7th Siege of Hen Hill

### Outcome

House Dunbridge extinguished, House Henning restored and Hen Hill back in the hands of the Hennings.

Combatants| * House Wilder
* House Youngflower
* House Whent
* House Flameheart
* House Dayne
* House Reaver
* House Wolf
* House Lash
* House GreenDawn

Commanders| * Lief Wilder
* Ian Dayne
* Darron Flameheart
* Rovos Reaver
* Ethan Lash
* Daniel Youngflower
* Larrys Whent
* Kevar GreenDawn
* Shamus Blackwolf

Forces| ~10,800 House Wilder attackers* 500 Wilder forces (300 infantry and 200 Archers)
* 600 Flameheart soldiers (300 Pikemen, 200 Men-at arms, 100 Longbowmen)
* 100 Dayne troops
* 1000 Reaver troops (500 ironborn men at arms, and archers)
* 2000 Lash troops (1,200 infantry, 500 Rangers, 300 Knights and 100 Wolfpack guards)
* 100 GreenDawn infantry
* 1,500 Whent soldiers
* 3,000 Youngflower soldiers

## Prelude

Under Asher Dunbridge, Hen Hill went to palce travlled to by many to a place many avoided if they could, the man himself was a cruel man by most accounts and the power he felt from being in control of the keep he felt he deserved only enabled this attitude. The Death of Chrisarys and the defeat of House Henning also lead to issues with Daniel though for the sake of the realm he refused to act on them beyond verbal jabs and threats when confronted by the man. The Dunbridges were despised for there antics and there relatively less cooperation to the Realm in comparison to every other house and the house remained in control only by the fact that most had turned away from petty and costly sieges. At least they did until Lief Wilder gave them a reason to act. Looking for allies in his plan to remove Zelos Wilder from power he went to Asher for men with a simple alliance, "help me remove Zelos and I will take out the Hennings who plan to take your keep from you." Playing on the fact that a young William Henning had resurfaced and that he would have provided the perfect ally in taking the keep back for there house Asher was all to eager to have the Hennings wiped out especially if someone else was going to do the work for him. Giving him enough men to help with the Betrayal at Kings Landing and successfully lead to Zelos being seemingly killed and Lief the new lord of Wild's Den with Gilliane and Seles being both distraught and uninterested in leading. Lief then began planning the death of William, Visenya and Daniel by proxy. Lief's plan involved taking them out when they were together, since he knew that if William died Asher would be the likely suspect by a vengeful Youngflower, and thus his best chance was when all three of them were together, at the Feast of Starfall Where they would all be together and unarmed he managed to get a few Dunbridge soldiers armed and inside the castle to attack them, though there were two complications for what came next. First was Asher himself who decided to visit the feast hall so he would be there for the finish, despite the fact that Lief didnt expect him (or desired for him) to be there. Another was Caim who wasn't privy to the plan interfering and saving William at the cost of his life when him and the Reaver brothers refused to leave and get help. As expected when the attack in there lives was initiated Daniel was quick to start killing the men before making a beeline for Asher's room and in the confusion Daniel was arrested for the accidental murder of Asher's sister when she was knocked off the balcony in the interrogation. Lief would take control from there leading Ian to the evidence he 'found' in the camp of sellswords that implicated Asher and quickly started to lead a campaign to take the castle himself, both to gain prestige for the victory and to remove the loose end that was the Dunbridges before they potentially sold him out.

Lief was soon assisted by many of the houses that were at Starfall and wanted revenge for the attack on there friends thus Lief knew he could afford to send a few men to assist. Even Daniel who after the misunderstanding was allowed to come out of his prison to help and assure that he would be there to see the hated house fall.

## Battle

Lief, Ethan Lash and Darron Flameheart are amongst the first few arrivals being in the crownlands and Riverlands respectively and thus they were quick to surround the castle around the acting lord Tanner Dunbridge who had not been at Starfall. While Lief started planning an attack as the rest of the lords came in he briefly got into a spat with the Whents who tried to guilt trip him into not attacking since it would risk lives, which Lief and Ethan countered with the fact that not attacking risked lives and money the Kingdom could ill afford to spend on keeping the armies paid and fed. Ethan and Kevar offered actual advice toe nd the siege as soon as possible before Daniel arrived and offered a valuable asset..the tunnels he knew about in Hen Hill to sneak inside the keep which Lief decided might be the best route. Thus Daniel agreed to lead a small party of men including Ignes Reaver, his wife Visenya, and Wolf GreenDawn once the siege started to cover there entrance. But first Ian of course wanted diplomacy and hoped that Asher would be a valuable enough hostage that the Commander would give up for his safety, though when Daniel, Lief and Ian came out to do so Tanner came out to talk to them seemingly to comply but then he had Asher shot with a crossbow and refused to surrender unless Daniel was brought to him to be executed for his part in the murder of his sister. Naturally this was refused so Tanner raised the stakes, if they complied with his demands they would surrender and Chrisarys would be returned tot hem, as proof he showed the haggard and beaten body that belonged to a long since broken Chrisarys Henning. This had the opposite affect of surrender with Daniel declaring he would see Tanner dead and told Lief he wanted the siege started early before finishing the injured Asher off himself.

Agaisnt his better judgement Lief agreed and despite protests from the angered Whents the siege was hastened since it was made clear that Chrisarys would be killed if they didnt agree to his plans by sundown. Lief ordered his men to move up while the Youngflower and Flameheart forces assisted him in his assault distracting them from the inflatration team, the Whents and the Lashes were assisting as well but they were mostly to the sides, the Lashes because they were waiting for the gates to be opened so they could attack in full force and the Whents because they wanted little to do with the battle as possible. House Greendawn assited in the second wave of men attacking as did Ian who would try to lead some forces up the walls despite the attempts to set the ladders alight. Tanner Dunbridge did little fighting himself waiting to see how the battle would turn as he knew that if they would lose he planned to kill Chrisarys first out of spite.

Daniel's team would sneak through and start to split with Visenya trying to find her brother and Daniel's men making a push for the gate. The split teams snuck through the enemy as much as they could before there group was discovered but thankfully the number of men who could do anything were small, small enough they fought there way to the gates and with great relief forced them open for there allies. There actions were swift, wit the gates opened Ethan Lash lead the calvary forces of the allies and laid into the now exposed Dunbridges and when the infantry followed suit the enemy started to surrender or die in numbers, only two threats remained, the most loyalist forces holding themselves up in the keep and Tanner who had retreated to the dungeons to kill the former lord.

Chrisarys was saved only by the timely intervention of Daniel who engaged Tanner in a final battle inside the dungeon. Tanner proved to be a tougher fight then one would have expected from him but Daniel was a man of many experienced battles, the Stepstones campaign, the Sunfyre rebellions, the fight with Tyrosh ahd hardened his skills and diminished his flaws, which created a warrior men like Tanner could only hope to be, thus in less then a minute after a few clashes Daniel feinted a blow to get a hit off on his side then took of the mans's hand before likewise beheading Tanner like he did Asher ending the Dunbridge line. Lief lead the final attack on the keep forcing the walls down before there men poured in the hall. The men were mostly the upper crest of the Dunbridge army and thus despite the sense it made to yield many didnt and died in the battle that followed. Lief saw those that surrendered were cared for knowing htat some might be useful for making sure the keep was secure under William Henning and when Chrisarys was united with his family, the Henning banners were once again placed over the castle.

## Aftermath

This siege ended the conflict with the Dunbridges and the Hennings for good as there were no more of the former to instigate it while putting the Hennings back where they belonged. William was in charge for now but he was not confident in his staying power and fearful for the future however much Daniel reassured him. Not helping matters was the clear resentment from the Whents who had lost so much only to find Chrisarys who they had put considerable effort into removing to find he had survived anyway, however the Whents were vassals to the Youngflowers however made it clear any aggressions would not be tolerated.

Lief on the other hand got everything he wanted out of the siege, the Dunbridges were dead meaning his part in the attempted assassinations was seemingly under wraps. Plus his victory was something he could attribute to his part in it, gaining recognition and he placed William in charge, pointing out that Chrisays was ill fit to lead in his current state, and had lost the keep before. William though had a good relation with the Wilders which meant Lief had a potential ally now in his pocket, which he would certaintly try to use in his alter dealings with the growing threat of the Para-military bandits.