Siege of Wilds Den

Casualties| 1,308 casualties,
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The Swine King
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## Prelude

> *Zeto: I'm sending this as a final call for aid in this time of need. An army of men have surrounded the castle of Wild's Den, Resembling the Swine King's forces that took a castle not too long ago. We have 500 men ready to die to defend this place but many of them are green and the outcome is unlikely.*
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The Swine King had vanished again after the attack on the Twins. Staying out of Lord Jory's way and much more successful at evading him then the Order was, though the man didnt stay away for long with the fighting going on elsewhere and the army of House Wilder away fighting to get to Haywin it returned around Wild's Den fully ready to besiege the area and take the castle. The Master at arms of the keep Ser Zeto Aros had 500 men at his side but most of them were green and untrained having never seen a battle in there lives. with Lady Gilliane's seal he sent letters out to allies of his house, though most of them were also fighting in the war, the Swine King having picked his target well. Still fate, was kinder to the house then most. While many of there close allies were gone many others still heard there call and were able to arrive in time to help.

House Starkwood got the word from King's Landing, and Artos, father to Gilliane was quick to send his son Rickard to go and stop them with some of his remaining men, and convinced Rovos to do the same who sent Ignes with a group of soldiers as well while Artos and Rovos sailed to try and deal with the matter in the Stepstones. There interactions brought Lord Robb Griften, a long time courter of Seles Wilder, to hear about the attack as well and he marched off himself to deal with and save the women's life. Lord Shamus Blackwolf who had survived the attack of King's Landing was eager to strike back at someone and followed with his own men alongside House Greenaxe, coming to assist alongside the Starkwood forces. Another oddity in the battle was Ser Felix Hinterland, who caught word of the attack while marching to the castle, to which he promptly turned his small party around hoping to assist anyway he could.

With the castle surrounded for a few days as preparations were made for an assault the Swine King called for a meeting with the leader of the castle and Zeto came to meet him. There the Swine King made his demand clear that the castle should be surrendered to him and the women of the house brought before him to decide which one would be his queen. Gilliane was a few months removed from the birth of her kids Adin and Maya Wilder, and Seles was still pregnant, and Zeto obviously refused to surrender and hand either women to the vile monster that was the so called Swine King instead he returned to the castle after a few more insults between the two of them and started preparing the defenses of his castle as well as an escape route to make sure that should the castle fall, his lords family would be spared a heinous fate. Meanwhile siege equipment was built for the impending attack.

## The Battle

> *Swine King: Killing us will end nothing, others will just take up our cause. Your work will accomplish nothing.*
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> *Robb: I'm killing you because you threaten those I care about. To hell with ending chaos*
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The Swine King's forces attacked as soon as they were able, trying to break down the castle walls or climb them. Despite there inexperience in battle the soldiers of the garrison did there best to repel them preventing too many men from even getting up the walls. Though a few men were killed by the catapults the Swine King forces had built up. Fighting continued until Ser Felix came into the fray as did Robb Griften, the Hinterland forces were too small to cause significant damage or derail the attack but they did distract one of the Bandit King's commanders who moved to deal with them. Ser Robb rode his horse past the fighting trying to pick at the enemy and then move away, only able to do so much by himself but still attempting to help as much as he could. The real difference came when the Starkwood, Reaver, and Wolf forces came backed by the Greenaxe troops, combined they were roughly the same size as the enemy and they started to hit the enemy from the rear as they struggled to make ground on the castle. Seeing this Zeto lead a sortie out to try and further cause chaos in the Swine King's army and assist his allies.

The bandit army was stronger then most would have expected but they weren't organized like a well functioning fighting force, the difficult task of fighting off multiple attacks in front of them would be an strenuous undertaking for an experienced general, the Swine King had no chance. His party started to struggle to stay close together and the opening allowed Robb to move in directly on the false King, though his horse was taken out from under him during the fighting, the Swine King attempted to kill the one armed man but Robb in a feat of impressive skill and determination kept himself alive and held the bandit at bay with his blade, the two clashed for a few minutes until the King was distracted by Goat his second in command leaving with some of his men having broken in the fighting, realizing the fight was lost infuriated him and this created an opening for Robb to split the bandit open. The rest of the army was already breaking or at the point of doing so when he died and with no leaders left the rest was crushed under the multiple attacks that followed breaking down the bandit force and leaving only a meager army in its place.

## The Aftermath

> *Rickard: I wouldnt feel right leaving now, at least until your husband returns I feel its best we help garrison the castle.*
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> *Gilliane: Your welcome too, I imagine we havent seen the last of these bandits who are strong enough to attack castles.*
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The Swine King's death ended another powerful bandit force in Westeros, though his commander Goat took control of the survivors that remained the force was much smaller and never came close to threatening anyone the way his master did and he was killed by Addam Griften not too long after. Robb Griften's victory over the Swine King was his last noticeable victory before he took up command with the Gold Cloaks, helping solve various matters there while continuing his courting of Seles Wilder, though his obsession with the women would eventually get him killed. Wild's Den was damaged but within a year had fully repaired all the damage done to the castle, Lady Gilliane welcomed all of the men who came to her aid sanctuary and food for the duration of the war, Shamus and Wolf thanked her but left soon after hoping to aid in taking back the Stepstones, they failed to make it in time for the battle but they did leave with Ian for his mission in Essos.