The year is 286 AC. King Jaehaerys II has just passed, leaving the throne without a rightful ruler. While his three children fight for the crown, Winter creeps closer, and unimaginable darkness looms.
Not all alliances will be so typical this time. In fact, many people have a crucial effect on the way this story is told. As for the ending, we only hope there are enough people left alive to tell it after its passed.
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Post by Baelor Targaryen on Sept 15, 2017 11:40:20 GMT
He carried in his head the information that contained the destructions of every man, woman, and child that ever vied for or otherwise sought to harm the crown. For fifty five years of life the man who was called Baelor Targaryen had used his five senses to know the world and his sixth to answer it. Arkas Baratheon had been named Hand of the King and Baelor thought that a stark mistake. There was no reason to pull in that favor when the candidate knew not what Baelor knew. Jae was a sickly man, though, and though he had two heads his illness had caused the third to waste away. He kept not the dragon claw on the throats of the Westerosi lords. Because of this, everyone Baelor knew would die. Conscripted into wars to fight men from half across the world, the smallfolk of Westeros were reduced to cannon fodder and faceless numbers. In the north, Daeron built up an army that he proclaimed to love. Yet in the Small Council he had led a man straight to his death for no reason other than to shove his cock into the wet-pussied egos of the other lords. This was someone that Arkas was willing to give a chance too. Baelor thought that, too, a stark mistake. He sat in the office of the Hand of the King. With one hand he stoked the fireplace. The metal poker was made of brass but it was black half up its length and the wooden handle was cracked. Baelor saw the flames leap out and spit embers at him angrily, as if some dragon on the inside was angry for him constantly disturbing its sleep. A red hue filled the room. With the sun setting in the east, Arkas’s chamber appeared as if it were suffocating in a glowing fog of blood. Even Baelor’s hair, a platinum-silver like his brother’s once was, turned the lustful pink-red of dusk. Two swords were propped against the table beside Baelor. The door opened.
Post by ARKAS BARATHEON on Sept 20, 2017 15:01:06 GMT
Arkas had spent a long day. Out of the days in his life, it had been one of the longest. The fate of Daella unknown, he had been forced to keep away the emotions that plagued him from within, tugging at his soul like the winds of Shipbreaker Bay tug at the stone walls of Storm's End, the ancestral keep of his line.
If his ancestors defied the Gods.
Could he not defy his heart?
Having begun the day with the Small Council sitting, the invitation to the Lords of Seven Kingdoms had certainly created more commotion than he had expected, but certainly the news of Quellon Greyjoy had reached at a questionable time.
But not all was lost yet.
The Greyjoys had struck half the royal fleet and Prince Rhaegar, but the other remained safely within the docks of King's Landing, guards doubled and sailors anxious to carry the battle toward the Ironborn.
But Arkas had held them back.
While it left every island within Blackwater Bay helpless, he couldn't risk the other half of the fleet. Velaryon and Celtigar were on their own. The other keeps of the Crownlands could support themselves and harden their defenses. The Ironborn would strike, using the tactical point of Dragonstone to their advantage, but in the end they could not re-supply, could only raid upon shores that knew of the impending attacks...
Princess Alysanne had implored the Lords of the Crownlands to remind them that they were all in the same boat, which had left Arkas to clean up the mess in the city of King's Landing. Meanwhile, Prince Maekar began the plans to retake the island of dragons.
The surviving Ironborn that had not perished in the streets would break under interrogation soon enough. Arkas still had to learn of the bigger picture. It was hard to steer while being blind, heard to think without direcion-giving whispers.
Coming into his office at the end of a long day and finding the man that had evaded him for weeks sparked all the anger that self control could tame.
He had never liked this man. He had never especially disliked him either. But a night after the decimation of half the royal fleet, Baelor Targaryen's elusiveness was nothing mysterious. In the best scenario it was neglect.
In the worst of scenarios it was treason.
Arkas looked at the swords. At the fire. At the gull of the man before him that diplayed itself in his understanding of self.
"I've sentenced a great Lord to death today, Baelor. Pray I don't make it two. Your explanation better be good."
For their degree of relation, Arkas didn't know this man. And Arkas didn't know a man that knew this man either.
"I've saved people from my temper all day. I can't promise you the same, no matter your reasons."
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