Ambush of the Whent Convoy

Combatants| * House Redwater
* House Greywinde
* House Flameheart

Commanders| * Lord Robin Redwater
* Ser Jory Redwater
* Ser Rickard Greywinde
* Lord Darron Flameheart
* Arthur Whent

Forces| 5000 soldiers* 3000 Redwater troops (500 Redstars, 1000 Calvary, 1000 Infantry, 500 Archers)
* 1000 Flameheart troops (200 Calvary, 500 infantry, 300 archers)
* 1000 Greywinde troops (800 infantry, 200 archers)
* 200 Calvary
* 300 Infantry
* 200 Archers

Casualties| * 450 soldiers killed
* 120 soldiers injured
* Calvary and Archers completely annihilated
* Infantry and elite guard nearly wiped out.

## Prelude

> *Jory: Rodrick would bring his family into this. Hoping to avoid conflcit.*
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> *Robin: It won't work, we will stop him.*
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> *Rickard: My... Lord Redwater, these men are soldiers and are trained to fight. But we have no quarrel with the women and children. No harm must come to them.*
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House Whent was once a vassal of House Redwater. Ser Rodrick Whent was given a keep and opportunity to serve House Redwater. He accepted. As time passed, his loyalty for House Redwater vanished. The final straw came where the Whent's sided with the Redwater enemy in the time of war. The Whent's sieged the unprepared Redwater's and took the town of Fair Market during the infamous Black Rebellion. This angered House Redwater and its vassals, as their was no men able to retake the town at the time, Ruby Keep needed to stay put and defend Redwater castle, and there allies were rushing to assist them, thus Rodrick Whent was in control of Fairkmarket for an uncontested month

Once the war came to an end though, One of the concessions was that the Redwaters would not be stopped in punishing the Whents and Rodrick sensing trouble was coming fled Fairmarket to gather the necessary troops to defend his newly gained lands. The action saved him for now as the Redwaters soon came down hard on Fairmarket and soon took the town back, putting an end to the town short Whent control. But this didnt stop them, the Whents still had to be punished. Rodrick Whent brought his army out and his wife, not allowing any of his family to stay at the castle now that he seemed to be aware that the Redwater'sw ere breathing down his neck, but they marched through Redwater territory and this allowed Robin to set up an ambush, hoping to take the Whent's out in one fell swoop.

## The Battle

> *Darron: In the name of Justice! Charge!*
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> *Rodrick: By the Gods! Form up, the Redwaters have trapped us!*
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The Whent forces marched in a column through the Redwater territory. They were slowly becoming spread out due to the obstacles within the forest. They had no idea that they were walking into an attack. Up ahead, men of Redwater, Greywinde and Flameheart hid on top of the small ridge, a tree was ready to fall to block the path and the cavalry was following the Whent's form behind.

At last, the ambush begins. The tree collapses in front of the the spread out Whent forces. Archers of the combined forces came out of there hiding spots and started to rein arrows on the unorganized Whent force. Men screemed as they jumped down from the ridge and engage the Whent forces in melee. Ser Rodrick Whent tried to the best of his ability to form the Whent shield wall. Only a handful heard above the screams and clashing of swords. Arthur Whent started to fight his way out, taking some of his family and attempting to lead soldiers to run back the way they came, they were met with the Redwater cavalry. The Whent's were now encircled with no place to run.

Lady Starkwood was in the center of the raging battle. Her survival was very high to the Redwaters, as a full scale war could start if she died. Redwater's aim was to capture her. In the center of the Whent shield wall, she ran over to the cart where the Whent's are defending and untied the horse. She made a run for it and jumped over the tree that they were defending. This was noticed by both Redwaters who sent 20 men after her. she was carrying very little on her and managed to out run the Redwater forces.

At the battlefield, the battle was coming to an end, a small portion of 50 Whents is left defending Ser Rodrick Whent. They realized that there was no point fighting and threw their weapons to the ground. This signaled in the end of the battle. Redwater, Greywinde and Flameheart men cheered for their victory.

## The Aftermath

> *Robin: This is what the Whents deserve, no one makes a mockery of House Redwater.*
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After the battle, the peace treaty between the two houses began. House Redwater issued a lot of hash punishment to House Whent to ensure this will never happen again. These include: To be exiled from Westeros and all females of House Whent must join the faith of the seven and devote their life to the Seven for the rest of their lives.

Lady Alsaynne Whent avoided this fate with her escape and she was able to make it to her father Artos Starkwood, once he was told of the attack Artos was livid and it briefly seemed as though the war that the Redwaters were hoping to avoid would come to pass anyway, but when the two houses meet to talk, they smoothed things over with him and the treaty that punished the rest was made to avoid his daughter suffering the same fate. The Whent's castle was met next and once the garrison there was told of the fate of there house they surrendered rather then fight for a house that had nothing left to offer and the castle was torched and torn down. Some of the Whent forces that were loyal did flee to go with the Whents in exile.

Though the Whents were exiled, this would not be the last time they would be seen in Westeros, let alone get involved in there politics or interact with the Redwaters, they fled to Essos for a time where the Whents would reside in Essos, though there wealth was keeping them afloat they weren't making enough income to make it up with all of there land gone and it seemed that Rodrick would need to resort to becoming Sellswords before they got word of the Battle of the Broken Arm, despite the fact they were no longer part of Westeros, they sallied out by ordering Sellswords to get ships to try and and help in the battle both to gain some spoils and to try and gain some favor with the Free City Lys.

From here they were able to use there gains to help Haywin in his Stepstones Campaign, where the Sellsword turned King rewarded there service by giving them a lordship under him, the aptly named Last Refuge. Which would be there seat for the next few years until the ill-fated Whent Rebellion

Lady Starkwood managed to escape and get back to House Starkwood's castle in the North. She escaped by riding to the nearest port and slip by Redwater men who were guarding it. When she arrived home, her father. Ser Artos Starkwood was furious of these actions and sort our revenge on House Redwater.