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'Game of Thrones' Season 8 preview: George RR Martin's 'Fire and Blood' adds to Gendry's already royal bloodline

This little bastard son of King Robert Baratheon has finally come to terms with his newly-learned royal lineage

Gendry Baratheon has been a fan-favorite character ever since viewers first laid eyes on this skilled blacksmith in season 1, where we saw Ned Stark admiring a helmet he crafted. After King Robert’s death, and being the last remaining bastard son of King Robert Baratheon, Gendry was quickly hustled out of King’s Landing to evade a culling of King Robert's illegitimate sons and daughters.

The culling was carried out in order for Cersei to claim the throne through her puppet son, Joffery, and make sure no one else is there to contest his claim. Gendry had no idea that his hasty exit from the kingdom was due to being as a descendant of Robert’s, and ran away to the join the Night’s Watch. He was a pretty prominent character from seasons 1 through 3.