Bloody Battle on the Redfort Road

**The Bloody Battle on the Redfort Road** occurred in 85 AC, and was the swift follow up on the Murder of Corwyn Arryn. The Battle would see Arthor Arryn, the secondborn and last living son of Lord Gunthor Arryn lose his life fighting the Clans.

The battle takes its odd name from the fact that on this one road did both of Lord Gunthor Arryn's sons fall within a week of one another.

## Background

When word reached the Eyrie of the death of Ser Corwyn Arryn at the hands of the Clansmen, after a Redfort patrol had discovered the bloody aftermath, Arthor Arryn held no hesitation within him.

Descending from the Eyrie that same day, Arthor Arryn reached the Gates of the Moon just before dusk, and so without hesitation preceded to call up the arms of the already riled up knights of the Vale garrisoned at the Gates of the Moon. And so it was, that very night, Arthor Arryn, and some five hundred knights of the Vale rode out from the Gates of the Moon and toward the Redfort, seeking bloody vengeance.

## Engagement

###### *An Exert from the Writings of Maester Yorwyck's Work, "The War for the Mountains of the Moon".*

As written previously in the chapter regarding the Murder of Ser Corwyn Arryn, Arthor Arryn, his younger brother, and the then heir to the Vale in wake of his elder brother's death, not even yet a man knighted, did so lead some five-hundred men from the Gates of the Moon.

This was, much without his Lord father's permission, a dismal thought when one reads of the youth's fate. Much like his older brother, Arthor Arryn met his end along with the entirety of his five-hundred facing the Clans.

From the Redforts, we have account of the battle, with Ser Rodrik Redfort stating the following;

*"I swear it with my own words, Lord Arryn, I saw it true. Dremond the Devil, the bastard Chieftain of the Milk Snake lot, I saw him knock off young Arthor's helm and split him in two. With my own eyes, my Lord, with my own eyes."*

Suffice to say, Ser Rodrik was never again welcome at either the Gates of the Moon, where the Lord Arryn met him, nor the Eyrie. It was all the same anyhow, for Ser Rodrik would so too be with the Stranger within the year.

Though that said, the Redfort did further claim that he and his men intervened in the battle that would become known as the Bloody Battle on the Redfort Road after they chanced upon the conflict late in the day, but ultimately were too late and ineffective in providing aid to young Arthor Arryn. This too, did not help the Lord Gunthor Arryn's opinion of Ser Rodrik, whom wasn't even allowed to stay the night inside the walls of the Gates.

But the Redforts were not to become the only ones held in dislike by Lord Arryn that eve, for so too did the infamous Chieftain Dremond of the Milk Snakes, commonly referred to as the 'Devil of the Vale'. A staunch adversary, he would prove.

## Aftermath

Bearing the corpses of both Ser Corwyn Arryn, and Arthor Arryn, the Redforts journeyed to the Gates of the Moon where they presented Lord Gunthor Arryn with the bodies of his sons.

Further so did they give the reports of both the Murder of Corwyn Arryn, and the Bloody Battle on the Redfort Road, with special detail on the latter as they claimed to have been instrumental in the routing of the ten thousand Clansmen present.