Oldstone Raid

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Sunfyre momentum stalled

## Prelude

> *Goren: We didnt know about them until they came to us bearing the King's seal. An army of sellswords who claimed to be of Valaryian descent. Told us they had a plan to hinder Lord Sunfyre.*
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On the other side of Westeros near Oldstones many other houses were preparing to aid in the north or the east. Untouched by Haywin's initial attacks was one such Lord Rhaegon Sunfyre. His well documented history with the Stepstones and Haywin gave him plenty reasons to be eager to avenge his lost land and knew the crown would be on his side fully in this matter. Linking up with the Verdants a long time ally of both him and House Darkspear they hoped to end things on there terms. Though there relation wasn’t always a strong one as the Verdants didn’t back them in the Sunfyre rebellion and vice versa the Sunfyres didn’t make a move against the Lashes during there conflict with the Verdants, but nevertheless both of them seemed determined to end things now. But there was trouble in the form of the Order of the Black Knights, and another threat, Haywin had managed his money well and had bought many sellswords for the battles and wars that followed, one of them was a large but previously unknown group called the Valyria Remnats. Who they were before has little known about them, they were heard about a few months before the war broke out. Even Goren who was working for Haywin had no prior knowledge of there existence, leading many to believe they were a company Haywin had been slowly funding and building up since he was planning his rebellion, which given his long time as a sellsword himself he would be extremely experienced in it.

Goren himself wasnt there but Bard would go along with the Remnats and lead an attack on the verdant/Sunfyre forces building up in the West. Most of what is known on the battle comes from second hand accounts, as even men able to speak on it are unsure how the battle really started, and only got involved mid fight. But the details are enough that they can properly maintain an idea of what happened.

## The Battle

> *Matthos: Protect Lord Verdant! These must be Haywin's men!*
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As Lord Verdant moved towards Oldstone to assist his longtime ally they moved to the inside of the keep away from the action. They talked inside the keep about there plan of attack when suddenly they heard screaming. Lord Sunfyre raced out to find that his supplies had been lit on fire and the Black knight and Valyria Remnants attacking his men. They had no idea how the enemy had gotten so close but he quickly took to his horse to try and rally his forces. Daemon Verdant attempted to do the same marching off to try and find what he could do, Matthos near his side but that proved to be his benefit. Before they got close to the area Daemon was seemingly attacked by men who had gotten inside the keep itself, and Daemon has made it clear that without Matthos' help he wouldnt have made it out alive in this attack. Rhaegon's Calvary forces soon took to attacking the men destroying his supply line and a short skirmish ensued. The enemy started to falter after the surprise of there attack wore off and slowly the enemy started to retreat.

However, victory in battle was not the main goal of the enemy, while the Lords were occupied with the attackers, another force lead by the Sellswords managed to further destroy the supplies of the Sunfyres and even stole many of the Verdants ships, including There signature Flagship that they sailed off with, by the time Lord verdant had been made aware of the theft the enemy was sailing off, joined by other ships in the harbor, more sellswords bought by Haywin. The ships prevented Lord Verdant from trying to pursue and soon they sailed off to the North leaving the battlefield, Blacks Knights would follow and abandon there attack.

## Aftermath

> *Rhaegon: My march was delayed by the attack, For the moment I wont be able to attack the Stepstones until I reorganize.*
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> *Matthos: Lord Verdant was also injured in the fighting thankfully his wounds dont seem to be serious.*
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Though the battle ended with the Sellsword and bandit army in retreat, an outright victory didnt seem to be in the cards for them. They had stolen ships and supplies or burned other supplies in pursuit of attacking Oldstones and there infiltration caused no end of worry for Lord Sunfyre who had to take time to start gathering more supplies for his march and figure out how and why his castle was compromised. A month later Rhaegon would finally take off towards Dorne for the long journey to the Stepstones. Lord Verdant would go back to Castamere to heal and his forces would remain there, out of the rest of the war but Matthos was made a lord for his service and saving Daemon's life in the fighting, starting House Urian. There close relation with House Darkspear caused many to come up with the idea that Lord verdant planned the Oldstone attack and were really the ones paying for the Sellsword army, with some even saying Lord Verdant was the leader of the army but no proof of this has ever been brought up and the rumor died within a few years.

The Order would continue there attack in the mainland but they would mainly find themselves hunted down by the Redwaters. The Sellsword army sailed through towards the Stepstones with the ships they already had and the ones they stole, assisting in fighting off any threats to Darkspears before fighting in the Battle of Bloodstone. After that the Remnats would vanish from the battle likely falling back to Essos to avoid retribution for there part in the war, but there group didnt remain together and continue after the war was resolved.