ASOIAF: The Game of Thrones
Prologue: First Audience
Robert Baratheon, sitting in his solar, was in shock. A girl, who had told him she'd just celebrated her fourth nameday, was standing before him with one of his Kingsguard behind her. If he'd been told this morning that such an event would occur, Robert Baratheon would have laughed at them outright. But this girl, she was the brightest and most knowledgeable of her sex that he'd ever met- and he'd met a lot of women.
This girl impressed him more with her knowledge about the noble houses of the Seven Kingdom, and she wasn't even born in Westeros; to know such things, as a young child, was truly remarkable, even if she was a bastard, a Hill, Lady Elianna Hill. She had said that her mother had given her the name Hill for her father, a nobleman from the Westerlands. Short and to the point. She was respectful, mindful but had no problem speaking to many kinds of people, regardless of their age or standing.
Young girls were not safe when left alone in King's Landing, and he wanted her to be safe. Her knowledge and intelligence could compare to that of a maester or a scholar, and so he decided her fate.
Elianna Hill would remain under his protection, she would live in the Tower of the Hand, and- when the time came- she would be the one to educate his children. The Red Keep would know, and flourish from, her scholarly intelligence for many years to come.
However, by doing this, Robert Baratheon- King of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, Protector of the Realm- had no idea how much he had changed the fate of Westeros, with that single small decision.
This is an AU. Some characters who are meant to be dead, are actually alive (in hiding). There are some OCs (obviously!).
Elianna Hill is equivalent to a child genius.
