5th Siege of Hen Hill

Combatants| * House Henning
* House Youngflower
* Knights of Aros
* House Starkwood
* House Griften
* House Wolf
* House Whent
* House Wilder
* House Flameheart
* House Greywinde
* House Kalukho
* House Dunbridge

Commanders| * Chrisarys Henning
* Jon Youngflower
* Artos Starkwood
* Zeto Aros
* Robb Griften
* Shamus Blackwolf
* Rodrick Whent
* Arthur Whent
* Caim of House Wilder
* Darron Flameheart
* Rickard Greywinde
* Terrance the Towering
* Asher Dunbridge

Forces| ~6020 Henning defenders* 1200 Henning soldiers
* 2000 Starkwood soldiers
* 1000 House Youngflower soldiers
* 1500 Wolf troops
* 140 Aros troops
* 180 Griften soldiers
* 2000 Whent soldiers
* 300 Wilder troops
* 1500 Flameheart soldiers
* 1000Greywinde soldiers
* 2000 Kalkulo soldiers
* 500 Dunbridge soldiers

Casualties| * Jon Youngflower
* 2300 soldiers
* 3800 soldiers

## Prelude

After a brief moment of peace following the disastrous White Wedding and the ensuing fallout Jory Redwater attempted to broker a peace between House Brightflame and the Vale to bring them into the fold, offering up a young Redwater to them for the sake of an alliance he hoped to sway an influential house of the Vale if he failed to secure the alliance with the Young Robin Arryn, but just when it seemed he might be able to succeed Chrisarys Henning slept with the women himself. This ruined her as a marriage prospect for a house of any high standing and the Vale were infuriated when they found out feeling insulted someone like her was offered to them and damaging relations with the Vale in the process not to mention the Redwaters reputation. Frustrated with the ruined negotiations and the carelessness of one of his own vassals Jory demanded the boy come to Kings Landing to face the consequences. Shockingly (Or for some given Chrisarys nature) he refused claiming he was in a drunk stupor and that had he known who she was he wouldnt have acted in such a manner and didnt feel any punishment was necessary. This defiant action of a vassal couldn't be ignored regardless of personal feelings and thus Jory called his men to arms once again to force Chrisarys out if necessary. Chrisarys naturally called his own men to assist him including Haywin Darkspear  who had recently married into his family though Haywin felt slighted he was forced into a war so soon into both his marriage and his Kingship, having conquered the stepstones not too long before this. Instead he sent Daniel Youngflower a loyal vassal and steadfast friend of both him and the Hennings to assist with plenty of men, though Daniel was likewise preoccupied with establishing his house so Jon Youngflower the man's younger brother went representing both men.

Shamus Blackwolf and Artos Starkwood who saw the action as a strongly disproportionate to the crime came to Chrisarys aid hoping that instead of battle negotians could be had but even when it became clear that no such thing would happen they remained, with some feeling that Shamus was seeking to retaliate against Jory for once attempting to declare him traitor along with Rickon Darkstar for perceived personal use of funds. Jon's decision to fight with the Hennings put House Wilder at a touch decision, Jon was bethrothed to Lady Seles of there house and Zeto felt that protecting him and the relations was important but Caim who was acting in Zelos' absence while he dealt with matters in the capital felt that the Hennings needed to be pay for there actions and this was the best chance to do it, plus he knew that helping the Redwaters now would benefit them later, thus the two split on how to act with Zeto taking some men to assist Chrisarys while Caim after seeing what he did took even more men to serve Jory.

The Least surprising participants were the Whents and the Dunbridges both of whom had been waiting for the right moment to strike back agaisnt there enemy the Hennings. Doing so under the Hand of the King who had kept them from doing so before felt all the better. Though in turn the most shocking came from House Kalkuho who had broken off on Jory on many occasions and seemed to form a rivalry with the Hand of the King. But the Master of Laws agreed on this matter for many reasons most of them pragmatic, Chrisarys had shown that he struggled to rule properly and his refusal to listen to his liege set a bad precedent that even he felt shouldn't go unpunished thus Jory happily accepted his help and his men.

## The Battle

The Redwaters had almost twice as many men as the Hennings though Jory didnt take too much comfort in this fact, knowing full well they would need all of them to have a chance of pulling the siege off, especially since as he soon discovered when he tried it, Chrisarys had sealed off the tunnels his past experience told him existed and the rest were only known to anyone who wouldnt tell him. Meaning he had to set up a full assault and began planning out attacks in waves. He hoped to have the siege won in three waves the first one which would be managed by the Whents and the Dunbridges, in what seemed to be a plan to have his Whent rivals weaken themselves in the initial battle, then by his own trusted generals in Darron and Rickard, before a third wave was to be organized by Terrance and Caim. If things went well he would have the castle by the Third one. On the Henning side of things Chrisarys felt unease that another siege was at his doorsteps while trying to come up with a plan with Jon's help. The Northern host with him wanted to try and organize raids but Chrisarys didnt want to risk anymore of his tunnels being exposed or found out by Jory so instead they started to plan a vanguard that would attack if they went for the gates to be lead by Artos and Robb.

The battle finally started as the first wave made there attack with men of many banners behind them Rodrick lead a charge while Asher attempted to direct the archers in the battle. Rodrick's men made an impressive run to the walls with ladders and tried to force them up to get there but tragedy struck early for the redwaters the Lord Whent made it up the ladders and slaughtered a few of the Hennings forces before he was pushed off and sent tumbling down to the floor just outside the keep, dying on impact. In a panic Arthur didnt make his attack and instead ran to retrieve his fathers corpse and drag him away from the battlefield robbing a good portion of the attacking forces of there leadership. Caim seeing this tried to rally them anyway and give them some direction by the infantry only managed to make a few more attempts at the walls before they had to push back the first wave ending in a stunning failure and the death of Rodrick Whent.

The second wave was hardly better, Darron and Rickard put there aspirations on destroying the castle gate to allow there calvary to charge in and take care of things. Putting pressure on some more ladders while aslo directing a battering ram slowly up the hill the two Redwater vassals fought through a lot of artillery to get close but then the Northern Vanguard attacked, flinging open the gates long enough to exist and laid into the battered soldiers. A brief fight broke out as Artos dueled with Rickard and Darron was attacked by many Starkwood men before Robb and Jon were able to kill the last of the people holding the ram which started to tumbled won the hill and kill more of the attackers and forced Darrona and Rickard to retreat while the Northern Vanguard returned to thee post content with there victory on the hill.

After this the Attackers were suffering some serious loss of morale with two failed attacks and little to show for it aside from damaging there defenses and Jory knew that if no progress was made on the final push then the only way to win the siege would be to starve the enemy out which would be costly and waste precious resources. The defenders meanwhile were disheartened by the losses they suffered in there last few attacks and Chrisarys was painfully aware that he may have handled things the wrong way out of fear for his life. Neither side had a chance to come to a conclusion with both sides gearing up for round three. Desperate to make progress Jory started to lead an assault with his men leading one group and Terrance leading the other. Terrance has Caim lead the infantry while he starts throwing what he can with his artillery and attempting to weaken the walls while Jory does the same from the opposing side, hopefully flustering the forces around him with the constant attack from all sides. To there credit the defenders were more prepared for this then they expected but even still a vengeful Arthur Whent was the standout moving his men and creating the opening Lord Redwater needed. Creating the opening he had his own forces press in on to assist Arthur until finally Jory himself was on the walls. The Hand started to lead the siege like he had lead many battles in the Kings name and cut a path through the enemy to make his way through to Chrisarys, Jon Youngflower, Zeto aros, and Artos’ son Rickard Starkwood made there move to stop him. Zero foujd himself pushed back by the Redwater infantry, Rickard was unable to hold out against the more experienced Jory and was knocked to the ground and Non Youngflower was killed by a crossbow bolt by Arthur Whents hand. Eventually Jory made it to Chrisarys and the crippled lord fought the blood stained Lord. Naturally Jory’s experience and skill made the fight a young one for Chrisarys who was clearly losing until he went for Jory’s thigh with his hook hand. The blow caused Jory a great deal of pain as he dropped to his knees and the brief pause finally alllowed clearer heads to prevail, with Chrisarys and Jory talking over the matter and Chrisarys making it clear his regret was genuine, and this convinces Jory to hold off on the attack before more blood is shed. Once the fighting fully stops the generals and leaders of both sides meet in the Hen Hill main hall and discussed there losses. Daniel Youngflower infuriated to learn about his brothers death, not helped by Arthur’s attitude and lack of visible regret goven the loss of his father. But Jory and Chrisarys agreed to end things here with The Lord of Hen Hill accepting some punishments that were still relatively light in comparison to what she should have gotten but his vassalage to The Redwaters was gone as Jory understood that even if he made peace woth the lord Chrisarys had proven himself untrustworthy to operate as apart of Jory’s house and thus the main blanket of safety between open war of Hennings and Whents was gone. Though Daniel made it clear he would come down on the Whents with the force of the Old Gods if he dared strike against his close friend and the battle had weakened the Dunbdriges too much to consider it.

## Aftermath

The real winner of the siege is discussed and changes depending on who one asks. While Jory’s forces did make it into the keep and were able to merit put punishments it was punishments that Chrisarys accepted with no indication he was being forced or surrendered and many pointed out he got off extremely light in comparison having to pay both the Vale and the Redwaters to compensate, also none of the Hennings allies were punished for assisting the category ‘traitor’. Though since the Hennings would lose the keep to the Dunbridges later that year many cite this as proof that the Redwaters could be considered the winners since they had wiped there hands clean of th and once they weren’t there Chrisarys was toppled. Though later sieges restoring the Hennings undercuts this for some.

The Whents and the Youngflowers grew some bitterness from this day with Daniel blaming Arthur for his brothers death and the Whents saying Jon deserved it for assisting Chrisarys, though this would never escalate to the war at least for this matter it kept the two on difficult terms under Haywin for the longest time until the two eventually reconciled, in time for Arthur’s death.

The Dunbridges spent the rest of the year biding there time, with Asher knowing that he would eventually get the better of Chrisarys this proved true when Chrisarys had finally driven off the last of his allies not named the Youngflower and proceeded to declare war on them. And to Chrisarys shock he found that many of the houses that saved his life before heading down on him now with no help in sight.