GAME OF THRONES HISTORY: PART 1

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GAME OF THRONES HISTORY : ROBERT'S REBELLION

THE BACKGROUND 

BEFORE THE EVENTS OF ROBERT'S REBELLION , WESTEROS HAD BEEN RULED FOR ALMOST 300 YEARS BY THE TARGARYENS. THEY WERE DESCENDED FROM THE EXTINCT EMPIRE OF VALYRIA. THEY HAD LEARNED FROM THEIR ANCESTORS THE SKILL TO TRAIN DRAGONS, WHICH PLAYED A DECISIVE PART IN AEGON THE CONQUERORS CONQUEST OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS.DURING THE TIME OF ROBERT'S REBELLION THE THRONE BELONGED TO AERYS TARGARYEN KNOWN AS THE MAD KING AND BY NOW, THE DRAGONS WERE EXTINCT IN WESTEROS. HE HAD EARNED HIS TITLE BY BURNING HIS ENEMIES WITH WILDFIRE AND EVEN SETTING WHOLE VILLAGES ABLAZE AND LAUGHING WHILE THEY BURNED WITH THEIR INHABITANTS IN THEM.THE OTHER GREAT HOUSES DID NOT REBEL BECAUSE THERE STILL WAS SOME GOODWILL FOR THE CROWN PRINCE, RHAEGAR TARGARYEN. IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE TARGARYENS RULE CAME TO AN END.

    
                                                             
             THE MAD KING, AERYS TARGARYEN

THE START OF THE REBELLION

THE REBELLION STARTED WITH THE ABDUCTION OF LYANNA STARK BY THE CROWN PRINCE RHAEGAR. LYANNA WAS THE SISTER OF BRANDON STARK, THE WILD WOLF AND WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE WARDEN OF THE NORTH. SHE WAS PROMISED TO ROBERT BARATHEON, THE LORD OF STORM'S END. HER OTHER BROTHER, NED STARK, WAS ROBERT'S BEST FRIEND. WHEN NEWS OF THE ABDUCTION REACHED NORTH, BRANDON STARK RODE TO KING'S LANDING TO GET HER BACK. HE WOULD NEVER RETURN. THE MAD KING ARRESTED HIM FOR ATTEMPTING TO MURDER THE CROWN PRINCE. RICHARD STARK RODE SOUTH TO FREE HIS SON AND DEMANDED A TRIAL BY COMBAT. THE MAD KING GRANTED HIM HIS REQUEST.HE PROCLAIMED FIRE TO BE THE CHAMPION OF HOUSE TARGARYEN. HE HAD THE LORD OF WINTERFELL STRUNG UP AND A FIRE LIT UNDER HIM. BRANDON STARK WAS PLACED IN A TYROSHI STRANGLING DEVICE WITH A SWORD JUST OUTSIDE HIS REACH.THE WILD WOLF  STRANGLED HIMSELF TRYING TO SAVE HIS FATHER WHO WAS BURNT ALIVE. THE MAD KING NEXT SENT FOR THE HEADS OF NED STARK AND ROBERT BARATHEON. THIS WAS REJECTED BY THEIR GUARDIAN JOHN ARRYN OF THE VALE. HE ROSE UP IN REBELLION AND CALLED ON HIS BANNERS. THE DAYS OF THE TARGARYENS WERE NOW LIMITED.


BURNING OF LORD RICHARD STARK BY THE MAD KING

THE REBELLION

THE REBELLION BEGAN WITH THE REBEL LORDS GATHERING THEIR FORCES AND DEFEATING THOSE LESSER LORDS UNDER THEM WHO STOOD AGAINST THEM AT THE BATTLE OF GULLTOWN, SUMMERHALL ETC.. LORD HOSTER TULLY OF THE RIVERLANDS ALSO JOINED THE REBELLION AFTER WEDDING HIS TWO DAUGHTERS  TO JOHN ARRYN , AND TO NED STARK, THE NEW LORD OF WINTERFELL. ROBERT BARATHEON HAD BEEN INDECISIVELY DEFEATED AT THE BATTLE OF ASHFORD BY THE VANGUARD OF RANDYLL TARLY, BANNER TO HOUSE TYRELL. HE WAS ABOUT TO BE CAPTURED AT THE STONEY STEPS BUT WAS SAVED BY THE FORCES OF NED STARK, JOHN ARRYN AND HOSTER TULLY. THE RED KEEP DURING THIS TIME WENT THROUGH A NUMBER OF HANDS, MANY BURNT ALIVE FOR FAILING TO GET VICTORY. THE MAD KING HAD THE ENTIRE CITY OF KING'S LANDING LINED WITH WILDFIRE, SO THAT IT NEVER FELL INTO ENEMY HANDS.THE DECISIVE MOMENT OF THE REBELLION CAME AT THE BATTLE OF THE TRIDENT WHERE THE REBEL FORCES LED BY ROBERT AND NED MARCHED AGAINST THE LOYALIST FORCES HEADED BY THE CROWN PRINCE RHAEGAR. IT WAS A DECISIVE VICTORY FOR THE REBELS. ROBERT BARATHEON STRUCK RHAEGAR DOWN WITH A SINGLE POWERFUL BLOW OF HIS BATTLE HAMMER, CAVING IN HIS BREASTPLATE AND SPILLING THE RUBIES ON IT. THE PLACE WAS FOREVER KNOWN AS THE RUBY FORD.THE GREAT SOUTHERN HOUSE OF LANNISTER WAS KNOWN AS GOOD ALLIES OF THE TARGARYENS BUT HAD NOT SUPPORTED THEM YET. NOW, TYWIN LANNISTER MARCHED TO KING'S LANDING WITH HIS MEN , PROMISING TO  HELP DEFEND HIS OLD FRIEND THE KING. THE MOMENT THE GATES WERE OPENED, HE SACKED THE CITY. HIS SON JAIME LANNISTER WHO WAS A KING'S GUARD KILLED THE MAD KING AND THE HAND. THE LANNISTER FORCES KILLED THE CHILDREN AND WIFE OF RHAEGAR TARGARYEN. ONLY TWO TARGARYENS ESCAPED THE CITY ALIVE. VISERYS TARGARYEN AND HIS SISTER DAENERYS TARGARYEN.

ROBERT BARTHEON KILLING RHAEGAR TARGARYEN

THE AFTERMATH OF THE REBELLION

THE REBEL FORCES ,NOW LEAD BY NED AS ROBERT WAS INJURED, WERE PRESENTED BY THE LANNISTERS WITH THE BODIES OF THE TARGARYENS AT KING'S LANDING. NED STARK WAS REALLY ANGRY WITH THE KILLING OF CHILDREN AND WOMEN BUT THERE WAS NOTHING HE COULD DO. THE BARATHEONS BECAME THE NEW ROYAL FAMILY WITH ROBERT BECOMING KING OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS AND JOHN ARRYN BECAME THE HAND OF THE KING. ROBERT TOOK CERSEI LANNISTER AS HIS WIFE AND QUEEN TO ENSURE THE LOYALTY OF THE LANNISTERS. THE REMAINING LOYALIST FORCES BENT THE KNEE BEFORE THE NEW KING.THE REMAINING TARGARYENS WERE SMUGGLED TO THE EAST AND HIDDEN BY FEW REMAINING LOYALISTS TO PROTECT THEM.THE SEVEN KINGDOMS WERE FREED OF THE TYRANNY OF THE MAD KING , BUT THE WOMAN FOR WHICH THE WAR WAS FOUGHT DIED REGARDLESS.THE REBELS WERE UNABLE TO RESCUE LYANNA. NED STARK RETURNED TO THE NORTH TO RULE AS THE WARDEN OF THE NORTH AND HENCE BEGAN THE REIGN OF ROBERT OF THE HOUSE BARTHEON, FIRST OF HIS NAME, KING OF THE ANDALS AND THE FIRST MEN ,AND PROTECTOR OF THE REALM. LONG MAY HE REIGN!!!! 

                                                                           - BY ROBB STARK, THE YOUNG WOLF.

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