0-100 AL "The Rest"

- Long Night ends, Kingdoms are warned of Second Long Night.

- Men continue to join the Night's Watch.- All the kingdoms begin to recover and rebuild, many of the smaller petty kings begin seeking protection by offering their loyalty to the greater Kings in fear of the Second Long Night.

- The first Green Men begin their training after receiving visions, inviting them to the isle of the faces.

100-200 AL "The Recovery"

- The Daynes wage war on the other Kings of the Red Mountains and rule all but the Yronwoods and their Magnars.

- The Casterlys open mines at Casterly Rock and the Golden Tooth while absorbing more kingdoms.

- The Durrandons force an end to hostilities among the Marcher lords by persuading them to bend the knee; then conquer the lands of the Darklyn Kings and extend the Stormlands north up to Dun Fort.

- Magnar Joramund Wulhart (A wildling) is granted land south of the Wall. Brought back south of the wall, they are settled and build a number of small towns. Bringing with them Giants, Mammoths and the first Pigmy Mammoths (Yakutian Cattle).

- The first fully trained Green Men travel with small numbers of Children to the other Northern Houses.

200-1000 AL "The Iron Flood"

- A craftsman at Casterly Rock creates a new furnace called the Westin Forge (Real life, Bloomery).

- The Westerlands began to produce iron from the rich deposits.

- The Westerlands began producing incredibly useful tools (i.e plowshares, shovels etc..) and began to cultivate large tracts of land and more lumber.

- King Leoth "The Coinmaker", creates the first mint. ( Silver and gold coins known as 'Lions' used in the Westerlands)

- By the end of the 5th century, the forging method, or bastardization and copies, were everywhere.

- Iron tools become common and improved; Westerland miners are hired to survey other regions of Westeros, leading new mining towns across the kingdoms. A miniature Gold Rush. Iron is found in these notable locations

The Crag, Deep Den (Westerland)

Multiple across Red Mountains (Dorne)

Crow's Nest and Black Haven (Stormlands)

Horn Hill (Reach)

The Northern Mountains, Winterfell, Last Hearth, The Shadow Tower (North)

Redfort, The Eyrie, Strong Song, Longbow Hall (Vale)

MASSIVE DEPOSITS are found on the now named Iron Islands, formerly Blue Isles. The religion of the Drowned God becomes dominant and the culture of raiding begins.

- The increase in production necessitates the expansion of food production.

The North makes agreements with the Giants to create giant tracts of farmlands across the North. The new farmlands are used to grow vegetables like potatoes, onions and beats. The access to the new food sources allowed for larger herds and Giant Clans become sought after.

With the aid of giants and methods taken from the riverlands (Canals and water pumps), Eddard II Reed began to drain some of the swamps in the Neck to construct better trade paths and unknowingly discovered black earth, rich soil perfect for growing rye and oats (normally imported from the Reach), that could not be grown further North.

The Reach began a huge number of new farms producing more food than ever before.

The Vale and Stormlands began building bigger fishing fleets

Dorne used their newly found abundance of iron to trade with the Reach

The Westerlands began to take more of the Riverlands and cultivate the land.

- Green Men begin coming south of the Neck and bringing Children of the Forest into the Godswoods of the Magnars.

- King Eyan I Gryffin of the Mountains and the Vale conquers the Three Sisters.

- In 830 AL King Brandon IX Stark decides to rebuild Winterfell, which up until then had been a small settlement and feasting hall. He rebuilt Winterfell as a Hill Fort with new iron parts and defences. The end of the Iron Flood period is denoted by the building of new seats by most if not all the Magnars in Westeros.

1000-1200 AL "The River Wars"

- The desire for more iron and farmlands pushed King Eric II Durrandon, King Loreon II Casterly, King Rolyn Gryffin and King Jorammund Stark to begin expanding into the Riverlands.

- These expansions were resisted by the "Petty Kings of the Rivers", small kingdoms who had kept themselves independent from the larger lands. The resistance quickly turned into war.

- The River Wars were the first major armed conflict where iron was used, quickly it became evident that the methods of fighting wights and the Others were very inefficient against their fellow man on a larger scale. Typically, when a large army faced wights, they would use long spears and heavy barriers, covering themselves as much as possible in thick cloth and furs; wights didn't use weapons so anything that wasn't useful for fighting the cold was quickly dismissed. Bottlenecking and encircling were essential strategies and relied on the enemy coming to you and simply hoping your line wouldn't break. In small groups, wights were typically stabbed with long spears, then pinned to the ground and burned.

- The Valeman and the Northmen both fought against the strongest of the River Kings,the Mudd Kings.

The Valemen, after conquering the Three Sisters, had begun to learn that these old tactics were not as effective. By the end of the River War they had developed a taste for lances and cavalry, which were a force to be reckoned with on the hills and plains of the riverlands.

The Northmen, like the rest of the Kingdoms gained a preference for the shield, spear and javelin. This change in approach was slowly adopted by the other kingdoms after seeing their superiority to the typical long-spear.

Allying together, the Vale and the North defeated King Mudd at his home, Greenstones. The two kingdoms agreed to split their conquered territory, the North taking all land north of the Blue Fork and the Vale claiming everything along the Trident until the Blue Fork, including Greenstones.

- The Westerlands were the first to declare war and fought the most petty kings, conquering all the way east to the Blue Fork and the God's Eye.

- The Stormlands pushed up to the mouth of the Trident and the eastern side of the God's Stormlands were also the first to make mail armour over the course of their war.

- The end of the River Wars is marked by the construction of "The Giant's Bridge" by Kings Stark and Gryffin over The Twins, they celebrated with a great feast that resulted in some marriages between Northman and Valeman.

1200-1400 AL "The Rebellious Summer" or "The Traitor's Summer"

- Following the first winter of 1200 AL, the Rebel Summer began. In the wake of the River Wars many Magnars were angry when instead of wiping out the petty king families they were spared, some even allowed to continue ruling. Some Magnars saw this as a sign of weakness, others were angry at being snubbed or denied glory and spoils. Now that the kingdoms were recovering from the battles, more than one family saw a chance to seize power. Completely independent of each other nearly all the Kingdoms experienced some form of rebellion or internal conflict.

Magnar Brydan Bolton crowned himself the Red King and marched on Winterfell. King Brandon XII transforms Winterfell into what becomes known as a Wolf Castle (Bailey and Motte Castle). (North)

Magnar Lancion Plum rebelled against the Kings of the Rock and sieged the Banefort (Westerlands)

Under King Durwald "The Fat" Durrandon, the Isle of Tarth rebelled, not once but three times; a woodswitch held the Greenwood and Magnar Massey broke away. (Stormlands)

King Eyan III Gryffin and his younger brother Evyn Gryffin fought a civil war after King Eyan began spending much of the kingdom's wealth on jewelry and commissioning art and statues of himself, declaring himself greater than the Old Gods themselves. (The Vale)

King Gareth II Gardener repelled the Ironborn Urrathon "Badbrother" who had raided up the Mandar all the way to Highgarden (Reach)

Magnar Fowler crowned himself The King of Stone and Sky and went to war with King Dayne. (Dorne)

- By 1400 AL there were Green Men everywhere. Wanderers tending to Godswoods, Residents loyal to single Houses, and The Green Man, a mysterious figure whose lands encompassed a small strip from the God's Eye to High Heart.

- The wars eventually end, as they all do.

The Bolton Rebellion is put down and some of their holdings taken away. (North)

Magnar Plum and his sons are killed in their uprising and his daughter married off, her husband becoming the new Magnar Plum. (Westerlands)

King Morden II Durrandon and his half-brother Ronard Storm managed to stabilise the Stormlands until Ronard usurped the crown for himself. (Stormlands)

The Vale's civil war, known as "The War of Wings", nearly kills off the Gryffin line, when all is said and done a 6 year old second-cousin named Ulthor Solomour is named King Ulthor I Gryffin and Magnar Rewan Royce was named his regent. (Vale)

A later King Fowler takes a thousand men up the Wide Way, intent on conquering part of the Reach, King Garth VII Gardener repels him. (Dorne)

King Garth VII Gardener takes the Misty Islands from the Ironborn and turns them into the Shield Islands. (Reach)

- War between Dorne and Stormlands

With King Fowler's attack on the Reach, the Daynes and Gardeners ally to defeat the Fowlers, further unifying Dorne.

King Garth VII and King Donnal Dayne become close friends and bind their families with two marriages, King Garth's daughter to Donnal's son and Donnal's sister to Garth's brother. Their union prompted many of the Magnars in the southern Reach to make closer allies with those of Dorne. Most notably, the Peakes, Tarlys and Mullendors began mixing with Blackmonts, Manwoodys and the Daynes of High Hermitage.

The Yronwoods, wary of the Dayne/Gardener alliance seek allies among the Petty Kings of the Greenblood. They begin raiding the lower Stormlands for more supplies.

King Durran XIV Durrandon became King at six and ten years, he was bloodthirsty and eager to make war. He convinced Magnars Dondarrion, Selmy and Swann that the raids were a precursor to a Dornish/Reach invasion and quietly supported their declaration of war on the Yronwoods. Meanwhile, he makes plans to take the lands east of Longtable, to do this he sends one of his bastard brothers to bribe the Ironborn to burn Oldtown and the Arbor.

The Ironborn fail to burn the Arbor and are unable to sack Oldtown completely but their efforts work well enough that King Durran is able to sack many forts and burns down Longtable, he begins to consolidate his rule over the eastern Reach. But is pushed back every time he tried to win a decisive victory against the remaining Magnars.

King Durran was not to be denied though, he called for the Marcher Lords to cease fighting the dornish and focus on the Reach, this whole conflict was named "Durran's March" as by the end the King had marched five armies into the Reach.

The end of the conflict came when his fifth army is attacked by a combined Tarly/Blackmount force on the banks of the Cockleswent as they returned to Harvest Hall. "The Red Vulture's Feast" as it was named, saw the Stormland army driven into the river by Magnar Tarly's archers, where Magnar Blackmount's spearmen slaughtered them as they tried to reach the opposite banks for safety. King Durran was killed and a number of his Magnars were taken prisoner. His eldest son, King Erich II, was by all accounts a brilliant king, he immediately brokered a peace with King Gardener, giving them some of the Riverlands his ancestors had conquered.

With the Yronwoods distracted defending their lands from the Marcher Lords, the Daynes take this chance to finally conquer them, declaring themselves High Kings of Dorne.

1400-1500 AL "Redhand's Reign"

- After the crowning of King Ulthor I Gryffin, Rewan Royce sought to use his position as regent to strengthen his House.

Under the pretense of negotiating new trade with King Brandon XIX Stark, also known as Brandon "The Shipwright", who had begun building a larger northern fleet at Seal Rock, Rewan wanted to make a deal to build a combined fleet that would be housed jointly at Seal Rock and the Three Sisters.

Leaving young King Ulthor in the hands of his brother Redan, Rewan sailed for Winterfell. He spent nearly two moons there, negotiating with King Brandon. The particulars of their deliberation are not known, all that was put into writing was the specifics of the new fleet and even more surprising, the betrothal of Rewan to King Brandon's daughter Kaina Stark. This betrothal has always confused historians. Rewan Royce was a powerful Magnar and Regent for the Gryffin king but for King Brandon to marry his eldest daughter outside the North was unthinkable.

Rewan sent back news of his betrothal and deal to the Vale. Shipwrights from the North were to travel to the Three Sisters and collaborate on new ship designs and logistics. Rewan and Kaina's wedding was to take place that same year, the Magnars of the Vale began to make plans for travel to witness the union at Winterfell.

- At the same time in the Iron Islands, High King Urragon IV Greyiron dies with the wish that his nephew Urron Greyiron become the next king.

The priests of the Drowned God are determined to retain the power and integrity of the Kingsmoot. Their hopes were for naught when Urron descended on the moot with his axemen and slew all the Salt Kings and half a hundred priests; earning him the name "Redhand". He declared that the Kingship of the Iron Islands would be hereditary and over the following decades gained complete control of the Islands; reducing its kings to magnars and executing the families that resisted.

Needing to recover from his abrupt rise to power, Urron makes a deal with a number of Houses in the Riverlands who were deposed during the River Wars, with their help Urron invades the Riverlands and conquers from Greenstones to the The Trident and back up to Riverrun.

Showing surprising cunning, Urron declared that the Riverland magnars would pledge fealty to the Iron Islands and crowned himself King of the Isles and Rivers. Their support allowed Urron to increase his raids up and down the western coast but his targets were chosen carefully. The ironborn did not raid any important locations, instead aiming for the smaller towns and traders. The Riverlands supply him with timber and food but not much, the Ironborn "armies" are not vast. Never taking too much, Urron ensures that the Ironborn remain a relatively annoying but non threatening presence; they did not focus on any specific kingdom.

- Fatefully, news of the Ironborn invasion does not reach the ears of the Vale and Northern Magnars until they return from Reman Royce's wedding to Princess Kaina Stark. Surprisingly, the news does not invoke declarations of war.

One must understand that the main attraction of the Riverlands to the Vale was the farmlands. The former River Kings were annoyances who paid tribute with their farmlands. With the Ironborn Invasion only taking lands west of the Green Fork, the farmlands valuable to the Vale were left untouched. The Valemen, dismissive of the River Magnars simply reinforced their new borders and informed the North, who sent more men to The Giant's Bridge.

- The lands remained at relative peace for another 20 years.

In 1440 AL, King Urron died putting down a thrall uprising. His son Urragon V was determined to become a king of the mainland.

Urragon decided to conquer farther east, past Saltpans to Maidenpool. He mistook the Vale's lack of reaction to his father's invasion as cowardice and fear. He realized his mistake too late.

The Ironborn and Rivermen were able to make it all the way to the walls of Maidenpool, where they laid siege. Magnar Mooton was able to send a message to the Redfort. Magnar Redfort realised if the Ironborn gained access to the Bay of Crabs, it would put the Vale in very real danger. He passed along the message to as many Magnars as he could, with his fastest one going to the King at the Mountain of the Moon. Meanwhile, he gathered men in preparation for the march against the Ironborn.

The message reached King Ulthor III, who was no more than a puppet for the Royces, and he listened to his advisor. The King of the Vale, the Mountains,the Fingers and the Sisters declared they would rid the Riverlands of the Ironborn and take back their lost territory. Magnar Royce's wife, Kaina promised the King to write her father and ask him to join their cause.

Maidenpool was taken, the Ironborn celebrated and King Urragon V planned to raid the Vale and Stormlands. Just as these raids began though, the army of the Vale marched out of The Bloody Gate. They began their war by clearing the Ironborn from the Trident and nearby towns. It was not an easy task, the Ironborn could escape on their ships and sail up and down the Forks, meaning the Valemen had to be wary of nighttime attacks and flanking.

The Valemen spent a year clearing the lands, only to find the Ironborn raiding farther south and east, just out of reach of their army. They quickly became frustrated and many called for an invasion of the Iron Islands themselves. The answer to their prayers came in the form of King Brandon, he marched south across The Giant's Bridge and together they pushed the Ironborn out of the Riverlands and back to their isles and deposed many of the Riverland Magnars. Together the armies sacked the Iron Islands, scouring Pyke and Harlaw to the ground and executing King Urragon V. He was replaced by King Vickron Blacktyde who swore vengeance against the North and Vale.

Two men distinguished themselves from the rest, Prince Brandon XX Stark, christened "The Burner" for setting 20 ironborn ships alight in one day; and his nephew Rickon Royce, named "The Bronze Wolf" for his taking of Harlaw.

The North and the Vale magnars celebrated together once again at Greenstones, like their forefathers had done at the end of the River Wars. As before many marriages and friendships were forged. This marks the end of Redhand's Reign.

- Tired from the war, the magnars and the armies returned home. Unfortunately, they returned to more grave news. The King of the Rock had taken Crackclaw Point.

- The fleet built by the North and Vale was completed in five years. Their new ship design was created by King Brandon himself, the first 3 completed were christened The North's Eye and along with Gryffin Heart and Bronze Sail set out across the Narrow Sea, the First Men's first journey to a foreign continent.

The logs of their captains were said to have contained descriptions of many small communities littered along the massive coast. The land had a hundred different names and even more types of people.

The traders were told to exchange their hulls full of metals, furs and food for as many different things as they could. The more variety, the better.

They returned with a better lay of the new land and dozens of different plants, meats, seeds, spices and some interesting metals. The Northern magnars favoured their spices and sugars. Vale magnars were interested in glass and elaborate textiles.

Arguably the most important discovery was of the intricate stone forts built by the Andals. The captain of Bronze Sail saw and drew an impression of one of their stone forts. He managed to convince an Andal stone mason to return with him to Westeros.

That stone mason was simply named Joryose. He was brought before King Brandon who marveled at his knowledge. Seeing his potential he sent Joryose back to Andalos to bring his entire family back. Joryose and his family became the personal architects of the Stark Kings.

By 1500 AL there was a steady stream of ships making the journey east to what was dubbed "Dasmos" meaning, great east in Old Tongue.

- With the Ironborn gone, trade between the Vale/North and the Westerlands resumed and they were floored by the goods from the East.

Silk, wines, jewelry and more flowed across the sea to The Bite and down south to the Giant's Bridge. From there it traveled to the trident and west to Riverrun, which soon became valued as a crucial trade point. Soon the entire continent knew of the riches that lied across the Narrow Sea. The Stormlands eagerly began sending ships.

The Westerlands were not ones to be denied a source of wealth, they eventually confirmed that many of the best quality goods were being bought by the Northern and Vale magnars before being shipped south. This frustrated them, especially the Kings of the Rock.

King Leost Casterly was a shrewd man, he would jump at the slightest opportunity to improve his fortune and extend his power. He became angry at the lack of access to the new Eastern lands.

When the Vale and North began to war with Ironborn, Leost saw his chance. Carefully skirting both the Riverlands, Vale and Stormland borders, he marched his forces through Reach land and quietly takes over Sow's Point and the still devastated Maidenpool. Quickly bringing the entire region under their control, the Casterly's now had an easter port. King Leost orders the new Magnar Kaleman to manage the construction of a Westerland fleet.

Quickly, the Casterlies began bringing in their own wealth. With it they funded the construction of enough ships to keep the Vale from trying to reclaim the land.

King Leost, now named "The Watcher", sends a token of Casterly gold and jewelry to appease the Gryffin king.

Unknowingly, King Leost also angered the Storm Kings. King Durrandon had been preparing to expand farther north and west, wishing to gain more land out of Dorne's reach. Now he not only lost access to over land trading with the Vale, a longtime neighbour, he had to worry about further expansion by the Kings of the Rock.