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  • The War of the Ninepenny Kings: War erupts when the Band of Nine, including Maelys Blackfyre, after having conquered the Free City of Tyrosh and the Stepstones, begin to move towards the Seven Kingdoms. King Jaehaerys calls his banners to bring the attack to the Stepstones. Barristan Selmy kills Maelys. Brynden Tully distinguishes himself in the war. Prince Aerys Targaryen is knighted by Ser Tywin Lannister. Hand of the King, Ormund Baratheon was one of the first to be killed in the altercation, slain by Maelys. Ormund died in the arms of his son and heir, Ser Steffon.
  • Rains of Castamere: Emboldened by his recent military experience in the War of the Ninepenny Kings, young Tywin Lannister puts down the Reyne Rebellion to restore Lannister dominance over the Westerlands and has any surviving Reynes - man, woman, and child - put to the sword as an example to any bannermen who would dare challenge Casterly Rock again. The eradication of House Reyne is the first major step in the return to glory of House Lannister, in which Tywin almost singlehandedly rebuilt the fortunes and strength of his House. Impressed with Tywin's ruthlessness, Aerys II Targaryen appoints him as his new Hand of the King. Tywin continues to ably serve in this position for nearly twenty years, during which the Seven Kingdoms and the Lannisters, in particular, enjoy peace and prosperity.

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Alyn Hunt Courtenay Greenhill Xhabo Duna

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Bethally Cuy Edmure Tully Erren Florent

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Cersei Lannister Coran Bronn Jaime Lannister Manfrey Martell

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Gallard

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Denyse Redwyne Hobber Redwyne Horas Redwyne Hosman Norcross

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Leo Blackbar Olene Blackbar Yacio

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Alysanne Ambrose Parmen Crane Tyrion Lannister

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Armen Jessar Shermer Lia Bulwer Rhonda Hightower Trent Bulwer

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Gunthor Hightower Madeleyne Mullendore Omer Yara Greyjoy

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Desmera Redwyne Mark Mullendore

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  • Cracks begin to appear in Aerys's demeanor. He refuses to marry his son Rhaegar to Tywin's daughter Cersei, instead he has Rhaegar marry Princess Elia Martell of Dorne. Aerys becomes paranoid over some talk in the castle that Tywin is the true ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. His behavior becomes even more unstable, such as having Ser Ilyn Payne's tongue ripped out with hot pincers when he was overheard whispering (accurately) that Tywin was the real man holding the realm together at this point.

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Humfrey Hightower Jaramy Harlaw

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Jessilyn

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Elyn Shermer Lorent Caswell

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Camren Florent Hugh Beesbury Jeyne Hightower

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Baynard Norcross Harris Bulwer Merrell Florent

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  • Defiance of Duskendale: When Lord Darklyn of Duskendale refuses to pay his taxes, Aerys resolves to crush the problem himself without Tywin's aid. Unfortunately, the situation gets out of control and Aerys is imprisoned for several months in Duskendale before Tywin and Barristan Selmy assault the castle and rescue him. The Darklyns are burned alive for their treachery. Later historians claim that the Defiance of Duskendale marked the beginning of the end for Aerys's sanity. Aerys refuses to allow blades in his presence anymore (except those of his Kingsguard), developing a deranged appearance with uncut and filthy hair hanging to his waist, and uncut fingernails growing several inches long.
  • Young Cersei Lannister and her companion Melara Hetherspoon visit a woods-witch called Maggy in the forests around Casterly Rock, whom Cersei asks to foretell her future at the royal court.

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Beony Frey Celesse Bulwer

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  • King Aerys II Targaryen's wife Queen Rhaella give birth to their second son, Viserys III Targaryen.

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Allyria Dayne Marlo Ruslan Redwyne

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Zakary

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  • Great Tourney of Harrenhal: In a year of false spring, the Great Tourney at Harrenhal was the largest tournament held in the history of Westeros. Hosted by Lord Walter Whent, the tourney proved fateful for the future of the Seven Kingdoms, as Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen crowned Lyanna Stark the Queen of Love and Beauty at the end, forsaking his wife Elia Martell and leading to Robert's Rebellion.
  • Hand Down: Lord Tywin Lannister is enraged when Aerys names his son Jaime to the Kingsguard, disinheriting him as Tywin's heir in favor of his ugly, misshapen younger brother, Tyrion. Furious, Tywin resigns the Handship and returns to Casterly Rock.

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  • "Abduction" of Lyanna Stark: Prince Rhaegar Targaryen abducted Lyanna Stark for reasons unknown at the time, hiding her away in Dorne. This caused enormous scandal as Lyanna was the daughter of Rickard Stark, Warden of the North and Lord of Winterfell, and was betrothed to Robert Baratheon, Lord of Storm's End and Lord Paramount of the Stormlands. Rhaegar himself was already married to Princess Elia Martell, with whom he had a daughter and a son, Rhaenys and Aegon. Unknown to any but the High Septon at the time, the Prince's guard and the couple themselves, Prince Rhaegar and Lyanna Stark were secretly married and honeymoon in Dorne at the Tower of Joy.
  • Stark Execution: After Lyanna's abduction, her older brother Brandon was enraged and rode to King's Landing demanding the release of his sister and the death of Rhaegar. Aerys arrested him for treason and called for his father to come to the capital to ransom him. When Lord Rickard complied, Aerys, now utterly mad, arrested him for treason as well. Lord Rickard demanded a trial by combat, and Aerys declared "fire" the champion of the House Targaryen. He had Lord Rickard suspended from the rafters of the throne room while pyromancers lit ablaze beneath him. As he burned, Brandon was brought into the throne room, a leather cord attached to a strangulation device was wrapped around his neck. Aerys told Brandon his father was a dead man but there was a chance to save him. A longsword was placed on the floor just out of Brandon's reach, and the more he struggled to reach it, the more the cord tightened around his throat. Brandon Stark strangled himself trying to free his father, who was roasted alive in his own armor. The entire court stood and watched this atrocity take place, Ser Jaime Lannister and the Kingsguard among them.
  • In response to the king's murder of Rickard and Brandon Stark, the new Lord of Winterfell, Eddard Stark, raises the banners of the North. Robert Baratheon, Lord of Storm's End and betrothed to Lyanna, joins the rebellion, raising the banners of the Stormlands. Lord Jon Arryn of the Vale, a mentor to both Robert and Eddard, does the same.
  • Battles of Summerhall: The Battle of Summerhall was one of the first battles of Robert's Rebellion. It was actually three battles in a single day, all three won by Robert Baratheon, then Lord of Storm's End. The battles were to quell those of his bannermen in the Stormlands that were royalists: House Grandison, House Fell, and House Cafferen. Afterward, Robert marched on Ashford in the Reach, where he would experience his only defeat, leaving his brother, Stannis Baratheon, to hold Storm's End.
  • Battle of Ashford: Instead of going north to join his allies of the Vale and Northmen, Robert Baratheon marched west to lay siege to Ashford in the Reach. The Tyrell vanguard lead by Randyll Tarly repelled Robert's forces and the rebels withdrew. It was the only defeat the rebel side suffered in the entire war against House Targaryen and its allies.
  • Siege of Storm's End: Robert's defeat and retreat from Ashford in the Reach angered the Tyrells. Mace Tyrell decided to allow Tywin Lannister to handle the retreating forces while he took the Reach's Army to Storm's End. The siege lasts an entire year and happens concurrently with the rest of the rebellion's battles.
  • Battle of the Bells: After his defeat at Ashford, Robert fled north to the town of Stoney Sept, in the Riverlands, chased by forces loyal to King Aerys II Targaryen. When the loyalist army arrived, the bells of the local sept tolled, signaling the townsfolk to take refuge, and giving the battle its name. The loyalists ineffectively searched for Lord Robert from house to house until they were surprised by the combined army of House Stark, House Tully, and House Arryn. The rebels defeated the loyalist forces, who rally under Ser Jonothor Darry and flee to The Trident.
    • Lord Jon Connington is stripped of lands, wealth, title and exiled to Essos by the Mad King for failing to defeat the rebels.
  • Double Wedding: Lord Hoster Tully of Riverrun, who had planned to marry his daughter Catelyn to Brandon Stark, instead agrees to marry her to Eddard in exchange for his support in the war. In addition, Hoster marries his second daughter Lysa to Jon Arryn to shore up the alliance. All four are wed in a double marriage ceremony at Riverrun before the rebel armies depart once again.
  • Battle of the Trident: The two forces clashed directly on the Trident. The battle was not in favor of either side until Prince Rhaegar Targaryen was slain by Lord Robert Baratheon during the battle, resulting in a crucial and critical victory for the rebel forces. Rhaegar was killed at a fork in the river from a swing by Robert's war hammer, smashing the rubies from Rhaegar's armor with his killing stroke. This led to the site becoming known as the Ruby Ford.
    • Dorne lost all the 10,000 troops they sent to support the Targaryen army including Prince Lewyn Martell himself.
    • Robert himself was also moderately injured in the fighting. Many privately think this was the beginning of the change in the Lord. When he went from fierce strong warrior to sloven king.
    • Ser Barristan Selmy was severely injured and captured. Lord Roose Bolton counseled Robert after the battle to execute Ser Barristan, but Robert overruled him and not only pardoned Selmy, but sent his personal maester to treat the grave injuries of Ser Barristan, recognizing the knight's courage and loyalty despite being on the enemy force.
    • Deciding Factor: With Rhaegar dead, lords who had been undecided about which side to join now abandon the Mad King.
  • Dragon Hide-Away: Realizing that rebel victory is imminent, King Aerys sends his remaining young son Viserys and his pregnant wife Queen Rhaella to the safety of the ancestral Targaryen fortress, Dragonstone Island. When his heir and wife are safely outside of the city the King has the Alchemist Guild spread out their stores of wildfire beneath the city.
  • Sacking of King's Landing: Lord Tywin Lannister's army arrives at King's Landing allegedly to defend the city, but once the gates are opened they brutally sack the city.
    • Kingslayer: While his father was sacking the city the Aerys II is killed by Jaime Lannister, his own Kingsguard, for which Jaime becomes known as "the Kingslayer".
    • Brutality: Most of the king's loyal retainers and those family members who had not fled to Dragonstone also perished including, infamously, Rhaegar's wife Elia Martell and their two children at the hands of Lannister bannerman, Ser Gregor Clegane.
    • Late to the "Party": As Robert had been wounded in his battle with Rhaegar, Ned Stark led the rebel forces to take King's Landing from Aerys, but they arrived after the sacking had taken place and the royal family murdered. Horrified at such a treasonous way to win the war, Ned demanded that Tywin and Gregor be punished for their crimes. However, much to Ned's dismay, Robert refused to punish them, as his immense hatred for the Targaryens overcame his sense of justice, and to his shame, Robert knew that his claim to the Iron Throne would have been threatened by the children's survival.
  • Thin Dragon's Blood: With a Targaryen Grandmother and being the major force of the rebellion, Robert Baratheon, is proclaimed King of the Seven Kingdoms.

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Mikael Cuy Samwell

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  • Rescue of Storm's End: The siege by Tyrell forces against Robert's seat of Storm's End lasted an entire year and happened concurrently with the rest of the rebellion's battles finally comes to an end. True to his orders, Stannis resisted and refused to yield despite being forced to eat the horses, cats, and dogs of the castle, and eventually even rats and glue. Stannis was able to keep his wife barely fed by killing seagulls with a bow whenever he had the chance. If it weren't for the smuggler Davos, who managed to get salt fish and onions secretly through to those trapped in Storm's End, they would have surely all starved to death. Meanwhile, the Tyrell army feasted in full view of the castle walls to taunt the besieged garrison. By the time Ned Stark arrived with his rebel army at Storm's End, Prince Rhaegar was dead and his army smashed at the Battle of the Trident. King Aerys II Targaryen was also dead and King's Landing was sacked and in rebel hands. With the war clearly lost, Mace Tyrell gave no battle to Stark when his army arrived to lift the siege. Instead, he peacefully dipped his banners and submitted them to Robert's rule.
  • The Kraken: Theon Greyjoy is born, the third son of Balon Greyjoy. (March 24)
  • Showdown at the Tower of Joy: At the Red Mountains of Dorne, Ned Stark and a small group of bannermen fought Ser Gerold along with his last remaining sworn brother, Ser Arthur Dayne. Hightower was bested and killed by Ned early on in the fight, and with the Sword of the Morning slicing down the rest of the Northmen, what began as a ferocious melee rapidly boiled down to a tense duel between Dayne and Ned Stark, in which Dayne eventually gained the upper hand and disarmed the Northerner, only for Dayne to be impaled from behind by Howland Reed and later executed by Stark. Ultimately, only Howland Reed and Ned Stark survived the fight, with Reed being severely wounded by Dayne.
    • The White Wolf is Born: Jon Snow (aka Aegon Targaryen) is born (October 28). After killing Dayne, Ned entered the Tower and found his sister, Lyanna Stark, lying in a bed and bleeding massively from a cut in her abdomen. Ned calls the present maids for help but Lyanna stops him and whispers in his ear. She makes him keep one last promise to her: keep her newborn son safe and protect him from the wrath of Robert Baratheon, who had developed a hatred for everyone carrying Targaryen blood, which would soon include her child, Rhaegar's son. Lyanna whispers that her son's name is Aegon Targaryen before passing away, leaving Ned to return to Winterfell with her body and son, presenting him as his own bastard, Jon Snow.
  • Royal Wedding: After learning of the death of Lyanna Stark, Robert Baratheon's betrothed, he then marries Cersei Lannister to further cement the alliance that formed after the Sacking of King's Landing with her father. (November 20).
  • Stormborn: On Dragonstone, Queen Rhaella dies giving birth to her daughter, Daenerys, several months (November 22) after her father died in the fall of King's Landing. During her birth, a great storm wrecks what is left of the Targaryen fleet anchored at Dragonstone, for which she is named "Daenerys Stormborn".

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Tanton Fossoway Theon Greyjoy

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  • Assault on Dragonstone: Stannis Baratheon led the Royal fleet aboard the Fury to capture Prince Viserys and Princess Daenerys Targaryen. However, before he arrived, Ser Willem Darry, one of the last Targaryen loyalists, smuggled the two children across the Narrow Sea. The remaining garrison simply surrendered when Stannis arrived. For his failure, Robert makes Stannis the Lord of Dragonstone. Renly Baratheon is then made Lord of Storm's End. While Stannis takes it as a great slight, Robert covers the sting claiming that it is the traditional holding of the heir of the throne, so it's an honor.
  • The Young Wolf is Born: Robb Stark is born (March 13), the first son and child of Eddard Stark and Catelyn Tully. Ned Stark finally arrives home to Winterfell shortly after the birth. It breaks Catelyn's heart when she is then introduced to Ned's newborn bastard, Jon Snow. Ned Stark kept the secret of Jon's true identity even from Catelyn. It created a rift in their new relationship, but eventually, Ned earned back her trust.
  • A Prince is Born, a Prince Dies: Queen Cersei Lannister gives birth to a black-haired Prince (October 10). They name the baby Steffon, for Robert's Father, but the baby dies of a fever soon after he was born. The babies death is destructive to Cersei and Robert's relationship. The baby is the only trueborn child of Robert and Cersei.
  • "Horned" King A couple of months after the death of their child, Robert and Cersei are near mad with grief and Robert's philandering lecherous ways peak and he is not very shy about bedding his cousin when he brings Cersei to the Stormlands to meet the family. When Jaime offers to kill Robert for Cersei she declines and instead focuses their bitter anger towards Robert in cuckolding him in return and together the twin siblings conceive Joffrey. Robert is none the wiser.

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Denys Redwyne Eiris Flowers Gendry Baratheon

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  • Queen Cersei Lannister gives birth to Prince Joffrey (September 10). The boy is not actually Robert's son, but a bastard of incest fathered by Cersei's own twin brother Jaime. Her next two children will also secretly be fathered by Jaime.

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Alleras Alyce Graceford Chass Blackbar Meadow Cuy Missy Pate Talla Tarly Tarla

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  • Princess Myrcella Lannister is born (August 7). She is not actually Robert's daughter, but a bastard of incest fathered by Cersei's own twin brother Jaime Lannister.

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Ami Gilly Hura Sansa Stark Sunyi Lian

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Alyn Ambrose Lyam Hightower Mollander Rosey

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Roone

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Arya Stark Falia Flowers Tommen Baratheon

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  • Bran Stark is born.

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Bran Stark Claryce Blackbar "White Walda" Frey Wanda Mullendore

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  • The Greyjoy Rebellion - Lord Balon Greyjoy leads a rebellion against King Robert's reign, attempting to secede the Iron Islands from the rest of the realm. After several months of furious fighting in the Westerlands and Riverlands, King Robert's forces push the Ironborn back to Pyke and storm the castle. Balon capitulates and surrenders his only surviving son, Theon, as hostage and ward to ensure his good behavior. Robert instructs Eddard Stark to take Theon under his wing.
  • Following spring, a long summer officially begins, which will last for another ten years, only ending in 299 AL. It is the longest summer in living memory.
  • Robin Arryn, called "Sweetrobin" by his mother, is born. He is the only living child of Jon Arryn and Lysa Tully.

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Alester Norcross Joss Blackbar Maranda Mullendore

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Fiyona Renly Trentyn Bulwer

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Miriam Flowers

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  • Rickon Stark is born.

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Baylee Bulwer Kyllan Flowers

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Corden Cuy Harrison Bulwer Lanei Hightower Sarra Frey Serra Frey

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Cersei Frey

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  • Magister Illyrio Mopatis of Pentos invites Viserys and Daenerys Targaryen to stay in his manse and offers to help them reclaim their throne.

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Elma Bulwer

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  • Jon Arryn is poisoned. Eddard Stark is appointed to replace him as Hand of the King. At King's Landing, Stark discovers the secret Jon Arryn learned: none of Queen Cersei Lannister's three children are Robert's, but are all bastard products of incest with her own twin brother, Ser Jaime Lannister. King Robert Baratheon is killed in a boar hunt, secretly assassinated at the order of Queen Cersei Lannister by slipping him overly strong wine during the hunt, so he would not live to learn of Cersei's betrayal from Stark. Cersei's eldest son Joffrey Baratheon is crowned king as Robert's alleged heir. Eddard Stark attempts a counter-coup in support of Robert's lawful heir Stannis Baratheon, but he is betrayed to the Lannisters by Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish and Janos Slynt. Lannister plans to manipulate Lord Stark into declaring support for Joffrey in exchange for being allowed to leave with his life by joining the Night's Watch go horribly awry when, on the steps of the Great Sept of Baelor, the crazed King Joffrey instead orders Eddard Stark to be immediately beheaded.
  • The Seven Kingdoms become engulfed in the massive civil war known as the War of the Five Kings. Robb Stark is declared King in the North by his bannermen, seeking vengeance for his father's murder. He is joined by the lords of Riverlands, sworn to his mother's family, House Tully, and attempts to secede from the Iron Throne. Both of the younger Baratheon brothers, Stannis and Renly declare themselves king, challenging Joffrey's legitimacy. Stannis initially only controls the islands of Blackwater Bay ruled from Dragonstone, as well as much of the Royal Fleet. Renly enters into a marriage-alliance with House Tyrell, and is supported by the combined might of the Stormlands and the Reach. House Arryn of the Vale and House Martell of Dorne declare their neutrality.
  • Daenerys Targaryen marries Khal Drogo in Pentos, securing the Targaryen exiles their first real chance of gaining an army with which to reconquer the Seven Kingdoms. Viserys Targaryen is executed by Khal Drogo in Vaes Dothrak. Drogo succumbs to an infected wound along with betrayal by Mirri Maz Duur. At the edge of the Dothraki Sea and Lhazar, at Drogo's funeral pyre, Daenerys uses "fire and blood" to successfully hatch three live dragons.
  • Rumors begin to reach the Night's Watch that demonic forces are stirring beyond the Wall, with wildlings and even some of their own Rangers giving crazed reports of seeing the White Walkers. Jon Snow and Samwell Tarly join the Night's Watch. A wight attacks Lord Commander Jeor Mormont at Castle Black, prompting him to decide to lead an expedition of three hundred men north of the Wall.
  • Battle of the Golden Tooth: Leading a host of 30,000 troops from the Westerlands Ser Jaime Lannister is ordered to attack the Riverlands by his father Tywin Lannister. The assault is intended as retribution for the abduction of Tyrion Lannister by Catelyn Stark, a daughter of House Tully, the ruling house of the Riverlands. The Riverlords gathered to defend themselves at the Golden Tooth, where they were defeated by Jaime's forces and retreated to the regional capital of Riverrun.
  • Siege of Riverrun: After defeating the Riverlords at the Golden Tooth, The Lannister host keep laying siege on Riverrun until Jaime's host is lured away and defeated in the Battle of the Whispering Wood, while the remaining Lannister force is defeated at the Battle of the Camps.

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  • Rumors begin to reach the Night's Watch that demonic forces are stirring beyond the Wall, with wildlings and even some of their own Rangers giving crazed reports of seeing the White Walkers. Jon Snow and Samwell Tarly join the Night's Watch. A wight attacks Lord Commander Jeor Mormont at Castle Black, prompting him to decide to lead an expedition of three hundred men north of the Wall.
  • The War of the Five Kings drags on. King Robb Stark invades the Westerlands to further bleed the Lannisters. The Baratheon brothers parley in the Stormlands but refuse to combine their strength. Heavily outnumbered, Stannis has his ally the Red Priestess Melisandre summon a magical shadow-creature to assassinate Renly in his tent the night before their armies would have clashed. The lords of the Stormlands rally to Stannis as the sole remaining Baratheon heir, but the Tyrells and their vassals withdraw back to the Reach. Balon Greyjoy decides to opportunistically use the war as a chance to secede the Iron Islands from the Iron Throne, but instead of allying against the Lannisters, House Greyjoy goes for the low-hanging fruit by attacking the North while Robb's army is in the south (in the hope that the Lannisters will reward them by confirming their independence). Winterfell is sacked and later burned. Stannis uses his newfound army from the Stormlands to mount a massive direct assault on King's Landing in the Battle of Blackwater Bay; ultimately due to Tyrion's wildfire trap and the arrival of reinforcements under Lord Tywin Lannister, Stannis' fleet is crushed and his army all but destroyed, yet he barely manages to escape back to Dragonstone with his life. Baelish brokers an alliance between House Tyrell and House Lannister, sealed by the betrothal of Margaery Tyrell to King Joffrey. Further marriage alliances are made of Myrcella Baratheon with Trystane Martell, and Baelish with Lysa Arryn, which also bring Dorne and the Vale back into the Lannister fold (though they do not send troops to march in battle). Robb Stark breaks his promised marriage-alliance with House Frey by marrying Talisa Maegyr.
  • By the time of the death of King Renly Baratheon, it has been eighteen years since Robert's Rebellion, indicating a year or more has passed since the events of the series began.
  • Daenerys Targaryen crosses the Red Waste and arrives in Qarth. She later flees the Warlocks of Qarth who desire control of her dragons, and takes a ship bound west.
  • Lord Commander Mormont's Great Ranging north of the Wall reaches the Fist of the First Men. Jon Snow joins Qhorin Halfhand in scouting out the main wildling camp of King-Beyond-the-Wall Mance Rayder in the Frostfang Mountains. Jon encounters the wildling spearwife Ygritte, but he and Qhorin are later captured. Qhorin convinces Jon to kill him to convince the wildlings that he intends to defect, so Jon can infiltrate Mance Rayder's army from within.

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  • Talisa states in Robb Stark's army camp as he leaves Riverrun for the Twins that the War of the Five Kings has lasted two years now (reinforcing the general principle that one TV season equals one year within the story continuity).
  • King Robb Stark withdraws from the Westerlands and returns to the Riverlands, his strategic objectives having failed. Robb's grandfather Lord Hoster Tully dies after a long illness, and Robb returns with much of his army to Riverrun. Having secured the south through their victory at the Battle of the Blackwater and through various marriage alliances, for a time the Lannisters focus on consolidating their now very strong position in the war. This leads to a lull in major operations in the war, as Robb's strategic plans have failed and Tywin is content to patiently strengthen his position. The Lannisters switch to a new strategy of offering no battle to Robb's army, as they can afford to wait him out, and it would be a pointless waste to give Robb another opportunity for a disproportionate tactical victory like at Whispering Wood and Oxcross.
  • Lord Rickard Karstark kills two unarmed Lannister squires held at Riverrun, Tywin's own nephews Martyn and Willem Lannister, as petty vengeance for the loss of his own sons in the war. In response Robb Stark personally beheads Lord Karstark for treason, against the advice of his counselors, resulting in the forces of House Karstark abandoning his already dwindling and outnumbered army. King Robb decides that his only remaining option is to make an all-or-nothing assault against Casterly Rock in the west, as the bulk of Lannister-Tyrell forces are deployed in the east to defend King's Landing. However, this will require winning back the support of House Frey after breaking his promise to enter into a marriage-alliance with one of Walder Frey's daughters. As a replacement, the Freys insist that Robb's uncle Edmure Tully marry Lord Walder's daughter Roslin Frey.
  • Robb Stark, Catelyn Stark, and almost the entire Northern army are massacred at the Twins at the wedding feast of Edmure and Roslin, which becomes known as the Red Wedding. Robb and his army are betrayed by his own bannermen, House Frey and House Bolton. Lord Walder Frey directly violates guest right in the betrayal, killing men who were officially guests in his home and ate at his own table, breaking the most sacred laws of gods and men. Lord Roose Bolton personally kills the wounded Robb Stark, driving a sword through his heart. As a final insult, the Freys and Boltons horrifically desecrate Robb Stark's corpse by decapitating it and then sewing the head of his direwolf Grey Wind onto his body in its place. Lord Tywin Lannister was a secret accomplice in the massacre, as Walder Frey and Roose Bolton would never have dared to violate guest right unless they were promised protection and rewards. The Lannisters install House Bolton as the new rulers of the North to replace House Stark, while the Freys will displace the Tullys in the Riverlands.
  • Daenerys Targaryen arrives at Astapor in Slaver's Bay in search of an army with which to reclaim the Seven Kingdoms. She tricks the slavers and with the aid of her growing dragons, seizes control of an army of 8,000 Unsullied warrior-eunuchs. Daenerys frees the elite slave-soldiers but they all agree to fight for her. After sacking Astapor, the new Targaryen army advances on Yunkai.
  • The Night's Watch faces the White Walkers in combat for the first time in 8,000 years at the disastrous Battle of the Fist of the First Men, where their main base camp is ambushed by White Walkers leading their hordes of undead wights. Out of three hundred men, consisting of most of the Watch's high-ranking officers and best fighters, only a few dozen men led by Lord Commander Mormont are able to fight their way out, and retreat back to Craster's Keep. Deteriorating conditions there lead to the Mutiny at Craster's Keep in which Mormont himself is killed by his own men, while loyalists and betrayers turn on each other in the confusion. Samwell Tarly escapes the carnage with Craster's daughter-wife Gilly, and attempts to flee with her back to Castle Black. On the way Sam is confronted by a White Walker, but becomes the first man in thousands of years to kill one of the demonic beings when he stabs it with a dragonglass dagger he found at the Fist of the First Men, in the process discovering their vital weakness to the substance. Jon Snow meets Mance Rayder and gains his trust, and is sent with a scouting party led by Tormund to scale the Wall. They successfully pass over to the south side, and intend to attack Castle Black from its undefended rear to distract its small garrison while Mance's main army assaults the Wall directly.

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  • King Joffrey Baratheon is assassinated with poisoned wine at his own wedding. Tyrion Lannister is arrested on the false accusation of involvement in the plot to poison Joffrey. Sansa Stark finally escapes King's Landing, carried away on a ship by Petyr Baelish.
  • The Girl Who Should Be Queen: Myrcella Lannister and her sweet and gentle nature make her an instant favorite in House Martell. Arianne Martell, the eldest daughter of Doran Martell and his heir believes that it should be Myrcella to inherit the Iron Throne and not her younger brother Tommen. There is an attempt by Arianna and some loyal to her same ideal that tries to put Myrcella on the Throne. This plot is thwarted by her father before it turned into a whole new war and Arianna is sent off to Norvos to live with her mother.
  • Joffrey is succeeded as king by his younger brother Tommen I Baratheon, a very young boy. Much more mild-mannered and easily controlled than the crazed Joffrey, young Tommen becomes a pliable puppet king for his grandfather Tywin, who as Hand effectively becomes King in all but name.
  • House Bolton begins to consolidate Lannister rule over the North, while House Frey dominates the Riverlands - though much of this major breadbasket region has been reduced to burned-out devastation, roamed by brigands.
  • House Greyjoy and the Iron Islands continue to reject Lannister control, as does Stannis Baratheon on Dragonstone.
  • Lysa Arryn is killed by Petyr Baelish soon after marrying him, making Littlefinger the new Regent for her young son and ruler of the Vale. He is joined by a young black-haired girl named "Alayne" - secretly, a disguised Sansa Stark. It turns out that Littlefinger is the secret architect of the entire War of the Five Kings - tricking the Starks and Lannisters into fighting each other to exhaust them both (and helping Olenna poison Joffrey), while keeping the Vale's armies out of the war and at full strength, to finish off the survivors
  • After Sandor Clegane is badly injured in a fight with Brienne of Tarth, Arya Stark leaves him for dead by the highway. She then arrives at the eastern coast, and uses the special coin that Jaqen H'ghar gave her to obtain passage on a ship to the Free City of Braavos, across the Narrow Sea.
  • Despite the Lannisters' apparent victory, substantial spending on the war has only exacerbated the crown's already massive debts, leading to tensions with the Iron Bank of Braavos.
  • Oberyn Martell is killed in a trial by combat with Ser Gregor Clegane, but not before stabbing Gregor multiple times with a blade coated in deadly manticore venom.
  • Tywin Lannister is killed by his own son Tyrion Lannister, shot with a crossbow while he sat on the privy. Tyrion and Varys flee to the Free Cities. Cersei becomes the new head of House Lannister.
  • Daenerys Targaryen's growing army arrives at the last and greatest of the three major cities in Slaver's Bay, Meereen. Her forces capture the city and she sets herself up as its new ruling Queen. After hearing of Joffrey's assassination, Daenerys and her advisors briefly consider if the time is right to mount an invasion of the Seven Kingdoms. However, after Daenerys's army leaves, the slave-masters retake Yunkai, while a tyrant named Clean overthrows the council she left behind in Astapor to make himself its new emperor. With the population of Slaver's Bay thrown into chaos, and with an invasion of Westeros still a daunting task (given that her dragons are not yet big enough to ride), Daenerys decides to remain in Meereen and consolidate her position. Daenerys exiles Jorah Mormont when she discovers that he had previously been spying on her for Robert Baratheon (though his loyalty later became genuine).
  • Advanced wildling raiding parties scale over the Wall to pillage the Gift, to distract the Night's Watch as preparation for the attack by Mance Rayder's main wildling army on Castle Black itself.
  • Beyond the Wall, Bran Stark and his remaining companions finally reach the cave of the Three-Eyed Raven, who actually used to be a man and is the Last Greenseer, attended by the remaining Children of the Forest.
  • The wildling horde numbering in the tens of thousands assaults the Wall in the Battle of Castle Black. After a desperate defense, the tide is turned by the surprise appearance of Stannis Baratheon, along with most of his remaining forces, leading to a decisive victory. Many wildlings are killed or flee, and thousands are captured, including Mance Rayder. Stannis's relocation to the Wall begins a new phase in the War of the Five Kings.

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Tywin Graceford

Deaths

302

Events

  • After her father's death and her brother's flight, Queen Mother Cersei Lannister rules through her young son King Tommen Baratheon, essentially becoming Ruling Queen in all but name. She stacks the Small Council with sycophants who will not stand against her. The debt crisis comes to a head, as the Iron Bank of Braavos starts calling in its massive loans to the crown - of which the Lannisters only physically possess about one-twentieth of what they owe.
  • King Tommen marries Margaery Tyrell (and consummates the marriage), securing the Lannisters' badly-needed alliance with House Tyrell - their only major remaining source of soldiers, food, and above all money to deal with the debt crisis, now that their own armies and resources are half-exhausted from years of fighting. Queen Margaery and Queen Mother Cersei quickly enter into a bitter rivalry for control over Tommen.
  • The Sparrows arrive in King's Landing, a popular disgust religious movement reacting against the corruption of Westeros's wealthy leaders during the war. They started up in the shattered countryside over the course of the devastating conflict, but were afraid to enter the capital city directly until after Tywin died. They start by directing their anger against the corrupt leadership of the Faith of the Seven, who have grown rich and comfortable while remaining pliant puppets for the Lannisters. Cersei decides to build up a new alliance between the Crown and the Faith as a counterweight to the growing influence of the Tyrells at court. The High Septon is deposed and due to Cersei's influence the leader of the Sparrows, known as "the High Sparrow", is elected the new High Septon. Cersei subsequently attempts to bribe the High Sparrow and form a new ally against the Tyrells by granting him permission to revive the Faith Militant, the armed order of the Faith which had been abolished by the Targaryens nearly two centuries before.
  • Cersei receives a threatening message from Dorne: her daughter Myrcella's Lannister lion pendant stuffed in a wooden model of a viper's mouth. Fearing House Martell wants to take revenge over Oberyn's death, Jaime volunteers to go to Sunspear and attempt to steal her back to the capital before it is too late. Meanwhile, Ellaria Sand begs Prince Doran Martell to raise Dorne's armies in war against the Lannisters to avenge Oberyn's death, but he refuses, and forbids her to harm Myrcella. Nonetheless, Ellaria joins with three of Oberyn's daughters (the Sand Snakes) in a plot to kill Myrcella to provoke a war with the Lannisters. Both Jaime and the Sand Snakes are caught as they attempt to reach Myrcella. Doran allows Jaime to leave with Myrcella asking only that he take his son Trystane (Myrcella's betrothed) along as well, to fill the seat on the Small Council vacated by Oberyn's death.
  • The Faith Militant arrests Loras Tyrell and then Margaery Tyrell at Cersei's urging. However this soon backfires when the Faith Militant turns against Cersei herself, accurately accusing her of extramarital affairs, incest, and causing the entire war which has led to incalculable suffering among the commoners. The High Sparrow eventually releases her back to the custody of her family pending trial, but first forces her to perform a humiliating walk of atonement, walking naked through the streets of King's Landing from the Great Sept to the Red Keep.
  • Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish plots a new intrigue by offering Sansa Stark in marriage to Ramsay Bolton, to help secure their hold over the North during Stannis's oncoming attack. Littlefinger hopes this will allow her to undermine the Boltons from within. Later, he tricks Cersei by informing her of the marriage as if it was the Boltons' idea and he never knew where Sansa was - thus gaining permission to lead the Vale's fresh armies to invade the North, and finish off either Stannis or the Boltons, whichever survives the upcoming assault. This will allow Littlefinger to functionally control both the Vale and the North, without provoking a reaction from the Lannisters.
  • Stannis's army becomes snowbound as late autumn blizzard sets in. Bolton raids destroy his supply train, leaving his army without enough food to slowly march to Winterfell or retreat back to Castle Black. Their only hope is if the blizzard suddenly lets up, but there appears to be no end in sight. Feeling he is out of options, Stannis reluctantly allows Melisandre to sacrifice his daughter and only child Shireen to the Lord of Light by burning her alive.
  • In Meereen, Daenerys Targaryen's already precarious hold over the recently liberated city is beset by a protracted insurgency from the ex-slaver masters, called the Sons of the Harpy. When ex-slaves kill a captured Harpy she had promised a trial, Daenerys tries to uphold the rule of law by executing the ex-slave - but this only loses her the support of many of the former slaves who once hailed her as a liberator. The insurgency by the Sons of the Harpy escalates and in a large-scale ambush in the alleys of the city, Barristan Selmy is killed defending Grey Worm, who is severely wounded but survives. Daenerys decides that she must marry the head of one of the old slaver families, Hizdahr zo Loraq, to strengthen her political ties in the city, and agrees to lift her ban and reopen the fighting pits of Meereen.
  • Tyrion Lannister flees with Varys across the Narrow Sea to the Free City of Pentos. Varys explains to Tyrion that he is secretly a Targaryen loyalist and has been working to restore them to the throne, urging Tyrion to travel east with him to Meereen to become an advisor to Daenerys Targaryen. In Volantis, Tyrion is kidnapped by Jorah Mormont, who hopes to win back Daenerys's favor by presenting her with Tyrion as a gift - ironically, as Tyrion was already heading to Meereen to meet Daenerys. After passing through the Smoking Sea they are left shipwrecked after fighting off Stone Men, and then captured by slavers, but Tyrion talks them into selling the pair at Meereen's newly re-opened fighting pits. During an early local match, Jorah and Tyrion manage to get Daenerys's attention. Daenerys agrees to take Tyrion as an advisor, but remains angered at Jorah; Tyrion talks her down from killing him and urges her to simply exile him again.
  • Arya Stark arrives in the Free City of Braavos and begins training with the Faceless Men, a mysterious guild of shape-shifting assassins.
  • At the Wall, the victory in the Battle of Castle Black allows the Night's Watch enough breathing room to hold an election for a new Lord Commander. Alliser Thorne and Denys Mallister run, but last-minute candidate Jon Snow manages to edge out both of them, to become the 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. Jon struggles with choices about how to handle the remnants of the wildlings, the growing threat of the White Walkers, and the depredations of House Bolton, the new rulers of The North under the Lannisters. Soon before being elected Lord Commander, Stannis offered to legitimize Jon and make him the new Lord of Winterfell if he will rally the North against the Boltons, but Jon declined. Mance Rayder is sentenced to death for breaking his vows to the Night's Watch years ago - which Stannis carries out by having Melisandre burn Mance alive as an offering to the Lord of Light. This fails to frighten the surviving wildlings into submission, so eventually, Stannis departs the Wall to begin an advance on Winterfell with his remaining forces.
  • After Tormund reveals that most of the surviving wildlings have retreated back to Hardhome on the east coast, Jon ventures there with Tormund and a few black brothers by ship (Stannis's sellsail fleet, on loan to the Watch). Jon realizes that every wildling that remains beyond the Wall will become one more wight for the White Walker's growing army of the undead. Several of the wildling elders gathered at Hardhome accept Jon's offer to evacuate them, while the rest will take time to come around, but before that can happen the White Walkers launch a massive attack on the village. The resulting Massacre at Hardhome is a disaster, and Jon only manages to evacuate about 5,000 wildlings back to Castle Black.
  • In the Mutiny at Castle Black, as a sign of their lack of confidence in the Lord Commander to protect the Night's Watch, the officers carry out a murder of Lord Commander Jon Snow.
  • To celebrate her engagement to Hizdahr zo Loraq and the subsequent quieting of the unrest from the Sons of the Harpy The Great Games are held. Unknown to anyone, having just arrived to try to propose an alliance, Doran Martell's son, Quentyn Martell, never even gets an audience because he is killed in the uprising at the arena. His death was a mixture of being stabbed by a Son of the Harpy and then burned to death by Drogon's fires when the dragon returned to defend his mother. Daenerys got whisked away on the injured dragon's back towards the Dothraki Sea.

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303

Events

  • Jon Snow is resurrected. The leaders of the Mutiny at Castle Black are executed. The few remaining men of the Night's Watch now work closely with the surviving wildlings, who are personally following Jon Snow.
  • Sansa Stark reaches Castle Black just as Jon Snow decides to leave the Night's Watch. Together they set out to rally the surviving forces of the Northern vassal Houses in a new rebellion against Bolton rule. Jon and Tormund's initial force is composed of the surviving wildlings of fighting age, numbering about 2,000.
  • Roose Bolton becomes angered at son Ramsay Bolton for allowing valuable hostages to escape, and has grown increasingly disgusted with Ramsay's lack of long-term planning. The instant that news is brought to them that Roose's new wife Walda Frey has given birth to a fully legitimate male son, Ramsay kills all three of them, realizing his father was on the verge of disinheriting him for his failures.
  • Brynden "the Blackfish" Tully, who escaped from the Red Wedding, rallies the remaining forces of House Tully in the Riverlands - who scattered after the massacre but were still relatively intact. Brynden leads his forces in a quick ambush which retakes Riverrun from the light Frey garrison that held it. House Frey's hold over the rest of the Riverlands is increasingly tenuous - given that their local armies surrendered after the Red Wedding instead of being totally destroyed. House Blackwood at Raventree Hall and House Mallister at Seagard also rebel against Frey rule. The main Frey army soon surrounds Brynden at the Second Siege of Riverrun, but cannot take the castle itself, and its defiance makes them look weak. Jaime Lannister is sent into the Riverlands again with a Lannister army to aid the Freys' siege.
  • Euron Greyjoy returns to the Iron Islands and murders his own brother Balon Greyjoy.
  • Euron Greyjoy wins the Kingsmoot and is named the new King of the Iron Islands. Instead of Balon's pointless raids on the coast or his niece Yara's plans for diplomacy and consolidation, Euron announces his intention to conquer all of the Seven Kingdoms, by allying with Daenerys Targaryen. Fleeing the Kingsmoot, Yara and Theon Greyjoy steal much of the Iron Fleet with the captains that remained loyal to them and set out east hoping to reach Daenerys in Meereen before Euron can.
  • Ellaria Sand's coup in Dorne: Ellaria Sand and the Sand Snakes kill Prince Doran Martell and his son Trystane Martell, and seize power in Dorne.
  • Arya Stark continues her training with the Faceless Men in Braavos. After extensive training to rely on her other senses while blind, she is given an antidote that restores her eyesight. Eventually, her refusal to kill an assigned target who she felt didn't deserve it (as it was against her sense of honor as a Stark) leads to a fatal confrontation between Arya and the Waif, but Arya triumphs. Jaqen H'ghar is pleased with Arya's success, but she says that she will now return to Westeros to avenge her family.
  • In the aftermath of the Second Siege of Riverrun, the Lannisters and the Freys celebrate their victory at the Twins, the ancestral seat of House Frey. Jaime Lannister wonders aloud why they need the Freys, noting that the people of the Riverlands fear the Lannisters, not the Freys. Later, Walder Frey is served pie by a servant girl who is actually Arya Stark. After realizing that his two dead sons, Lothar Frey and Walder Rivers, have been carved and cooked into the pies, Arya reveals herself and slits Walder Frey's throat in retaliation for the Red Wedding.
  • The Battle at the Cave of the Three-Eyed Raven occurs. This event kills the last of the Children of the Forest. Bran Stark flees back south to the Wall with the help of Meera Reed and his uncle, Benjen Stark, who has been missing beyond the Wall for many years. Bran makes contact with a Weirwood tree, where he discovers a shocking secret kept long hidden by his late lord father, Eddard Stark: Jon Snow is not Ned Stark's bastard son, but is the son of Ned's late sister, Lyanna Stark, and the late Prince of Dragonstone, Rhaegar Targaryen. Both died during Robert's Rebellion.
  • Daenerys Targaryen is captured by the Dothraki and brought back to Vaes Dothrak to dwell with the Dosh khaleen as per their laws, but instead she starts a fire which burns all of the Dothraki khals alive in their assembly tent. She emerging from the flames unharmed, and combined with now riding the adult dragon Drogon, Daenerys awes all of the Dothraki into following her alone.
  • Daenerys's remaining advisors in Meereen continue to try to ward off attacks from both within and outside of the city. Varys discovers that the Sons of the Harpy are being funded by an alliance of great slaver powers: Yunkai, the renewed slave-masters at Astapor, and Volantis. Tyrion Lannister negotiates a shaky truce with the slaver alliance which manages to buy some time as they wait for Daenerys to return.
  • The slaver alliance took advantage of the truce as well to gather its strength, then finally launches a full-scale attack on the city, leading to the Second Siege of Meereen. Daenerys returns to the city with her dragon and a horde of 100,000 Dothraki at her command. The slaver alliance is decisively defeated, and Daenerys captures much of their surviving fleet. The Iron Fleet arrives at Meereen led by Theon and Yara Greyjoy, agreeing to ally with Daenerys and transport her army in their ships if she agrees to help them overthrown their uncle Euron when they return to Westeros. Daario and the Second Sons remain behind to keep the peace in the newly-christened Bay of Dragons.
  • Cersei Lannister engineers the Destruction of the Great Sept of Baelor with a wildfire explosion, killing the High Sparrow, Margaery Tyrell, Loras Tyrell, Mace Tyrell, her uncle Kevan Lannister, and her cousin Lancel Lannister. She also has Grand Maester Pycelle assassinated at the same time. King Tommen is so stunned at the death of his wife Margaery and so many innocents at his mother's hands that he commits suicide by walking out of a tower window. Cersei responds by directly declaring herself the new Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, even though she has absolutely no legal right to the Iron Throne (as even the pretense that she was the mother of Robert's children died with them). The Small Council is now destroyed or dissolved, and Cersei appoints Qyburn as her new Hand of the Queen.
  • The destruction of the Great Sept also destroys the Lannister-Tyrell alliance, despite all of the direct warnings to Cersei that the Tyrells were badly needed allies she could not afford to lose. Lady Olenna Tyrell assumes functional control over House Tyrell and travels to Dorne to confer with Ellaria Sand about fighting Cersei and the remaining Lannister forces. There they meet with Varys, an emissary from Daenerys Targaryen. The Tyrells and Martells switch their support to Daenerys as her invasion approaches.
  • Daenerys's combined dragon/Unsullied/Dothraki/Greyjoy fleet departs from Meereen, and as it approaches Westeros is joined by the large fleets of the Tyrells and Martells as well. Daenerys's invasion of Westeros is imminent.
  • The maesters at the Citadel send out white ravens to officially announce that autumn has ended, and winter has finally come. Given that it followed a ten-year summer, it is feared that the coming winter will last at least that long as well.
  • Jon Snow is hailed as the new King in the North by the lords of both the North and the Vale, reviving Robb Stark's independent kingdom. With the north of Westeros declaring for Jon Snow, the southern kingdoms for Daenerys, and the Iron Islands for Euron, Cersei Lannister is surrounded by foes on all sides and barely controls more than one or two of the kingdoms in the middle.

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Alerie Tyrell Tommen Baratheon

304

Events

  • Winter officially descends upon Westeros after the maesters of the Citadel send out white ravens to the noble houses of the Seven Kingdoms.
  • Daenerys Targaryen, at last, begins her war for Westeros as she lands on Dragonstone with her combined forces. Her Hand, Tyrion Lannister, develops her war strategy in hopes of winning over the people of Westeros, who already despise Cersei Lannister: the combined arms of the Reach and Dorne will lay siege to King's Landing and blockade its harbors while the Unsullied will have the objective of capturing Casterly Rock.
  • Euron Greyjoy is invited to King's Landing by Cersei, who proposes an alliance to secure his Iron Fleet. Euron pushes it further by pressuring for a marriage to unite the Great Houses of Lannister and Greyjoy. When Cersei declines, Euron promises to return with a gift and assaults his niece, Yara's, fleet, which was ferrying the Dornish leaders back to Sunspear in Dorne from Dragonstone. Euron captures his niece, Ellaria Sand, and her daughter Tyene Sand, though his nephew Theon escapes with his and his niece's few surviving loyalists led by Harrag. Ellaria is imprisoned in a dungeon while she is forced to watch her daughter succumb to the long farewell, thus leading to chaos in Dorne. Euron is named commander of the royal fleet (though in truth, the royal fleet is nothing more than the Iron Fleet).
  • Jaime Lannister, now commanding the Lannister armies, wins over the support of Randyll Tarly and, with the backing of House Tarly, sacks Highgarden, tricking the Unsullied into believing he would commit the bulk of the Lannister forces to defend Casterly Rock. Euron destroys the Targaryen ships at Casterly Rock, trapping the Unsullied there, while Jaime and Randyll plunder Highgarden of its gold, in order to pay back the Iron Throne debt to the Iron Bank of Braavos which is called in by Tycho Nestoris, and the Reach of its grain, in order to feed the Lannister armies now that winter has come. Olenna Tyrell is coerced into committing suicide through poison provided to her by Jaime, though not before confessing her role in the assassination of his son Joffrey. Though the gold makes it through the gates of King's Landing, Daenerys attacks the Lannister-Tarly host atop her dragon mount Drogon and with her united Dothraki khalasar at the Battle of the Goldroad. The loot train is destroyed and Randyll and his son Dickon Tarly are executed for refusing to bend the knee to Daenerys.
  • Jon Snow, the King in the North, travels to Dragonstone to enter into negotiations with Daenerys Targaryen after learning of her three fire breathing dragons, which can be used against the wights, and the mountains of dragonglass beneath Dragonstone as informed by Samwell Tarly, who studies at the Citadel to become a maester, which can be used to kill both wights and White Walkers. Though Daenerys and her advisors do not believe Jon regarding the White Walkers, Tyrion trusts Jon because of their time spent at the Wall, and Daenerys grows to trust and believe in him, allowing him to mine the dragonglass.
  • After the Battle of the Goldroad, the war for Westeros enters into a cold state. Per Tyrion's counsel, Jon travels beyond the Wall on a Wight Hunt to capture a wight to use as proof for the high lords of Westeros while Tyrion travels to King's Landing, where he proposes an armistice and truce to his brother Jaime to relay back to their sister Cersei. Cersei reveals to Jaime that she is pregnant with their fourth child. Davos Seaworth recruits Gendry at King's Landing, and with Jorah Mormont, who was cured of his greyscale by Samwell Tarly, and a group of Stark guards, they travel to Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, where Jon recruits Tormund and some wildlings to help him, as well as the Brotherhood Without Banners, who has been traveling north to help in the war against the army of the dead. Though a wight is captured, Thoros and several wildlings die and Jon and his party are ambushed atop a frozen lake when Daenerys arrives, who previously received a raven from Eastwatch sent by Gendry and Davos. Though the group escapes, Jon is left behind when he sinks into the frozen lake while the Night King kills Viserion. Jon, freezing, is rescued by his uncle Benjen Stark, who sacrifices himself fighting the wights to buy time for Jon to ride back to Eastwatch. Jon secretly bends the knee to Daenerys on their ship en route to King's Landing to attend the parley.
  • The Parley in King's Landing is held at the Dragonpit. After confronting his brother Gregor Clegane, Sandor Clegane, Jon, and Daenerys present the captured wight to Cersei, Euron, and their advisors. Euron flees out of terror, but Cersei agrees to the truce so long as Jon remains neutral afterward. Jon, bound to the code of honor shared by all Northmen, admits he has already pledged to Daenerys, and Cersei leaves. However, Tyrion walks into the lion's den at the Red Keep, where he is able to persuade his sister to return to the Dragonpit and agree to commit her remaining Lannister forces against the coming darkness. Cersei later admits to her brother Jaime in private that she and Euron plot to dishonor the truce and that Euron is ferrying the Golden Company from Essos to Westeros thanks to the financial support of the Iron Bank, prompting Jaime to abandon his sister at last, under the threat of death, and ride north alone to honor the promise he made at the Dragonpit.
  • Brandon Stark at last returns to Winterfell while Meera Reed returns to her family in the Neck. Arya Stark later returns as well after finishing off the Frey men. Bran trains himself in his powers of greensight while Arya and Sansa are divided by a letter planted by Petyr Baelish, who seeks to create a wedge between the Stark girls to advance his plan in taking the Iron Throne for himself. However, Arya, Sansa, and Bran uncover all of Petyr's lies and treacheries in a manner outside of Petyr's manipulative capacity: the magic wielded by Bran. A trial is held for Littlefinger in the Winterfell's great hall, witnessed by Yohn Royce on behalf of the Vale, where Arya slits Littlefinger's throat, justice for the Stark, Arryn, and Tully families and for the mass death caused by the War of the Five Kings.
  • Samwell Tarly, with Gilly and Little Sam, abandons the Citadel in Oldtown as the maesters either disbelieve the return of the White Walkers or doubt the threat that they pose, though not before taking with him several books locked away in the forbidden section of the Citadel's great library, including the diary of the High Septon who served during Robert's Rebellion. At Winterfell, Bran reveals to Samwell that he has discovered that Jon Snow is the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and his aunt Lyanna Stark, though he believes him to still be a bastard. Sam then reveals to Bran the annulment issued by the High Septon for Rhaegar's marriage to Elia Martell so that he could remarry someone in a secret ceremony in Dorne, prompting Bran to return to the Tower of Joy, where he witnesses the High Septon's marriage of Rhaegar to Lyanna and hears the name of their son Lyanna gives to her brother and Bran's father Ned: Aegon Targaryen. Bran realizes that Robert's Rebellion was built on a lie and that Rhaegar did not abduct Lyanna but that the two loved each other and ran away together. Bran notes to Sam that Jon is the rightful heir to the Iron Throne, not his aunt Daenerys. On their ship en route to White Harbor, Jon and Daenerys give in to their emotions and make love, unaware of their familial ties.
  • After the passing of 8,000 years, the White Walkers emerge from the Haunted Forest with their massive army of the dead, at least 100,000 wights strong. The Night King rides the ice dragon Viserion towards the Wall where Eastwatch stands, burning it away and creating a breach that nullifies the magic of the Wall and allows the White Walkers and the wights to cross into Westeros once again, heading straight for the North. Many wildlings and black brothers die as Tormund and Beric Dondarrion flee. The Long Night has returned, and the Great War has begun.

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Jelmio Maghagon

305

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  • The Night King, atop the ice dragon Viserion, leads the White Walkers and army of the dead through the North after breaching the Wall.
  • The army of the undead marches south, slaughtering any and all living things in their path. The Night King assaults Last Hearth, and slaughters all of its residents, including its young Lord Ned Umber, whose corpse is then artfully displayed in an arrangement of severed limbs, mimicking the symbols of the Children of the Forest. Umber's body is later discovered by Tormund Giantsbane, Beric Dondarrion, and Eddison Tollett on their way to Winterfell.
  • Jon Snow learns of his true parentage from his best friend and confidant Samwell Tarly.
  • The Night King and his army attacks Winterfell, and is met with a resistance force led by Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen.
  • The Night King is defeated at the Battle of Winterfell by Arya Stark.
  • Daenerys attacks King's Landing and burns the city with Drogon.
  • After Daenerys‘ sacking of King’s Landing and massacre of innocent civilians and surrendered soldier, she gives a speech to the victorious Unsullied and Dothraki who cheer her on. She claims she is not content with just ruling Westeros but plans on “liberating“ the rest of the Known World under her rule. Tyrion confronts her for the massacre and resigns as her Hand of the Queen removing and throwing away the badge of office. Daenerys has Tyrion arrested for “treason” for freeing his brother Jaime. Jon later meets Tyrion to discuss what happened. Jon constantly tries to defend Daenerys’ actions but Tyrion refuses to acknowledge it. He then pleads Jon to do the right thing and kill Daenerys to prevent more carnage and destruction from happening, at first Jon refuses until Tyrion mentions what will happen to his sisters should they refuse to swear fealty to Daenerys.
  • Daenerys observes the Iron Throne in the destroyed throne room in the Red Keep, after years of planning to gain the Throne she finally is able to touch it silently reveling in her victory. Jon then approaches and angrily confronts Daenerys for her actions which she blatantly justifies them as being necessary in creating a good world. Jon pleads Daenerys to forgive both Tyrion and the people of King’s Landing which she refuses to do so. She then tries to make Jon imagine the world she aims to create but he wonders how can they possibly do this, Daenerys makes it clear to Jon that only they will know what’s good for the world. Dany once agains asks Jon to be with her as her equal and lover to help her build the new world she envisions and to break the wheel with her. Jon pledges himself to her one final time, they share a brief passionate kiss before Jon silently withdraws his dagger and stabs Dany in the heart. Dany recoils from the kiss in shock to look down at her chest to see the knife embedded in her. She slowly looks back up at a greatly anguished and grief-stricken Jon, she tries to utter words but can only come out with ragged gasps. She soon collapses in Jon’s arms where two trails of blood come out of her nostrils and mouth before drawing a final breath and dying in Jon’s arms.
  • The heads of the Great Houses of Westeros elect Bran Stark as King of the Six Kingdoms. Sansa Stark declares the North an independant kingdom and is crowned Queen in the North.

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Jon Tarly

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Cersei Lannister Furio Vielo Jaime Lannister Theon Greyjoy

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