most of it, one day, in black.
A soul of House Targaryen, born at Summerhall.
The fuller tale
How it ends for them
The chronicle records no death for this soul ÔÇö they are living when the tale leaves them, or their ending is a page the maesters have yet to turn.
Their chapters, book by book
Where the page and the screen part
Aemon has not yet appeared in the showÔÇÖs aired episodes, and The Hedge Knight itself gives him only glancing mention as MaekarÔÇÖs absent third son. His fuller story belongs to material the novellas leave mostly implied ÔÇö but viewers of the original Game of Thrones series already met an elderly Maester Aemon at Castle Black, played by Peter Vaughan, decades before this prequel was ever announced, which gives A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms an unusual opportunity: should a future season dramatize his path to the Wall, it would be closing a loop the franchise opened years before this show existed.
Their journey
Where the two tellings send them to the same place the road runs whole; where they part, the screen keeps the left and the books the right.