THE MANNIS UNLEASHED
Disclaimer : All Characters are owned by George RR Martin and HBO. This story is a self insert into Stannis Baratheon during Robert's Rebellion.
Chapter – 25
Randyll Tarly
Lord Tarly walked towards the tower of the hand with his men in tow. He was feeling tense these last three moons. His fool of an overlord mace had suddenly turned into a strict and just lord. After stealing credit for his victory over Robert at ashford during the earlier phases of the rebellion, mace tyrell quickly acknowledged tarly as the sole reason for robert's only defeat in the rebellion which gained him some respect but did more harm to his chances of gaining control of the reach. He climbed the steps of the hand's tower and saw guards of house arryn near the hand's chamber.
He was admitted to the chamber where he found the hand in conversation with pox faced mark mandrake and humphrey stone of the disbanded golden company. He heard that many of them found houses and fiefs in the stormlands where as some were moved to the vale and the riverlands as well. The hand shook their hands and they left the chambers before greeting him. He sat down and looked around to see the hands office and found many parchaments lying around. There was the new 'flag' of united westeros on the wall along with the banner of house arryn next to it. The place was sparsely decorated as befit the lord of the vale.
"Lord hand" he greeted. "Lord Tarly I hope you enjoyed your stay in the caapital" the hand asked. "Yes my lord these are interesting times to be in the capital" he said looking suspiciously at the lord. "Indeed they are my lord as the king said we need westeros united now more than ever to carry us into the golden age that our descendants will be living in" the vale lord said.
"Lord Tarly I remember you being the only man to defeat robert in his only battle in the rebellion at Ashford and I have heard from other lords that you tried to rise the reach to crown viserys targaryan after rhaegar and aerys perished. Is it true ?" asked Arryn looking at him with those focused eyes. Randyll cursed himself of course mace would have slandered against him to the new regime to make him suffer. He was a tarly and he was not one to back down.
"I did sworn an oath to Aerys my lord, unlike some lords I do not change allegiances whenever the wind turns" he replied the hand proudly. "Loyalty is a good trait my lord but trying to extend a lost cause and suggesting the murder of the new royal family can be considered as treason" warned the hand. Yes indeed mace have ruined his reputation.
"Also prince stannis took threats personally. Lord Fossaway and Lord Mathis Rowan were to send one of their female children as royal cupbearers for the queen. Both the lords agreed to it." arryn added. "Now for you lord tarly the king have decreed that you should send your first born son and heir to storm's end to serve as a squire to prince stannis baratheon" the hand thundered. Tarly felt anger rise in his chest for the disrespect he was shown. He was a Hunter not a servant to be ordered. He knew he cannot disobey a royal order else he will be destroyed.
Atleast his son will have good relations with the prince and the stormlords are fierce fighters. "I will send my firstborn son when he reaches five years of age lord arryn. Tell the king that I will serve him faithfully" he replied with a grimace. A smile broke on the hand's face and he shook his hand before leaving the tower. Randyll still cannot believe their miserable seige in the stormlands which was hell for everyone as nightmare plagued him of having a fat and useless son who he sent to the night's watch. He hoped that will not come to pass and his son would be a huntsman to the core.
Cersei lannister
As promised she flew with the prince on 'Rodan the stormbird' which was a dream come true for her. 'The flying lioness' she wanted to call herself as this would not be the last time she flies on the beast as it will be living in storm's end. She was the second woman in westeros after the queen to fly on a wyvern. Stannis sat behind her and excited her by pressing her breasts and groping her arse every now and then. She was helpless to deny him as she was strapped to the saddle. The prince kissed her neck and rubbed her back to entice her even more.
He nibbled her ear from behind and trailed his fingers inside the top of her gown and touched her nipple and squeezed it making her cunt wet with excitement. She thought he would fuck her right then but stannis said they will consummate on their wedding day and she can't wait after seeing him fight and kill the white bull. She only wished her prince was as skilled in bed as he is in battle. They returned to kingslanding and prepared for journey to storm's end for their wedding. Stannis had kissed her hard before they went their owns. She talked with her father and for the first time in her life her father applauded for the good job she had done in wooing stannis.
She felt happy that father had recognized her efforts to further her house's power. She had attended court and saw that the queen and ashara along with the ladies of the court are gossiping about something. She bowed to the queen and wished the ladies present before they hounded her with questions about her flying on rodan. She thought finally good luck started favouring her. She saw the queen gushing like a maiden when king robert came to court and winked at her.
The rumour around the red keep is that the king and queen retire to their chambers early and guards hear their passionate love making through the night. Some stormlords even started betting that there will be a heir born before the year is out. The former queen rhaella is seen playing with her babe along with the blackfyre boy and ashara's bastartd boy always accompanied by heavy guards.
The redkeep is abuzz with guests and lords as the new flagship created based on 'stannis's' designs have been tested and proved to be much swifter and better than the current war galleys and drummonds. Cersei knew the prince is just as popular as the king and recently many of the returned golden company exiles have found themselves to be stannis's bannerman which made them extremely loyal to house baratheon.
She along with the queen along with her ladies looked towards the training yards filled with knights and lords practicing and honing their skills. He saw her prince swinging his long sword 'Excaliber' against the king's 'Defiance'. Sparks flew as both baratheon brothers parried and attacked each other as knights and men at arms encouraged them. The king used a swift but powerful move to topple stannis and disarmed him after a long spar. Stannis yielded and laughed before praising the king and changed partners.
There will be a melee tommorow to determine the seventh member of the kingsguard. Cersei saw some strong smallfolk consisting of blacksmiths, tanners and big farmers training for the contest. There are many hedge knights and former peasants who came to the capital to compete in the melee. She knew that most of them are former brigands and bandits but they were given a chance to join the sacred order. She was curious to see which peasant or hedge knight will win the melee.
She suddenly saw the cole lad bring a message to stannis which made him smile and leave the training yard with his squires. She looked at the gates as a small retinue of riders arrived carrying the banners of house Martell of dorne. She looked on as the 'red viper' dismounted and glared at the king and her brother before bowing. She suddenly had a bad feeling in her stomach as if something was about to go very wrong. She chided herself for being 'paranoid' and brushed the feeling aside. But a small voice in her head whisphered 'Valonqar'.
Lord Commander of the Kingsguard
Barristan was sure of only one thing in his life 'duty'. He remembered the day when ser duncan the tall dubbed him 'the bold'. He had fought honourably for the targaryans but the prince perished and his former king was killed by his sworn brother Jamie, though in light of what Aerys was planned it is fortunate that he did. They were both forgiven and both became the first of the new kingsguard for king Robert Baratheon.
The sheer changes robert have brought to westeros are enough to serve him loyally to the end. He had united all the kingdoms except dorne by introducing a symbol or 'flag' as it was popularly called by everyone and an 'Anthem' to immortalise it which was never done before. The sheer change of rules and ideas that have come from robert and stannis in the small counsil meetings were incredible. He never thought a blackfyre would be made 'lord of dragonstone' let alone the sword 'Blackfyre' be given to him for safeguarding or the babe 'daenerys' would be poised to be a future queen.
Robert have proved himself as a great king in a very short period and his just rule was lauded by both the lords and the people. He looked at his new brothers who stood around the king ser mandon moore, ser perwyn frey, ser franklyn fossaway and ser martin cassell. They all are good swords but he mistrusted ser franklyn who was a sellsword before joining the kingsguard . One more person will soon fill the last spot with the winner of today's melee. He looked on as the melee ground was cleared and all the contenders waited for the signal from the king.
He saw many hedge knights from all over westeros ready to claim glory of being a white cloak. The king stood up and called for silence. A men at arms brought the 'flag' on a horse and gave it to the king. The king held the flag and nodded as a group of orphan boys and girls came forward followed by musicians. The children began singing the anthem and Robert joined them and pointed his arms towards the crowd signaling the crowd to join ithe singing.
God of nations at thy feet,
In the Bonds of love we meet,
Hear our voices we entreat,
Gods defend our free land,
Guard the Sunset's seven stars,
From the shafts of Strife and War,
Make her praises heard afar,
Gods defend the Sunset Lands.
The song reverberated throughout the arena and crowd gave a huge roar as it ended and saluted the flag before sitting down. Barristan liked this new ballad as it insired loyalty and corage in whoever singing it and influenced people to strive for a united westeros.
"Let the Melee begin" boomed the king as heralds sounded trumpets to signal the start of a melee. All the hedge knights and common folk began fighting in a frenzy. Barristan saw many knights unhorsed by lances and beaten by cudgels by some peasants. He saw a knight fight a man wielding a scythe. A large blacksmith wielding a big hammer broke shields to pieces and sent knights flying. He saw all kinds of weapons used by the smallfolk.
He thought that this was more like an ambush and less a melee. The fights trickled into one on one knight to multiple peasants working together to defeat a knight. Few Hedgeknights fought together to defeat a large knight wielding a morning star. Slowly the knights fought on foot after some time many of the small folk are defeated and left the field. There are only four standing now.
The big blacksmith with a large hammer , a hedge knight with a big belly and has a green field on a brown chief sigil painted on his shield. He saw another hedge knight with personal arms of gold and ermine gyronny on his shield, he wore rusted mail and wielded a battered blade and seemed to have bony hands. The final mane looked like a sell sword by the way he held his dagger and sword. The hedge knight who looked atleast fifty years old struggled to counter the younger sellsword but kept fighting none the less.
The big bellied knight put up a valiant effort to counter the hammer blows of the skilled blacksmith with his shield and tried to counter the large hammer with his sword. This man seemed to be younger than the other knight. He saw that the blacksmith felled a mighty blow on the knight's shield breaking it to pieces. But the knight took this opportunity to come close and hit the brute with a mailed fist across the face which caused the man to yell in pain. The hedge knight used this opportunity to disarm the blacksmith and the brute yielded seeing he lost his hammer.
The older knight used a quick riposite and parry to escape a vicious swing from the sellsword and pulled a cheap iron dagger from his belt and held it to the man's neck and asked to yield. The brute kicked the old man and tried to kill him with a downward thrust but the old man rolled away and used his sword to disarm the man before stabbing him in the leg with his iron dagger. The sellsword yielded and left with the help of a soldier.
It finally came down to the two hedge knights who fought valiantly as the crowd cheered them on. The two warriors fought tooth and nail for victory yet they seem to known each other well as each was able to counter the other's attack. The stronger pot bellied knight was slowing down because of his girth but still fought on. Barristan saw that the king and prince are watching the fight eagerly. These are both honourable warriors, either of them will be a worthy kingsguard he thought.
Finally the older knight's sword shattered by the assault of the big bellied knight who suddenly used his left hand to change the direction of attacks and struck his opponent's sword hard. Now swordless the old knight pulled out his iron dagger and faced down his opponent. When they charged at each other , he used his dagger and blocked a blow before crashing into the knight with his shield. The bigger knight staggered and tried to stand but was quickly unarmed by the older knight who brought his dagger upto his neck and brought the shield on his sword hand to disarm him.
"Yield" he heard the old knight shout. The big belly knight struggled to move and finally said "I yield ser". The crowd roared in happiness as the underdog won over a younger opponent. The old knight offered a bony hand to his fallen foe who accepted it and stood up and congratulated him on the victory.
Both the knights came before the king and kneeled. "Well fought sers, Arise, remove your helms and introduce yourselves " boomed the king. Both of them stood up and removed their helms. The winner a man who might be fifty years old he has a pointed and narrow face spoke "I am known as ser Illifer the Penniless your grace" said the man proudly. "I am Ser Creighton Longbough your grace" said the other knight.
"You have both fought honourably sers and shown compassion and chivalry that is paramount to being a knight. Ser barristan if you will" the king nodded towards him. Ser mandon brought a white cloak forward and barristan gave the cloak to ser illifer who was in tears and knelt. He unsheathed 'Blackfyre' and recited the kingsguard's vows to ser illyfer. Once the vows are spoken he boomed as the white cloak was draped around the former hedge knights neck "Arise Ser Illyfer the Fearless a knight of the kingsguard".
The old knight stood up proudly and nodded to the king before taking his place among the kingsguard to the cheers of the crowd. Barristan felt that there is a chance for him to make sure that will be the greatest kingsguard ever and felt pride fill his heart. He felt confident that this group of knights will be witnessing a golden era for westeros under King Robert Baratheon.
Sword of the Evening
Arthur dayne was a broken man, he first failed to stop his prince and friend rhaegar from the folly of running away with the lady lyanna after harrenhal, then he failed again to stop the cunning baratheon brother's who not only defeated him with his bare hands but also imprisoned all three kinsguard at Storm's End.
Not only stannis talked lyanna stark out of betraying rhaegar but also made the legitimate heir a northern bastard. If only rhaegar had listened to him. Ser Gerold was ever so loyal to the targaryans, he was humiliated by stannis and mace tyrell. When they were brought to kingslanding, ashara has convinced him to take the black. His brother hated him for following rhaegar and denounced him as 'sword of the morning'.
He did the only honourable thing by taking the black along with ser oswell. Old ser gerold however choose 'trail by combat' and tried to kill stannis and nearly succeded before the prince displayed the famed 'baratheon fury' and overpowered the white bull and beheaded him. Arthur knew the dragons reign is over but took solace in the fact that atleast rhaegar's sister 'Daenerys' will be a queen one day. He and whent were being escorted to the wall with fellow loyalists ser alister thorne', jeremy rykker, some darry knights and some corrupt goldcloaks guarded by a hundred men led by old jon mudd of the disbanded golden company when he heard a sudden screech of a wyvern above and saw the gold and black beast 'Rodan' landing near to their cart.
He was surprised to find prince stannis and his sister ashara dismount the wyvern. The guards bowed to the prince and told them something. A guard came to him and brought him before Stannis. " Ser Arthur you sister wants to tell you something before you leave so I have brought her to you. Please talk with her in privacy ser" stannis told her and pointed to a tree line and send two guards with him.
The two guarded followed him and his sister who hugged him and led him into the woods and stopped before a large tree. "What do you want to tell me that you didn't before Ash" he asked his sister. "Arthur I have spent some time with Ned Stark in storm's end and I found that I carry his babe" his sister replied with a sad face. Arthur was stunned by this revelation. Already his sister's reputation was damaged when she birthed a stillborn babe of brandon stark and now have to raise rhaegar's son as a stark bastard, now she was actually impregnated by the honouraable and married Ned Stark" he raged at how the stark brothers have humiliated his naïve sister.
"Ashara how can you let a stark dishonour you again. You should be married to a decent lord not birthing stark bastards" he fumed to which she glared at him. "I have done so for love and to save innocents arthur, do not forget whose babe I have saved at the cost of dishonor. Anyways the prince wanted to talk to you" his sister angrily replied and walked away leaaving him alone.
"Women, they are a complicated lord ser" japed stannis with his signature smile as he caame towards him. He walked towards arthur and offered him a parchament and a bottle of wine. "Please give the letter to my great grandfather maester Aemon atcastle black ser and the wine is for your journey. There is a secret I need to tell you ser that if you take seriously will save all of westeros one day" the prince spoke in a serious tone.
"What is it prince stannis" he asked curious what game the prince is playing. "Ser arthur in about fourteen years an army of a million wildlings will attack the wall to overpower it and will enter the seven kingdoms" the prince spoke omniously "they do not do so for conquest ser , but to protect themselves from the true enemy and mankind's ancient threat, 'The White Walkers' and their army of the dead" stannis spoke with dread in his voice.
Arthur almost laughed about such an absurd claim if not for the prince's serious demeanor. "You cannot expect me to believe in myths and legends stannis" he replied with a smirk to which the prince shook his head and came near him and once he did arthur say the prince's eyes go white and his body went still. He did not understand what the prince was doing but felt unnerved by the sudden calmness. Suddenly a large aurochs came from behind a tree and looked at him queerly. He saw that it has blue eyes. The animal walked towards them and stopped a few inches before stannis.
Stannis suddenly opened his eyes and placed his hands on the large beast and it panicked as it's eyes became black. "easy boy, I won't hurt you" stannis told the beast and strangely it calmed down. Arthur was stunned how stannis have tamed a wild beast. "Ser arthur you have heard the rumors that I am a skinchanger right ? you still believe they are false" the smug prince asked looking him in the eyes. His blue eyes which he saw in the aurouch a minute ago were challenging him to deny and arthur felt fear grip him.
"I was given a vision ser in which I saw the ancient enemy awoke and killed all the wildlings beyond the wall and added them to his army of the dead. They will destroy the wall and kill any army they face. 'The Night King' will then destroy all life in westeros and raise the dead to do his bidding. Then he will taake his armies and destroy Essos, YiTi, Asshai and all the lands till our planet is devoid of life" the prince said with conviction in his voice.
"You cannot expect me to believe this story prince stannis, this is madness" he replied to which the prince mused "Is it. Do you remember rhaegar obsessing over the prophecy of 'the prince that was promised'. That promised prince was to lead the armies of the living against the white walkers and their dead in the long night and defeat the darkness to saave humanity". Arthur was stunned how did stannis know about rhaegar's mad ravings. He was too shocked to reply.
Stannis took small knife made of some material from his pocket and gave it to arthur. He studied the black substance and recognized it as dragon glass. "This obsidian along with valyrian steel can kill a white walker and wild fire as well as fire can kill a wight. Remember it ser and take the dragonglass knife to aemon and tell him everything I have told you. Train the recruits at castle black to face the coming threats. The North and the crown will lend all the support the night's watch needs to protect them from the darkness. Once you take the vow aand wear a black cloak remember that a time will come when you will wield 'Dawn' again to become 'The sword of the Evening' like your ancestor 'Davos Dayne' and defeat the white walkers with the armies of the seven kingdoms behind your back. The future of our country depends on you ser" stannis spoke seriously and went back.
Arthur's head was swimming. He need to speak with Maester Aemon to know the truth to stannis's claims. It is good that stannis gave him wine which he needed desperately on way to castle black. He looked at the dragonglass dagger in his hands and hid it in his boot and thought how could this knife kill a mythical whitewalker and started walking back to the cart thinking the baratheons have gone mad.
That night when they stopped in the riverlands and arranged camp. Arthur ate salted beef and some foul ale before slept took him. He was standing in a forest with snow falling and freezing wind surrounding him. This must be beyond the wall he thought. He saw movement by the trees and went near it drawing his sword. He was garbed in black and wore heavy bear skin leather for protection against the cold. Suddenly he saw few dead bodies near the trees missing limbs and parts.
All of a sudden the forest became silent and the cold increased tenfold. He saw something move like a shadow among the tree line. As it walked no sound came and when light fell on them arthur's breath froze , they are tall and white as the snow wearing glittering armour made of ice. They carried blades made of pure ice shards and moved with a grace unknown to men and their shone like stars. Suddenlt the corpses before him rose slowly with blue eyes and wailed before attacking him. He chopped off the hands of a few bodies and beheaded the rest but to his horror they still moved. He redoubled his efforts and hacked them to bits but they still moved. He saw a white walker draw it's blade and walked towards him.
The dead parted to allow their master to kill him. Arthur was winded and a voice whisphered to him 'use the dagger' but before he could react the demon was on him moving with an inhuman speed as he struggled to parry the long ice shard. The steel on his sword groaned and suddenly shattered to pieces. 'use the dagger' the voice repeated as he tried to back away. The creature lunged forward to finish him. He quickly ducked away and pulled the dagger from his boots and lodged it in the creatures neck.
The demon gave a shrill cry before shattering into pieces of ice and the dead bodies also fell down. Suddenly he saw more shapes appear from behind the trees. He saw seven more white walkers walk towards him. Surely he will die but he will die a black brother. He saw hundreds of dead bodies follow the others some of which are children. More of the dead followed like a horde consisting of dead bears, direwolves, shadowcats and to his surprise dead giants rode on rotting mammoths ready to kill anyone in their path. His body trembled at the sight of the nighmarish army.
"You are not alone ser" a voice spoke from behind him. He turned around and saw 'Stannis wearing armour and weilding his valyrian steel longsword riding a large basilisk covered in armour and spikes of dragonglass. He saw a huge army wearing armour and armed with flaming swords and dragonglass daggers. He felt relief as stannis stood beside him and nodded. The walkers looked at his rescuers and stopped.
Suddenly he was joined by ser basrristan selmy in his white armour wielding 'blackfyre' , ser jamie pulled out his valyrian steel sword 'path finder' , ned stark stood with 'ice', lord royce's armour and his valyrian sword 'lamentation' shone blue in the night and finally King Robert all dressed in his yellow and black armour raised his warhammer which had spikes of 'obsidian' everywhere on it in one hand and his valyrian steel sword 'defiance' in another joined them.
"Ser Arthur, it is time to fullfil your destiny" stannis said before giving him his greatsword which gleamed with power and pulsed in his hands. He had never seen 'DAWN' behave like this despite the stories his grandfather told him about it's power. When he held it he felt stronger and more focused than ever. He felt heat radiating from 'dawn' and felt the call of battle. He looked defiantly at the one whitewalker which was opposite to him and saw something akin to fear in it's eyes but it pulled out it's ice sword.
"Come Dance then" he said as he gave a battle cry and stannis shouted "For the living" and they faced the demons seven on seven. He saw both the armies clashing and saw the creature step back in fear of the swords. He saw robert smashing the head of an other with his hammer and stabbed another from behind to turn it into dust. He saw ser jamie cleave the head of another white walker. Both ned stark and lord royce killed their foes as well along with stannis and ser barristan who slew their enemies to pieces.
"Ser Arthur kill the 'Night King'" someone shouted when the tall and muscular walker parried a blows with me using it's lance. He met them blow to blow with 'dawn' which continued to burn hotter but it did not stop him. He saw that 'Dawn' was now shining with yellowish and red fire and the foe tried to escape. Arthur used every inch of his skill and strenght and landed a blow on the demon's lance shattering it. He quickly plunged dawn into the night king's chest which exploded him to pieces. Suddenly most of the undead army fell without a fight. Their army used dragonglass arrows to kill most of the white walkers.
Suddenly he heard roars above and saw three full grown dragons breathe fire on the undead army. "By the Seven, dragons fly the skies again" he cried aloud in excitement. "Yes they do ser arthur but see who ride them" stannis said pointing towards the large black dragon which landed nearby. He saw a silver haired girl wearing house targaryan colours with a crown atop her head. She has a likeness to queen rhaella when she was younger. 'Daenerys' he thought. He saw another green dragon with a rider who has the likeness of a stark but has a thinner build almost like rhaegar, 'oris snow' he thought. 'Rhaegar's son is a dragon rider' he thought happily.
Suddenly a ice spear stung the green dragon's neck as oris screamed and dismounted trying to save his dying dragon. Arthur ran towards him but he was too far. A white walker came out of nowhere and stabbed oris in the heart before fleeing. Oris fell down as arthur screamed for a maester. He picked up a dead oris and wailed. He felt movement beside him and saw the dead dragon slowly rise behind him with unnatural blue eyes. He looked towards oris who suddenly opened his bright blue eyes and brought his hands around arthur's throat squeezing with inhuman strength.
"NOOOO" he screamed and woke up to find his body sweating and his sight disoriented. There was no sign of an adult oris or an undead dragon, nor he was facing any enemies. He stood up to see ser oswell whent and ser alister thorne looking at him wierdly. He was still in the riverlands travelling to the wall. "It's okay arthur you were haaving a nightmare" whent assured him. It was a terrible one arthur thought which felt incredibly real. Suddenly the idea of others and wights did not sound so silly to him. He removed the obsidian dagger from his boot and determined to have a long chat with maester Aemon.
Summary : here are the details of Robert's court :
The King : Robert Baratheon I
His Queen : Lyanna Baratheon (nee Stark)
Hand of the King : Jon Arryn (also Warden of the East)
The Small Counsel -
Master of Laws : Lord Yohn Royce (wields Lamentation)
Master of Ships : Lord Paxter Redwyne ( Lord of the Arbor)
Master of Coin : Ser Kevan Lannister
Master of Whispherers : Lord Aenys Blackfyre (Lord of Dragonstone)
Lord Confessor/Master Torturer : Lord Roose Bolton ( Lord of the Dreadfort)
Master of Engineers : Lord Guncer Sunglass
Lord Ambassador to the Iron throne : Lord Eldon Estermont
Commander of the City Watch : Ser Symond Templeton
The Kingsguard -
Lord Commander of the Kingsgaurd : Ser Barristan Selmy (the stormlands) weilds 'Blackfyre'
Ser Jamie Lannister (the westerlands) wields 'Path Finder'
Ser Mandon Moore (the vale)
Ser Martin Cassell (the north)
Ser Franklin Fossaway (the reach)
Ser Illyfer the Fearless (the crownlands)
Perwyn Frey (the riverlands)
Missing Valyrian Swords –
Brightroar ( Greatsword of House Lannister) - lost in Valyria
Dark Sister ( Longsword of House Targaryan) – with Bloodraven beyond the wall
Truth (Sword of House Rogare) - location unknown
Curved Sword of Sandoq the Shadow - location unknown
NOTE : The kingsguard is assembled and the royal wedding looms. Next chapter will introduce more POV's. As always thank you all for the support. Enjoy.