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Mortis Nuntius said:
Then why did my goodbrother come to me warning that he had been asked where he stood on your kingship if all the Targaryen babes were to disappear?

There is more to Kingship than waving a hammer about in a melee Robert. If you wish for battle do it with more than your drinking companions and your brute strenght. Gods alone know what a contest between you and I shall yield but I know for a fact what the outcome on a true battleground would be.
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So you make demands for combat with one insulting breath but act the craven with the other? Its no wonder the realm doesn't want you king if you cannot stick with a single decision.

I know not why the Prince of Dorne would be asked that, though perhaps many are wondering when you intend to send your kin abroad and out of your way once more. Perhaps the Summer Islands were not far enough for you. Yi-Ti perhaps? Or even Asshai?
 
Dovahsith said:
So you make demands for combat with one insulting breath but act the craven with the other? Its no wonder the realm doesn't want you king if you cannot stick with a single decision.

I know not why the Prince of Dorne would be asked that, though perhaps many are wondering when you intend to send your kin abroad and out of your way once more. Perhaps the Summer Islands were not far enough for you. Yi-Ti perhaps? Or even Asshai?
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Damn it then Robert, if you swear to yield your claim then I will face you on the field in a duel of arms. Come break lances with me.
 
Atomicwalrus said:
To: The Lords of the realm @Skrevski
From: Baelord Hightower

Let us not forget how this war started. This war started with a son declaring he was more fit to rule then his father. A son who waged a war to destroy the social fabric of our society and break the natural order of a son succeeding his father at the appropriate time.

This is a man who rearmed the faith and seeks to empower the smallfolk. This is a man who in his hubris not only has taken your sons lives on the battlefield but has had them volunteer to forsake their duty in the line of succession and join a bloody faith that has raped and pillaged your lands. This is a man with no love for our Westeros, only holding love for his twisted vision of the future.

Rhaegar speaks for standing with 8,000 years of history behind him, I agree. He has left that 8,000 years of history behind him and seeks to forsake every lesson it has taught. He seeks to forget the natural succession of son following father, he seeks to forget the terror and trauma of the wars with the Faith Millitant and he seeks to forget the rights and privileges owed to you all above the smallfolk.

Well I say enough. If you want endless war, to be ruled by a kinslayer and kingslayer who will continue to steal your sons and erode your rights and privileges vote for Prince Rhaegar.

I will not, when he attempted to usurp his father, in the eyes of any sane man or god Rhaegar forsook his right to the throne and showed his twisted character for all to see.
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Stokeworth

Yet in the same breath you would throw your support behind Robert Baratheon, a man who gladly followed Rhaegar into rebellion, who drank and feasted with him after he sat a crown upon his brow, and act as if the blame does not sit equally upon all their heads. Let me be clear, no man who would kiss the feet of Robert Baratheon may claim to speak of justice or of the natural order for what justice is there in raising up a traitor as a king or placing a crown upon a craven's brow for surely he is both for as quickly as he called Rhaegar king did Robert Baratheon flee with his tail between his legs into the woods and forests of the Stormlands for fear of battling others.

No, if this is a question of justice and the natural order, your king made his will clear when he named Prince Viserys as his heir and not once did he say "but this shall not be so if it is inconvenient for my cousin or should my wife disapprove."
 
Sidheach said:
Stokeworth

Yet in the same breath you would throw your support behind Robert Baratheon, a man who gladly followed Rhaegar into rebellion, who drank and feasted with him after he sat a crown upon his brow, and act as if the blame does not sit equally upon all their heads. Let me be clear, no man who would kiss the feet of Robert Baratheon may claim to speak of justice or of the natural order for what justice is there in raising up a traitor as a king or placing a crown upon a craven's brow for surely he is both for as quickly as he called Rhaegar king did Robert Baratheon flee with his tail between his legs into the woods and forests of the Stormlands for fear of battling others.

No, if this is a question of justice and the natural order, your king made his will clear when he named Prince Viserys as his heir and not once did he say "but this shall not be so if it is inconvenient for my cousin or should my wife disapprove."
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Lord Stokeworth i understand the war has been long and you have grown tired so I will forgive your insults, I nominated Prince Aegon. Remember Robert volunteered to fight my father to the death for only serving the realm. I know of justice.
 
Atomicwalrus said:
Lord Stokeworth i understand the war has been long and you have grown tired so I will forgive your insults, I nominated Prince Aegon. Remember Robert volunteered to fight my father to the death for only serving the realm. I know of justice.
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My apologies, Lord Hightower, I do not agree with your choice but at least I can say you are not as great a blackheart as other so called Great Lords of the Realm.
 
Mortis Nuntius said:
We have an issue, we both agreed to attend the council at Stoney Sept under truce...

Mother just told me.
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I am sure the assembled lords of the realm would have no issue with the duel taking place before their eyes. If you wish to withdraw your challenge, that is your prerogative, but i am more than willing to defend my honour before their judgement.
 
Dovahsith said:
I am sure the assembled lords of the realm would have no issue with the duel taking place before their eyes. If you wish to withdraw your challenge, that is your prerogative, but i am more than willing to defend my honour before their judgement.
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No I will not sully the council with this and it will take weeks for the Lords to arrive and to no purpose. We will meet as agreed at Gulltown and see this done. The time for childish games is over, this is to the death.
 
Mortis Nuntius said:
No I will not sully the council with this and it will take weeks for the Lords to arrive and to no purpose. We will meet as agreed at Gulltown and see this done. The time for childish games is over, this is to the death.
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Perhaps i ought to save you the trouble and simply cast myself into the sea? I'm willing to fight you, but do not mistake my lack of cravenness for being a fool. That is as likely as you willingly having the council take place in Kings Landing, for much the same reasons.
 
Dovahsith said:
I'll be waiting at Stony Sept. Come when you feel confident enough to do so without expecting your challengers to come alone into your camp and rely on what passes for your word.
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Then we are done. I will come to stony sept to win the great council not to play the fool. You had your chance to prove your valor, you have squandered it. I will not say that I expected better.
 
Dovahsith said:
I'm not the one who refuses to fight anywhere approaching neutral ground.
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There is no neutral ground in Westeros, bar Stony Sept which was chosen because it was too holy for bloodshed. You and your compatriots have seen to that. Do not break oaths and guest right and then weep when men assume you will do so again.

And do not waste my time. I offered this duel because taking your head from your shoulders would settle this matter faster than crossing Westeros and gathering the lords to debate and argue, if we are doing the same anyway then I may as well win their favour regardless of your tantrums.
 
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Mortis Nuntius said:
There is no neutral ground in Westeros, bar Stony Sept which was chosen because it was too holy for bloodshed. You and your compatriots have seen to that. Do not break oaths and guest right and then weep when men assume you will do so again.

And do not waste my time. I offered this duel because taking your head from your shoulders would settle this matter faster than crossing Westeros and gathering the lords to debate and argue, if we are doing the same anyway then I may as well win their favour regardless of your tantrums.
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I certainly hope you intend to have someone else convince the lords for you cousin, for it is rantings such as these that turned most men against you in the first place. In addition to the kinslaying, the ignoring of rights, the stubborn disinclination to listen to advice that is contrary to your own opinion and so on.

Even now you expect me to simply place myself into your hands to be executed because you demand it so. You give insult challenge duels then withdraw at the first sign of resistance and call it bravery. You squander your supporters lives, spending them like merchants do coin as your scurry about the realm, setting the land aflame simply to spite a kingdom that has rejected you. I call you a liar, a murderer and a fool who squanders his family's future because to secure it he would have to admit he was wrong. Killing you would be the greatest gift i could offer your son.

Step down, send yourself to the wall and let even the newborn babe show you a king's wisdom, for you surely lack it.
 
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Dovahsith said:
I certainly hope you intend to have someone else convince the lords for you cousin, for it is rantings such as these that turned most men against you in the first place. In addition to the kinslaying, the ignoring of rights, the stubborn disinclination to listen to advice that is contrary to your own opinion and so on.

Even now you expect me to simply place myself into your hands to be executed because you demand it so. You give insult challenge duels then withdraw at the first sign of resistance and call it bravery. You squander your supporters lives, spending them like merchants do coin as your scurry about the realm, setting the land aflame simply to spite a kingdom that has rejected you. I call you a liar, a murderer and a fool who squanders his family's future because to secure it he would have to admit he was wrong. Killing you would be the greatest gift i could offer your son.
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I expect nothing of your Robert.
 
To: The Lords of the Realm @Skrevski
From: Prince Doran Martell

To all the people in Westeros, I hereby proclaim my support and that of Dorne for Rhaegar I, of the House Targaryen etc. The Regency had previously shown itself to act with little honour, breaking their oaths sworn to the man they upheld against his father. They had broken guest right and murdered my brother in the banquet hall that they shared. As a blood payment, they publicly proclaimed that they would support my nephew, Aegon, the son of Elia Martell and Rhaegar to the throne, but have instead been working in secret to kill the baby boy, and install Robert Baratheon on the Throne.

I had been assured, by the lords and people attempting to organise a Great Council, that the decision of the new monarch would be by secret ballot, and thus something that could truly go any way. Instead, the lords blatantly go back on their word to uphold their public proclamations. When the people cried out asking for peace, only Rhaegar actually bothered to respond to the calls for peace, with the other great lords unwilling to even try to negotiate with the smaller lords of Westeros, only talking amongst themselves. Are those the men to truly represent you, when they cannot even wait for a moment to denounce their previous position?

And you Robert Baratheon, can you not see this is madness? The Realm bleeds, and you could have ended this all by bending the knee to the man whose handship you accepted? Then again, you prevented your own vassals who took their oaths more seriously from joining the king they believed in, sending them to the wall instead for stepping on your plans to crown yourself.

Prince Doran Martell

To: The lords and ladies of Dorne @Skrevski
From: Prince Doran Martell

My friends,

I am sorry to call for your support in this, but I have proof that the Regents had conspired with Aerion the Mad Dayne. Further, they were happy to murder fellow dornish men in their coup and thus I could not, in good conscience ever truly follow their lead. Their public betrayal to not even pretend to uphold their oath to support my nephews claim to the throne despite the secret ballot shows they would not uphold anything else, ever.

Prince Doran Martell
 
Duzzit said:
To: The Lords of the Realm @Skrevski
From: Prince Doran Martell

To all the people in Westeros, I hereby proclaim my support and that of Dorne for Rhaegar I, of the House Targaryen etc. The Regency had previously shown itself to act with little honour, breaking their oaths sworn to the man they upheld against his father. They had broken guest right and murdered my brother in the banquet hall that they shared. As a blood payment, they publicly proclaimed that they would support my nephew, Aegon, the son of Elia Martell and Rhaegar to the throne, but have instead been working in secret to kill the baby boy, and install Robert Baratheon on the Throne.

I had been assured, by the lords and people attempting to organise a Great Council, that the decision of the new monarch would be by secret ballot, and thus something that could truly go any way. Instead, the lords blatantly go back on their word to uphold their public proclamations. When the people cried out asking for peace, only Rhaegar actually bothered to respond to the calls for peace, with the other great lords unwilling to even try to negotiate with the smaller lords of Westeros, only talking amongst themselves. Are those the men to truly represent you, when they cannot even wait for a moment to denounce their previous position?

And you Robert Baratheon, can you not see this is madness? The Realm bleeds, and you could have ended this all by bending the knee to the man whose handship you accepted? Then again, you prevented your own vassals who took their oaths more seriously from joining the king they believed in, sending them to the wall instead for stepping on your plans to crown yourself.

Prince Doran Martell
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If Aegon could become King despite his father's efforts to sabotage any love for his line i would happily renounce my claim and kneel to the boy. However it seems you intend to support the man who has caused the lad more danger than any other being alive.
 
@ByzantineCaesar
To: Rickard Stark
From: King Rhaegar
Private:
It seems your fellow traitors have given up any pretences, yet you stay silent. I wonder is there any honour left in House Stark? A drop of conscience perhaps?
 
Mortis Nuntius said:
To: The realm @Skrevski
From: King Rhaegar

It is time to end this insanity. These seven kingdoms have descended into an unending feast of crows gnawing on the foundations of our realm and the flesh of our people. The people starve, the armies slaughter each other and a man's oath is worthless.

I do not condone Lord Tywin's actions in corrupting his fellow lords and for keeping quiet so long of his own knowledge of the conspiracies that have grown so numerous amongst the so called regents, nor have I pardoned him or returned him to the King's Peace. But I shall do so now on the condition that he bends the knee, swears to behave honourably from henceforth and aids me in seeing justice done for these betrayals. Now onto what crimes he has revealed.

This Great Council was proposed as a means of bringing peace to a shattered realm. I can say now that it will not do so. These men who have indirectly caused the death of my father, the king in their care, those who have encouraged desertion and then the spreading of blatant falsehoods on the part of his father. Those who asked an uncle his thoughts on the murder of his infant nephews and neices and those who have betrayed each other like thieves arguing over a stolen purse on so many occasions now it is laughable.

Behind me are eight thousand years of history, the father follows his son, the king rules by right of birth and honour. I have never broken an oath, never murdered a man under guestright, never held a woman prisoner for begging for peace and I have never spent a year hiding in a castle letting better men kill each other all the while sending out messangers and envoys and sending me to infiltrate both camps.

Well I say enough. If you want endless war, to be ruled by fools and traitors who will be killing each other by year's end vote for the regent's latest would be puppet. If you want a King, to rule you fairly and in the open, to protect you, to keep you in health, happiness and peace then you will support me and I shall rule.
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Should the great council choose Rhaegar then of course I shall kneel to him as is lawful.

If the realm would condemn me for negotiating secretly with all parties and seeking to break the stranglehold of Stark-Tully-Arryn then so be it.

I do what I do to try and lead to a swifter peace and creating a faction with the balance of power was the only path I saw towards it.

With the arrival of Baratheon at the gates of King's Landing I shall retire to contain and defeat the forces assaulting the West even now.
 
Lys Event
Peace in our time

The first Lysene merchants arriving in a Pentosi port city after the war
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After a long period of fighting, the war against Braavos is now over.

The Three Daughters, realizing that they would be unable to drive back the Braavosi fleet guarding Pentos and fully blockade the city, decided to approach the Sealord of Braavos to negotiate a peace treaty. Fortunately, Braavos was as tired of war as the Alliance and was more than willing to make peace. And so, a peace treaty was hammered out. The final terms being:

-The Free City of Braavos will cede all land in the Pentosi countryside to the Free City of Myr, who will grant said lands with limited autonomy and allow it to be ruled by the Magisters of Pentos, now exiled from their home.

-The Free City of Braavos are allowed to keep the city of Pentos proper, aswell as its outskirts

-In return for being granted Pentosi lands and as a payment for causing an earlier war between them and the Free Cities of Lys and Tyrosh, Myr will cede land in the southern Disputed Lands to both cities and will also drop their claims they hold over lands belonging to both cities.

And so the Treaty of Pentos was signed and the Free Cities looked inward to begin the process of rebuilding. The dead must be buried, infrastructure must be repaired, crops must be replanted, and the Free Cities must put this bloody conflict behind them.

Will this treaty bring an era of peace to Essos, or will one of its participants spark another war? Will an outside force launch its own invasion? Only time will tell. For now, let us enjoy our victory, no matter how short it may possibly be.​
 
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