This is a rewrite to my Prince of the West story I decided to abandon as I wanted to change the timeline. I changed the Worlding and Map to fit a more lengthy timeline. I plan to make a campanion work that will focus on the history of each settlement or an area in Wonderos, Gondros, or Frostros. I would also like to thank Ronon for his sequstions on Prince of the West.

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A short history of the Seven Settlements

By Arch Maester Brodin

Early Age of Discovery

The age of discovery began with Queen Rhaenys and her desire to explore the Sunset Sea. It was her dream and after a near death experience at Hellholt she would not be discouraged from following it. And she had her chance in 25 AC when her family' throne was more secured.

The Queen out flew from Lannisport in 27 AC after gathering the necessary supplies. For a moon she flew, resting at the occasional island or islet. She flew above storms and whirlpools that took the life of most who came before her on ship.

According to the tales she grew weak from dwindling food; her dragon flying lowly from exhaustion but if they stopped they'd drown. Then as her drive to keep moving forward came to its weakest point she was said to be guided by seven birds to land as told by the faith. Its the option of the Citadel though that more likely she saw see gall returning from their hunts far out to the sea. But no matter which reason she followed them and the sea broke to an endless expanse of land, a whole new realm.

First she landed upon a craggy outcropping overlooking the beach and sea below. A river followed through it dividing into two wonderful waterfalls over the crag. Rhaenys christened this land Wonderos, the place of the wonders as she latter put it.

While not fully known until much latter the New Realms were divided into three distinct continents. Wonderos is a continent most similar to Westeros with its vast amounts of resources and life but under a better climate system in which the seasons pass in only a year. To its south is the mysterious continent of Gondros, a land full of mysteries in its thick jungle foliage. And to the north is Frostros, a vast largely barren land from which the Frostrosi hail. And most of the folk that live here now can tract their histories to Rhaenys, for had she perished at Hellholt there's no telling how known history would changed.

To keep Wonderos in their control Visenya built several forts and strong in it eastern coasts. The first of which was the dragon keep, a wooden moat and bail castle built at end of Rhaneys crag. From this the latter city of Queens Landing would grow out of it like the Aegon Fort decades prior.

She also gained the loyalty of several natives when she helped destroy a Dothraki like tribe of raiders from the central plains that rode wooden horse drawn chariots into battle. The tales of the warriors warring against these chariot warriors greatly griped the imaginations of Westeros. Visenya left when Aegon and Rhaenys died within a year of eachother leaving the New Realms to Prince Maegor.

When her son Prince Maegor arrived in Wonderos he destroyed most of their influence. He started many a war and attacked their allies believing them to conspire against house Targaryen. When he gained the dragon Balerion the black dread after his fathers death he would sail to the point between the Sunset and Summer seas and burn any ship attempting to travel west.

Eventually though a Braavosi captain tricked Maegor . He was know as Gondo the Gambler both due to his daring in sea travel and his gambling problem. He hoped to pay off his gambling bets by making a fortune in the New Realm. He used a old broken Baavsoi Galley to distract Maegor while slipped off into the open sea. But his ship was blown off corse and he instead accidentally discovered a new land that he named Gondros after himself.

Maegor's actions in the west helped house Targaryen retain control over the New Realm, but weakened it in the long run. He crippled and routed the Iron Born captains there, but they fled to what is now Reavers Way to hid in its marshy harbors and became the Thrall Kings as they built Kraken Deep a place to haul their loot and keep their thralls.

He turned on many of their native allies, even slaughtering some to the point of genocide. And he set war against the Company of the Rose who traveled to the New Realm looking for a life away from house Targaryen. In the end his wars weakened the Targaryens in the west and was the prelude to his latter actions in Westeros.

The Company of the Rose were a sellsword company of exiled Northmen from the conquest era who wanted a place to call theirs. They risked everything they had to find a new kingdom where Northern culture could thrive. But they were attacked by Maegor almost immediately. Their fleet crashed on a small peninsula know now as the Galley due to the amount of burning ships Maegor caused to crash there.

They would found a temperature wide reddish and orangish desert with many wild horses running through. The desert was as harsh as any desert could be is but cool at night and more temperate than most deserts. They named the Red Rills due to the horses reminding them of the North's Rills where its lords house Ryswell bred, raised and sold horses. It border the central plains which layer to its northwest.

They attempted to flee but Maegor followed them. They had an alliance with locals tribes and fought Maegor. Their aging commander Brandon Snow lead half their vanguard, made up of many of their aging soldiers, west lighting campfires as if they had their full force. Brandon and his men then stood their ground against Maegor at a plateau between the Red Rills and the Central Plains. Maegor scoured these plateauses know as the bluffs. They were attacked at in an nightly ambush. But they stood their ground to the last man and gave their comrades time to hide in the Rills with the natives. They named where they fought Brandon's Buff and called it the Battle of the Rose. (The bluffs still sport the black marks of Balerion making them like a giant black and red rock.)

The Company had alliances with native tribes and intermixed with their native women. As the years went by the original company turned into more of a loose confederation of horse rangers called the Red Rangers. They protected their lands as well as trade caravans that moved through their lands from all over the settlements who in turn secretly hired them to protect their smugglers trades operations. From this they gained influence in the other settlements and grow in a mixture of different peoples and cultures, though it was mostly Dornishmen and Northmen as they were the ones who usually decided to stay.

Due to the Westerosi wanting to keep their settlements reliant on them they banned trade without its ruling lords consent. And restricted the settlers to their assigned settlement. Of course they often ignore this and traded with eachother in secret. These smugglers found a good live in the less controlled parts of the Red Rills. Davos the Red Sail currently controls its naval smuggling trades with help from the merchants guild, an organization with power over over the settlements.

Mid Discovery Age

When King Jaehaerys rose to power he had rewritten the laws on the New Realm to strength the crowns' control on the New Realm. A prince/princess would be appointed as the Prince/Princess of the West as the crown's representative. The Great Houses were restricted in what they could do there limiting them to exploring and trade. And the biggest only the crown had the right to send men to settle there as the whole of Wonderos was claimed as the crown's property known as the Dragon Lands.

Good Queen Alysanne led the settlement programs. She gathered trusted lords to sort out those appealing the crown to be granted land in the New Realm. She granted many a smallfolk wanting a life away from the dictates of the high lords. Many lower born lords were allowed as long they swore an oath to the crown in perpetually. They also could only own land not be its official lord, so that they more easily take disloyal lords lands.

Exploration also exploded in Jaehaerys peace. New Ships Braavosi galleys were being bought by the Westerosi as they proved to be more reliable how the Sunset Sea. A Lannister of Lannisport discovered a smaller continent directly south of Wonderos, divided by great cliffs thirty five leagues apart. He named it Lannos. Gondros was further explored. But it was Elissa Farman who made some of the largest discoveries in this age.

Elissa was daughter of the Lord of Fair. She could sail from youth. It was her dream to sail the West and so when she befriended Queen Rhaena she convinced her to travel West with her. Elissa would sail the sea thats now name for her, the Elissan Sea. She would be the first to enter the Mooncast Sea and discovered with Rhaena the Dreamfyre Isles. After Rhaena death she sailed out into the Moon Cast sea and was never seen again until an elderly Elissa came across Corlys Velaryon in his ventures in the Jade Sea proving the world was round.

Late Discovery Age

Corlys took full advantage of the knowledge that Planetos was round. He sailed from Yiti to Dreamfyre being the first to due so other than Elissa. But a major problem that Elissa informed him of was Asshai. Asshai would rather its secrets remain that so they attacked Elissa's crew many times, forcing them to life off the Ulthosi coast for there ship was too damaged from the attacks. So Corlys brought Elissa on his ship and together sailed around the southern half of Ulthos to find the continent smaller than they expected and they sailed its southern coast instead. Corlys would also latter sail around Sothoryos. This opened open new trade relations and a drive for the Great Houses to want more power in the West.

Corlys Velaryon would find a way through the Corlys Straights and the Ice Stones, a series of islands larger than the Step Stones but similar to them. It wouldn't be until the North arrived that the Frostrosi people were found and communicated with. Corlys discovery would help open a new source for trade.

Some notables new trades were Yitish tea, Sothoryos' Tobacco plant, and a Ulthosi bean called coco. These coco beans can be made into a light brownish potion that energizes oneself. It was and currently is banned still in most of the Free Cities except for Braavos; it was also banned in several Westerosi kingdoms except for the Reach, Dorne and mostly surprisingly the North. The North also has taken a liking to another beverage made from Gondrosi plants called Hot Coco. All of these plants while mayhaps not native to Gondros and Wonderos are grown there, though coco beans have only be grown south of Dorne.

The Founding Age

House Hightower convinced King Viserys to repeal some of Jaehaerys' laws and allow them to form a proper settlement. This angered a Greta many of the Great Houses as they were still restricted from having their own claim. The Hightowers received a lot of the Central Eastern Coastline; they named it the High Lands. These lands were fertile like the Reach but due to Wonderos' unique climate it grew more regularly and predictable. The Hightowers during their short reign began construction on the cities of Seven' Sanctuary; and where Rhaneys landed and Visenya expanded grew into a city Called Queening Landing due to being a natural stop from the Sunset Sea and a good harbor . Their right to these lands were revoked by the regent council at the end of the Dance; it was given to house Tyrell who built Garden Square, Tarly' Horn, and Fox Den.

After the dance of Dragons concluded, the laws on the lords powers in the west were completely revoked by the regents council. Many who were broken by the dance then replied on getting sponsorships from the high lords, most of which required becoming indebted to them for generations as indentured servants. Many kingdoms tried keeping only their people going to their settlement but many more simply settled the first place they found. In the end the settlements became taking shape.

First house Lannister declare the southern parts of Lannos theirs, they had been there already illegally. They also claimed an under river tunnel system which allowed them to sail underneath the desert. They then collected gold and silver from the desert, along with charging men to use it. From this house Lannister grew even richer than they already were.

House Stark having recently become construction on a new fleet called the Winter Fleet would find the Frostrosi, who thy found to be the lost descendants of the Shipwrights fleet. For this reason they claimed the lands across Corlys straights from Frostros. They uncreatively took the name New North.

The Delta lands were established along a series of Delta at the west end of Wonders. It was inhabited by survivors from the Riverlands. They like many were broken from the war and wished for a new start. They became the Deltamen.

Iron Born claimed Reavers Way despite the fact that the Iron Kings still lived there and raided from there. They secretly supported them with men and resources such thralls to till their lands. Krakens Deep grew into two cities, the older raid base of the Iron Born nobles and the thrall city around taking shape. They also stole children from other settlers as thralls or worse sold them as slaves for coin.

Many Vale men settled along the Rune Mountains, a series of large rocky Mountains filled with ancient runes from some lost people; Their different to the First Mens' runes. They latter sent the Clansmen there as well and some Royces live there to study the runes.

Wars for the West

In 160 AC after his conquest of Dorne, King Daeron I Targaryen assembled a massive fleet and headed for the West. He assembled the fleets of the Lannisters, the Redwyns, the Velaryon, Winter and Royal fleets into one massive fleets. All were tired of the raiders of the Iron Kings and marched on them. The Crannogmen helped prevent a lot of ambushes the army marched on land from Queens Landing and the gran Navy from the sea. The Winter Fleet took the most losses on the sea battles due to inexperience while they did the best on land battles. By the end of the war they surrounded the Iron Kings capital of Kraken Deep. In the end their own thrall as revolted and opened the gates while burning their escape ships that were supposed go down the Fishway River. Daeron renamed the city to Dragons Deep.

When king Daeron latter died to Dorne and King Baelor forged peace, part of said peace was given Dorne a piece of the New Realm. New Rhoyn rose as a result, west of the Red Rills and was where the Wonderosi side of the Great Cliffs were. They would regularly trade with Rills and mixed a little with them adopting their own Ranger known as the Star Rangers, found by a Dayne. Their lands are a desert so white that they resemble a snowy landscape.

Other notables settlements are found in Gondros and Frostros. In Gondros there is the tail tip, where the Gondros coil ends. The Hatching Island in the middle of Coil bay. There they grow cocoa beans. The tip also acts as a resting place in the Elissan Sea. The most of the other parts of Gondros are either uninhabited or have been by the Free or Slaver cities. They use slaves as a workforce and the remaining Iron Kings fled there becoming the Thrall kings. They grow sugar cane on Dreamfyre Isles in the Mooncast. The crown has claims in the unpopulated and frigid western half of Frostros where. And two claims on the tail of Gondros. One on the tip and the other on other side.

When the Blackfyres rebellion failed rebellion resulted a lot of their supporters fleeing to the New Realm. This resulted in an attempt of Aegor to seize the New Realm for the Blackfyres. But the Wondersi kicked them out before war could strike. The Wondersi would have to fight off the Golden Colony in Ulthos and their Essosi allies. The slavers seek to undermine Wonderos in order to enslave their people. The Golden Colony is located in Ulthos.

Aerion Brightflame once decided to take a dip in a lava on Dreamfyre Isles during his time as Prince in the West. They say his skin melted off flesh and that his cracked as the orange liquid consumed the mad prince.

Finally we reach recent era. King Jaehaerys had his armies march and take the Golden Colony to end its threat once and for all. Ser Barristan Selmy slew its lord Maelys the Monstrous. They freed the slaves there as well and gave them land in Wonderos.

They also turned the Golden Colony into a place for criminals like the Nights Watch. Though its dangers would make those would chose it wish they hadn't. But most did and this weakened the Nights Watch.

When Tywin returned and brought extinction upon of the mainlines of houses Tarbeck and Reyene, their cadets branches in Lannos bent the knee if reluctantly. A Reyne from the West went to King Aerys when he tried demanding Castamere and justice for his kins murder. The Mad King didn't take too kindly at that and had him executed.

The Rebellion Age

The rebellion's origins lie with the Mad King Aerys. At first Aerys reign seemed to be prosperous, likely due his hand Tywin Lannister. But over the years the king shoot to limit the powers of the Lords Council leading to a civil war.

The Realm was divided in its support. Prince Rhaegar had houses Baratheon, Lannister and Tully on his side. The Dornish were forced into remaining neutral due to King Aerys holding Elia and her children Aegon and Rhaenys as hostages. King Aerys had the crownlands and houses the Tyrell, Reyne, and Darry on his side. Despite Rhaegar taking Lyanna Stark the North stayed out of the war due to wildlings breaking through the wall as a result of the Watch lacking man power, at its weakest they had little more than a score of men for one of the three remaining castles. Rhaegar's forces defeated the loyalists at the battle of Bitterbridge and siege Kingslanding.

Jaime Lannister slayed the Mad King as he attempted to burn the city to the ground and left for a self imposed exile. He was excommunicated from the kings guard to give Tywin Lannister his heir back but Jaime but instead he put himself into a self imposed exile. Later his brother Tyrion joined when his father executed his wife Tysa for being a lowborn whore.

To appease lord Tywin Rhaegar was forced to set aside his Marriage to Lyanna Stark . She and her son Jon Snow left to live with her brother Eddard who acts as the Lord Governor of the New North. Rhaegar would finally have his Visenya when Queen Cersei bore him twins, Daeron and Visenya. She latter birthed Prince Daemon as well.

The Greyjoys attempted to rebel five years latter and tried retaking their lost settlement. After this they lost all claims on the New Realm, what little they had left. Though lord Greyjoy still tries to hold lands in east if not the west. Such as places in Sothoryos.

In line of succession there is crown prince Aegon, then Rhaegar's third son Daemon, and his forth son Daeron. Then his daughters Rhaenys then Visenya. After them comes his brother Viserys and his sister Daenerys. Least is his legitimatized son Jon Snow in the west. Currently Crown Prince Aegon is betrothed to Minisa Baratheon, daughter of Robert Baratheon and Catelyn Baratheon née Tully. Prince Daeron is betrothed to lady Margery Tyrell. Princesses Rhaenys, Visenya or Prince Daemon are currently not betrothed.

The New Realm found the crown clamping down on its trade harder than before. Many including Tywin Lannister wish to put the New Realm in his as they act more wildling savages than subjects of the lords. The Lowborn act like they are as important as highborns. But to do this would likely require war. But surely the Seven Kingdoms will win if it comes to that.

Next chapter will be set will Viserys in the Dreamfyre Isles. They are like Hawaii and the the galapagos islands mixed with Jurassic Park, sir arthur conan doyle's the Lost World and the Mayans.