Trials in King's Landing

### Outcome

* Incestuous relationship between Prince Martyn Baratheon and Princess Alynne Baratheon publicly exposed
* Queen Emylia Bracken and Princess Alynne named to the Silent Sisters
* Prince Martyn forced to join the Stepstones Guard

Factions| * **Iron Throne**/House Baratheon of King's Landing
* House Baratheon of King's Landing(under Martyn and Alynne)

The **trials in King's Landing** was a key event during the Bloodless War, taking place in the Red Keep of King's Landing. They saw King Robert III Baratheon publicly ruin Queen Dowager Emylia Bracken and her children, Prince Martyn Baratheon and Princess Alynne Baratheon, on allegations of incest between the latter two.

## History

### Prelude

Since they were of age to have such desires, Prince Martyn and Princess Alynne Baratheon had been engaging in sexual activities with one another. Their mother, Queen Emylia Bracken, held knowledge of their incestuous relationship, and tacitly supported it, even suggesting to her children they would one day ascend the Iron Throne and revive the tradition of incestuous marriages like the Targaryen dynasty of old. Her husband's predecessor, King Gendry I Baratheon, had made sibling incest entirely illegal, citing the countless cases of madness and psychopathy it was prone to produce.

Following the death of King Robert II Baratheon, Queen Emylia planned to turn her promises into action. She began cultivating a number of allies at court, and planned to bring on side a number of Great Houses to support the claims of her children.

Lord Hand Bran Stark discovered her plots, including drafts of pacts and treaties that could see half of the Seven Kingdoms rise up to support her. Bran revealed the plot to King Robert III Baratheon, who began formulating a plan to dispatch the imminent threat.

### Trials

King Robert was wary of publicly outing their treasonous attempts to usurp the Iron Throne, so instead opted to ruin them politically by outing the incestuous relationship of Prince Martyn and Princess Alynne.

He had the three brought before the Iron Throne, and presented witnesses to their affair, eventually coaxing confessions from all three. As expected, the scandal ruined them, along with any plans they had to take the Iron Throne.

Applying pressure from the Faith, who considered the affair a great affront to the Seven, Queen Emylia and Princess Alynne were forced to join the Silent Sisters. Prince Martyn was given a lifelong order to join the Stepstones Guard, and was shipped off to the islands soon after.

### Aftermath

The trials were considered the moment of greatest peril for King Robert III Baratheon during the Bloodless War. Robert was not particularly popular at this point, and openly outing the plots of Queen Emylia may have simply vindicated many people's opinions regarding the young king; that he was an upstart tyrant dead set on decapitating his hitherto-popular rivals. His decision to instead ruin the sibling's image is considered one of Robert's most deft politically actions.

Behind closed doors, Queen Emylia's plots further unraveled, and many suspected that Emylia may have orchestrated the deaths of Prince Raymont Baratheon and his family by liaising the mountain clansmen who kidnapped them. Robert entertained such notions, but took no further action, as Queen Emylia was already serving a suitable punishment for her crimes, and her vows of silence would thus ensure any secrets she held would die with her.