7 AC
Ransom and Return
The Crownlands
Prince Mael Targaryen is born to King Aegon and Queen Rhaenys of House Targaryen. His birth brings much joy to the family of Dragons though is not well celebrated by the rest of Westeros considering the turmoil elsewhere in the realm. His birthing is not an easy one and it takes the Queen many weeks to recover.
After two years in Dornish captivity, Aegon pays the price demanded by the enemy. Lord Orys Baratheon and the surviving captives return, but mutilated. Each man is missing his sword hand so he might “never again raise steel.”
At Driftmark, Lady Alyssa Velaryon is born to Lord Aethan Velaryon and Lady XX Targaryen.
The Reach
Lord Harlan Tyrell is formally declared dead.
The Vale of Arryn
The Sisters celebrate the birth of Lord XY Sunderland to Steffon Sunderland and Lady Olira née Coldwater.
The Westerlands
House Brax welcomes another daughter to Lord Robert and Lady Lynore.
8 AC
Timeline pending…
9 AC
Grief in the Riverlands and Shadows of War
The Crownlands
Lord Tully resigns as Hand of the King stating that he needs to be with his family.
Lord Alton Celtigar becomes the realm’s third Hand.
The Riverlands
Lady Senna Tully is born too early and too small. Within weeks, both she and her mother, Lady Maisie née Piper, perish, leaving Lord Edmyn Tully drowned in grief.
Lord XY of House Frey is born to Lord XY Frey and Lady Deana Frey Nee Erenford.
The Vale of Arryn
Lady XX of House Sunderland is born to Lord Steffon Sunderland and Lady Olira Sunderland Nee Coldwater.
Dorne
The Dornish War grinds on… slow, bitter, and endless.
10 AC
The Dragon’s Wroth
The Crownlands
After a long and arduous labor, Queen Rhaenys Targaryen delivered another Dragon into the world. Princess XX, born in the shadow of the Aegonfort, was a large and lusty babe, her first wails rising in furious protest at being torn from the warmth of her mother’s womb. It was said the very stones of the Aegonfort trembled with her cries, as though the newborn princess announced herself to the realm with all the fire of her lineage.
Yet for all her strength, the gods granted her only a fleeting span beneath her mother’s touch. Queen Rhaenys held her daughter for but a handful of days, offering soft kisses to the brows of both her children, XX in her cradle and young Mel at her side, before duty called her skyward. Mounting Meraxes, she flew for Dorne, never again to return to either child’s embrace.
Davos Darklyn was born to Lord Rolland Darklyn and his wife, Lady Kiara Darklyn née Celtigar. His birth was duly recorded and celebrated at Duskendale, marking the arrival of a new heir to House Darklyn and further binding the ancient line of the Dun Fort to the blood of House Celtigar.
The Iron Islands
XY of House Greyjoy is born to Lord Vickon Greyjoy and Lady XX Greyjoy Nee Blacktyde.
Dorne
The war with Dorne turned irrevocably upon the loss of Queen Rhaenys and the slaying of her dragon Meraxes. When word reached King Aegon, his grief hardened swiftly into fury. From that fury was born what would be remembered as the Dragon’s Wroth.
Aegon cast aside restraint. Dragonfire and steel were loosed across Dorne in a campaign of devastation. Castle after castle burned; holdfasts, villages, and seats of power were put to the torch. Nearly all of Dorne felt the king’s wrath, Sunspear alone was spared utter destruction. The war grew harsher, bloodier, and without quarter.
It was amid this scorching campaign, in the Red Mountains, that a single warrior of House Corbray rose to grim renown. Gawin Corbray was not yet fully grown, still a youth by count of years, his beard scarcely filled and his voice not yet settled. Yet he was so tall and broad of shoulder that most who beheld him took him for a man already hardened by age and war.
His legend was forged during a savage engagement fought along a steep mountain defile. Dornish spearmen and archers had trapped the Crown’s forces beneath rock and fire, pinning the vanguard under relentless arrowfall. As the line began to falter, Gawin advanced alone into the narrowing pass, climbing broken stone beneath a storm of shafts. Those who witnessed it later swore he fought with a fury beyond reason, wielding his blade with the strength of a grown man and the recklessness of youth, carving into the Dornish line again and again.
King Aegon himself fought in the pass that day, and amid the crush of steel and the thunder of shouts, he saw the young Corbray press forward long after any man should have fallen, his great frame moving through blood and stone as if driven by sheer will alone.
When the Dornish line finally broke and the pass was taken, Aegon stood among the wounded and the dead, his own blade still dripping red. There, upon the blood-slick stones of the pass and before the gathered host, he knighted Gawin Corbray himself, raising him in that moment from boy-warrior to sworn knight of the realm.
The Dragon’s Wroth exacted a terrible cost. Lord Addam Hightower was killed in battle, as was Lord Garmon Hightower. Lord Vaith fell amid the fighting, and Lord Fell met his end in a brothel far from any field of honor, slain during the chaos and lawlessness of the campaign.
Only after these losses did the Dornish answer fire with shadow. A blood price was placed upon King Aegon and all who fought beside him. Three attempts were made upon the king’s life, and Queen Valeana likewise survived several efforts against her. When the two were assaulted together in the streets, steel drawn amid confusion and crowd, Aegon at last consented to Valaena’s long pressed proposal. A Kingsguard that would serve for life. They would hold no title, no lands, they would never marry and would never sire children. Their only allegiance was to the Crown of Westeros