Mallory Rubin
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Podcast Appearances
And you might be wondering on the name front, Baelor.
In case anyone who is a Game of Thrones enthusiast is like, Baelor, like Sept of Baelor or Baelor, the famous season one episode.
No, he is named for Baelor the Blessed, Baelor the First, who the Sept was named after.
And then, of course, the Thrones episode is named for the Sept.
So different Baelors, different Danes.
They should just name a kid.
Yeah, never shamed himself.
And Plummer's like.
It's not.
I think that tells us more about Baylor than it tells us about Dunk because the Lord of Casterly Rock is not a hard person to know.
Yeah, it's like who won the World Series last year.
It's not like Mallory Rock rattling off.
It's like, it's one more way to show us that the, like you said, the warmth and the kind of like generosity and the hospitable welcome.
The fact that like, what is the reason that Dunk is in that room in the first place, right?
I asked Sir Manfred, he told me to fuck off.
By the way, on the like, is that a hard thing to know?
Part of how in the novella, Dunk tries to convince Sir Manfred is like rattling off the history of how House Dondarrion got the sigil.
And he's like, anyone could know that.
Like a thing that anyone could know is not definitionally impressive, but Balor wants Dunk to be able to do this.
He calls him sir easily.