In the third month of 300 AC, Ser Brynden Tully, Protector of the Realm declared total capitulation for the Kingdom of the North and the Trident, commanding all defenders to set down arms.

Two weeks later, the last of the Northern resistance was crushed in the Karhold and Bear Island, officially ending the War of the Five Kings.

Many captives were took after the capitulation, most notable amongst them Jon Umber and Edmure Tully. These captives were later sent to King's Landing to await trail.

By now, a quarter of the Westerosi population was carried off by the Civil War, nearly half of those in the Riverlands and the North. Over ninety thousand soldiers were dead.

Sansa Stark: Found alive in a Lannister captive camp, but was raped multiple times, same as many women of Winterfell. Later married to Tyrion of House Lannister, living the rest of her long life in Casterly Rock, forever traumatized by the brutal death of her mother and brothers.

Brynden Tully: Committed suicide by sword after declaring total capitulation of the North, his bones interred beneath Riverrun at the insistence of Jaime Lannister.

Greatjon Umber: Held captive by Tarly forces in the Storming of Winterfell. Sentenced to death by King Joffrey during Trials of King's Landing.

Mors Umber: Retreated to his castle after aware of the defeat in Winterfell. Held captive whilst defending the Last Hearth against Lannisters. Thrown into the Black Cells beneath King's Landing after the Trials of King's Landing.

Rickard Karstark: Successfully breached the Lannister siege lines and fled further north. Died when Ser Addam Marbrand stormed the Karhold, slain by crossbow.

Lyanna Mormont: Committed suicide in Bear Island in the fourth month of 300AC after Lannisters advanced towards her seat.

Edmure Tully: Arrested by Lord Randyll Tarly whilst attempting to escape Winterfell. Later sent to Casterly Rock as a hostage to ensure further good behavior of the new Riverlords.

Jason Mallister: Arrested in the bunker by Tarly soldiers. Died during interrogation in a Lannister POW camp after being arrested in Winterfell. His ashes were thrown into the sea.

Black Walder Frey: captured by Lannisters after attempting to escape the castle after Ser Edwyn's death. Declared guilty of Treason and Crime of War in trials of King's Landing, later spared and forced to take the black in account of Lord Walder.

Hodor: beat to death by Lannister soldiers during the Storming of Winterfell. His body was later found, only recognizable by the size.

Tytos Blackwood: Died along with Ser Patrick Mallister defending Castle Cerwyn against the Lannisters. His body was never found.

Lords Hornwood and Cerwyn: all found guilty and hanged during Trails of King's Landing.

Lord Barrowton: surrendered to Lord Tarly after his defeat. His titles and lands were untouched by the Lannisters, but was forced to give his daughter as hostage to King's Landing.

Wyllis Manderly: Sentenced to death by noose in the Trials of King's Landing. He later requested to change to sentence of death by noose to beheading, but was refused. Committed suicide the day before scheduled execution in King's Landing.

Lord Wyman Manderly: arrested in Gulltown three days after Stark Capitulation, freed after ten years in the Black Cells, but sadly grew insane in the darkness of the cells.

Roose Bolton: Returned to the North after being rejected by Cersei Lannister in King's Landing but found himself stripped of titles and lands. Arrested in White Harbour under a false name by Lannister soldiers and committed suicide when his true identity was discovered.

The sack that followed Winterfell's capitulation was one of the worst the Seven Kingdoms had ever seen. Every woman from eight to sixty were raped, often multiple times by soldiers. Women were chased naked through the streets, not by one man but a hundred. Although the Supreme Commanders Ser Jaime and Lord Randyll had forbidden massacres, many soldiers had lost kin to the Starks in the war and were burning for revenge. They killed man, maid and child alike. Some cut open pregnant women to slay their babes, not even the cats and dogs were spared. After the sack, there wasn't even one man left to wander the streets.

Ser Addam Marbrand and Ser Lyle Crakehall even began a 'killing race'. They competed each other who could kill one hundred Northmen first. After the day Ser Addam had killed 105 and Ser Lyle 112, but none could agree, so they agreed to raise the numbers to two hundred. But even that is almost plausible, in comparison to what some other men did. Some herded Northmen into a small wooden chamber and then set it afire, 'just for fun's sake.' Precious Valyrian scrolls from the Stark library were used as firewood, to the mass dismay of Tyrion Lannister who had desired several of the scrolls. When the soldiers broke into the vaults beneath Winterfell stuffed full of silver, they fought each other for plunder, stuffing their pockets with silver, then throwing away the silver to stuff in more gold, then throwing out the gold to stuff in precious gems. The wealth gathered by hundreds of Stark Kings and lords was obliterated in a few hours. The soldiers carried off what they could carry and burned what they could not.

No single building was untouched by the sack. When the few sections still under Northern control yielded, the Lannisters broke into every house and looted whatever they had.

Some citizens of Winterfell still resisted stubbornly, for days after Ser Brynden's surrender. Some hid in the deeper sections of the bunker, or deep down in the crypts, or behind hidden doors, hoping to launch a revolt when the Lannisters left. They were sadly disappointed, since before the Lannisters departed Tyrion had commanded for them to burn down the entire castle. They were all smothered to death by the smoke.

'Burn all of the buildings, every single one, let nothing remain here but stones and bones. Then we'll be done here, we can go home.' Tyrion had commanded to his men.

The Lannisters must not but faulted too keenly, however, since war makes men beasts. During the Stark invasion of the south, Northmen committed similar atrocities, some even worse than these.

White Harbour was the next to yield. Lord Manderly fled the city after the surrender, and his cousin, commander of the City Watch yielded the city to the Lannisters. Some other lords followed his example. Their lands were looted as well, but not as badly as Winterfell.

In White Harbour all men of fighting age were all arrested and questioned, amongst them was Roose Bolton, under the false name of Ser Domeric Snow. It would seem Roose Bolton had attempted to negotiate peace to Cersei Lannister, but was bluntly refused. 'He who has nothing has no right to demand any,' Cersei had famously remarked. Bolton had later returned to the North hoping to continue a resistance in the North when informed of Ser Brynden's capitulation, but when he attempted to join Lord Karstark's divisions he was insulted and dismissed. After he was captured and questioned, a soldier who had fought in the Battle of the Green Fork recognized him. What exposed Bolton chewed down a pill of Sweetsleep he had hidden in his mouth and died at the spot. He was buried in an unmarked grace.

The survivors of the North were sent to King's Landing to await trial. King Joffrey, Lord Tywin, Lord Tarly and Prince Oberyn stood as judges, representing the Crown and the three victorious houses of the Civil War. Lord Cerwyn, Lord Barrowton, Lord Manderly and his sons, Lord Edmure Tully, Lord Jonos Bracken, Lord Walder Frey and a score of his sons and grandsons, The Greatjon and his uncle Mors were both held trial and given verdict, most of them death. In the trials the Greatjon cursed the King and the judges with words so foul he had to be silenced.

It took two full months before the last trace of the war disappeared and the last resistance crushed. Sansa Stark, thankfully not pregnant, was married to Tyrion Lannister in a lavish ceremony in King's Landing, the bride still traumatized. The North was placed under Lannister control, though the Lannisters did not extent their rule over their new colony, only sending the occasional ambassador to collect taxes. A rough peace arrived to the Seven Kingdoms.

The War of the Five Kings was finally over, but…

After the war the North was reduced to but a smoking wasteland, hardly peopled, with only population at White Harbour and several larger towns. The Last Hearth and the Karhold were abandoned, and without resources from Winterfell the Night's Watch quickly dwindled, running low on both food and weapons. There is no capable army in the North…

Meanwhile, the White Walkers are advancing for The Wall…

Winter is coming.

THE END

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