A new Game of Thrones series trailer is here, which means the eagle-eyed fans are out in full force dissecting every detail. One such detail, prominently on display in the sneak peek at A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, is a new design for the sigil to House Targaryen.

The three-headed, two-legged dragon symbol is still there (as George R. R. Martin himself once blogged, “not four, never four”) but now its long wings extend backward and fire from one of the drake’s mouths encircles the image.

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly earlier for a New York Comic Con preview exclusive, showrunner and series co-creator Ira Parker explained the tweak.

“We know that Westeros probably looked the same 10,000 years ago as it does today. If we were to do a modern 2025 Westeros show, it’d still be knights and armor and all this sort of thing. So it doesn’t seem to be a lot of progress,” he says. “But I do think that there are artistic progresses, or at least cycles, that there is a new designer of House Targaryen doing just a little bit of a different freehand version of something. That’s really all it is. It wasn’t meant to be anything different other than this is the sigil of this specific time. Everything should feel very bespoke to our show.”

Parker says there were “a lot of conversations” with House of the Dragon showrunner Ryan Condal about two or four legs for the dragon sigil. “Obviously, that has come up before,” he acknowledges.

The author of the A Song of Ice and Fire books always envisioned the symbol of House Targaryen as a three-headed dragon with two legs. “No animal that has ever lived on Earth has six limbs,” Martin blogged in 2024. For the first seasons, the original Game of Thrones drama stayed true to that, but by the time Emilia Clarke’s Daenerys Targaryen sets sail for Westeros, she does so with ships waving a four-legged dragon banner, a design that then made its way onto House of the Dragon.

“The truth of the matter is you think you’ve seen the Targaryen sigil a lot in the original Game of Thrones, but actually it’s not in Game of Thrones that much,” Condal previously told EW. “You’ve seen it on books and Funko Pops and things like that. That was how far and high the Targaryen dynasty had fallen, that the sigil did not exist really anymore until Daenerys brought it back about. So we chose to go down a road that I think honored where Daenerys left us off versus where people think it all started.”

Parker continues: “We were talking a lot with [Condal’s] team, which is a lot of our team, as well.” (Parker began in the House of the Dragon season 1 writers’ room before heading up A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.) “We made sure that we got it right, so it has the right number of legs.”

Set decades after the events of House of the Dragon, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms tells the tale of Dunk (Peter Claffey), a former squire who goes to compete in a tourney after the hedge knight he served died. He meets a small bald-headed boy named Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell) on the road and takes him on as his squire.

The Targaryens present in this story include Bertie Carvel as Baelor Targaryen, the Prince of Dragonstone and heir to the Iron Throne; Sam Spruell as Maekar Targaryen, Baelor’s brother; Finn Bennett as Aerion Targaryen, Maekar’s more malevolent son; and Henry Ashton as Daeron Targaryen, another of Maekar’s sons who likes to drink.

“They find themselves finally without the thing that put them in power, which is such a precarious position to be in,” Parker previously told EW of the Targaryens at this particular time in Westeros. “Fifty years on from the dragons, people are starting to ask the question, ‘Well, why are we still letting them be in power?’”