Notes

Despite my desire to write a second part to Forced Alliances I don't have the time at present so I decided to write up the below epilogue to summarize what I had intended for part two.

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Epilogue

Despite numerous overtures from the Starks and their allies including; Prince Quentyn Martell who burned to death releasing the imprisoned dragons of Meereen and Ser Randyll Tyrell who was killed by unsullied after he attempted to persuade the sellswords aligned with the Daenerys Targaryen to turn against her, the dragon queen remained steadfast in her position. She on numerous occasions spoke of her right to the Iron Throne and that all those who refuse to bend the knee to her would suffer for it with their blood.

It was upon hearing this and learning of all the envoys he had sent the Dragon Queen had been killed or imprisoned that King Robb sent word to ever city, town, village and keep throughout Westeros with a promise that he would fight and die so that all the peoples of Westeros would never again suffer under the madness of a Targaryen ruler.

With King Robb after refusing her order to bend the knee Daenerys Targaryen gathered together her dragons, Dotharki, unsullied, freemen and sellswords and began planning her invasion of the Seven Kingdoms, with the help of Jorah Mormont, Tyrion Lannister and Barristan Selmy the latter two of which reportedly had advised their queen to hold off her invasion till a time when Robb Stark's hold upon the throne wasn't as strong.

Refusing to listen to two of her advisors Daenerys Targaryen ordered her massive fleet to make haste for her birthright only stopping at Volantis where she with the aid of the followers of R'hllor killed the Triarchs and many of their allies freeing the slaves of the city and installing three former slaves as the cities new rulers.

An action she later regretted as the Old Blood of Volantis along with their allies soon regained control of the city when the Dragon Queen pushed onto Westeros. The Old Blood of Volantis put the Temple of Light to the torch killing thousands of the Red Gods followers in a single night before butchering thousands more slaves throughout the city in the following days returning the city to its previous ways.

Without the knowledge that her work at Volantis was soon to be undone Daenerys Targaryen left the seas of Essos and ordered her fleet to break sending her armies to all corners of Westeros to conquer and find her allies.


Ser Jorah Mormont was sent to the North with eight thousand men, a mixture of sellswords, freemen and five hundred unsullied. The northern knight knew he stood very little chance of finding allies in the North so he ordered his forces to attack the eastern coast from the Grey Hills all the way south to Ramsgate. He gained some victories at first gaining control of Widows Watch, Ramsgate and a half dozen other keeps along the coast but his victories were short lived.

While Prince Bran Stark was mustering the armies of the North to Winterfell, Free Folk warriors began savagely attacking the foreign invaders who were trying to take the lands they had been granted by King Robb and Winterfell. This combined with the harsh winter the Essos born invaders had never before experienced had seen Ser Jorah's forces drop from eight thousand to four within a couple moons of their landing.

Enraged by this and the fact that he had failed his queen Mormont ordered his forces to attack White Harbor in full force. An action which he soon regretted as the Manderly fleet manned with forces from Moat Cailin and Hornwood crushed the enemy fleet in sight of the city while Bran Stark led a northern army against Jorah Mormont slaughtering the entire foreign army ending the Dragons' attempt to control the North.


To the south Tyrion Lannister led a force fifteen thousand strong west to meet with his uncle Lord Kevin Lannister newly made lord of Casterly Rock. Lord Tyrion unlike Ser Jorah suffered multiple attacks before his fleet even reached the Westerlands coast.

From the arm of Dorne past the Arbor and through the Shield Islands Tyrion Lannister's fleet was hounded by loyalist ships before they eventually reached the 'safety' of Fair Isle where Lannister left his fleet at anchor while his ship alone made for Lannisport where he was met by his uncle.

Not much is known about the words spoken between uncle and nephew except for the fact that Tyrion Lannister had tried and failed to persuade his uncle to support the dragon queen and the next time the two men met was upon a battlefield.

Despite the fact that Tyrion Lannister wasn't able to gain his uncle support he didn't leave Lannisport without some success. Lord Emmon Frey unbeknownst to his Lannister wife promised his support and that of a few other Westerlands lords who still held resentment towards King Robb for his actions during the war of the Five Kings.

Pleased with this and confident that he would be able to convince the Dragon Queen to spare his family for supporting King Robb; Tyrion Lannister began his invasion of the Westerlands starting with an assault on the Banefort where the neighboring lords had been mustering their forces. The Butchering of Banefort as it was called saw the deaths of a dozen nobles by Tyrion's Lannister's right hand man 'Bronn' who under the cover of darkness crept into the castle and slit the noble's throats while they slept before taking their heirs hostage forcing their armies to join with the 'half-man' forces.

From there the half-man army moved south taking village after village receiving little if any opposition before finally reaching the former ruins of Castamere where Kevin Lannister had mustered the Westerlands army.

The Lions War at Castamere saw forty thousand men fight for more than ten days in countless minor battles and two massive ones. The first of which saw the defection of Emmon Frey, the Westering's and a handful of others to the Dragon banner mid-fight and only resulted in the loyalists successful retreat because Lord Karstark of the Golden Tooth was able to flank the half-man forces and push them north long enough for Lord Kevin and sons to rally their forces.

The second great battle of the Lions War proved to be the bloodier of the two reinforced with men from the Iron Islands and from Dorne led by Lord Yronwood whose daughter was the lady of Lannisport. The loyalist lions were after a bloody battle able to push the Dragon forces north once more hounding them every step of the way until only a third of their forces made it back to their ships.

While the fleeing sellswords and Tyrion Lannister were chased from Westerlands seas by the Westerlands/Dornish and Iron Islands fleet Kevin Lannister put to death all those Westerlands lords who fought against their liege lord including his sister's husband and one of his nephews who foolishly followed his father in rebellion.


To the east Daenerys Targaryen sent Ser Jasper Stone; the commander of the Iron Sons a recently formed sellsword company to the Vale in the hopes that the man could convince his fellow countrymen who no longer had any blood ties to House Stark they should join with the Dragon forces. If the letters found after the war are to be believed Ser Jasper seemed to believe he was making headway with many of the Vale lords chief amongst them Lord Grafton who had strong Targaryen's loyalties in the past.

Whether he would have been successful or not was never determined however as the fifteen thousand Red God followers who had followed the Dragon Queen from Volantis had learned what had happened to their homeland and their god's temple. Ignoring the orders that Ser Jasper gave them the Red priests ordered their worshippers to cleanse the Vale of all false gods and their followers.

The weeks that followed are seen as the bloodiest in Vale history: thousands of innocents were burnt to death in massive pyres to appease R'hllor, septs and Weirwood trees alike were put to the torch sending outcry throughout the Seven Kingdoms causing the faith in Kings Landing to issue a missive denouncing Daenerys Targaryen as a heretic and a false queen and asking its followers to support the one true king Robb Stark.

The decree wasn't needed in the Vale however as Lord Harrold Arryn seeing the atrocities the red god followers were committing called his banners and rode out with the full might of the Vale at his back including Lord Grafton who had lost his son to the red god fires when they struck Gulltown.

For months the knights of the Vale cut down any and all man or woman who wore the red flamed cloaks in an attempt to gain justice for the countless innocents who had died for refusing to submit to R'hllor. Thousands died but in the end the people of the Vale led by Lord Harrold were successful in cleansing all the red god followers from their lands.


To the south Daenerys Targaryen sent her Dotharki hoard to the Reach with express orders to ride down any army gathering unless they flew her banner, a task the Dotharki rejoiced in.

With his daughter queen Lord Mace Tyrell ordered his banners called and to his pride none but a handful of landed knights and a single minor lord refused his order, instead deciding to join the Targaryen cause. A choice they later regretted as they and their lands were put to the torch by Lord Rowan and Ser Samwell Tarly.

The Dotharki hoards which struck the Reach had a great deal of success at the start, they were able to scatter half a dozen armies from mustering all the while raping and pillages throughout the Tyrell lands. Their success didn't last however as soon the smallfolk of the Reach fled their villages and towns seeking sanctuary in the great castles of the Reach.

Within two months of the Dotharki landing the populations of Highgarden, Oldtown, Horn Hill and a dozen others places tripled leaving the Dotharki roaming the lands searching for a fight which they eventually received outside Bitterbridge where forty thousand Reach knights and men at arms fell upon the Dotharki.

Thousands of Dotharki screamers died within minutes of the attack as Mace Tyrell ordered the elephants which previously belonged to the Golden Company released crushing the Dotharki with their size while armored knights rode in their wake. In the end over twenty thousand Dotharki warriors lay dead upon the field with another five thousand captured and the rest a little less than twenty thousand fleeing North to the Riverlands where Ser Barristan Selmy had landed.

The Reach victory didn't come without cost however as thousands of its soldiers had died including many of his lords and knight's chief amongst them was Lord Mace Tyrell who died after bringing down a former Dotharki Khal earning himself praise and recognition from many throughout the Realm.


Daenerys Targaryen and her three dragons intended to land in Sunspear and explain in person to Prince Doran how his son died hoping they could reconcile. This however never come to happen as when the Dragon princess and her 'children' came within distance of the city Prince Doran ordered scorpions and archers open fire.

Within moments dozens of scorpion bolts and hundreds of arrows flew into the air catching Daenerys Targaryen and her dragons by surprise leading to the dragon 'Rhaegal's' death. Seeing one of her children falling to his death Daenerys Targaryen like her ancestors before her unleased fire upon the Martell city.

Thousands would have surely died if Prince Doran like his own ancestors before him hadn't ordered the city evacuated and the people to hide in the sands that surrounded the city. Despite the fires that were quickly spreading the defenders that remained within the city continued in their fight. Realizing her situation the Dragon queen quickly broke off her assault and fled to the Stepstones where her fleet was anchored.

Arriving on Bloodstone angry and distraught with only two of her dragons one of which was injured from a score arrows Daenerys Targaryen ordered her emissaries sent to every house in Dorne promising them riches and the Princedom of Dorne if they turned against House Martell. To her dismay however the lords of Dorne's with the exception of the Dayne's of High Hermitage all sided with the Martell's killing her emissaries.

Despite her anger and desire to burn all of Dorne Daenerys Targaryen kept a cool head and listened to her unsullied commander and a former slave from Narth advice that she should do like her ancestor's and conquer the rest of the seven kingdoms before she turned her attention once more to Dorne. With this in mind she ordered her fleet and the remnants of Tyrion Lannister's to make for the Riverlands.


With the news of the attacks throughout his kingdom King Robb Stark led a host ten thousand strong south crushing a host of five thousand sellswords who had landed in the Northern Stormlands. After his victory in the Kingswood the king led his host to the banks of the Wendwater were a group of pirates flying Targaryen banners were attempting to block forces from reaching Kings Landing. While the king attacked the pirates from land Lord Mallister the Master of Ships fought the pirates at sea burning their forty strong fleet.

With the pirates defeated and after hearing of the atrocities the Dotharki were committing King Robb led his host west into the Reach clashing with the fleeing horselords further weakening their host drastically.

While King Robb forced the Dotharki from the Reach he didn't give them chase instead he joined his forces with those of the Reach lords and prepared for the inevitable battle which would take place.

In the Crownlands Prince Jon Stark and Lord Tarly rode north to Duskendale with a host of Stormlords and former free-folk where the lords of the Crownlands were mustering under the command of Lord Garlan Tyrell.

Arriving at Duskendale a day early Prince Jon and his host came upon a battle between loyal lords to the throne and a group of minor lords and knights who had declared for Daenerys Targaryen backed by small host of former slaves of Meereen. Not expecting Prince Jon so soon, the rebels were quickly overcome and were either slaughtered or taken prisoner meaning the crown forces were able to push northward once more where the defining battle of the war was to take place.


Despite opposing the idea of invading a peaceful Westeros Ser Barristan Selmy followed his queen's commands regardless of his personal opinion. Commanding a host over ten thousand strong consisting of unsullied, freemen and one hundred squires Ser Barristan led his fleet to the Riverlands attacking Maidenpool at night overwhelming the towns defenses within hours and gaining complete control of the surrounding lands within a matter of days.

Within weeks of landing Ser Barristan had complete control of the Bay of Crabs, Saltpans and the Ruby ford thus blocking off a portion of the Riverlands. With the rivers and bridges secured Ser Barristan went about securing the lands within the southeast Riverlands while at the same time he sent ravens to all the lords of the Riverlands trying to persuade them to remember where their true loyalties lay.

Unfortunately for the famed knight many of the older Riverlords had died during the last war and their children were fiercely loyal to King Robb. Those few lords that were considering declaring for the Dragon Queen quickly changed their minds when word spread of hosts gathering at Riverrun, the Twins, Lychester and the Stoney Sept by the bulk of the Riverlords who declared loyalty for King Robb.

Despite the lack of support however Ser Barristan had much success including taking complete control of the castles within his conquered lands as well as pushing further west defeating a minor host at Briarwhite and had begun laying siege to Darry and Harrenhal the latter of which was commanded by himself.

Confident that should he conquer Harrenhal then he would be able to bring Lords Bracken and Blackwood to his queen's side as their children ruled the ruined castle Ser Barristan was about to begin an assault on the castle when a Dotharki rider reached him begging for aid as their remaining forces were being hounded out of the Reach.

All but abandoning the siege Ser Barristan rode southwest rescuing the fleeing Dotharki and pushing back the forces of King Robb for a time while at the same time the lord and lady of Harrenhal led their people north to their respective father's lands while a skeleton garrison was left in place.

Returning to Harrenhal with the remnants of the Dotharki horde Ser Barristan finally heard reports of how the rest of his queen's forces were failing in their assaults. Hearing that and seeing the two hundred men he had left outside Harrenhal slaughtered had caused the Stormlands knight to lose hope for a brief time until his faith in their cause was restored when he saw his queen and her two dragons land outside Harrenhal.

His hope didn't remain for long however as his queen quickly grew angry at hearing that despite the fact that Ser Barristan had gained a strong foothold much of the Riverlands still refused to bend the knee to her. Finishing what her ancestor started three hundred years ago Daenerys Targaryen unleashed her two remaining dragons upon Harrenhal and didn't call them off until the walls, towers and keep lay a smoldering pile of rock.

With the destruction of Harrenhal Daenerys Targaryen sent out ravens once more to all the lords of Seven Kingdoms ordering them to turn against King Robb and bend the knee to her or face her wrath. To her dismay however none followed her command instead armies descended upon the Riverlands from all corners all flying Direwolf banners.


From the east forces commanded by Lord Harrold Arryn fell upon the Saltpans and slaughtered the freemen that held the port to a single man before they moved further south securing the bridges that the Dragon queen's forces once held before moving further south.

To the north and west the armies of the Riverlands, Westerlands, Dorne and Iron Islands broke the siege of Darry before marching their armies south freeing the lands that Ser Barristan had previously secured, while at the same time King Robb and Prince Jon led their forces north slaughtering Dotharki and Freemen as they marched.

It was outside the walls of Maidenpool where the final battle of the war of Wolves and Dragons was finally fought. Armies from across the Seven Kingdoms joined together and clashed with the Dragon Queens army which saw thousands die by sword, spear and dragon fire.

The death and destruction saw no end in sight until finally with an earth shattering roar every eye was drawn to the sky as the great dragon Drogon crashed lifelessly to the ground with a scorpion bolt piercing its eye and the would be Queen Daenerys Targaryen crushed beneath its unmoving form.

Within moments the battle went from unnerving silence to panicked screaming as thousands of the dragon queen's soldiers threw down their arms in surrender while the dragon Viserion became enraged at his seeing his brother and mothers death burnt hundreds to death before finally fleeing east towards Essos disappearing somewhere near the ruins of Valyria.


With the death of the last Targaryen a golden age of peace and prosperity dawned over Westeros with a Stark King and Queen presiding over a unified realm.

Additional Note

I will be following up shortly with a brief summary of the major families and what happened next for them.