278 AC
In the late rays of the setting sun, emerges one hundred men and women from The Cold Swamps of the Neck, all clad in Ice Forged Steel and carrying Ice Forged Weapons. All of them are covered head to toe, only their eyes revealed. They ride Snow Bears and the Banner of House Stark of Winterfell attached to each Snow Bear flows in the wind. Along the Kingsroad they ride, the ground freezing where the Snow Bears step, the air cold enough for one's breath to be seen, the cold of the North following the riders through the Southern Summer.
For two days and two nights they ride, never stopping to rest. They arrive at Harrenhal as the last Lords and Ladies of the South arrive for the grandest of Tourneys that Westeros had ever seen, in attendance is every Southern Lord and Lady. The Southerns part and shiver as the Northerns ride past, never slowing and never stopping, those that aren't fast enough get trampled and killed under one hundred Snow Bears, and yet the Northerns keep riding. The Northerns ride into the Hall of A Hundred Hearths, and finally stop before the dais, the Royal Family of House Targaryen is currently seated along with House Whent, the hosts of this grand tourney. The led Northerner atop his mighty Snow Bear looks at each person seated at the High Table. He points at one, said to be the most beautiful Maiden in all of Westeros, her sun kissed skin and her laughing violet eyes unrivaled by all.
"Tū" He says.
Behind him two Northerns descend from their Snow Bear Mounts and retrieve a large chest from a third before placing it in front of House Dayne's Table.
The beautiful maiden stands and smooths out her dress and descends from the High Table, she is helped up onto the led Snow Bear. The one hundred Northerns turn and return from whence they came, beyond the Cold Swamps of the Neck.
Lord Ulric Dayne stands and opens the chest, finding it filled with gold.
The story of Lady Ashara Dayne, the most beautiful Maiden in all of Westeros being chosen by the Northmen is soon forgotten as Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen crowns the Lady Cersei Lannister as his Queen of Love and Beauty, five months later Lady Cersei of House Lannister disappears and the Southern Kingdoms of Westeros plunge into Civil War as rumors that Lady Cersei of House Lannister, the betrothed of Lord Robert Baratheon, is raped by Crown Prince Rhaegar of House Targaryen.