Deadline reports that the network has hired Amanda Segel, writer and producer for shows like
Person of Interest, Helstrom, and
Shooter to write the project.
The project is part of HBO’s larger expansion into George R.R. Martin’s world of Westeros, and will join
Game of Thrones and the forthcoming
House of the Dragon (which is currently in production). The series is apparently about the adventures of Rhoynarian Princess Nymeria and the flight of her people to Dorne after a devastating defeat during the Second Spice War—about a thousand years before the events of
Game of Thrones. The story has been referenced in a bunch of Martin’s novels, as well as in his book