King's Landing Frame Up

Combatants| * House Wilder
* House Quickgold
* Goldcloaks

Commanders| * Zelos Wilder
* Perseus Quickgold
* Roy of House Wilder
* Rodrick Ironwood

Forces| * N/A
* 200 Goldcloaks

Casualties| * Zelos Wilder injured
* 15 Gold Cloaks

## Prelude

> *Zelos: How did you come across this kind of information*
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> *Lief: A random nobody asking questions in the right places raises less alarm then a Goldcloak Commander.*
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After the kidnapping of his sister, Zelos was hell bent on searching and hunting down the order and finding the benefactor who supplied them. He had trouble trusting any house coming to blows with the Lashes, the Youngflowers, even the Starkwoods who he struggled to fully trust. After a tourney at Wolfhaven he ended up getting information from Lief on a potential lead on who supplied them. with this he made his way to the capitol shortly afterwards with Lief looking to find out anything he could.

Little did he know Lief and Aegon made a deal to remove him from his seat and set him up to be killed. Aegon needed him dead both by the orders of his boss and because he knew Zelos was the most capable man to find out his operations. Lief wanting him out of the way by his own desires to have the seat he felt was his by right. Though Lief seemed to want no part in the conflict fearing that trying to do so would end in the destruction of there house. Aegon initially wanted to infiltrate the castle and kill Zelo there but Lief spoke against it noting he couldnt guarantee his escape if he did that and h would be the prime suspect, instead he told them of a plan where he would lead Zelos to the city to have him killed there instead. To help with this Lief also made sure to hire more men from an alliance with Asher Dunbridge. Securing the way for the them to set Zelos up for a certain death. The only known chink in the way of there plan was Perseus Quickgold who attempted to try and meet with Zelos in the capitol to help him unaware of the plans overall.

## The Battle

> *Aegon: So it seems even I was betrayed by you.*
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> *Lief: I dont know what ever made you think we could be allies. After what you did to my sister this was the only way this could end.*
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Zelos met Lief and Perseus near one of the gates where Lief started leading them along how he came across the information of how he put the blame on a merchant living in the city. meanwhile Roy, a knight for House Wilder was leading Aegon to the agreed upon location, and eventually Lief lead them along to the necessary spot, Zelos having since been convinced the merchant was a credible threat he rushed in the building to confront the knight while Persues was ordered to stay outside and look for any threats, but when he came in he found the merchant was already murdered with a knife and then Aegon came out of the shadows. the Two started to fight for a few minutes before Lief arrived but when both expected him to help them they were both shocked to find themselves surrounded by Sellswords hired by Lief. Lief wasted no time letting his contempt of both men known before stabbing himself and screaming bloody murder claiming Zelos attacked him. The Sellswords started to attack both Zelos and Aegon forcing the two enemies to work together to try and fight them off. This was around the time Perseus and then the Gold Cloaks arrived where they were shocked to see Zelos and Aegon on the same side, With Lief's words on there minds they were left assuming the worst.

Not helped by Aegon and Zelos being forced to flee and run off to avoid capture after Zelos looked as guilty as possible as well with one of his weapons in the merchants dead corpse and in Lief's side. Aegon eventually betrayed Zelos tripping him up to try and leave him for the Gold Cloaks while he escaped but Zelos still managed to evade the authorities, sneaking along after dumping his armor and using a cloak instead to hide himself he tracked aegon to the pier but when following a lead he was shot by a crossbow from another of Lief's sellswords sending him off the dock and into the water below where he was presumed to be dead. His sword stayed on the dock but the man who attacked him was killed by Aegon who took the sword and fled with his men escaping justice once again.

## The Aftermath

> *Royland: We only found one of Aegon's other men in the city, the rest of the sellswords were beaten back and Aegon was also able to slip us.*
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> *Privat: And I imagine theres little joy in Zelos' death to be found amongst the men or his commanders..maybe the smallfolk will rejoice.*
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House Wilder was in shock when they heard Zelos was wanted for the murder of the Merchant, conspiring with Aegon and the attempted murder of his own cousin, Seles and Gilliane were dumbstruck and unsure how to proceed, leaving Lief able to swoop in and take control of the castle in the meantime. He soon doubled his efforts in searching for Aegon who likewise became dedicated to killing Lief and exposing him as a traitor and a liar. The feud had done nothing to end, it had only grown more volatile. Thankfully we can say Zelos did not in fact die on the pier. He was scooped up in a fishing net by a nearby boat bleeding out and near death but alive, saved by the kindness of the sailors on board he spent the next month simply regaining his strength and hiding out in the Stepstones and later Essos before he was found to still be alive. This motivated Lief's decision to put a bigger bounty on his head and later Roy went further and hired a Sellsword company with the distinct purpose of hunting him.

Perseus Quickgold was the only one not fooled by Lief's actions or deception, threating him while he was recovering and confronting him in many other events, though he was never able to expose his lies, and on the Brightflame mission to the Summer Isles he was killed in combat by Lief himself when the two came to blows, tragically dying before Lief was truly outed.