9/25/2023 0 Comments Conquest and rebellionImagine the King's surprise a fortnight later when he saw not stags, but lions outside his gates. Varys: With Rhaegar's defeat, nothing stood between Robert and King's Landing. His hammer shattered my brother's armor, and its rubies fell into the river like raindrops, vanishing in the current. On the banks of the Trident, my brother fought the man whose wife he had stolen, and who fought to steal his birthright in return. Rhaegar himself would lead the royal army against the usurper, Robert. He persuaded our father to summon his estranged friend, Lord Tywin Lannister, the richest and most powerful lord in the realm. Viserys Targaryen: While my father's servants were losing my father's kingdoms, my brother Rhaegar had been cooped up with his.Mistress? Whore? Whatever else, I'd call her a distraction.īut now Rhaegar came to his senses and returned to King's Landing. Only a fortnight later, both men rushed back into the field, for the dragon had finally woken. To celebrate and cement the Tully alliance, our father wed our mother, Catelyn, and Jon Arryn took our aunt, Lysa. Together, they routed the Hand's army and rescued Robert. Hearing of Robert's plight, our father and Jon Arryn had rushed to the Riverlands and enlisted our grandfather, Hoster Tully, to help them. Sansa Stark: The Hand of the King finally cornered Robert in the town of the Stoney Sept and sent his soldiers door-to-door, searching for the rebel leader.īut the villagers hated the Mad King and loved Robert, and kept him one step ahead of the soldiers until only one refuge remained.Īs the soldiers closed in, all the town bells rang out. Ned Stark slipped past royalist sentries and raised the North, and Robert won three battles in a single day to unite the Stormlands behind them, only to be defeated by a royalist army and forced to flee, leaving his home of Storm's End besieged. Instead, Jon Arryn raised the Vale in revolt. Varys: Unsatisfied with only two murders, the Mad King then ordered Jon Arryn, Lord of the Vale, to execute his two wards, Robert Baratheon and Eddard Stark. When Lyanna's father and eldest brother demanded justice, the Mad King obliged, laughing as he dispensed it. But then Rhaegar proved as mad as his father and snatched Lyanna Stark, daughter of the Warden of the North and betrothed to Robert Baratheon, Lord of the Stormlands. We endured his reign because we hoped his son Rhaegar would ride the rail when he ascended to the throne. But as he grew older, he began to see conspirators everywhere, and where there were none, he worked to create them.Īs one of his Kingsguard, I saw firsthand that a king who couldn't rule his own mind couldn't rule Seven Kingdoms. Jaime Lannister: As the saying goes, "Every time a Targaryen is born, the gods flip a coin." They must have dropped the one for King Aerys, for at first, he seemed to have dodged the family madness. Ultimately, without our dragons and with our blood diluted by commoners, we failed to see the greatest threat growing under our noses. Until finally, Ser Barristan the Bold, Knight of the Kingsguard, slew Maelys the Monstrous in the War of the Ninepenny Kings, ending the last of the Blackfyre line. When their sons failed, their grandsons tried. One of my foolish ancestors didn't see what separated his bastards from our family proper and legitimized them all on his deathbed.Īdopting the name " Blackfyre," the bastards proved their nature and tried to seize their father's kingdom. But even without our dragons, we were still the blood of Old Valyria, which proved just as dangerous. Thanks to her stupidity, most of our dragons died, though one thankfully ate her before it did. In a Dance of Dragons, a Targaryen princess tried to steal her brother's throne. With Dorne in the fold, and the Faith put in its place, none in Westeros were left to oppose my family, so we started opposing each other. My ancestor Maegor the Wise, or Maegor the Cruel as men slander him, put a bounty on the head of every militant priest, and miraculously the Faith soon returned to the septs. Though no one could explain where the divine Mother and Father had come from. When Aegon died, the High Septon led the Faith and its army in revolt, claiming that the Valyrian tradition of wedding brother to sister was an abomination in the eyes of the Seven. Nobles learned to keep their eyes down, but the gods weren't used to sharing the heavens. Viserys Targaryen: After the Conquest, when men looked up, they saw dragons. Viserys Targaryen, Jaime Lannister, Sansa Stark, and Varys reveal the fate of House Targaryen.
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