Wars and Battles

This is a collection of all major wars, battles, and conflicts occurring in the ARPOIAF lore.

## Wars

### War of the Five Kings (298 AC - 307 AC)

The War of the Five Kings was a large, multi-theater conflict that plunged Westeros into chaos following the death of Robert I Baratheon. Battles raged across the length and breadth of Westeros from 298 AC through 307 AC, with multiple claimants vying for the Iron Throne or attempting to revive ancient crowns subjugated by Aegon's Conquest.

### War for the Dawn (301 AC - 307 AC)

The War for the Dawn is the name given to the conflict in the North that interrupted the War of the Five Kings. The Others, also called the White Walkers, were considered creatures of legend until they returned for the first time in eight thousand years at the dawn of the Fourth Century AC. The strange, pale Others brought bitter cold, smothering darkness, and mists and snows along with their advance, bringing about the worst winter since the original Long Night. Though the forces of the living were able to defeat the Others and their army of risen dead wights, the conflict claimed the lives of six out of every ten men who fought in it, including many lords and famous knights. Its effects permanently reshaped the future of Westeros.

### Conflagration of the Trident (319 AC - 320 AC)

The shaky armistice at the end of the War for the Dawn could not hold indefinitely. In the year 319 AC, the Iron Throne and the Golden Throne renewed their hostilities in the Conflagration of the Trident. It resulted in the partitioning of the Upper and Lower Trident and a shaky peace between both sides.

### The Scouring of Pyke (321 AC - 323 AC)

Driven by visions of a great victory and a new Ironborn empire, King Euron Greyjoy launched a new campaign against the western coast of Westeros during the war in the Riverlands, culminating in the sack of Oldtown in the year 320. The Kingdom of the Rock turned its full naval might against the Ironborn and subjugated the Iron Islands. King Euron was slain and Victarion Greyjoy renounced the crown and bent the knee to the Baratheons.

## Conflicts

### Free Folk and Kneelers (312 AC - 313 AC)

After the defeat of the Night's King and the Others, the unity among the Wildling tribes broke down and old rivalries resurfaced. With the coming of spring, the simmering tensions boiled over. Some tribes returned north of the Wall to reclaim their ancestral lands. Other tribes, the Thenns in particular, were content to settle on lands in the North return for accepting the authority of the Northern Lords. Still others expected to continue their ancestral way of life and showed open disdain toward Northern laws and concepts of land ownership.

Between the inter-tribal conflicts and the angry ravens to Winterfell about the Wildlings' lawless behavior, Lord Rickon Stark called his banners as one of his first acts as Lord of Winterfell in his own right. He and his half-brother Jon Snow rode north to restore order. Using the divisions among the Wildlings to their advantage, the Stark forces dealt with one tribe at a time and forced those who would not submit to Northern authority to return to the lands beyond the Wall. The Wildlings considered this a great betrayal after their sacrifices in the War for the Dawn, and still hold much bitterness toward House Stark and those free folk who chose to kneel to them like the Thenns. Scattered Wildling raids remained an ongoing problem for decades to come, though it was never completely certain whether they came from beyond the Wall or were remnant bands that escaped Lord Rickon.

### The Blackhand Revolt (338 - 340 AC)

The Blackhand Revolt was a struggle for the rule of the Iron Islands between Harlon Greyjoy and Erich the Blackhand, a bastard of Euron Greyjoy, after Victarion Greyjoy's death. Lord Harlon fell in battle to the Blackhand, but his half-brother Qarl succeeded him to the Seastone Chair and successfully ended the rebellion before the Golden Throne intervened in the conflict.

### The Crystal Kingdom (360 - 361 AC)

A charismatic preacher named Septon Owen revived the Sparrows and began a peasant revolt that culminated in banditry, attacks on nobles, and the seizure of the town of Stoney Sept. His movement affected the eastern Reach, southern Riverlands, northwestern Stormlands and southwestern Crownlands.