The Second Targaryen Reign

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## The Second Targaryen Reign

### 300 AC

* Aegon and the Golden Company take Storm’s End, where he later meets Arianne Martell.
* Aegon Targaryen begins his invasion of Westeros after his marriage to Arianne Martell.  He succeeds in militarily defeating the backers of Tommen Baratheon and seats himself on the Iron Throne.
* Euron Greyjoy’s armada of longships meets the fleet of the Arbor at the shores of the Reach. The bulk of Euron’s fleet makes it to Oldtown, and sack the city.
* Victarion tries to use the Dragobinder Horn on one of Daenerys’ dragons, but it results in his death by fire.
* Stannis is defeated in the battle at Winterfell, and he is eventually killed. His surviving forces retreat to the Wall, while his mercenaries return to Essos.
* Jon Snow is resurrected by Melisandre.

### 301 AC

* Mace Tyrell retreats to Highgarden after his defeat between Storm’s End and King’s Landing, and turns his attention to the Ironborn at the shores of his kingdom. He realizes that he can’t afford two wars, so he pledges the Reach to King Aegon.
* The southern houses of the Reach and the Golden Company join forces against the Ironborn raiding their shores, and prepare for the liberation of Oldtown.
* King Euron maintains a firm hold over the Shield Islands and the Arbor, but the allied forces led by Randyll Tarly liberate Oldtown.
* Following several bloody clashes, the Ironborn pull back from those shores as well.

### 302 AC

* In the North, houses in the support of Rickon Stark -- who had been in hiding -- led by Lord Manderly form an alliance against the Boltons, and they begin their rebellion.
* The news of her brother’s return reaches Sansa, who is in the Eyrie, and after she marries Harrold Hardyng [Arryn], she urges him to send their army in support.
* With the Reach backing him, Aegon Targaryen launches his invasion on the Westerlands. The Lannister forces are defeated in a few months.
* Aegon is accepted as King in four of the Seven Kingdoms.

### 303 AC

* King Aegon’s aunt, Daenerys Targaryen, takes Dragonstone.
* She defeats Aegon with her dragons and some support from Westeros. In order to reconcile with his supporters, especially the Dornish, she names Aegon’s eldest son by Arianne her heir. She decides to remain forever unwed in order to commit herself to the Realm.
* Euron’s fleet sails to Blackwater Bay. With ships stolen from the Reach, he meets the weakened crown fleet. Daenerys defeats him with her dragons, and Euron dies.
* Theon Greyjoy, seeking redemption, joins the rebellion against the Boltons, and in one deciding battle, delivers the killing blow to Ramsay, while he himself is mortally wounded.
* The combined forces of the Vale and Rickon’s Northern supporters retake Winterfell. Roose Bolton is sentenced to death.
* Asha travels south to find that Euron was defeated. She seeks court with Queen Daenerys, and in exchange for the ships of the Iron Fleet and the Ironborn prisoners taken during the Second Battle of Blackwater Bay, she bends the knee.

### 304 AC

* The Queen's Conquest against Aegon ends in Daenerys’ victory in the South.
* Daenerys musters the armies of the south and leads them North to help the Night’s Watch deal with the threat at the Wall.
* Asha Greyjoy keeps her promise and leads men from the Isles to help push back the night.

### 305 AC

* The Others are defeated after a gruelling conflict at the Wall which involved men from all the armies of Westeros, Free Folk, and the Children of the Forest.
* This conflict came to be known as the War for the Dawn.

### 306 AC

* The Coronation of Queen Regnant Daenerys Targaryen.
* Tyrion Lannister is awarded Casterly Rock for his loyalty to Daenerys. Long does he serve as Hand of the Queen.
* Asha returns to the Iron Islands, only to find it consumed by civil war. It takes her several years to defeat the warring houses and unite the archipelago once again.

### 307-315 AC

* Consolidation of the Seven Kingdoms. This is the period when the new status quo is established, and the new Lords Paramount finally settle in their roles under Daenerys’ reign.

### 329 AC

* Late in her rule, Daenerys Targaryen addresses concerns from previous law that disarmed and disavowed any militant arm of the Faith.  With holy men and devoted smallfolk embittered, she appoints the High Septon a command of knights, true and good who would come to be known as the Order of the Seven.

### 335 AC

* The reign of Queen Daenerys Targaryen is considered prosperous and peaceful.  Her rule is idealistic, and though she is unable to realize all her ambitions, Daenerys establishes herself as a beloved Queen, gentle and just and good.  She dies younger than the Realm is ready for, but peacefully in the night.
* Aegon’s first born son, Daeron III Targaryen, is crowned King.

### 337 AC

* A bitter winter comes on the heels of Daenerys’ passing, and lasts for fourteen years.  Many consider this a bad omen. The long years of suffering would be dubbed, “The Hanged Man’s Winter,” as a majority of the Smallfolk north of the Trident were unable to feed themselves or maintain families.

### 362 AC

* What looks to be yet another Ironborn rebellion quickly becomes a civil war that engulfs the Iron Islands for nearly a year.  Some houses on the western coast, from the Reach to the North, offer small support to one side or the other, though such houses are few and far between.

### 373 AC

* A plague, originating in Slaver’s Bay, comes to the Free Cities.  After a small number of sick are discovered in various port cities of Westeros, the King declares an embargo to prevent Essosi ships from docking with any major city.  This embargo lasts for a time straining foreign relations.

### 380 AC

* With the Gift populated by descendants of the old Wildlings, the North has seen more frequent and barbaric raids by the lineages of clans who refused to settle south of the Wall, nearly unopposed by the scant few who man the castles.  Knowing this threat his entire life, Lord Torrhen Stark founds the Law of the Watch, decreeing that every man of the North must serve a stint of five years sworn to the Night’s Watch after the age of fifteen, but no later than twenty–five.  Initially ill received, the law proves effective and eventually a sense of pride and duty instilled by the Northmen for “serving your five.”

### 397 AC

* The wedding of Princess Elaena Targaryen and the Prince Viserys takes place. It is a grand affair, held at Summerhall.

### 403 AC

* Although the Free Cities have returned to a solvent economy many years after the toll that the plague and embargo had wrought, the Iron Bank demands that various Westerosi families pay accumulated debts, a collection that seems sudden and brash. The king outright denies immediate payment until the Iron Bank is willing to negotiate.
* The Iron Bank, as it has so often proved in the past, was unwilling to negotiate. Drawing upon its influence in the free cities, the Iron Bank promised much and more to those debtors of important families that had created trouble for them. On this much, the Iron Bank and those underneath it’s sphere of influence had found a common cause against Westeros.
* And so it was that all across the Free Cities, from Braavos, to Pentos, to Lorath, Tyrosh, Myr, and Lys specifically, merchant families of high regard cut off trade with many Westerosi lords and merchants. The Stepstones had once again turned into a den of privateers, this time under the employ of Myr and Tyrosh, setting themselves upon many an unsuspecting merchant ship.

### 405 AC

* Unperturbed by the Free Cities’ attempts to extort the money from them through economic starvation, the King issues a decree that each privateer’s head was worth ten golden dragons. Anyone of significant Essosi heritage was to be taken captive, held as ransom against the Free Cities. Furthermore, the King commissioned of his coastal lords this much: three ships from each lord, to serve in the coming destruction of pirates in the Stepstones.

### 407 AC

* Though tensions were rising between the Free Cities and the Iron Throne of Westeros, neither side proved willing to commit. The King had amassed a Grand Fleet in the Blackwater Bay, and grand as it might have been, he was unwilling to risk an all out war with five of the Free Cities.

### 409 AC

* Various Essosi ships sail into the Narrow Sea.  Myrish and Tyroshi in the south, Pentos and Lorath just beyond the Blackwater, and the Sealord’s Braavosi fleet amasses a presence from the Bay of Crabs to Widow’s Watch.  Initially perceived as an act of war, the various fleets of Westeros are dispatched to meet the looming threat, but surprisingly, there is no opening conflict.
* For some weeks, naval posturing ensues at the risk of war until the Iron Bank and the Sealord of Braavos are invited to treat with the King himself.  The talks are long and arduous, but word and whisper suggest they are quite productive.
* Whatever terms were agreed upon are left unknown when the Velaryon fleet of Driftmark engages with Lorathi ships and suffer massive losses at the surprise initiation.
* By the time word reaches the Sealord’s fleet, the southern Free Cities have been routed, set back for Essos to prepare for imminent war.  Rather than risk a perilous battle against the combined naval strength of Westeros, Braavosi ships retreat.

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