Crowning of the King Mace Thrane

## The Crowning of King Mace Thrane

Lord Mace Thrane was crowned as King of West Hills during the Twenty-Three-Year War

### Performers

Lord Mace Thrane, Lord Tybalt Dufort, Lord Edgar Landerman, Lord Albert Smallrich, Lady Jenna Abbott, Ser Markus Manning, Lord Urwin Gilbert, Lady Sandra Stone, Ser Addam Stockwell, and Ser Eustace Padbury.

### Location

Stoney Sept, West Hills

**The Crowning of King Mace Thrane** was an event that took place on ***25th August, 170 CE***. **The War of Six Threads** was a twenty-three-year war waging between Lord Regent Robett Royne and Queen Alicent Stafford as they fought for power. During this time, various regions stood up in rebellion, among them was Lord Mace Thrane ensuing in skirmishes of power, proclaiming himself as “**The King of West Hills**”.

### Origins

After the assassination attempt and paralysis of **King Foltest Royne**, the kingdom fell into war as the king's brother, Prince Robett Royne was holding the peace as the **Acting-Lord Regent** while the king's second wife, Queen Alicent Stafford stood up in rebellion against **Prince Robett**, marching her own banners, the **Noble Duchy of Stafford** becoming a **Royal House**, plunging the realm into war and revolt. As the two great armies fought, other regions stood up in revolt, declaring themselves **Rulers of their Respective Kingdoms**.

As time passed, a great war waged on between the **Two Royals**. During this time, Queen Alicent's loyal supporter, **Lord Oswell Thrane** marched an army of two thousand men to claim the **Seat** of House Pyne, only holding the seat for three months after which the Seat was recaptured with the aid of the royal forces of **House Royne** and **House Blount** in its Stronghold was laid to siege with no aid from their overlord, the Queen Alicent Stafford to which House Thrane were forced to surrender with the elders and lads of the families and nobility beheaded for rebellion while Lord Oswell Thrane was humiliated publicly by the royal forces being stripped naked riding a donkey in the enemy camp after which he was beheaded on the mercy of Lord Knight Aenar Hardman. After the insult, House Thrane and its vassal surrendered to the crown with their seat, Redfort castled by a garrison of soldiers under Lord Herbert Padbury.

### Kingship

Two years following the **Defeat and Surrender of House Thrane**, the twelve-year-old thirdborn son of **Lord Oswell Thrane**, Lord Mace Thrane ascended as **Head of House Thrane** and a Stewart of Castle Redfort. During the same time, a revolt broke out on the outskirts of House Thrane by banished knights and exiled bannermen, marching nearly one thousand men to the castle gates. The Castellan of Redfort, **Lord Herbert** gathered six-hundred garrison soldiers outside the castle walls while two-hundred garrison guards under Ser Austin Beetroot remained in the castle with a reserve army of one-hundred household guards of **House Thrane**.

During the skirmish outside the castle, the garrison army was ambushed by one-hundred mercenaries changing the outcome of the battle with Lord Herbert retreating inside the castle where he was killed alongside his men inside the castle gates and letters were sent to the neighboring castles and loyal houses to House Royne of the large host standing outside **Castle Redfort**. Lord Herbert's nephew, Ser Eustace Padbury arrived at the castle with one hundred of his cavalrymen while Houses like Gilbert, Abbott, Landerman, and Smallrich arrived marching a host of three thousand men. And together, the large host marched to Castle Pennington to confront the rebels, Queen Alicent's Banners. From August 167 to February 168 CE, a great siege took place on the castle against the Queen's Forces to which they finally captured Castle Pennington which was garrisoned by eight-hundred men under the **Loyalist War Lieutenant** Lord Urwin Gilbert and **Loyalist War Sergeant** Ser **Jacob Stone**. As the large host returned, some one-hundred men under Ser Justin Pole, a knight of the Order of Redfort Knights remained in the castle.

After the skirmish, a great feast was held in Castle Redfort by **House Thrane**, attended by Houses Gilbert, Abbott, Landerman, House Gabriel of Stone Hill, Smallrich, Stockwell, Padbury, and Marshall. After the feast, at night a group of men entered the castle walls and killed the bannermen of the respective houses in the dead of the night when seen by Ser Edmure Padbury and Ser Addam Stockwell who alerted the castle of the assassins, ones who were wearing the tunics of the **Sigil of House Gabriel**. After waking from sleep and fighting off the assassins, Lord Mace Thrane with his uncle and household guard traveled to Castle Pennington with Lady Jenna Abbott, Lord Albert Smallrich, Ser Addam Stockwell, and Ser Eustace Padbury where they were welcomed by Lord Urwin Gilbert and Ser **Jacob Stone**, both of whom were alerted of the matter with **Lord Urwin** alerted of the betray of **House Gabriel**.

In March 168 CE, House Gabriel was called to **Redfort** for their trial of betrayal to which all except Lady Avery Gabriel, Ser Jason Gabriel, Ser Tomwell Gabriel, Ser **Wilson Stone**, and one hundred of their men surrendered arriving at Redfort for trial while the rest of **House Gabriel** stood up in revolt. Allied by Houses Abbott, Smallrich, and Stockwell, the **Gabriels** were defeated, executed, and replaced by Lady Avery as head of the house along with her household, to which the Queen Alicent's Banners attacked and massacred Castle Pennington, and when no aid arrived from the Crown Regents, various knightly houses stood up against and with the recent revolt of **House Thrane** against the two crowns, the houses allied as one under House Thrane.

In the third week of June, House Thrane sent letters to the knightly houses of the region to join and bend the knee to **House Thrane**, the **Crown of Westshire**. Knightly and Noble Families angered by the two crowns joined forces, while others resented and joined arms with either of the two crowns against the Thranes. Houses Manning (relatives to the Thranes), Abbott, Gilbert, Stockwell, Brandsville, and Gabriel answered the call and crowned Lord Mace as the *"***King of Redfort and Westshire***"* on June 29th, 168 CE.

### Kingship Campaign

Proclaimed **King of Redfort and Westshire**, the Crown Regents, and Queen Alicent declared war on **House Thrane**. House Thrane joined an alliance with the North-Western Kingdom to maintain power, acknowledging them as **Kings** against the two crowns. Following this, House Thrane became occupied with skirmishes against enemy nobility in **Westshire**. After a year of revolts and war, many in the region bent the knee while others who defied were executed and the remaining members were banished.

Accepted as the sole **Ruler of Redfort and Westshire**, Houses Landerman, Dufort, and Ser Eustace Padbury joined forces and became vassal noble houses of **House Thrane**. Lending their armies, the two strong houses joined alliances by marriage with **House Dufort** offering the resources of his house in return for the hand-in-marriage of **King Mace** to his second daughter, Lady Rhaella Dufort while **House Landerman** offered the hand-in-marriage of **Lady Aisa Landerman** to **Prince Ronald Thrane**, King Mace's younger brother, instead King Mace offered the hand-in-marriage of his sister, Princess Esmé to Lord Henrick Landerman, the eldest son of **Lord Edgar Landerman**. Following new alliances, King Mace and his vassals fought for the next two years to control the Region of West Hills and on **25th August 170 CE**, King Mace was crowned as the *"***King of West Hills***"*.