CHAPTER 1, The Rebellion
Jon Arryn looked down from the Eyrie, how could things get so out of control in the last few weeks... what may happen next, what will the future hold for my house and the whole of Westeros...
It started with the kidnapping of Lyanna Stark, which lead to the execution of her brother and father Rickard and Brandon Stark and now the mad king demands my wards Eddard and Robert, pah surely he forgot my houses words "as high as honor!", we will fight the mad king and we will bring justice to the red keep once again...
The Tullys joined our cause and so the stormlands, the Riverlands, the North and the Vale prepared for war but to win against the power of highgarden, sunspear and kings landing one must have a plan.
Robert Baratheon led his knights directly into Dorne to prevent the dornish from merging their armys and becoming a threat, so it was up to the riverlands and the vale to get the mad kings head on a spyke, we could only hope that the northern armys would arive soon to strengthen our siege and rumors of a great army from the reach marching to lift the siege of kings landing made the round but we had a plan, it could work, it had to work.
We knew that the knights of the reach would take the direct way, the fastest way to kings landing and so we lay down our trap, while only an army of 16k troops under the command of the bronze Yohn remained to siege kings landing, our main force of two 17k strong armys under the command of Brynden Tully and Lord Nestor Royce remained hidden behind the enemys eyes.
And so the foolish Tyrells lead their armys in an attack to lift what would appear to be a weak siege of kings landing, only to be caught in between three armys, their was no escape, no prisoners were made that day...
Victory was at hand but where was Eddard Stark with his northmen?
Dark wings, dark words, the raven brought the message from winterfell, the northmen weren't coming... the Ironborn are raiding the northern shores, keeping Eddard busy in the north, we had to finish the royalists without the help of the northmen.
However gaining victory and saving Lyanna in time wasn't going to be easy with the north at war with the Ironborn, we had to get the Lannisters on board and we payed a heavy price for it, large amounts of land west of kings landing were promised to Tywin Lannister for his aid in our war, but the Lannister intervention gave us the upper hand in the war again.
The dornish managed to weaken Roberts army in the south by avoiding direct combat, so Robert was forced to retreat to Storms End, in a hopeless last act Prince Oberyn Martell led the dornish army through the princess pass and marched directly for kings landing.
It was up to Brynden Tully to avoid that army from reaching Kings Landing, however he underestimated the enemys numbers and his army was about to loose the battle when the bronze Yohn arrived with reinforcements and turned the tide in our favor again.
Kings landing eventualy felt to the combined forces of Tully, Lannister and Arryn and victory was ours, the mad king didn't escape justice and spend his few remaining days in the dark cells beneath the red keep, the tyrells and the martells bent the knee to Robert Baratheon, the first of his name and the war was officialy over. Even the greyjoys bent the knee fearing the wrath of the once again united power of the iron throne. For his support in defeating the Targaryens Robert Baratheon offered me the title of hand of the king, which i had to refuse, i needed a heir or i would be the last of the Arryns, i won him the throne, he should be able to keep it without me for some years, enough time to finaly get a heir, so i retreated back to the Eyrie and began dooing my duty as a husband...
Eventualy Hoster Tully was named hand of the king, a men who deserved it by contributing much and more to our war effort.
Jon Arryn looked down from the Eyrie, how could things get so out of control in the last few weeks... what may happen next, what will the future hold for my house and the whole of Westeros...
It started with the kidnapping of Lyanna Stark, which lead to the execution of her brother and father Rickard and Brandon Stark and now the mad king demands my wards Eddard and Robert, pah surely he forgot my houses words "as high as honor!", we will fight the mad king and we will bring justice to the red keep once again...
The Tullys joined our cause and so the stormlands, the Riverlands, the North and the Vale prepared for war but to win against the power of highgarden, sunspear and kings landing one must have a plan.
Robert Baratheon led his knights directly into Dorne to prevent the dornish from merging their armys and becoming a threat, so it was up to the riverlands and the vale to get the mad kings head on a spyke, we could only hope that the northern armys would arive soon to strengthen our siege and rumors of a great army from the reach marching to lift the siege of kings landing made the round but we had a plan, it could work, it had to work.
We knew that the knights of the reach would take the direct way, the fastest way to kings landing and so we lay down our trap, while only an army of 16k troops under the command of the bronze Yohn remained to siege kings landing, our main force of two 17k strong armys under the command of Brynden Tully and Lord Nestor Royce remained hidden behind the enemys eyes.
And so the foolish Tyrells lead their armys in an attack to lift what would appear to be a weak siege of kings landing, only to be caught in between three armys, their was no escape, no prisoners were made that day...
Victory was at hand but where was Eddard Stark with his northmen?
Dark wings, dark words, the raven brought the message from winterfell, the northmen weren't coming... the Ironborn are raiding the northern shores, keeping Eddard busy in the north, we had to finish the royalists without the help of the northmen.
However gaining victory and saving Lyanna in time wasn't going to be easy with the north at war with the Ironborn, we had to get the Lannisters on board and we payed a heavy price for it, large amounts of land west of kings landing were promised to Tywin Lannister for his aid in our war, but the Lannister intervention gave us the upper hand in the war again.
The dornish managed to weaken Roberts army in the south by avoiding direct combat, so Robert was forced to retreat to Storms End, in a hopeless last act Prince Oberyn Martell led the dornish army through the princess pass and marched directly for kings landing.
It was up to Brynden Tully to avoid that army from reaching Kings Landing, however he underestimated the enemys numbers and his army was about to loose the battle when the bronze Yohn arrived with reinforcements and turned the tide in our favor again.
Kings landing eventualy felt to the combined forces of Tully, Lannister and Arryn and victory was ours, the mad king didn't escape justice and spend his few remaining days in the dark cells beneath the red keep, the tyrells and the martells bent the knee to Robert Baratheon, the first of his name and the war was officialy over. Even the greyjoys bent the knee fearing the wrath of the once again united power of the iron throne. For his support in defeating the Targaryens Robert Baratheon offered me the title of hand of the king, which i had to refuse, i needed a heir or i would be the last of the Arryns, i won him the throne, he should be able to keep it without me for some years, enough time to finaly get a heir, so i retreated back to the Eyrie and began dooing my duty as a husband...
Eventualy Hoster Tully was named hand of the king, a men who deserved it by contributing much and more to our war effort.
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